Proceed to explain how feeling comfortable and at ease around a fire is an evolutionary trait that developed because our ancestors spend thousands of years being safe around a fireplace.
When I was a Cub Scout leader, I got this answer from at least half of my Tigers. I think most of them meant singing songs and making s’mores but at least one might have simply meant he liked fire.
Small story time. This happened to me but scarier.
Once upon a time I was a counsellor at a very big/rich Christian overnight camp. I was specifically on a team of counselors that were paired with campers that needed extra… Attention. This could be simply a disability and they needed a hand, but sometimes it meant a camper was showing signs of being disturbed or unstable, and I would sort of blend in with the other counselors and be there in case something bad happened so I could talk them down or chase them down to keep them safe.
Basically, we were special agents assigned to unique cases so that the counselors didn’t have too high of a workload.
Well.
I got called to one high school group for an unknown reason. They couldn’t say it over the walkie but it wasn’t a disability, it wasn’t related to physical harm, and it wasn’t a risk of running, but they needed me ASAP.
I drive to the cabins as fast as I can and there’s a girl off by herself with a counselor and it turns out she’s relatively calm and collected, but she is ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with the idea of demons, summoning demons, the different kinds, where they come from, how to harness their power.
She was off the rails. She seemed composed but was speaking compete nonsense about demonic powers and shit. I was in WAY over my head. Who cares what religion we were teaching at the time, this was freaky as fuck to actual hear in person.
The entire group was freaked out. Really really weird encounter.
I’m not religious these days but that still gives me shivers thinking about how she looked as she talked.
Can totally watch a fire for hours. Cavemen would do the same I’m sure, assuming fire had been mastered at some point.
Reminds me of the song hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame.
To be fair, he didn’t specify which camp….
The fire of the Holy spirit!
oh, and this one time in camp
Proceed to explain how feeling comfortable and at ease around a fire is an evolutionary trait that developed because our ancestors spend thousands of years being safe around a fireplace.
Let’s all sing the campfire song song
“Bart I don’t like you watching that fire, it’s too violent!”
“It wasn’t the silly team building games or the devo times in the stinky cabin?”
When I was a Cub Scout leader, I got this answer from at least half of my Tigers. I think most of them meant singing songs and making s’mores but at least one might have simply meant he liked fire.
Pyro is a female confirmed
I don’t get it, how is liking a campfire at odds with Christianity?
Small story time. This happened to me but scarier.
Once upon a time I was a counsellor at a very big/rich Christian overnight camp. I was specifically on a team of counselors that were paired with campers that needed extra… Attention. This could be simply a disability and they needed a hand, but sometimes it meant a camper was showing signs of being disturbed or unstable, and I would sort of blend in with the other counselors and be there in case something bad happened so I could talk them down or chase them down to keep them safe.
Basically, we were special agents assigned to unique cases so that the counselors didn’t have too high of a workload.
Well.
I got called to one high school group for an unknown reason. They couldn’t say it over the walkie but it wasn’t a disability, it wasn’t related to physical harm, and it wasn’t a risk of running, but they needed me ASAP.
I drive to the cabins as fast as I can and there’s a girl off by herself with a counselor and it turns out she’s relatively calm and collected, but she is ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with the idea of demons, summoning demons, the different kinds, where they come from, how to harness their power.
She was off the rails. She seemed composed but was speaking compete nonsense about demonic powers and shit. I was in WAY over my head. Who cares what religion we were teaching at the time, this was freaky as fuck to actual hear in person.
The entire group was freaked out. Really really weird encounter.
I’m not religious these days but that still gives me shivers thinking about how she looked as she talked.
“Um, sex in the outdoors”
Christian teen camp sounds like where you go to get molested.
Lol me being dragged to Christian events as a teen.
Fire is gooooooooood!
What’s wrong with enjoying a campfire?
Her name’s Willow and she’s trying to not starve.
You’re not making Christianity better, you’re making camping worse!
If i was in a Christian teen camp, i would try damn near anything in order to get out of it
It’s good she like the fire, because where she’s likely going she’s gunna see a lot of it.
Me too! I like the way it dance, the way it flickers, the soothing noises it makes… Who am I kidding? I like the way it burns my enemies!
wait, is that not cool? I’m a 34 year old man who camps all the time and fire is basically the main reason I do it….