I have a strong desire to bark like a dog when i greet new people. Is this my calling?

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I have a strong desire to bark like a dog when i greet new people. Is this my calling?
 
Have you discussed this with your psychologist/health care professional?

Are you disparaging religious callings and vocations? Yes I am flagging this because its way out of line as per CAF guidelines
 
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It wasn’t meant to disparage my catholic faith, but it was meant as a joke., perhaps a bad joke. I clearly made the mistake of thinking that people n here have a sense of humor. But you have clearly read the worst into my comment. Hopefully the moderator will see that it was not intended to ridicule the faith.
 
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Hi!

…could this not be that you are following culture ethics too closely (monkey see, monkey do)?

Dogs do not bark at other dogs out of a need to greet them… they actually are quite silent as they proceed to do the smell test… they even take this to the people level as they often try to put their nose in the back of those who are strangers to them…

I do not recommend that you do either!

However, you can use just as much joy and exuberance by being overly accommodating and inviting.

I do caution you that in today’s world people are suspicious, especially Catholics, of goodwill and welcoming.

Maran atha!

Angel
 
Hi!

The problem is that for certain jokes to work people must be familiar with your character (conversation); it is also true that some would use humor as a mean to release their racial and other forms of bigotry…

I once joked about Creation… I was giving definition to the variant on people’s skin the world over… so I proceeded with: ‘when God Created man He put the clay mold in an oven and out came the white man; knowing that He did not leave the clay for enough time, God made another mold and placed it in the oven for a longer period of time (there were latinos, whites, and blacks in the audience); this time the black man came out; recognizing the issue with the oven, God made yet a third mold and Created a timer; He then set the mold in the oven and timed it; finally the perfect man came out: me!’

Latino pride did not get much of a reception amongst those who were not latinos–they were all my coworkers so they understood that I was not being racist since I got along with everyone and did not discriminate against anyone for their ethnic flavor.

I am sure that in a different forum–those who do not know me–it would be taken as tinted with racism…

It is not just about timing… it is also about circumstances and surroundings!

Maran atha!

Angel
 
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Isn’t this supposed to be a “just for fun” type of thread???
 
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I have a strong desire to bark like a dog when i greet new people. Is this my calling?
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I think it is much more likely to be your barking than your calling.😁

A wink or something to clue people in that this is a joke thread might have helped. In the old days CAF had separate places for joke threads and serious threads that didn’t fit anywhere else. Perhaps there was wisdom in that.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
 
It could be turned into a “I have a strong desire to…Is this my…” thread, hoping to draw humorous responses.
 
@Sojourner
Groucho Marx: Chicken? What’s all this talk about chicken?

Why, I had an uncle who thought he was a chicken. My aunt almost divorced him, but we needed the eggs
 
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Basil Fawlty: Oh, don’t mind that chicken. It’s from Barcelona.

George Bush: To face a thousand points of headlights.

Colonel Sanders: I missed one
 
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Just don’t go sniffing their butts.

(This is in reference to the original post. It was pretty original. But was it an original sin?)
 
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Gilligan: The traffic started getting rough; the chicken had to cross. If not for the plumage of its peerless tail, the chicken would be lost. The chicken would be lost!
 
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