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spanner a posé la question dans Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · il y a 1 décennie

Do girls who listen to Pastor Olson end up like Rose from 'The Golden Girls'?

When I was a kid I lived down the street from a girl who was a real live version of Rose from 'The Golden Girls'. She was fair and looked quite a bit like her. To my distress, she was constantly monitoring my vocabulary. Frequently she would come out with remarks like "Don't you know that heck is "short for" Hell?" and "Don't you know that darn is "short for" damn?" Often her chastisements would be based on what her clergyman, Pastor Olson, had said and would begin with the words "Pastor Olson said...". I recall that, according to this role model, "shucks" is a polite form of "****" and Golly stands for the so-called "G word". I once recited a verse that began "Lincoln, Lincoln, I've been think'in, Oh My Gosh! You've been drinking!" I thought it was funny at the time because I was quite young. You would have thought it was the end of the world! She informed me that "Gosh" was a bad word because it was another word for "God". It seemed that according to Pastor Olson (Pastor Olson was his real name) I was condemned from a very early age. I had never even met him.

She sat through kindergarten with her hands folded like a still life statue and hardly budged a muscle or said a word. I thought that, based on her outwardly angelic behaviour, she would be a very good student. However, she had a lot of trouble in school, whether or not her bad grades were merited. She frequently would go around complaining about the schools in a tone that sounded really profound, making remarks like, "The schools shouldn't make us learn French. After all, French is a foreign language". I suppose, in the same vein, students should not have to learn math because it is abstract. The girl also would boast about singing in a church choir and having to go to choir practise on a frequent basis. Her social skills really were nothing to brag about. She would pass remarks suggesting that others were envious of her and would try to taunt me with the line "Jealousy gets you nowhere".

Do you think that Pastor Olson might have tried to teach her too much at too early a stage?

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