A “fight or flight” experience
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One was with the government for refusing to take part in the Vietnam war. Continue college? Go to Canada? go to prison? or try for a conscientious objector classification? After being interrogated by the Draft Board, and fearing that I was headed to prison, my new 1-O classification arrived in the mail. I was a young Christian, trying to live the Sermon on the Mount, and this was part and parcel to following Jesus at all costs.
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Ha..this is going to sound silly, but the only thing that comes to mind at the moment was an incident with a dog.
I was walking home at night and had a grocery bag filled with a few things, a loaf of bread among them. A dog stepped into my path, a rather large German shepherd, and as I neared it stood it's ground and growled menacingly at me. There was no side street to turn into, and I had to go in the direction the dog was blocking. I tried to soft-talk to the dog but it was having none of it, and continued to growl.
So I reached into my bag, thinking to offer it some food (the bread). But before I could pull out the gift, the dog must have assumed I had something nefarious in the bag and ran away. Phew!
I was walking home at night and had a grocery bag filled with a few things, a loaf of bread among them. A dog stepped into my path, a rather large German shepherd, and as I neared it stood it's ground and growled menacingly at me. There was no side street to turn into, and I had to go in the direction the dog was blocking. I tried to soft-talk to the dog but it was having none of it, and continued to growl.
So I reached into my bag, thinking to offer it some food (the bread). But before I could pull out the gift, the dog must have assumed I had something nefarious in the bag and ran away. Phew!
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We had a couple of ex-con neighbors move in. One who was on the national registry for violent offenders - twice. We thought they were developing a drug house. It was like a Micky Ds drive-through out front. A car would pull up and someone from inside, even kids, would deliver their "happy meal" to them. This went on and on with the potential for violence looming.
So we put up security cams and placed them under surveillance 24/7/365. They must have felt like they were back in the pen. But after a God-sent run-in with the police, from some of our documented footage, they moved on. But it was tempting for us to move and start over during the thick of it.
So we put up security cams and placed them under surveillance 24/7/365. They must have felt like they were back in the pen. But after a God-sent run-in with the police, from some of our documented footage, they moved on. But it was tempting for us to move and start over during the thick of it.