Hey everybody. In case ya don't know - I'm Brianna. You probabaly know me from #chat where I am an OP.

I'll keep this light and breezy. A more detailed autobiography is "Only Fools Mess with Brianna" on Fictionmania.

I come from an home of conservative religious extremists. They raised me to be just like them. When I was 14 I organized a ralley to institute prayer in my public school.

Of course I knew I was TS the whole time, and a lot of my anti-homosexual religious conservative beliefs were a defense from that. In 2002, I found myself working for the Republicans in the Senate in DC. Then, the best thing that ever happened in my entire life happened - I was nearly beaten to death in a brutal mugging 2 weeks after we invaded Iraq. They told me I'd never function fully again.

The experience and subsequent therapy radically changed my belief systems. Now handicapped, I began to understand that not everyone experienced the world as rich, Christian, white, and male. Over time, I became an agnostic hard-core liberal that understood everything I'd believed for my whole life was a lie.

On Feb 14th 2006, I started HRT. It altered my personality even further. I like to think of myself as a reasonably nice person now that accepts people for who they are.

Except for Republicans and Christians.

Bree

Thanks for posting that Brianna      *Goes off to do some rereading LoL*

Hi Brianna and welcome to the other side of the site!

As you have probably realized, there's so much information stored in our forums; thank you for posting your introduction.  I so have to go to the chatroom one of these centuries..

Welcome! and enjoy your stay!

tinkerbell

Welcome to the forums Brianna.

Melissa

Oooooh..... I LIKE you Brianna   

Thanks for the intro..... 

Hey Briannna,

It is good to have you here in the forums.

Alice

Hey Brianna....

Looking forward to reading your posts.

Welcome to the rest of the world (Susan's that is of course)

Becky

Wow, Brianna!  That really stands that old joke on its head - you know the one - that a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged?

All kidding aside, WELCOME!  I hope you come down to the forums alot more and let us know what you think.

again, WELCOME ! ! 
helen

yea, Brianna is hot!

I love a progressive leftist thinker.  I too used to be a very conservative christian activist.  Fortunately, I learned the hard lessons of life and realized that not everything can be painted in black and white.  There is just too much color in life to be ignored.

You notice I didn't mention the name of either political party? Aren't you proud of me?  I wish we didn't have to align ourselves in that fashion. 

I hope you spend some time in the forums Brianna.  You can express in a couple of posts what it takes all night to do in the chat room! 

Cindi

brianna welcome to susans forums.  lots of info at susans.  check out all the other things(wiki etc.)and enjoy it all.

   hugs and    amber

Welcome Brianna, nice story. Thanks for telling it and welcome to Susan's.

Dennis

Brianna,

Hello! It's great to meet you!

My name is Julie. I like you,was raised upper middle class,very republican and evangelical attending church Every Sunday morning,evening and Wednesday night. I am and have been a hardcore far left liberal that has been at the front of many protests here in the rural,white,Christian northwest.
I tend to follow Wicca as a religion but have absolutly no tolerance for pushy Christian's who think it's their way or the highway to hell. The only thing I dislike even more are Republican's.

I look forward to conversing with you further Brianna!!!

Julie

Hi Brianna!   

Interesting philosophy.  Been through a lot of the same myself.

You blow me away with politeness. I am sooo unnoteworthy.

:waves hello

Welcome to Susan's.  Sorry to hear about the mugging and after effects but glad to read that you have moved forward so well.

Enjoy your stay. 

Hi Brianna, see you in chat soon I hope
Am sorry to hear that you were mugged by a bunch of Republican Christians    
Anyway I'm glad to see that you have refused to let the experience get you down.

One thing that always confuses me thou, which lot are the Republicans and how do you ever tell them apart

Rana

And those Christians,   why can't they learn to turn the other cheek or somthing?? 

Rana

Rana,

It is impossible to read this and come to a logical conclusion that I was mugged by Republican Christians. Actually, DC is 90 percent Democrats - so that would be more statistically likely.

Me welcoming you would be kinda silly as you have actually been with Susan's far longer than I, but welcome anyways, Oh gorgeous one!! )

Quote from: Brianna on September 09, 2006, 01:48:01 PM
Hey everybody. In case ya don't know - I'm Brianna. You probabaly know me from #chat where I am an OP.

I'll keep this light and breezy. A more detailed autobiography is "Only Fools Mess with Brianna" on Fictionmania.

I come from an home of conservative religious extremists. They raised me to be just like them. When I was 14 I organized a ralley to institute prayer in my public school.

Of course I knew I was TS the whole time, and a lot of my anti-homosexual religious conservative beliefs were a defense from that. In 2002, I found myself working for the Republicans in the Senate in DC. Then, the best thing that ever happened in my entire life happened - I was nearly beaten to death in a brutal mugging 2 weeks after we invaded Iraq. They told me I'd never function fully again.

The experience and subsequent therapy radically changed my belief systems. Now handicapped, I began to understand that not everyone experienced the world as rich, Christian, white, and male. Over time, I became an agnostic hard-core liberal that understood everything I'd believed for my whole life was a lie.

On Feb 14th 2006, I started HRT. It altered my personality even further. I like to think of myself as a reasonably nice person now that accepts people for who they are.

Except for Republicans and Christians.

Bree

Hi Brianna,

  I think Rana was referring to the mugging of your soul that happened to you after the mugging of your body. You would hope that the communities of which you had been a part of could show true compassion.

  You might want to hold back on the liberalism. Either extreme will burn your temporal lobe. [tongue in cheek].

   I feel you have a lot of courage and I'm glad you felt that you could share your story with us. People like yourself are my idols.

Wow Rebecca what an interesting insight

I was going to say "no thats not what I ment at all" .  But on reflection, I can remember reading that Arab tales had three levels of meaning, the obvious as stated in the words; a second meaning; and yet a third which was discernable only to adepts. At the time I thought what a load of rubbish - a sort of Islamic gnosticism.  However, I can remember Lewis Carrol saying, after there was speculation of the meanings in his poem "Hunt for the Quark" that there are three levels of meaning in things.  The obvious, what the writer was saying indirectly, and yet another that arises somehow from the perceptions of society and sort of retrospectively gives that deeper meaning.
So - yes I very much like your take on that part of my post.  My subconscious or my id or something realised that Brianna's soul was not so much mugged by her peers, but she was like the traveller in the parable "The Good Samaritan", hurt and injured but ignored by her "class"?  and ignored for perfectly acceptable legal reasons that paid scant attention to her situation.

Actually my second rather unworthy meaning was rather why pick on Republicans, and from my standpoint in another country, I cannot see ANY difference worth noting between Republicans & Democrats.
And why pick on Christians? calling oneself a Christian means nothing - it is the actions that are important

Rana
hey Brianna, we do tend to strike sparks of each other - but thats not necessarily a bad thing is it?