I call out the catholics

[Queen Victoria]

I'm bumping this because I was raised Catholic and I can't believe I didn't post in it the first time around. 

What was your confirmation name?

 "Matthew,"  because somebody told me he was some kind of bookkeeper, and at the time I was confirmed,
 I thought I wanted to be an accountant because supposedly it was a good sensible field to go into.
 It was a clueless time of life in so many ways, right down to the ill-chosen dress I wore to my confirmation!   

My goodness!  What a difference a few years and many miles can make.  Saints had to match the sex of the confirmant.  My saint, as posted in another thread, is Euphrasia.

["couldbecousin"]

I'm bumping this because I was raised Catholic and I can't believe I didn't post in it the first time around. 

What was your confirmation name?

 "Matthew,"  because somebody told me he was some kind of bookkeeper, and at the time I was confirmed,
 I thought I wanted to be an accountant because supposedly it was a good sensible field to go into.
 It was a clueless time of life in so many ways, right down to the ill-chosen dress I wore to my confirmation!   

Should have chosen Lilith. 

 We never learned about her, are you surprised? 

[Squidusa]

I'm bumping this because I was raised Catholic and I can't believe I didn't post in it the first time around. 

What was your confirmation name?

 "Matthew,"  because somebody told me he was some kind of bookkeeper, and at the time I was confirmed,
 I thought I wanted to be an accountant because supposedly it was a good sensible field to go into.
 It was a clueless time of life in so many ways, right down to the ill-chosen dress I wore to my confirmation!   

Should have chosen Lilith. 

 We never learned about her, are you surprised? 

No , Catholics always leave out the half-interesting people.   

["couldbecousin"]

I'm bumping this because I was raised Catholic and I can't believe I didn't post in it the first time around. 

What was your confirmation name?

 "Matthew,"  because somebody told me he was some kind of bookkeeper, and at the time I was confirmed,
 I thought I wanted to be an accountant because supposedly it was a good sensible field to go into.
 It was a clueless time of life in so many ways, right down to the ill-chosen dress I wore to my confirmation!   

My goodness!  What a difference a few years and many miles can make.  Saints had to match the sex of the confirmant.  My saint, as posted in another thread, is Euphrasia.

 At the time, I thought I was pretty cool for choosing a man's name.  Now it just seems odd! 

[Queen Victoria]

I'm bumping this because I was raised Catholic and I can't believe I didn't post in it the first time around. 

What was your confirmation name?

 "Matthew,"  because somebody told me he was some kind of bookkeeper, and at the time I was confirmed,
 I thought I wanted to be an accountant because supposedly it was a good sensible field to go into.
 It was a clueless time of life in so many ways, right down to the ill-chosen dress I wore to my confirmation!   

My goodness!  What a difference a few years and many miles can make.  Saints had to match the sex of the confirmant.  My saint, as posted in another thread, is Euphrasia.

 At the time, I thought I was pretty cool for choosing a man's name.  Now it just seems odd! 

Even if Father Arthur would have let you do that, Sister Beatrice would have sank that idea pronto.

[Scrapheap]

I never mentioned an afterlife and personally don't care if there is one or not. However, what happens when we die cannot be directly studied. Sure you can indirectly study it by checking brain activity and such, but what do *you* experience?

Blackness?
The realization we're dreaming?
The realization that reality as we know it was not real?
Etc.

All of these are possible, but there is no evidence of any of them. Being sure on blackness is just the same is being sure there is an afterlife, both could be complete myths and something completely different could happen. In reality, the only way to find out is to die.

BULLSHIT! blackness fits the evidence that we DO have. That the conciousness and self are just manifestations of brain activity. Wehne the brain dies, so does the self. That is what the evidence points to.

[Squidusa]

I never mentioned an afterlife and personally don't care if there is one or not. However, what happens when we die cannot be directly studied. Sure you can indirectly study it by checking brain activity and such, but what do *you* experience?

Blackness?
The realization we're dreaming?
The realization that reality as we know it was not real?
Etc.

All of these are possible, but there is no evidence of any of them. Being sure on blackness is just the same is being sure there is an afterlife, both could be complete myths and something completely different could happen. In reality, the only way to find out is to die.

BULLSHIT! blackness fits the evidence that we DO have. That the conciousness and self are just manifestations of brain activity. Wehne the brain dies, so does the self. That is what the evidence points to.

What evidence are you referring to Scrap?

Can you post examples?

[normal_impaired]

One week from today I fly out to Minnesota to be the best man at my brother's wedding.  His fiancee's family is, from what I hear, psycho-catholic, she's already bit him in the neck and sucked all the episcopalianism out, now he acts like he's been Catholic his whole life.  So I'm gonna be standing there next to the altar in a tux for not only the service, but the full 2-hour high mass before the service.  I also get to meet her whole side of the family including the grandmother who apparently talks in tounges from time to time and has been known to enforce the saying of the Rosary with a broom handle.

I have a feeling there's gonna be some people who don't like me that much because I can only keep my "Atheist-bastardism" at bay for so long before I gotta start having a logical conversation which usually ends with people taking a step back to avoid the lightning bolt they think is about to hit me.

[Callaway]

One week from today I fly out to Minnesota to be the best man at my brother's wedding.  His fiancee's family is, from what I hear, psycho-catholic, she's already bit him in the neck and sucked all the episcopalianism out, now he acts like he's been Catholic his whole life.  So I'm gonna be standing there next to the altar in a tux for not only the service, but the full 2-hour high mass before the service.  I also get to meet her whole side of the family including the grandmother who apparently talks in tounges from time to time and has been known to enforce the saying of the Rosary with a broom handle.

I have a feeling there's gonna be some people who don't like me that much because I can only keep my "Atheist-bastardism" at bay for so long before I gotta start having a logical conversation which usually ends with people taking a step back to avoid the lightning bolt they think is about to hit me.

Good luck.

[midlifeaspie]

sucked all the episcopalianism out, now he acts like he's been Catholic his whole life. 

How does one tell the difference?   

[Scrapheap]

sucked all the episcopalianism out, now he acts like he's been Catholic his whole life. 

How does one tell the difference?   

Epis'ian has much less guilt than the regular Catholic, and half the calories. 

[Parts]

One week from today I fly out to Minnesota to be the best man at my brother's wedding.  His fiancee's family is, from what I hear, psycho-catholic, she's already bit him in the neck and sucked all the episcopalianism out, now he acts like he's been Catholic his whole life.  So I'm gonna be standing there next to the altar in a tux for not only the service, but the full 2-hour high mass before the service.  I also get to meet her whole side of the family including the grandmother who apparently talks in tounges from time to time and has been known to enforce the saying of the Rosary with a broom handle.

I have a feeling there's gonna be some people who don't like me that much because I can only keep my "Atheist-bastardism" at bay for so long before I gotta start having a logical conversation which usually ends with people taking a step back to avoid the lightning bolt they think is about to hit me.

Yeah good luck you will need it.  Make sure you have enough  for the ceremony they are indeed brutal.  Good thing is  most catholic receptions are pretty wild I think it's due to the repression in other areas of their lives

[normal_impaired]

I'm flying out there and since every TSA agent thinks there's a bomb up everyone's ass, I'm not gonna risk bringing any trees on the flight.  The night I get out there we're supposed to go bar hopping, so hopefully somebody will find something, if not I might just have to settle with my old buddy 'weiser.

[Al Swearegen]

I'm flying out there and since every TSA agent thinks there's a bomb up everyone's ass, I'm not gonna risk bringing any trees on the flight.  The night I get out there we're supposed to go bar hopping, so hopefully somebody will find something, if not I might just have to settle with my old buddy 'weiser.

You poor bastard.
I would give you advice if I had any.  for fronting up.

[Scrapheap]

I'm flying out there and since every TSA agent thinks there's a bomb up everyone's ass, I'm not gonna risk bringing any trees on the flight.  The night I get out there we're supposed to go bar hopping, so hopefully somebody will find something, if not I might just have to settle with my old buddy 'weiser.

I'd wear a bunch of wooden dowels, painted red, attached by wires and linked to a clock on my chest, just to fuck with them.