OD plagiarized Clipper

[Clipper]

Probably had Wild Bill drooling too much to play the spoons. LOL

[stoney]

lol! I don't think he was there. Saturday nights didn't have a lot of those old-timers; it was mostly younger drunks.

[fiona]

I went to Saint Anthony's. Thos nuns scared the living crap out of me. They were viscious and made me "do strange things" out of desperation. I hated it and them. All I wanted to do was escape. I spent a lot of time in he library under punishment reading Dantes' Inferno, and I was forced to look at steel engravings of sinners roasting in Hell. This is true. Who would do that to a six year old child? This has nothing to do with this thread, but such treatment imbued me with a bitter distaste for the Catholic Church, which I will carry with me even unto my "end of days". Father Carlo was a freind of the family and he used to come to dinner once a month on a Sunday - he made the rounds of the parish homes - and I was scared Shitless of him. He was a kindly man and meant me no harm. But there was something about him - I'll never know. It's sad , really. sad, that I as a little girl, knew the whole Latin mass by heart and used to go into the attic where I had a "doll church" set up and play priest and give them all communion and absolve their sins. I even has little shot glasses of red kool aide that I stole from my Grandfather that I used for wine. Ah,, what was it Frank McCourt said about the miserable Irish childhood?

[stoney]

Oh wow, Fiona... That sucks.

[Clipper]

Exactly the reasons I didn't remain Catholic when I was old enough to choose Fiona. Other churches were much more upbeat and loving, and didn't try to rule your life with intimidation and threats of hell and purgatory.

I am confident now that under Catholic rules, I will be going to heaven for sure, because living with my last ex wife for nine years was enough penance to get the devil into heaven.

[fiona]

McCourt said that "worst of all was the miserable Irish childhood and worse than that was the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Not a direct quote, but pretty close from "Angela's Ashes." Has anyone read that and what do you think of it?

[stoney]

Jim talks about Catholic school beating certain beliefs into him. He thought the only Christians that existed were the Catholics. Like I've said, he still has nightmares about the nuns.

[Clipper]

I received a beautiful Catholic bible as a gift from a relative when I made my first communion. I was soon told that I didn't need to read the bible and should not be confused by reading it. I was told that any biblical education that I needed would be preached from the alter in the gospel or taught in my lessons for confirmation. God forbid anyone should dive into the scripture without the tainted opinion of an individual priest to interpret it for them.

That same priest turned me against confession by calling me by name when I had completed my confession. It took away the idea that I was confessing my sins to "God" and made it just another controlling factor over my life, by the parish priest, whom incidentally, all the kids in my catechism classes lived in dire fear of.

[bobbbiez]

Mar 16, 2010 12:45:02 GMT -5 fiona said:

McCourt said that "worst of all was the miserable Irish childhood and worse than that was the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Not a direct quote, but pretty close from "Angela's Ashes." Has anyone read that and what do you think of it?

Fiona, the movie, Angela's Ashes, was on TV this week. Started to watch it but fell alseep. Sorry.

Check the guide, it might be on again.

[fiona]

I no have a telly- bision. Me like 'em cheeseburger too!

[stoney]

Huh?

[fiona]

I do not have a television. I don't interact well with screens for some reason/ my brain waves are "different", how U say?

[stoney]

Lol, ok. I didn't know what you meant about the cheeseburger.