I was watching a documentary on cemeteries. There was this man in a purple dress, waving his brass-phallic-holy-water-slinger around the cemetery. He informed me that he was slinging holy water on these graves to bless their corpses and pray for them. Also, he said he would be asking them to pray for us.

Now... hold on a sec. I was a Catholic a long fucking time. So I remember all the praying. Praying sucked balls. You know what I prayed for? That they wouldn't make us say them out loud, so that I could think about anything but boring shit, like praying. I don't think I ever really thought about what I was saying as I was forced to repeat the measureless, flavorless words. (I got in trouble all the time for saying things in my mind like "Hail Mary, full of turds, the squirts are with thee..", and then lmao)



We did ask for dead people to pray for us. How fucking selfish is that shit?!?! They're dead. They're supposed to be in paradise. Whose afterlife paradise would involve hours spent in prayer for fucking alive people?

Isn't god busy enough listening to a bunch of people rabble on and on about things they want that aren't in his plan? Does he really give a shit what ex-life wasters think about current life-wasters?

And why are they praying for dead people? I suppose they're only praying for the ones in hell or purgatory? In that case, don't you think they should be kinda praying for themselves, and the people with whom they're suffering?

None of this shit makes any sense to me, and yet so many believe this sort of thing, in one form or another.


It's off-putting. That's all.

Busy work for weak minds.

Maybe for your faith, Aleia.
In Islam, one prays for the dead to God, in order to ease any suffering they might face for their individual sins in *hell*, not the real one, but the one the soul might encounter in the grave. The soul lays dormant in the grave, and according to his deeds, he/she might face either heaven or hell until the day o' the Judgement day/Jüngsten Gericht.

Quote:And why are they praying for dead people? I suppose they're only praying for the ones in hell or purgatory? In that case, don't you think they should be kinda praying for themselves, and the people with whom they're suffering?

Maybe I should ask a catholic priest about this.

(March 22, 2012 at 5:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Maybe for your faith, Aleia.

I'm faithless! It's fabulous!

(March 22, 2012 at 6:10 am)aleialoura Wrote:

(March 22, 2012 at 5:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Maybe for your faith, Aleia.

I'm faithless! It's fabulous!

What I meant by that, is that you still have a faith even if you're faithless.
It doesn't matter if you stopped believing in it or not.
Culturally, you're obviously, still catholic.

(March 22, 2012 at 6:13 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:

(March 22, 2012 at 6:10 am)aleialoura Wrote:

(March 22, 2012 at 5:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Maybe for your faith, Aleia.

I'm faithless! It's fabulous!

What I meant by that, is that you still have a faith even if you're faithless.
It doesn't matter if you stopped believing in it or not.
Culturally, you're obviously, still catholic.

How does someone who is faithless have faith? I don't even know what the "catholic culture" would be. I was brought up going to church. I don't go anymore. Catholics drink all the time, even at church parties. I don't drink. Catholics believe crazy shit. I'm not sure I ever really believed any of it. I know I don't now. I have almost nothing in common with Catholics.

Once again, mehmet, you don't know what you're talking about. It's okay. I've come to expect as much.

(March 22, 2012 at 6:52 am)aleialoura Wrote:

(March 22, 2012 at 6:13 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:

(March 22, 2012 at 6:10 am)aleialoura Wrote:

(March 22, 2012 at 5:51 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Maybe for your faith, Aleia.

I'm faithless! It's fabulous!

What I meant by that, is that you still have a faith even if you're faithless.
It doesn't matter if you stopped believing in it or not.
Culturally, you're obviously, still catholic.

How does someone who is faithless have faith? I don't even know what the "catholic culture" would be. I was brought up going to church. I don't go anymore. Catholics drink all the time, even at church parties. I don't drink. Catholics believe crazy shit. I'm not sure I ever really believed any of it. I know I don't now. I have almost nothing in common with Catholics.

Once again, mehmet, you don't know what you're talking about. It's okay. I've come to expect as much.

Well, friend, you obviously know what I'm talking about, but you don't want to admit it.
Even though you don't believe in it, you have the *culture* of the catholic, whatever it is associated with.
My parents don't believe in Islam either, yet they cannot flaunt certain cultural aspects of it. That would be similar to flaunting their own identity and people.

So give some examples of how Alei displays a Catholic culture.

(March 22, 2012 at 7:19 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: So give some examples of how Alei displays a Catholic culture.

I can't, since I do not know her on a personal scale. If I did, I might have made a few observations.