RE: How religious or nonreligious is your family?
December 16, 2016 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2016 at 12:04 am by Whateverist.)
(December 16, 2016 at 11:10 am)Asmodee Wrote:(December 15, 2016 at 7:47 pm)Mr Greene Wrote: Some sort of trauma? It sounds like my early memory, I fell off a ledge when I was a kid and everything before that is a jumbled blur.
No. Just a stupid brain.
Me too. But then for me trauma is a real possibility, and then there was all that experimenting with mind altering drugs. Oh well, memories just make everything seem repetitive as we get older unless people get lucky like us.
(December 16, 2016 at 1:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Nowadays, the wife is catholic... going to mass every Sunday... I stay home. Seems like a nice arrangement.
But a few years ago, she decided to go deeper and joined the ranks of Opus Dei... which changed some things... not for the best, mind you.
Is that really a thing? I mean outside of certain novels? Is she into little whips and such?
(December 16, 2016 at 3:44 pm)Mr Greene Wrote:(December 16, 2016 at 11:47 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: I adore going into the different catholic cathedrals just to look at them. They are so pretty. I reckon when you get to take people's money and aren't taxed you have some to spare to really go all out in the architecture lol
Back when the Cathedrals were being built it was a means of showing off the wealth and power of the incumbent bishop. In England that applies to the Cathedrals built between 1066 and 1536, then the protestants arrived and started defacing them, removing all the decoration, smashing the statues and applying whitewash.
Some of the churches are now having the whitewash removed to reveal frescoes underneath.
Meh. Most of the great estate gardens were also built on the backs of an exploited working class. May as well enjoy the gardens and the stained glass windows anyhow, now that so much misery has paid for them.
