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Title: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Rome on July 31, 2005, 09:31:04 AM
Ugh.

My daughter starts school next week so that means I have to start going to Mass again.   :P

It's not that I have a particular problem with going to church, mind you.  It's just that I'd rather be doing pretty much anything else on a Sunday morning than getting showered, shaved, dressed-up and then sitting through an hour of blah-blah-blah at the local soul-saving convention.

Anyway, just thought I'd ask if anyone else is in the same boat as me, and if so, do you have any plans afterward, because after an hour of yapping from a priest, a few beers and some tacos sounds good to me.

:evil
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: MURP on July 31, 2005, 09:39:43 AM
whats the connection of your daughter going to school and you going to church if I may ask?
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Sgt PSN on July 31, 2005, 10:04:59 AM
More importantly, why is your daughter starting school in the first week of August?  What kind of Nazi school are you sending her to? 
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Geowhizzer on July 31, 2005, 10:19:42 AM
Quote from: SSgt PSN on July 31, 2005, 10:04:59 AM
More importantly, why is your daughter starting school in the first week of August?  What kind of Nazi school are you sending her to? 

Welcome to school in Florida.  In my district, teachers report to work tomorrow, students go back next Monday (Aug. 8 ).

Sarge, if you check your local school districts in NC, they're probably going back within the next 2-3 weeks.  They start earlier in the South than we did up north.

The plus is, we're done by Memorial Day.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Zanshin on July 31, 2005, 11:24:41 AM
I'm pretty sure Dio is going; you'll probably bump into him....
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Reidme on July 31, 2005, 01:26:42 PM
Quote from: MURP on July 31, 2005, 09:39:43 AM
whats the connection of your daughter going to school and you going to church if I may ask?

Private schools run by, or affiliated with a relious institution (ie Catholic School), strongly encourage (similar to "voluntary mini camp") the family of the student to attend weekly services. Along with physical sighting in smaller congregations, there is usually an envelope for collection given to the student for a weekly offering  :deion. That is how they know if you attend. Sometimes important info for the student and family is also announced at the mass. It also helps in case little Johnny has any problems at school, (like spitballs, smoking, fighting, cursing, etc) if the Priest sees you at mass every week. When a school is at capacity, stuff like your showing up every week also goes a a long way towards keeping your kid off the shtein list and in the school.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Zanshin on July 31, 2005, 01:47:09 PM
Man, who needs that?
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: General_Failure on July 31, 2005, 01:54:05 PM
Parents that don't want their kids getting shot in public school?
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Diomedes on July 31, 2005, 02:44:17 PM
I avoid churches, don't like them.  Furthermore, I'm not wanted there.  If only the people who attend them regularly could demonstrate the same consideration.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: NGM on July 31, 2005, 02:47:58 PM
Were you touched as a child by a man in a silly hat Dio?
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Yeti on July 31, 2005, 02:48:14 PM
No.  I am not going.

I think if I walked into a church I would burst into flames.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Diomedes on July 31, 2005, 02:56:57 PM
Quote from: NGM on July 31, 2005, 02:47:58 PM
Were you touched as a child by a man in a silly hat Dio?

Nope.  But my mother and her sister were.  We aren't sure about the brother (my uncle).  Maybe him, too.  He don't talk about things.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: NGM on July 31, 2005, 02:58:14 PM
I recommend drinking until you can't feel feelings anymore.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Zanshin on July 31, 2005, 03:00:37 PM
Quote from: General_Failure on July 31, 2005, 01:54:05 PM
Parents that don't want their kids getting shot in public school?

Or just move someplace where that's less likely.  Aside from that, I'm not sure that catholic school kids are all that bulletproof.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Diomedes on July 31, 2005, 03:00:56 PM
Quote from: NGM on July 31, 2005, 02:58:14 PM
I recommend drinking until you can't feel feelings anymore.

That's great so long as you don't have to work the next day.  If you do, not so much.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: NGM on July 31, 2005, 03:06:01 PM
Thats the beauty of 2nd shift my friend. 
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: Philly_Crew on August 01, 2005, 07:24:27 AM
I guess I'm the loner because I enjoy going to church.  I'm not sure if you are being serious Dio, but if you are, that stinks.  Whoever did it should be held criminally responsible.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: QB Eagles on August 01, 2005, 08:18:51 AM
Two of my Catholic school teachers wound up going to jail for molesting students. One was a priest and one was an ex-nun. Another priest who taught me was arrested, but the accuser later admitted making the story up. It's naïve to believe that the rate of Catholic priests who molest is substantially higher than Protestant clergy, public school teachers, coaches, or any other group of males who choose to be around children often. The difference is that some dioceses have been complicit in covering up the sexual abuse. On the other hand, the Catholic schools I went to removed the teachers immediately upon hearing an accusation, and contacted the authorities themselves.

I never saw any indication of my parents being pressured to go to church. My dad always went anyway, and my mom is Protestant. A lot of kids from my class didn't go regularly. Could be either because the congregation was large, or because the priests doing the masses were not teachers at the school.
Title: Re: Mass - Is Anyone Else Going Today?
Post by: MadMarchHare on August 01, 2005, 08:39:59 AM
It's laughable that after you pay the equivalent of college tuition to send your kid to these private schools, they make further demands of your time.  They should be happy their getting paid.