What is your experience of being a Catholic?

Look up some of my posts. I've no interest in repeating them.


e.g., the rosary crusade person was a family friend.

The priest that taught me how to milk a cow while blindfolded.

I understand how it is to repeat ones self, Thankfully we have copy and paste.

Do you have any favorites that you would not mind pasting?

No, I've been here at least ten years.

I understand that ten years is a long time.

I was listening to what an ex-nun had to say and it had me feeling sad for her and others. I think that her endeavor was more than ten years.

Do you or anyone else know if she is telling the truth? If she is I do doubt that this is the case for all nuns but I wanted to hear all of your points of views.

I have known many nuns, and have no idea of the one you are talking about. Nuns vary.

You tube doesn't work for me.

I will find her name and share it. Like I said I do not think that all are treated this way, I hope not and I doubt that they are.

This is your curiosity, not mine.

Why would you have no interest in what a nun has to say?

Her name is Charlotte Keckler born April 12 1889 and died September 1983 Her SS# is 261-58-5764 She lived in Boston Massachusetts and Napa California last.

She spent 22 years behind their walls.

She seemed to have a very strong interest in letting others know her life story.

fifty years, honey.

You seem to be a tool. I don't mean that meanly, just observation.

Maybe you are correct but I thought I heard her say 20+ years.

I try to be useful but I do realize that I fail at times.

I'm correct about myself.

I don't give a **** about your nun story.

Let me guess when you said fifty years you were talking about yourself even though you did not say so?



Do you think that you are sharing an empathic response to what the non had to say or a sociopathic response?

Well, I guess I'll talk about my experience, probably over the course of a few posts here and there.

I'm listening to the nun you tube tape as I type, about 15 minutes into it.

She's quite a talker, isn't she? Sounds manic. I don't know that it makes sense, or is fair to ask people what their catholic experience was/in, and in any part basing it on this nun's story. Most people come no where near devoting their lives in that way.

I dunno, I guess my experience wasn't much different from a lot of other catholics, but quite different from others.

From babyhood to 1st grade, I was taken to church weekly. Because my 2 older brothers went to catholic grade school and high school, there wasn't any other thought in my mind that I would do the same. Funny, the oldest child, another girl, went to public school. She was only a couple of years older than my oldest brother, but it never occured to me to wonder why she didn't go to catholic school.

ok, I gotta turn that woman off in the other window....she's starting to drive me nuts.

whew, that's better. I think she's got a lot of other problems besides being an ex nun.

Anyway.
I don't remember ever feeling joyous over the religion I was raised in. Looking back it was all going through the motions. I don't mean me alone, I mean the whole thing of church on sunday, going to confession (through school, we'd go together as a group) going to school, the nuns, the occassional priest.

I always thought confession was weird. I could never think of anything to say. I mean, what was I going to say "I fought with my brothers about 8000 times, I um....er.....I talked back to my mother about 2000 times, etc."

wtf was a kid, or even a high schooler doing that needed to be confessed? What a crock. Never felt redeemed, never felt I needed to be redeemed from whatever I said in there.
On the other hand, I never felt good either, like a good person.

Looking back, I guess I looked at it like the deck was stacked against me, and everyone for that matter.
I mean, the least little thing was a sin, had to be confessed, pondered over, **** like that.
Pretty stupid if you ask me.

I never questioned why these men and women dressed in such a bizarre way. Looking at a priest, expecially a bishop, cardinal, pope now makes me shake my head. Talk about pagan.

Looking back, I'd say as a conservative estimate I've attended over a thousand Masses in my life. In not one of them did I ever experience any sort of positive, close to God experience. It just seemed like a waste of an hour. Not just that hour, but all the time getting ready, getting there and getting home.

Me? I'm a much better person to myself and others for having enjoyed a couple of extra hours sleep on a Sunday thank you.

All this isn't even touching the surface of my feelings toward the catholic church as I realize it is now, and always has been.

Those years of living as a catholic never made me a better person, and I know it made me a worse person at times, during that same span of years.

Anyway, I'll be back later.

I do not think she will drive you nuts but I think I get your drift.

My favorite aunt was catholic and she was the best behaved in my opinion, certainly she did not share that experience.

No, you know know me well rl.....I don't deal with noise, including voices like hers nattering, well at all. I like and seek out quiet.

Anyway, the fact your favorite aunt was "well behaved", was that necessarily because she was of a particular religion, or because it was her nature? Who knows.

So RL, so recently enamored of Judaism is now rushing off to embrace Catholicism. He's like a kid in a candy store . . . I want that . . . no, no, wait . . . i want that . . . and that over there, too ! ! !