Summer Guilt?????

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Summer Guilt?????
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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 1:51pm
If you work, do you find that summer's are the worst?

Kat

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Registered: 05-08-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 5:49pm
I think your right!
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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 5:54pm

Oh, please.

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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 5:55pm

The priest wouldn't know.


But to admit that would probably take away some of the evil we Catholics have, lol!

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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 5:58pm

That we Catholics are evil and mean and refuse to share our stale, flat, tasteless bread with anyone.

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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 6:00pm

Oh, you have a point.

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Registered: 07-12-2005
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 6:06pm

Maybe we all are basing this on a faulty assumption.

I (and I believe others) thought the discussion of free things to do was more of a "what activities are available to the typical school age child in the typical community, and do not require financial participation". So we find her examples false because they are not available to the typical school age child in the typical community without financial investment or participation.

Perhaps she never intended it as being a point about the general topic, and just wanted us to know how fortunate her children are to have access to these activities. or how resourceful she is that she can list dozens of activities that are free in her community (but not in other communities). Maybe the point was just about her.

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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 6:09pm

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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 6:12pm
I'm sorry I don't know more about the various Protestant religions.
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Registered: 07-12-2005
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 6:17pm

I was going to avoid engaging with you but I see nothing wrong with the way my parents handled it and I think your post specifically calling me out and questioning my parents is out of line.

Whether the Catholic church taught it or not was not the issue. I was not debating the Catholic church and its teachings. The issue was whether children say things about other children's religions, and I pointed out what was said to me.

My parents took me to a Catholic church so I understood that those rituals were a part of the everyday religion. They also let me see that the Catholic church was not directly teaching that, they were teaching that these rituals were an important expression of their faith, and that their faith was important for gaining access to heaven. We then had a discussion about how those children (however mistakenly) believed that a failure to adhere to those rituals = not being faithful = not going to heaven = going to hell.

With regard to my parents not taking it to the principal's office, I am grateful to my parents for handling things like this in the manner that they did. I like that they considered the first priority to be helping me respond in a healthy way to difficult situations (i.e. not internalize these things), and the second priority being whether to try to change others' behavior. In the long run, I think it served me well. I reserve trying to change other people's behaviors for situations when there is real damage done, and change is possible, rather than trying to change other people's behavior every time I get my little old feelings hurt.

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Registered: 05-13-2009
Thu, 05-14-2009 - 6:18pm
Well, if the point is that bordwu has a much better understanding with the tenets of the Catholic Church Eucharistic practices than edg, coco, or crusadergal. Faith is a beautiful thing, though, and often comes from the heart, not the head.

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