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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2014 21:59:58 GMT
Maybe all of us lapsed Catholics on the board feel the need for "confession" still.
No one mentioned waiting 1/2/3 hours after eating to go swimming!
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Post by htmb on May 30, 2014 22:20:46 GMT
I thought about it. One hour was my mothers rule, but I think it was two hours when we were little because she wanted us to take a nap after lunch. :-)
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Post by questa on May 30, 2014 23:54:51 GMT
BJD
not only Catholics, I dare say...that is why it is 'any port in a storm'
Amazing how once you start travelling and living in other cultures you start to see the idiocy of your own.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 31, 2014 0:17:21 GMT
One, two, or three hours?! I always thought it was a half hour. It's a miracle I'm alive to write this.
For what it's worth, it's not just a high proportion of people who were raised Catholic on this forum, but also a fair proportion of those who were service brats.
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Post by questa on May 31, 2014 0:33:25 GMT
Service brats and other similar situations that enabled us to grow up as independent, self-reliant, questioning adults.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 2:15:47 GMT
I remember it being an hour after eating. It was very frustrating.
I was not aware that we had fair number of service brats on here. I know of a couple but not as many as the number of Catholics.
As for parochial education, I have to say that despite the trials, tribulations and guilt factor laid upon us, I feel strongly that those nuns gave me a sound education. When I had to transfer to public school I was two years or more ahead of my classmates academically. This had its pluses and minuses as it made me lackadaisical and bored and then I turned hippie....
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Post by questa on May 31, 2014 2:34:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2014 3:35:04 GMT
Catholic Air Force brat here. Strangely enough, we've noticed a high proportion of Catholics/Jews/military kids in the theatre as well. I have lots of theories about that one.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 31, 2014 4:28:17 GMT
RC/USAF brat here as well. Interesting about the theatre. Higher intelligence?
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Post by questa on May 31, 2014 5:19:21 GMT
More disciplined ? Used to obeying orders ? Accustomed to ritual ?
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