Short Funny youtube video - Automated Catholic Confession

[MitchJi]

Hi,

Automated Catholic Confession

[salty9]

+1

[Dauntless]

If you'd ever been subjected to the real thing, you'd know that this would be an improvement. But oh, the evil black habit women would find a way to REALLY make you suffer.

[Nehmo]

If you'd ever been subjected to the real thing, you'd know that this would be an improvement. But oh, the evil black habit women would find a way to REALLY make you suffer.

My only familiarity with traditional Catholic confession is seeing it on TV. My understanding is that the priest metes out a penitence, like saying a prayer several times. Isn't that what usually happens? Your comment implies there is something dis-pleasurable to the "real thing". What do you mean? How would the nun make you suffer?

[Dauntless]

Isn't that what usually happens? Your comment implies there is something dis-pleasurable to the "real thing". What do you mean?

What you often see on TV is how our hero has decided to clean up his act but now "Father Quido used to look forward to my confessions, it was the only fun he had. . . ." Yeah, you don't have an exciting enough confession and you'll REALLY catch it.

How would the nun make you suffer?

Perhaps you should go to catholic school and find out.

[bigmoose]

The post traumatic stress disorder has started again... See that ruler above? Sr. Atilla the Hun used to flatten my left hand against the wooden desk and smack the sh_t out of it multiple times with a 18 inch ruler (no stubby 12 inchers for the good sister). The knuckle on my pointy finger on the left hand is calcified, and I wonder if it was from 8 years of that trauma 50 years ago?

[salty9]

The post traumatic stress disorder has started again... See that ruler above? Sr. Atilla the Hun used to flatten my left hand against the wooden desk and smack the sh_t out of it multiple times with a 18 inch ruler (no stubby 12 inchers for the good sister). The knuckle on my pointy finger on the left hand is calcified, and I wonder if it was from 8 years of that trauma 50 years ago?

The sisters would probably argue that your ES envoi - ""Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God..." all the best, Dave" is the result of their guidence.

[liveforphysics]

The best part of confession is how one guy just made up the entire concept hundreds of years into the religion existing, it gave him additional power over his congregation, so it rapidly caught on and became a standard thing.

[salty9]

Or, I think, from Voltaire "The first divine was created when the first rogue met the first fool."

[The fingers]

ie: Adam & Eve.

[bigmoose]

The post traumatic stress disorder has started again... See that ruler above? Sr. Atilla the Hun used to flatten my left hand against the wooden desk and smack the sh_t out of it multiple times with a 18 inch ruler (no stubby 12 inchers for the good sister). The knuckle on my pointy finger on the left hand is calcified, and I wonder if it was from 8 years of that trauma 50 years ago?

The sisters would probably argue that your ES envoi - ""Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God..." all the best, Dave" is the result of their guidence.

salty, now that you bring it to my attention... you just might be right! Wonder if I owe it all to those sisters and the Jesuits who made me take 4 years of Latin in high school... all I remember of that is amo, amas, amat...

[liveforphysics]

Here is an important video to help with your Latin translations Dave.

[nicobie]

I''ve had them whip on my fingers with the metal edge of the ruler until blood flowed.

When I went to a reunion and the nun was there I asked what she would do if I whipped her? She said I was a problem child.

[bigmoose]

Here is an important video to help with your Latin translations Dave.

What a hoot Luke...!! I never got any of the Latin anyway. Dead language for dead people, now calculus, that was a modern language!

[salty9]

The problem with calculus as I see it is that calculus is generally the last math course taken and it should be the first.
I was always one math course behind in understanding the reasoning behind it.
With calculus first, the other maths could be presented as tools added to calculus.

[Dauntless]

The sisters would probably argue that your ES envoi - ""Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God..." all the best, Dave" is the result of their guidence.

And anyone who went to Catholic School would argue that it's IN SPITE OF their guidance. You want a good fighting pitbull, just let the nuns raise it. If I have kids of my own, they better keep their distance. Most of my classmates didn't turn out well at all.

Yeah, moose, did you have any of the nuns that wore the huge rosary like a belt then yanked it off to use as a cat of nine tails?

My legendary nickname I dished out was 'Sister Kathleen Marine.' Odd thing is she LIKED it.

[bigmoose]

IIRC they did have the Rosary beads, but never had one peel it off and use as described.

You are bringing back more memories.... my classes in that school were never under 60 students to a class! Those wooden desks with the metal bottoms screwed onto runners on the floor. No air conditioning. Cranky heating. We (the students) swept the room every day before going home and grated paraffin wax over the floor when done. Guess it was poor mans floor wax.

The principal taught 1/2 time and there was one secretary and a school nurse. Mom's volunteered for cafeteria duty. That was the complete staffing. About 1000 or 1200 kids total.

Blackboards were green and used chalk. We "clapped" erasers at the end of the day also before going home. I remember the day as 9 am to 3 pm. Walked to school, and walked home.

[The fingers]

When we were kids in the summer we used to walk to our church for vacation bible school, and we had to go past a Catholic church and a Baptist church to get there. My big sister told us to watch out for the nuns at the Catholic church because they would hit you with a ruler if they got hold of you, but the Baptist church was considered to be much worse. Rumor was they had a little "swimming pool" underneath the altar where they would drown little kids while everybody watched! We usually ran past both of them!