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Post by althrioan on Aug 22, 2010 12:28:47 GMT -5
Welcome. Excuse the deadness; there was a huge dispute a few weeks ago and some people left. *comment about what would have happened if this was DH* the people who kept this forum alive through diverse spamming @topic: Hello from Germany!
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Post by scribe on Aug 22, 2010 15:09:36 GMT -5
i just realized jeepnut is a catholic like me from my parents home town
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Post by thedude on Aug 22, 2010 15:54:02 GMT -5
hello and welcome to the BtA forums!
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Post by Solid on Aug 22, 2010 18:33:49 GMT -5
Hi. I remember 16...so long ago. He was soooo ADORABLE! Ahem....Anyway.... Welcome Skully! You knew me then? Holy crap, you did! i just realized jeepnut is a catholic like me from my parents home town Chicago? Land of the Catholics? Cathogo?
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Post by skully on Aug 22, 2010 21:29:02 GMT -5
@topic: Hello from Germany! woot! Germany=awesome *gives high five*
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Post by Fyacin on Aug 23, 2010 0:06:21 GMT -5
Welcome to the boards, it's always good to have another member around. You have the same name as my wife, just spelled differently. How does she spell skully?
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Post by jeepnut on Aug 23, 2010 22:42:51 GMT -5
i just realized jeepnut is a catholic like me from my parents home town You obviously never read my signature... And I'm from St. Louis. I just live in Chicago.
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Post by Josh on Aug 26, 2010 0:19:52 GMT -5
catholic's are seriously some of the nicest christian people I've ever met.
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Post by jeepnut on Aug 26, 2010 5:39:44 GMT -5
catholic's are seriously some of the nicest christian people I've ever met. Well, thanks for the compliment I guess. Although, I don't think we're any better than any other denomination. Maybe a little bit less preachy but that's just my opinion.
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Post by Radiant Magnificence Alastair on Aug 26, 2010 6:05:46 GMT -5
I haven't really met many Catholics before.
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Post by scribe on Aug 26, 2010 7:24:21 GMT -5
Most Catholics I meet around my area are only so in name and not in practice, unfortunately.
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Post by Maarten on Aug 26, 2010 10:45:27 GMT -5
Have any of you catholics ever been to the Vatican?
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Post by scribe on Aug 26, 2010 10:53:40 GMT -5
My mom's been on a pilgrimage there, i have yet to have the opportunity to do so myself.
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Post by Maarten on Aug 26, 2010 12:02:50 GMT -5
I've been there twice (with a school excursion to Rome). Personally, I thought it would be more sacred and religious, but, to me, all the fancy churches in Rome and the Vatican itself seemed to be more about the pretty church decorations and the tourists than about God. The churches and the Vatican were after all filled with tourists and souvenir shops rather than devout believers. There's a cafeteria on the roof of the st. Peter when halfway through the climb to the top . Off course my view of it was a little biased because I came there as a tourist myself, rather than as a devout catholic and I'm quite sensitive to overly decorated fancy churches, because I come from a reformed/calvinist tradition myself. By the way, I don't exactly know why I brought this up, guess I had to think about it with the talk about catholicism. No offence to catholics by the way, I quite like the catholics I know to not just care about the traditions, but acually about God. Like Scribe said, I guess for a lot of catholics it's about the name and not about the practice. (But hey, that's true for all of Christianity I guess, my reformed church is full of those people too, despite making all our churches look ugly and empty )
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Post by Jeremy on Aug 26, 2010 17:36:19 GMT -5
yo
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