SirCumsSlut -> RE: Catholic School Images (6/8/2006 4:01:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: OedipusRexIt I read a good joke posting on Catholic school girls, and it eventually got me thinking. I say eventually, because I clicked on that topic fast - which was a visceral reaction that surprised me a little. So, when actual thought kicked back in, I wondered: How many people here raised Catholic have visceral/instinctive reactions to images from Catholic upbringing? I'm hoping to avoid too much discussion of the usual crucifixes/madonnas/ kind of imagery, but if that's where it leads, it does. Positive stories would also be good, rather than rants against the church (plenty of space for that elsewhere). I was thinking more about things like whether the nuns scared (or enticed, I suppose) you, what kinds of punishment rituals might be associated in your minds with Catholic school, or perhaps whether Catholic school uniforms might provoke an arousal response. My own upbringing is tinged with all sorts of things that can be associated with Catholice images. I don't consider myself a Catholic ever since I first had a real choice, and I'm not religeous, but you can't spend all that time in the system and not absorb a hell of a lot. Anyone else? Spent 10 yrs of my life in catholic school (until they finally kicked me out for good).....What sticks in my mind the most to this day is when I was in 5th grade.......I had two teachers, one a nun, Sister Marie John (OMG I remember her name) and Mrs Mellagrano........Sister Marie John had this thing with dust brushes.....She could peg the back of head at 30 paces with that dust brush (Damn those things hurt)......Mrs Mellagrano, her big thing was the metal rulers (ya'll remember them, they rang if ya dropped em on the floor). Well she would have us put our hand(s) palm down on the desk so that our knuckles rested on the edge and BAM she would crack our knuckles with that damn ruler, I still have small scars from that sob. It wasn't until I reached catholic high school that I realized that the FIRE AND BRIMSTONE they preached was bogus........and I walked away (again like I said, they assisted by throwing me out). I am no longer an active member of the catholic church or any church for that matter....I believe God lives in all of us, and we don't need a building to be closer to Him.....I guess I have Sister Marie John and Mrs Mellagrano to thank for making me see the folly of the "organized catholic religion"
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