That's why I said, "It is believed." Whether or not it is true, I have not said either way.

Protestant churches don't have "days of obligation." We go to church to worship, and to learn things.

@Condo: Baptism isn't required for us, it's just a social symbol used to proclaim your decision to follow God. Also, we don't have Purgatory.

@condo: Yeah, both my my parents are Baptist, but didn't really push it onto me. They want to start going back to church, but either way, I really wasn't raised a certain faith. Which makes deciding difficult.

Ah. I thought that "it is believed" meant "it is the doctrine of the Church" or something like that — after all, strictly speaking nobody of us "knows" with certainty anything about the afterlife to begin with.

edited 19th Sep '12 3:48:43 PM by Carciofus

I get the impression that Catholicism tends to be a lot stricter than most other sects, but I don't know enough about them to know for sure.

In Catholic school, though, they teach you a lot about other religions like Islam and Hinduism and stuff.

Got a copy of the Catechism for my Confirmation. Never even opened it.

edited 19th Sep '12 3:51:18 PM by condottiera

I dunno. It depends, I suppose. For example, the Orthodox Lent is way stricter than the Catholic one: they basically have to go vegan, don't drink alcohol and even avoid olive oil for forty days.

For comparison, all that we have to do is not eat meat on Fridays and try to eat light (within reason) on a few special days.

edited 19th Sep '12 3:52:58 PM by Carciofus

Dang, Carci...

I'm on Act 4 of Homestuck, by the way.

Dave just called the katanaed bird "seppucrow" and I laughed so hard.

God, I love puns.

edited 19th Sep '12 4:03:39 PM by condottiera

Hey, who was it talking the other day about Green Bird from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack? 'Cause I got something awesome for you.

Condo: Can't wait to see your reaction to [S] Jack: Ascend. I saw it last night. I could possibly fetch a link to the point in the chatlog where I gave my opinion if anyone *really* wanted to see, but it's got spoilers that I learned from some quick browsing of MSPA Wiki >_>

I know, I saw that! I am almost done with Cowboy Bebop, too. Man, that show is so cool.

edited 19th Sep '12 4:11:57 PM by condottiera

I'd like to see.

Cool animation up there, I mostly just turned it on and listened to the music though. Cowboy Bebop's music is amazing. @Condi: In case you didn't know, most of the music was done by Yoko Kanno, who is a very respected Japanese musician who's done a lot of really good anime music.

I know, I looked into it cause I love the music so much.

And I just saw the orange wall death scene on The Simpsons.

Man, I love seventies movies.

edited 19th Sep '12 4:18:58 PM by condottiera

Link contains spoilers!

Real short reaction bit (with following reaction to Hussie's self-insert): http://wild.tropi.us/logn/read.lua.cgi?log=waapt&date=120919#02:51:23

First time I heard Green Bird was for a Katawa Shoujo parody...

Well, it wasn't much of a parody, but it ended sweet anyway.

I just love Soundtrack Dissonance.

Ever seen A Clockwork Orange?

-Holds Fluttershy plush close to himself-

P-Please don't mention that movie to me again... -Shudders-

C'mon, don't be a baby. That movie is great.

I have the deluxe special edition.

Plus, Malcolm McDowell used to be gorgeous.

I don't really get horror movies either. I mean, if they don't scare me, I get bored; and if they scare me, well, I get scared, and that's just not pleasant.

One of the few times I ditched school in High School was when we were supposed to watch the second part of The Shining: we had seen the first part the day before, and I decided that I didn't really care to go through that. I have no doubts that it is a very skillful movie; but well, I wouldn't want to take a kick in the guts even if it was a very artistic and skillful kick, and that movie was just the mental equivalent to a kick in the guts for me (I was probably quite more sensitive then than I am now, but still.)

edited 19th Sep '12 4:37:39 PM by Carciofus

No need for name calling...

I like horror, but I know why a lot of people don't

And I think I own almost every Stanley Kubrick movie.

Aw, just joking.

edited 19th Sep '12 4:39:17 PM by condottiera

It's... just... that rape scene...

And this is coming from someone who watched It... Well, Nostalgia Critic's review of it.

I don't think anyone answered this and I can only answer for Lutherans, but yes, we do get confirmed. Our church has Confirmation for 7th and 8th grade.

He reviewed it? I never saw that one.

And if you've never seen the whole thing, you should. It is a classic of the genre.

edited 19th Sep '12 4:40:20 PM by condottiera

I also saw Carrie... or at least, the remake of it.

And the TUGS episode "Munitions".