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A Catholic funereal.
What the F...
If it wasn't that it was for family and i was asked to carry the casket around , id have walked out.
It was a family member and you are acting like this? Man I despise the catholic "church" with a passion but I wouldn't be acting like this.
Sat Aug 09 2025 18:42:15 UTC from Nurb432A Catholic funereal.
What the F...
If it wasn't that it was for family and i was asked to carry the casket around , id have walked out.
Regardless of my personal feelings about it, I sat there politely thru the thing, so not sure what you mean by "acting like this"
I am venting later, to a unrelated crowd.
Sat Aug 09 2025 20:10:01 UTC from SouthernComputerGeekIt was a family member and you are acting like this? Man I despise the catholic "church" with a passion but I wouldn't be acting like this.
Oh, and if it wasn't family and friends instead, id not have flipped them the bird or said anything about what was going on. More like "its warm in here i need to step into hallway" or "where is the restroom" something non-confrontational.
At least my funeral wont be like this. I wont be having one. Not even a 'viewing'. A small pitch in lunch at the park where we grew up and that is it. Oh and bring your pets. ( if its not been paved over yet... as mentioned all the farm around is now up for sale. grrr )
And no burial either. Ashes, tossed into the river.
We care, but we dont live near you. ( i assume :) )
Tue Aug 12 2025 18:17:30 UTC from darknetuserWell, I guess I will have no ceremony or anything because nobody cares if I live or die. 15 years after I die some burglar will break into my house and find my skeleton.
2025-08-12 20:38 from Nurb432
We care, but we dont live near you. ( i assume :) )
You can always look around your area to try and find some fat guy who lives surrounded by horses. Even if it is not me, I am betting he would be a cool guy.
Our area farms are being paved over for housing and warehouses and strip malls faster than you can blink. I know i have ranted about it a few times, but really, its real and not me just exaggerating. Even out where i grew up, all the farms just went up for sale this spring. Several thousand acres, and the county ( there is no 'town' technically, what little structure we had was 'unincorporated' so the county gets to make the decisions ) rezoned it for housing. And since they shove houses on under 1/4 acre, or less, around here it will be thousands of houses in a couple of years. I expect sale this fall, destruction to start next spring. I was sort of shocked actually, drove over to the park and saw the signs. I actually yelled at the first sign.
In the town i live in now, which isn't too far away, it was considered a 'rural town' ( not country, but not suburbs ). There is zero land left as of this year. its either already been paved, or in process. It happened so fast it was frightening, and disgusting. In at least 2 cases there were some pretty good sized 'mansion' type houses with lots of land just outside of town. They bailed at the first sign. ( they can afford it ). Land was bought, house was torn down and they put in at least 100 on the lot. Even some of our historical farm houses.. mowed over. ( actually, they were first burnt to the ground first as 'training exercises' . insult on injury )
Our last farmers market, is now surrounded by apartments. It will close at end of this season and become a strip mall.
I guess the one exception is one area out west of 'town' wasn't actually housing. I drove past the other day, ( i try to avoid the area as it pisses me off so much ) and it was a solar "farm". Good luck eating from that "farm" output. Idiots. Really glad my time here is coming to an end.
Wed Aug 13 2025 09:57:13 UTC from darknetuser2025-08-12 20:38 from Nurb432
We care, but we dont live near you. ( i assume :) )
You can always look around your area to try and find some fat guy who lives surrounded by horses. Even if it is not me, I am betting he would be a cool guy.
At least my funeral wont be like this. I wont be having one. Not
even a 'viewing'. A small pitch in lunch at the park where we
You're not alone. Funerals that include the corpse of the deceased are losing popularity, as are burials of any type. Look for this to increase as the population of people who like that tradition age out.
I'm with you on that, too. I want my dead body destroyed long before the memorial service.
My dad is probably going to die in the next couple of years (mid stage Alzheimers going into late stage) ... I don't know what kind of funeral that's going to bring. Mom will probably decide, and she seems to love making everything as difficult as possible. Ironic, considering that both of *her* parents' remains are at a cemetery, but in a wall of very small boxes instead of full size graves containing unreduced bodies.
This was both. Full sized caskets put into a "sky box" outside. I say that, as it was at the very top of the wall. ( 3 sections high, so without a ladder you cant visit 'it' if you want )
And being outside, it was dreadful. 105+ index, full sun. I found a tree to hide under, but i wasn't able to make it the entire thing. So hot i was getting light headed. Felt like garbage the next day, had a headache for a week. made it to where they took the temp cover off, shove the box in and put the cover back. They were going to put the stones back up too..
Guys doing it, were not in good shape either. Should have had some sort of tent over the area. At the least for all the old people that show up for these things.
Wed Aug 20 2025 00:47:00 UTC from IGnatius T Foobarbut in a wall of very small boxes instead of full size graves containing unreduced bodies.
Since its the stolen season, a number of people wished my sister and i a 'merry Christmas' yesterday out in the park.
We both are amazed how relatively intelligent people can fall for such a scam. ( the stupid, sure, understandable ) A scam that is clearly created to fleece. The entire concept falls due to logic, and of course when you call people out over simple things like "well, which version do you believe, even yours has more than one" "or how do you explain X if your god is so benevolent and all powerful", "why is yours any better than his, do you have actual evidence" all you get is nonsensical excuses back or just outright denial of what was just pointed out.
No, its not meant as an insult, more that i really wish people would wake up and see the actual truth of what is going on, and not one fed to them due to fundamental insecurity of their insignificant place and value in the universe. "there has to be a greater power" ( whichever one they go with ). No, there really doesn't have to be.
And with this recent trend around these parts here, i need to start planting signs beside the 'keep Christ in Christmas' that say 'keep Saturn in Saturnalia'. 1 - if they actually believe their book, whichever version, he wasn't born in winter. 2 - Saturnalia was around before the supposed birth.. its theft. And i thought theft was immoral. I guess not, if it serves the fleece.. Hypocritical behaviors for the win!
I really don't understand atheists.
But I also don't understand people who believe mainstream academic anthropology and archeology.
I'm not saying that fundamentalist Christian "The Earth is 4500 years old, and the dinosaurs are just the devil deceiving you," theology is correct.
I'm saying that there is ample evidence of intelligent design and lost continuity of humanity's orthodox view of the history of mankind.
Nah, I'm not even saying that. I'm saying that Sitchin and Van Danikin and the guy who is all Younger Dyras/Atlanis theory - some of their arguments are WAY better than mainstream academic archeology.
None of them seem to have a lock on it. Not the Fringe Ancient Alien Astronaut guys - but certainly not the Academic Archeologists. Their shit is just... weak. "They used giant ramps and wood rollers and 20,000 slaves to build the pyramids," with a precision we couldn't match today with heavy equipment, lasers, and Ai... is CLEARLY bullshit.
Don't tell me the other guys are fringe science nutcases when you can't recognize how implausible your OWN "peer reviewed" theories are.
And that is all just here, on Earth - on a Universal scale - the evidence for God is stronger than the evidence AGAINST God - from any rational perspective.
The other side, feel the exact opposite.
Other than agnostics who just toss up their hands and wont make a choice, " i donno", there really is no middle ground. For the most part, either one does, or does not. ( not meaning to pull out Yoda, but i guess its fitting.. lol )
Sun Dec 28 2025 07:04:18 UTC from ParanoidDelusions
the evidence for God is stronger than the evidence AGAINST God
Sun Dec 28 2025 07:04:18 UTC from ParanoidDelusionsAnd that is all just here, on Earth - on a Universal scale - the evidence for God is stronger than the evidence AGAINST God - from any rational perspective.
.... There's exactly zero of either -- because a being of the sort of the Christian "God" is simply un-possible. There cannot be evidence for it, or against it.
Well that is cool, can i be the noodely one by decree too? I'm at least a registered minister, so can i simply step up and be 'it' ?
Tue Dec 30 2025 18:29:41 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarI am the real pope. That pagan in Rome is a fake.
Im sure it does. On paper. Remember, anyone in power, gets to ignore the rules, its part of the deal.
Does the celibacy thing apply to the pope too? If so, forget it, though the hats are kinda nifty. Somebody else can be pope if I can borrow the hats sometimes.