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Zone troopers is comettv tonight abd maybe later this month.

[Indy]

I always admire ownership.  

I am a Catholic.  They're my tribe.  I own it.  

I don't agree with everything written here, but Indy has the tenets right.  

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I'm in one of the most expensive places on the planet to buy property. Average house prices here are $1million.

Not going to be able to buy anything (within an hours drive of my work) for a long time at this rate!

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Joy Division's Atmosphere, directed by Werner Herzog. This song became a sort of funeral dirge for Ian Curtis, who hanged himself days before the band was to go on tour in the US in 1980 and promote what became its final album Closer. (Named "Closer" as in close to something, it is now called Closer, as in finished, because of the circumstances.)

Moody, haunting song.

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Truly, I did. I was going around at the fundraiser with my friend and we came to this roulette wheel on which you could win prizes, so I bought twelve spins for ten dollars and said to her, "This is for someone named Sven." Then as I made the first spin it came to me that since I'd dedicated these tickets to Sven, if I won a prize I was going to have to come here and ask for a mailing address to send it off to Sven, but I didn't win anything. (Jews were winning right and left; wonder if it was rigged against goyim?)

So anyway, whatever you may think of me, Sven, you inspired an act of charity that in some small way may better the lives of Israeli children who live along the West Bank, surrounded by Orc-like people intent on taking their land and driving them into the sea. I hope you take my gesture in the spirit of good will in which I intended it.

My daughter went to a soccer game last night and then went back with her friend and spent the night, so she missed going to Mass this morning "without valid reason" which means under canon law she is in mortal sin and damned to Hell for all eternity. Pretty strict to damn a nine-year-old to eternal torment over a sleepover.

Is there a way to get out or mortal sin? A way to seek forgiveness?

Indy has it right. In both his statements about the Catholic church.

It lists two main types of sin, venial and mortal. Venial may be black marks but they won't send you to Hell. Mortal Sins are serious matters that do send someone to Hell. For a sin to be mortal it must be:

A. A serious matter (murder, robbery, sexual offenses....or missing Mass after soccer)
B. Freely undertaken
C. Freely undertaken with full knowledge that it is serious matter

Absent any of those three conditions the sin is not mortal.

As for forgiveness, one can go to confession before a priest and be absolved and have a clean slate for all sins short of formal excommunication, or "de facto excommunication" which is when a very, very serious mortal sin is committed without maybe it being known but which is so serious in nature it which severs all connection to the absolution granted priests.

It takes a bishop to rescind excommunication.

Traditionally certain heresies incurred this but more recently having/performing/paying for/encouraging an abortion was the most common matter covered by de facto excommunication, but I am told the current Pope has given priests (in all cases or some, I don't know) the power to grant forgiveness: though some say that power is beyond a Pope's authority. (No, despite the whole infallible declaration of Vatican I in the 1870s, Popes do not have limitless power.)

The Catholic Church has much good in it but it is set up with the knowledge that people are going to screw up and it alone provides the cure for those screw-ups, so in a way it becomes almost like someone treating addicts with a drug.

If the Catholic Church is right I am in deep, deep, deep trouble.

One huge reason I am NOT a Catholic.  What a stupid, and completely un-Scriptural position!

I know some people who feel the same about baptists and evangelicals.

You're defending Catholicism, Sven? Well....cool. 

Confession, penance, and absolution, as I understand it.