Exactly.

See, that's the thing. Everyone picks and chooses from religious books to justify whatever their end goal is. That's why I really think that it becomes the responsibility of the individual to continually question and research their faith, call it testing if you want. And to have a sense of humor about the whole thing.…

I was hoping that someone else in Jezzieland would post this series! One of favorites of all time. I'm kind feeling the need to re-read them now.

Yeah, they liked to keep to the non-freaky bits. It's like going to weddings where they have people reading from the Song of Solomon and you're like, seriously? The Bible had sex in it? How come the priest doesn't read that part on Sundays?

From what I remember, Catholics lump them all in together. When you're in Church you can peruse the missal and see each day's readings, responsorial psalm, and gospel. There is a pattern over the course of the year depending on if you're in regular time, lent, advent, etc.

This. I also grew up Catholic and really only came into contact with some ultra-conservative old school priests about 1/2 the time. With the last Pope, there was a pretty hard push to get back to pre-Vatican II ideology. The priests and nun who left the best impressions on me growing up definitely came out of the…

The Catholic one works it's way through as well. But when you consider the fact that most people only go 1 day out of 7 (not sure if many of the mainline Protesties offer services every day like the Catholics do), you're really only hearing 1/7th of what the Lectionary covers. And at a mass, there is no deviation but…

Look, take what I say with a grain of salt - I am a proud, no longer practicing Catholic. What I found entertaining is the fact that the Lectionary was on a 3 year cycle. So every fourth year you revert back to year 1 readings. This repetition year after year is what bothers me. Not that it should bother you. In all…

Keeping crazy straight takes up half my day sometimes. I can't remember when I first clued into the whole repeating thing but at some point I was like, wait a minute, I know this one. Then my mom told me that whole thing was on a three year cycle and that eventually I would just end up tuning it all out. Which made me…

Ah, but wait...if he's a good Catholic he's not supposed to read the entire bible. There's a Lectionary that is read at mass with specific readings for each day; one from the old testament, the new testament, and then from one of the gospels. You'd think they would have rethunk things a bit after the reformation but…

Wow, growing up in California must have put me in a special Catholic bubble. I'm sure there were ultra-conservative families in our church, there were maybe a handful of families with more that 2 or 3 kids, but they were by far the minority. I do know we lucked out with all of the Birkenstock priests we had. As I was…

Unfortunately I am one of those folks who can let things build until it reaches breaking point. My worry is I will finally reach said point and fear that my target will be some old woman who will come after me with her 20 lb purse because that's just my kind of luck. Or some crazy meth head. My inspiration is a…

I've been wondering about this for a long time. It's so disgusting - especially when you see how many places there are for people to safely leave them. I wish I was ballsy enough to say something when I see people tossing their butts on the ground.

We grew up calling it the Flushin' Rushin'. It's getting better but it's one dirty dirty river the farther down it you go...

Shhh. Don't remind anyone that California has more to it than SF or LA.

Have to second you on the Leinie's. Do they still make Blatz? When I was in WI 12 years ago someone told me "I drink Old Style until I get Schlitzed and Blatz all over the place." Oh god I loved Wisconsin.

I went to school in Washington. Always loved heading into Seattle and seeing the gigantic R at the brewery. Never could get into drinking the stuff though. Icehouse and Henry's were the cheap beers of choice at my school. I did grow up on drunken frat stories that always seemed to start with "We got kegs of Rainier…

Finally some love for the beer from the land sky blue waters!

Oh, and don't forget the amount of shit those birds can leave.

A majority of the weddings I've been to, mine included, all had unlimited wine and beer. The only one that didn't was a cousin's wedding where the wine and beer was only available and free for the "cocktail" portion. The rush of guests trying to stockpile drinks or binging hard in that last 30 min of open bar was…