Question for you (us Catholics) (x-posted to FB)
 

Hmmm.. I thought that my ten commandments compliance rate was at around 30 percent, but it looks like I'm batting zero now.

Commandments I have borken:

1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.

- Involvement in occult practices, e.g., witchcraft, ouija boards, seances, palm reading, tarot cards, hypnotism, divination, astrology, black magic, sorcery, etc.
- Involvement in or adherence to New Age or Eastern philosophies, atheism or agnosticism
- Apostasy (leaving the Church)
- Putting faith in superstition, e.g., horoscopes, good luck charms, etc.
- Receiving Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin
- Involvement in false or pagan worship
- Willfully denying the Faith of the Catholic Church
- Despair of God’s grace or mercy
- Presumption (committing a mortal sin with the idea that you can just go to confession)
- Hatred of God
- Failure to receive Holy Communion at least once per year ( if possible, during the Easter Season)


2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

- Using God’s name intentionally as a curse
- Seriously wishing evil upon another
- Serious slander or insult of a sacred person or object
- Telling a lie or withholding a serious sin in confession
- Blasphemy (words of hatred, reproach or defiance toward God; speaking ill of God)


3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.

- Missing Mass on Sunday or a Holy Day of Obligation without a serious reason
- Doing unnecessary work on Sunday for a long period of time, i.e., more than several hours
- Intentional failure to fast or abstain on appointed days


4. Honor your father and mother.

- Serious neglect of the duties of one’s state in life
- Serious disrespect for or disobedience to parents, superiors or authorities
- Failure to baptize children in a reasonable time (within a few months) after birth (if I'm going to hell, the dogs are going with me-RT)

5. You shall not kill.

- Knowingly voting for someone who is pro-abortion
- Willfully leading another into serious sin
- Driving dangerously or recklessly
- Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol
- Willfully harboring hatred for another
- Taking or selling illegal drugs
- Willful drunkenness
- Excessive tattoos (define "excessive")
- Promotion of or involvement in euthanasia
- Intentionally placing temptation before the weak (all the time, bay-be)

6. You shall not commit adultery.

- Fornication (intercourse prior to marriage)
- Masturbation or other impure acts with self
- Homosexual acts
- Using a contraceptive
- Dressing or acting in a manner intended to cause arousal in another (spouses excepted)
- Kissing or touching another passionately for the purpose of arousal (spouses excepted)
- Allowing another to kiss or touch you in a sexual manner (spouses excepted)
- Intentionally causing a sexual climax outside of intercourse
- Onanism, i.e. intentional withdrawal and non-vaginal ejaculation
- Flagrant immodesty in dress
- Oral, anal or other degrading sex practices
- Involvement in or support of human cloning
- Destroying the innocence of another by seducing or introducing them to immorality
- Lust in the heart (“if I could I would”)

7. You shall not steal.

- Willfully destroying or defacing another’s property
- Buying, selling, receiving or concealing items known to be stolen
- Excessive gambling
- Serious failure to fulfill work requirements
- Padding expense or per diem accounts
- Excessive waste or expense
- Violating copyrights and illegal copying of software


8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

-Telling large or premeditated lies
- Serious gossip, detraction (revealing the faults of another without serious reason), or calumny (harming the reputation of another by falsities)
- Violation of a confidence without good reason
- Being an accomplice to another’s grave sin

9. You shall not desire your neighbor’s wife.

- Viewing pornography in books, magazines, movies, the internet, etc.
- Reading sexually explicit materials
- Dwelling on impure thoughts or fantasies for the purpose of arousal
- Willfully lusting after another

10. You shall not desire your neighbor’s goods.

- Serious and willful greed or avarice
- Intention to steal or destroy the goods of another


Here's hoping that hell is fun.

Question for you (us Catholics) (x-posted to FB)
 

So if you were to...wake up on Sunday morning, read the Horoscope section of the Sunday paper, blurt out "Goddamn" when you spill hot coffee on yourself, end up missing mass because the wedding (with mass) scheduled for Sunday gets cancelled and all the regularly scheduled masses are already over, you argue with your Mom a bit on the phone over how to handle a family issue and then on the way to the store to buy something for her to make up for it, you drive into an "exit only" parking lot to get to another street quicker, meanwhile daydreaming about your boyfriend (with whom you will later lock lips with for a few minutes), and then while doing some work at home you print things out which you could have read on the computer screen instead, gossiped a bit with your neighbor, and before you go to sleep, daydream a bit about things that are not "pure" and then go to sleep admiring your neighbor's lawn, you have broken all commandments in just a short few hours and will be going to hell even if you spend Monday through Friday working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen?

Question for you (us Catholics) (x-posted to FB)
 

That website is, of course, unofficial. Just like that "Catholic League of Decency" guy (Donohue? something like that) who's always quoted in the news for denouncing fun movies is unofficial.

Pay no attention -- these are the same people who probably said in 1300 that teaching a woman to read was a mortal sin, and in 1900 (heck, 1950) that a woman wearing pants had committed a mortal sin.

(Like George Carlin, I used to be an Irish Catholic.)

Question for you (us Catholics) (x-posted to FB)
 

I didn't realize brain cell murder was a major issue on the Catholic agenda.

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This pregnancy thing really is (finally!) catching. Magnus's younger sibling should finally arrive just shortly after the Lexling's next summer.

Anyone have personal experience with anti-nausea meds?

tm

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Congratulations!

(Sorry, no experience with that - I just kept eating nonstop and that seemed to work OK to mitigate the 2-month hangover.)

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Congrats. Ruth Bader Ramone's little sister just hit two months, so Portland keeps growing. In for years, you forget what sleep deprivation is like.

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No, but keeping food in the stomach seems to help - I ate a huge number of goldfish crackers with the Lexling. Goldfish and Lemonade were the only things I could keep down for about 4 weeks. Oh, and milk - it seemed to settle things down if I ate it before getting sick. Worst case, just try to avoid eating things that you *really* wouldn't want to see again.

Have you tried Preggie Pops? I have friends that loved the ginger ones and say they helped. I read somewhere that glucose helps, so maybe jolly ranchers or lemon drops might be good?

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Preggie Pops? Where do I find these?

My doc today suggested Gatorade as a constant companion. I opted for Powerade because it actually has a few vitamins along with the sugars. At at least a bottle a day, good thing it's on sale at Freddy's.

tm

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My next door neighbor, who works for a Coke distributor and hates all things PepsiCo, would love you.

The baltspouse was wicked sick during pregnancy (twins generate twice the hormones); she found that the accupressure bands helped a little (you can probably find them in a travel/luggage store), along with the above mentioned remedies. She also found that showering helped temporarily.

(Three thread hat trick).

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Yes. I can't remember the name of the one I took, but it's the same drug given to chemotherapy patients to combat nausea. It didn't help much, but I don't think I was taking it as often as I was supposed to.

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Marijuana?

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I just remembered -- it's called Zofran (or something like that, anyway).

Science book for 10-yr-old
 

Looking for a recommendation for a book about general science for 10-yr-old.

And any kind of gift for a 3-month-old.

Thanks!

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Ginger works to prevent nauseau in some (and you can take pills if you don't like ginger tea). The smell of lemons was also successful. Phenargan works but dopes you out completely meaning that Magnus would run rampant.