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Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
we shouldn't have to split our TV market three ways, if Quebec wants back, pay us and they don't have to be in our division
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Don't worry, Geoff will still be filthy rich and the market won't be split, merely shared with 2 less popular teams. If you live in Ottawa or Quebec City not one Habs game will ever be blacked out. The Flames games aren't blacked out in Edmonton nor are Oilers games blacked out in Calgary.
 
Habsy said:
Catholic school?
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I attended a Roman Catholic school for 6 years, grades 1-6, had a nun teacher 5 out of those 6 years, got the yard stick from the nun and the beaver tail on the hands from the principal ..he was short and would literally jump up to hit us lol... i was an altar boy, the full gambit .. left the Roman Catholic team decades ago..
 
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legoalie said:
I attended a Roman Catholic school for 6 years, grades 1-6, had a nun teacher 5 out of those 6 years, got the yard stick from the nun and the beaver tail on the hands from the principal ..he was short and would literally jump up to hit us lol... i was an alter boy, the full gambit .. left the Roman Catholic team decades ago..
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Kindergarten to Grade 8 for me. Also an altar boy (I discovered decades later I was lucky to have not been "chosen" by my pedo priest) Then I went to public high school (mostly because it was close enough to walk to - the only Catholic HS would have required me to get up early and bus so fuck that noise) and it was an eye-opening experience to be around people who didn't all believe the same thing. I've rarely darkened the door of a church since, and even then only for weddings and funerals.
 
I've yet to meet anyone that hasn't been fucked up by that shit. The ones that claim they aren't are too embarrassed to admit it.

Oh I bet I can get a couple guys here to tell you all about their catholic school upbringing.
 
Habsy said:
I've yet to meet anyone that hasn't been fucked up by that shit. The ones that claim they aren't are too embarrassed to admit it.

Oh I bet I can get a couple guys here to tell you all about their catholic school upbringing.
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Meh. it wasn't that bad and how bad it is depends a lot on how much your parents buy into the bullshit. I was fortunate in that my parents were getting fed up with that bullshit at the same time I was in grammar school. So by the time I went to high school, we as a family were no longer attending mass (unless my devout French Canadian grandmother came to visit, but even she caught on when she discovered that none of us knew what time Sunday mass was happening) That's when my father told his mother that his living a moral life where he provided for his family didn't require going to church. And that was that.

When the anti-abortion trolls would be invited by the priest to sermonize during mass, my mom, an RN who used to drive women wanting abortions to Morgenthaler's Montreal clinic back in the day, would show up at the next school board meeting to fact check them. My dad had attended Catholic High School on Durocher Street back in the 50's when it was run by the Christian Brothers. According to him, they were little better than street thugs who shoved and punched students randomly just because they could. He told me of a time when a bigger student turned on one of them and hung the brother out a window by his ankles. My parents didn't need much coaxing to come to the conclusion that religion was bullshit and they finally stopped bothering to pretend just in time to ensure that my Catholic school experience was taken with a large grain of salt.
 
Habsy said:
Do you think you live a moral life?
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I do.. but not because of my R.C up bringing. I study Theology after i became disenchanted with R.C.. even though Buddhism is not a religion but a way of life, it was the only one that made sense to me.. and that is how I live my life now..
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I live my life the way I like living my life. I'm moral enough that I refuse to vote for fascists and would never try to murder any of them. But I'm not so moral that I wouldn't take pleasure in seeing a few of them hang.
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but you don't wear a mask nor do you have 4 boosters, nor walk in BLM or Pride Parades. #badperson
 
legoalie said:
I do.. but not because of my R.C up bringing. I study Theology after i became disenchanted with R.C.. even though Buddhism is not a religion but a way of life, it was the only one that made sense to me.. and that is how I live my life now..
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I was in Asia last year at temples learning to meditate. I'm with you on this one.

@WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou Whose morals do you follow?
 
I'm resigned to be the one to hold up the mirror at people and look at the ugliness inside. Most of the time it's not your fault its there so do something about it.

Too many people think they've stopped growing or learning because they don't need it. Yes you do. Fix your soul.
 
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