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st brigid's day, where's all the crosses?

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    #122
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,226 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Sweetemotion wrote: »
    Have any of the other 90% of people on this forum who went to an Irish Catholic school here in Ireland, ever been thought about how the dirty pagan gods and protestants are going to Hell or just this guy?

    I don't believe him and think he is telling porkies.

    Yes we were taught about hell, and that everyone who wasn't a good catholic was going there.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #123
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Surely you move to other countries to engage with their traditions, not urinate on them.

    Otherwise you are just a colonist.

    Are immigrants into Ireland colonists? I hope not.


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    #124
    RayCun
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    topper75 wrote: »
    Surely you move to other countries to engage with their traditions, not urinate on them.

    Otherwise you are just a colonist.

    Are immigrants into Ireland colonists? I hope not.

    Nobody's pissing on St Brigid's crosses.

    There's no reason to believe this has anything to do with immigration.

    Colonists, really?

    Better luck next time.


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    #125
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Yes we were taught about hell, and that everyone who wasn't a good catholic was going there.

    It's interesting, I had the complete opposite experience. Hell was literally never brought up, ever, it was all luvy dovy soppy hippy Jesus stuff.

    Really annoying young female teachers playing guitars, singing Christian songs and getting you to speak about your feelings.

    This was 90s and early 00s so maybe things had changed by that stage. Tbh I think I would've preferred the hellfire and brimstone method. :D


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    #126
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Late 70s and it seemed to be a transition between eras then. You had the class teacher with all the Jesus loves you stuff, then the old priest would come into the class and start talking about hell :)

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #127
    Sardonicat
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    The nuns made sure we knew about hell. Remember one little old nun, my 2nd class teacher, telling us that our guardian angels collected our sins in a special sack he carried and going to confession was how how the sack got emptied. If you died with sins in your sack the devil put you in it and carried you off to hell. Sweet dreams, little children. This was in 1980.

    Of course, because we Catholics are the only ones that have the sacrament of confession we are the only ones that can go to heaven because our sins can be absolved. No matter how good a protestant is they can never go to heaven, but maybe they can stick around in purgatory, which is better than hell. Distinctly remember my 6th class teacher telling us this in 1984. It distressed me because my BIL is C of E and I was traumatised thinking he was going to hell.


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    #128
    topper75
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    RayCun wrote: »
    Nobody's pissing on St Brigid's crosses.

    There's no reason to believe this has anything to do with immigration.

    Colonists, really?

    Better luck next time.

    Ok - it's the next time - I'll try my 'luck' again! :o

    They are pissing on traditions when they ignore them or refuse to engage with them. The kids of the 'new' Irish should do as Irish kids have always done. Otherwise how are we supposed to accept them as Irish at all. Unless of course I have missed something offensive about this time-honoured craft?
    Making a cross does not put you under some hoodoo sway of a controlling parish priest. Don't be so fearful of Irish ways.


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    #129
    alloywheel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭alloywheel


    Topper75, you can still be Irish without believing in a particular religion or superstitions or whatever you want to call it yourself, like..


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    #130
    RayCun
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    topper75 wrote: »
    Ok - it's the next time - I'll try my 'luck' again! :o

    They are pissing on traditions when they ignore them or refuse to engage with them. The kids of the 'new' Irish should do as Irish kids have always done. Otherwise how are we supposed to accept them as Irish at all. Unless of course I have missed something offensive about this time-honoured craft?
    Making a cross does not put you under some hoodoo sway of a controlling parish priest. Don't be so fearful of Irish ways.

    Stop being such a drama queen.

    Not doing a thing /= pissing on that thing

    And again, since you missed this last time in your rush to blame everything on foreigners, there's no reason to believe this has anything to do with "the new Irish". Unless by "new" you mean "born in the last 60 years".


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    #131
    sporina
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    Happy St. Brigid's Day all.. and Spring is here woo hoo



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    #132
    boardise
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109305459#Comment_109305459

    I'm not saying any of this malarkey matters a damn but it seems highly likely that 'Brigid' represents a Pagan goddess more than a Christian saint....plus the cross of Brigid is an ancient symbol of the sun or good luck belonging actually to the same family as the Swastika. Ultimately, anything one likes can be read into these ciphers.

    P.S. Just saw Conall Cernach's post @ 2.49 !



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    #133
    boardise
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109307391#Comment_109307391

    Also , according to Maeve Brigid Callan , Professor of Religion in Iowa , St.Brigid is in effect the patron saint of abortion. ...which my or may not be of interest to R Catholic enthusiasts of today.



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    #134
    Beechwoodspark
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    they made them in my kids school - Catholic ethos in north Kildare. The school and the specific teacher is great for keeping up traditions - I’m told there were some complaints by some “new irish” parents at Christmas over the kids learning hymns and gathering around the life size crib etc. Harmless stuff. The parents were told to either remove their kids from the school or put up with it, which they did.



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    #135
    archfi
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    Happy St. Brigid's Day

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



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    #136
    Leg End Reject
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    I was taught by nuns and we never made crosses, we were told about hell and were also regularly informed that we were all likely to end up there. 😂

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    #137
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭boardise


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109316633#Comment_109316633

    Not to mention how they do be (mis)treating the women ....oops , the feminist sisters won't like me saying that.



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    #138
    Strumms
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    One of the nuns used to go around inspecting the local kids and on occasion where she asked one of them..

    “ show me your cross “..

    this happened..

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    #139
    wotzgoingon
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189073#Comment_120189073

    P.S. Just saw Conall Cernach's post @ 2.49 !

    You should be looking at the date and not the time more specifically the year. You are replying to people who posted four years ago.



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    #140
    boardise
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189230#Comment_120189230

    Tantrum Ergo.



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    #141
    dotsman
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189007#Comment_120189007

    I don't think anybody, bar some far right irish catholics (otherwise known as nuns) could give a toss about brigid's day.

    Oh, and spring doesn't start for another month so I wouldn't go changing the duvet just yet.



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    #142
    sporina
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189284#Comment_120189284

    St. Brigid is pre christian!

    Seriously - St. Brigid's Day wishes to ye all!!!



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    #143
    dotsman
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189347#Comment_120189347

    Take a second to read what you just wrote.

    ...

    wait for it...

    ...

    ...

    wait for it...

    ...

    Still stumped? I'll give you a clue - look at the first 2 letters in your post (and the full stop after them).



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    #144
    Leg End Reject
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189394#Comment_120189394

    Last century. 😂

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    #145
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057951916/st-brigids-day-wheres-all-the-crosses

    That's such a shame as its part of our heritage as well.

    When my boys were younger they attended the local ET school. There they took a different approach and celebrated all the various festivals Catholic Muslim Jewish etc.

    A much more holistic approach.



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    #146
    sporina
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    no hope for some of you board's folk at all.. ye need some love in your lives



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    #147
    Strumms
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189551#Comment_120189551

    Love ? Nahhh just…More vitamin D



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    #148
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,226 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189191#Comment_120189191

    Good to know that Irish Catholics are as tolerant as ever 🙄 Maybe read the Constitution of Ireland sometime, especially the bit about the right to freedom of religion in education.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #149
    ednwireland
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    90 people at the local community centre making them. there's three in our house !

    My weather

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    #150
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120189383#Comment_120189383

    The 'St.' is just shameful Catholic rebranding of a pagan intellectual property. They should be sued.



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    #151
    whisky_galore
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    Christianity is an imported religion of Middle Eastern origin, nothing Irish about it. :D



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