1129: Cerebral

[lizsquiz]

I think my brain state during sex is a combination of Chemda and Myka.

Myka's brain keeps thinking, of non-sex things, throughout

Chemda loses herself completely in the sex, as if the brain is turned off

Me on the other hand have some sort of weird combination, where I am so immersed in the sex, but there is a tiny part of my brain working away in the background, thinking about weird stuff.

So, for example, one time, I am totally into sex and having an amazing mind-blowing time, when I say "Yeh, well I guess they're in the army, they don't have anything better to do". Or "I bet you just wanted to fuck Julie Andrews"

Fortunately the guy didn't hear me (or if he did, he never let on)

[GMan]

I'm only 15 minutes into the show, but I have to correct some information.

The article about giving up your ipod for lent was an article about the Church of England, not the Catholic Church. The C of E is a Protestant chruch. Protestantism, as the name implies, was formed as a "protest" against the Roman Catholic Church. As for me, this lent i've downloaded rosary mp3's so that I can pray the rosary while I run/commute/etc.

As far as the Communion wine issue: the six sundays of lent are considered celebrations, and are not counted in the 40 days of lenten pentience. so a person who gave up booze for lent would have no issue with communion wine even if it wasn't considered the Blodd of Christ. Many people choose to continue whatever their sacrifice is through the Sundays, but this is purely a matter of choice. Furthermore, communion is not always offered in both species (Catholics call the bread/body one "species" and the wine/blood the other "species"). Because serving a liquid to a large congregation is more problematic than handing out single-serving-sized solids, most catholic masses do not include the wine at all except for priest. (In the middle ages, this was actually the source of a war called the Hussite Rebellion).

As far as alcoholic priests, there are quite a few, both on and off the wagon. At one time, alcoholism was jokingly called the "priest's disease." It was thought that the stresses of priesthood (no family, life in the public eye having to appear beyond suspicion) lent themselves particularly to drinking problems. Obviously, anyone who is off the wagon has a problem, and this would probably be a source of controversey with their congregation. How any particular church handles that issue is up to the bishop or cardinal of the arch-diocese. But priests are human, and the whole point of the Catholic church is that all humans are sinners and without the regular exposure to Christ's grace, we'd really be even worse sinning douchebags than we already are.

I don't think the minimal amount of communion wine that a priest consumes would trigger a relapse, but I'm not an alcoholic and wouldn't know. Communion wine can be made with a minimal amount of alcohol (less than 1% I believe) and priests could use that if they had some concerns. If a priest for some reason could stand no exposure to alcohol (say because of some health issue) then--as Keith's dad said--they might have to give up the priesthood, or at least, celebrating the mass.

[JSZilla]

Originally Posted by Keith

I just found that out. Nothing we can do. it's something with the guy's recording.

Maybe next year.

It's sad the first thing that came to mind to this is "Baby Brent" from a certain food weather movie replying with "UH OHHH".

[goto11]

Man, Jon Lovitz is really starting to look like hell.

[marina]

There are priests in AA, and although they don't have 'rules' it's universally considered a relapse if even a single drink is taken. However, individuals can say that x, y, or z isn't technically a relapse. For years my mother attended AA meetings high as a kite, and considered it a green light because the drugs she was on were prescribed. She was basically the AA equivalent of the lady who sings loudest in church, but everybody knows she's a whore and a liar.

[Junkenstein]

Myka is awesome.

[The King of Awesome]

Originally Posted by icouldnotpic

with the asking question with the awnser in is i do that now but so that the person can just say yes and not have to explain it for 10 mins

This statement is raising more questions than it answers.

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

Myka is awesome.

Agreed!

[SanFranStagehand]

I want Myka to critique everyone's submissions.

[imezru]

I laughed out loud that Chemda said she cannot argue with Keith about Dice because she goes not know enough about him and Keith does. Chemda argued with Keith about Lent and had no idea what she was talking about for the first 15 minutes of the show. The concept of giving something up for Lent involves teaching yourself to sacrifice and to grow as a person from learning the difference between wants and needs. The fact that Chemda argued so vehemently against giving up her ipod should tell her that is exactly what she should give up (if she were to observe Lent, which she does not, so this is a fairly moot point)