the good catholic cow
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In the PBS series of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett, in the opening, he is watching out his window at the people on the street, and he turns and is musing and contemplating human nature.
I do that by instinct and ponder things which I am a cynic in contemplating, "Yes but for the love of satan there they might have went".
There is a catholic who died here, old woman, and I remember she was of course featured in a story as she as so nice.......and yes she made sure she said something about her Jesus prayer every day. Yes the woman was nice, but her husband ran a business, which forced closures of other businesses and as she was an old gal, she was back in the day when pennies mattered in prices, and the fortune they made so she could retire with allot of carved wood in her expensive home, and die in comfort, all came from gouging poor people from their pennies.
There was never any of "sell all you have and give to the poor". From the comments it seems this catholic was, "I give advice freely to losers", who appreciated it.
Now I'm not judging her, but I wonder what kind of cocked eye Jesus looks at this pope worshipper, whose family have one of the premier plots in the catholic digs right next to the black robes, because they give the purgatory thousands to get the smiles from the priests......as they are a "good" family.
Not throwing stones, but the padres adored the one son.........who fornicated, got a girl pregnant, then divorced her after daddy bought a house for them, but it was all kosher as he had decided he was going to be a priest.........so all was swept away.
Those are the things I ponder, like the head padre talking about how glad he was the son was able to say mass in the dead gals room............for some reason that matters. I sure as hell do not want some Lutheran preacher doing a sermon when I'm dying, but these catholics got these odd fucking ideas like communion does something ...........the results are pretty certain, the mass never healed her and communion never cured her, so what the the hell waving incesne, chanting and whatever did was about as much as having a witchdoctor in charge in your hut.
So the old gal dies, and then I was thinking in bed this morning, how odd it was that the funeral was on July 3rd, as what a downer that would be.........but then the Holy Ghost started explaining about milking the dead cow.
See this old gal for the pope popped out a dozen kids, she was good catholic......well she popped out 13 but the last one self aborted, but she never counted that child, as another stranger said he was her 13th child.......don't get that, but I'm a Protestant.
So that enclave has allot of kids and grandkids..............it is July 4th.
Well the old gal just dies, and immediately it posts the same day, that the funeral is on July 3rd. Someone was thinking in they were not going to let a little dead mother get in the way of the fireworks and plans, as the purgatory fee is on July 2nd...........the cathlolics call it a "prayer vigil"...........so if you do the math in this, travel time would be July 1st. So July 4th if Friday, I mean, why even go into work Monday if you are taking the rest of the week off.....Friday you have off already..........the old gal goes tits upon Friday, so what they hay, you got the 28th of June in the weekend, so if you play this a smart catholic way of cheating your employer out of a week's worth of work on sympathy, you can get a 9 day vacation..........stick the old gal in the crypt on the 3rd, do it early so you can root through the money, jewelry and nice stuff, have a long 4th weekend and have a great 9 day vacation, with only a few hours interupting your fun time, but then you get free eats twice, get to have your country pay for that vacation which is the last time your 12 catholic litter of children will ever gather again, and the priest will tell you how great you all are as money talks.
Now of course no one else is going to see it this way from the catholic side. As this is all the mystery and you know the pope loved this family more than the poor Protestant trash................but.........
As a founder of Forensic Psychology, I note and study patterns, most are Biblical. Like God visiting the iniquity unto the 3rd and 4th generations of them that hate Him. I have noticed that rich people, you got the clever guy who makes the fortune like this guy did, then the kids get the business, and by the time the grandkids appear, things have run to shit and it is sold and they disappear. Here is the thing with this good catholic.........12 kids........a major business.............in that span of one generation, there is one kid left in the area, who drives a delivery truck. The business was sold by the obnoxious fat kid who did not want to be working, and now the old lady croaks. To me that makes me wonder what was really going on in that house, in an entire family and presence disappeared in one lifetime. That is not 3rd and 4th generation, so something was at work in this and there was a big consuming force at work, but no one is noticing that.
So I guess milking a dead cow is a good tribute to this family's legacy. They can say how wonderful they were, but they are all gone and will be forgotten.
Frankly, I just never would have figured at the moment of a parent's death to work it to get a paid for 9 day vacation. I do learn though by watching, but it will do me no good as both my parents were already struck down by God.
Nuff Said
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