Well, I survived another Saint Patrick's Day

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Oh i agree. But being irish in my case is being myself. Its a part of my personality because i want it to be not because im expected to have it as such. Im also expected to be catholic and a democrat but im not except on paper. Those are things i dont want to be part of my personality because i would be being myself.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Grrr... Being a democrat and a catholic would be NOT being true to myself. Stupid phone.

[Doktor Howl]

Grrr... Being a democrat and a catholic would be NOT being true to myself. Stupid phone.

That was your Irishness forcing you to admit that you are both a Catholic and a Democrat.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

Somebody was actually running those in the Black Hills during the Robert Bly Cherohonkey era.

[Doktor Howl]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

Somebody was actually running those in the Black Hills during the Robert Bly Cherohonkey era.

What is a Kundalini sweat lodge?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

well i do play the part when im in clifden. My grandfather is a hard person to read and my dad was in the seminary. I go to mass here if the occasion makes it necessary (mental note youngest sisters confirmation is in three weeks) but i dont pray or go up for communion. I used to get weird looks from my moms family but its pretty much out there now that im not catholic.

[Juana]

^ What Twid said, sort of. Being Irish American part of my identity because it's part of my family's identity - it's in our culture. It doesn't mean that I buy into it wholesale. I don't support the IRA or think I have any right to have much in the way of feelings about North Ireland, I'm only a Democrat on paper, I don't actually like beer, and I haven't been Catholic since I was sixteen.

Apologies.

S'ok.

But I still maintain that the whole Irish thing is a narrative whose adoption is easier than being yourself.

I think that can be true, for people who have the knee jerk reaction of THE IRA FUCK YEAH! and such, but I think it can be part of an identity without overwhelming the rest of you. An identity should be greater than the sum of its parts, yes?

[Doktor Howl]

well i do play the part when im in clifden. My grandfather is a hard person to read and my dad was in the seminary. I go to mass here if the occasion makes it necessary (mental note youngest sisters confirmation is in three weeks) but i dont pray or go up for communion. I used to get weird looks from my moms family but its pretty much out there now that im not catholic.

I was baptised Catholic, but I got better at age 8.  When I had a Catholic wedding, I was completely lost.  Stand up, sit down, kneel, repeat random things when the priest drones stuff, listen to 300 people sing badly, etc.

[Freeky]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

Kundalini = yoga.  Yoga ceremonial saunas. 

[Doktor Howl]

I think that can be true, for people who have the knee jerk reaction of THE IRA FUCK YEAH! and such, but I think it can be part of an identity without overwhelming the rest of you. An identity should be greater than the sum of its parts, yes?

Well, sure.  I'm not saying that it's BAD to have that as part of your identity...It's just that St Patrick's Day turns many (insert e prime crap here) otherwise intelligent people into the Irish version of NASCAR fans, which grates on the nerves as badly as listening to Texans talk about Texas.

[Doktor Howl]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

Kundalini = yoga.  Yoga ceremonial saunas. 

Um, yeah, because the Navajo yoga techniques must never be lost to history. 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

Somebody was actually running those in the Black Hills during the Robert Bly Cherohonkey era.

What is a Kundalini sweat lodge?

A white guy telling the marks that when they get dizzy and see stars from the heat, their kundalini is rising and they're becoming spiritually advanced.

[Doktor Howl]

Kundalini sweat lodges. 

Wazzat?

Somebody was actually running those in the Black Hills during the Robert Bly Cherohonkey era.

What is a Kundalini sweat lodge?

A white guy telling the marks that when they get dizzy and see stars from the heat, their kundalini is rising and they're becoming spiritually advanced.

APPROVED.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

@dok- i was confirmed so i know when to stand up etc. Villager wants a catholic wedding which i have reluctantly agreed to though i would have prefered it in a unitarian universalist church. But her argument was that its just as much for the family as the couple which i saw the rationale behind.

@garbo- i hate the knee jerk reaction too. I dont support sinn fein because if northern ireland wanted unification they would have done it by democratic means at this point. Any active ira split off units are waging a war of conquest at this point and the irish are supposed to hate conquest arent we?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Kundalini sweat lodges. Because indian literally means hindu when referring to native americans.