A learning experience--

I'm in the doghouse with what I liked to call "friends"---I'm quite sure they do not think of me as a friemd or even an aquaintance. I must say that I don't even recognize myself in some of the negative responses I have gotten. Mis-using anon. Gee I thought of myself as one of the few commenters who gave their name. Ad hominen attacks, non sequiturs on and on. That sure doesn't sound like me, but that's what some say. So I will try to stay off blogs I like, but I will make some comments on my blogging experience. And some of the things I've leared.

My first blogging experience was with Joe Cecil. Looking back I see he allowed all points of view to be expressed. My recent experiences have not been that salutary. Most, but not all, bloggers I have found recently will allow a certain amount of disagreement, but become quite unsettled if they are disagreed with, especially if the commenter is not totally immersed in catholic culture. They then label, if not immersed in that tradition, the commenter as engaging in personal attacks. It really is a small catholic world they're interested in. These bloggers know all the saints, all the holy days, and quaint stories about monks in Ireland(?) and jazz musicians. Some of these bloggers call themselves liberal or moderate catholics but 'arch' up like a cat cornered by a Rotweiler if you really question any basic catholic teaching.. Each blogger has his own club, divided between realatively perceptive commenters and sycophants---"Oh, Bob what you said was just so "zowie."

And listen, they are Catholic to the core. They were either brought un Catholic or recent converts, considering C S Lewis and G K Chesterton the sine qua non of philosophy. Forget Plato, Spinoza, Kant, after all they were not catholic enough.

On a lighter side, one of my critics chides me for not revealing everything to my wife, apparently including all sexual thought and actions over 75 years. I pray he follows his own advice and his wife writes them down. Everything from age 8 to 50(?). Every 'naughty' thought, every secret fantasy, every titilation,( if he has experienced any of the three)--smile. what a contributions to science. The first complete history of every sexual thought experienced by one man. Lecture tours, maybe even a movie--certainly a Burns documentary!!!! Maybe even a Larry King experience.

Oh, I know these catholic liberals and moderates. A fine wine, a slightly off-color joke about B16 (tee hee) and a new set of rosay beads.

Before I wrote any of this , my wife, who has no, I repeat NO non=catholic ancestors and not even knowing I was going to write this told me last night as we returned from a really posh--and man I mean a REALLY posh liberal catholic party "Aren't catholics an interesting group. They know every saint, every holy day---they were brought up that way and can't help it."

So back to the start. If any one reads this remember I am on the forbidden blogger list. Don't read this. Go back to thinking about the old monk and the jazz musician.
See you tomorrow. Got to go tell my wife I had a S-- thought. Jack