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Brainworm
Mar 23, 2007

...one of these--
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd...
Nap Ghost
So I got a message from my daughter's school today:

Catholic Elementary School posted:

Dear Third Grade Parents and Guardians,

I want to make you aware of an incident that occurred in our building last night. While a practice was taking place in the Intermediate gym, a high school student was able to access the third grade classroom and used the Smart Board to pull up inappropriate, pornographic content. The student left these images on the screen, and when the teacher turned on the Smart Board this morning, the third graders were unexpectedly exposed to them.

[...]

We encourage you to speak with your child at home in whatever way you feel is most appropriate. As a faith-filled community, this may also be a moment to lean on prayer together. The St. Michael Prayer, which the students have
been practicing, reminds us to ask for protection “against the wickedness and snares of the devil,” which feels especially relevant today.[...]

I'm not myself Catholic and was unfamiliar with St. Michael's prayer. It goes like this:

Some Website posted:

St. Michael's Prayer

St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

This didn't feel "especially relevant." So I wrote a new prayer:

Brainworm posted:


St. Michael's Prayer Against Pornography Momentarily Displayed on a Third Grade Classroom Smartboard

St. Michael the Archangel,
Be our defense against a fetish so peculiar that it could only be conceived by a graduate student weaned on decades of hentai.
May my child not imprint on it,
May she not seek out a community of dysfunctional online misfits united only by a series of kinks so recombinant and specific that they require a coded, insular shorthand to describe.
Do not let there be webcomics about it. Do not let there be conventions.
Please just let it be PornHub.
Also she is probably a lesbian. We're saying if we had to bet on it today. We don't feel one way or another about this but it's the kind of detail an Archangel might care about?
Amen.

Depending on how your eight-year old's taste in shoes or how removes her nail polish, you might find this prayer useful. So I'm creating a space for you to share your own prayers for specific occasions.

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Anderson Koopa
Jun 9, 2006

Like epic funny shit like this? Want to post some? Click >>here :twisted: for more.
Grimey Drawer

quote:

Lord, I confess I’m struggling to resist the temptation to snu snu. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is spongy and weak. I ask that You strengthen me by Your Holy Spirit and this case of Natty Lights so I can stand firm and erect. I thank You, Jesus, that You have already paid the price for my sin using MasterCardTM, and I ask that You now help me to overcome the pain in my own poor bruised member.

In Jesus’ name, ramen.

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

:catdrugs:


God doesn't exist, but amazing titties do.
Amen. :pray:

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


dear st. titties
hell yeah
amen

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

dear st. titties
hell yeah
amen

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I am one with The Force
and The Force is with me.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Dear God,

Jesus loving Christ God dammit!

Amen.

Anderson Koopa
Jun 9, 2006

Like epic funny shit like this? Want to post some? Click >>here :twisted: for more.
Grimey Drawer
Here I sit all broken hearted

Tried to poo poo but only sharted

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
Dear god,

Please just stop
We get it
Enough already
For gently caress’s sake

Amen

Rubber Chicken
Mar 13, 2024

Today is a day

Amen

bossy lady
Jul 9, 1983

Oh God
I'm gonna cum

Amen

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD

Dear Lord,

Please grant me the wisdom to use the right prompts and the compassion to forgive when it makes a mistake.

Do you want to make that sound more religious?

Amen

Secks Cauldron
Aug 26, 2006

I thought they closed that place down!
Dear god, please don't let me poo poo my pants

Rubber Chicken
Mar 13, 2024

Secks Cauldron posted:

Dear god, please don't let me poo poo my pants

Uh oh you forgot to say amen

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 14 hours!
dear lord in heaven please smite all posters itt amen

Rubber Chicken
Mar 13, 2024

Yeah smite me Daddy

Amen

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019



OP why do you send your kid to a catholic school

lipid
Feb 21, 2001
Ogun Kills on the Right

Ogun kills on the right and destroys on the right.
Ogun kills on the left and destroys on the left.
Ogun kills suddenly in the house and suddenly in the field.
Ogun kills the child with the iron with which it plays.
Ogun kills in silence.

Ogun kills the thief and the owner of stolen goods.
Ogun kills the owner of the house and paints the hearth with his blood.

Ogun is the forest god.
He gives all his clothes to the beggars.
He gives one to the woodock--who dyes it in indigo.
He gives one to the coucal--who dyes it in camwood.
He gives one to the cattle egret--who leaves it white.

Ogun's laughter is no joke.
His enemies scatter in all directions.
The butterflies do not have to see the leopard . . .
they scatter in all directions!

Master of iron, chief of robbers,
you have water, but you bathe in blood.
The light shining in your face is not easy to behold.
Ogun, with the bloody cap, let me see the red of your eye.

Ogun is not like pounded yam:
do you think you can knead him in your hand
and eat of him until you are satisfied?
Do you think Ogun is something you can throw into your cap
and walk away with it?

Ogun is a mad god
who will ask questions after seven hundred and eighty years.
Ogun has pity on me:
whether I can reply,or whether I cannot reply:
Ogun don't ask me anything!

The lion never allows anybody to play with his cub.
Ogun will never allow his child to be punished.
Ogun do not reject me!
Does the woman who spins ever reject a spindle?
Does the woman who dyes ever reject a cloth?
Does the eye that sees ever reject a sight?
Ogun, do not reject me.

Anderson Koopa
Jun 9, 2006

Like epic funny shit like this? Want to post some? Click >>here :twisted: for more.
Grimey Drawer
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the fact that I poop
the courage to trust that fart
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
Praise the Lord
Pass the Ammunition

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

i pray that the porn ladies were sexy, all naturakl petites with lots of tattoos and bitchin lingerie amen

Brainworm
Mar 23, 2007

...one of these--
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd...
Nap Ghost

Anderson Koopa posted:

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the fact that I poop
the courage to trust that fart
and the wisdom to know the difference.

A prayer for the ages. Specifically the ages of 45 and up.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Back in the old days it would have been Kirk or Lemonparty, but the kids today just wouldn't understand.

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

:catdrugs:


Toxic Mental posted:

OP why do you send your kid to a catholic school

Really though, speaking from experience, sending your kid to a Chr*st*an school is up there with one of the worst things you could do.

May the Goddesses smite OP's brain, Amen.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I've had my own (private) religion for decades now. Here's the actual prayer (or grace) I say before eating:

I take this life into mine, as mine will be taken into another's.
I will strive to use it well.
Thank you.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
I hope they charged that kid with cyberterrorism

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

:catdrugs:


goatface posted:

I hope they charged that kid with cyberterrorism

They'll get a slap on the wrist because only g*d can judge them.

Brainworm
Mar 23, 2007

...one of these--
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd...
Nap Ghost

Toxic Mental posted:

OP why do you send your kid to a catholic school

Our local public schools are not very diverse and while they have some great teachers they are administratively inept.

The Catholics, OTOH, run a shockingly tolerant and inclusive system which, even though it is much smaller, offers more opportunities for advanced courses and experiential learning. Because it is not districted like the publics (and since we're in a voucher state) it is also more diverse.

Just so you understand how this played out: we were for a time guardians of our nephews, one of whom is trans. The Catholics were straight up "we do not tolerate bulling or harassment of our students. Working and learning here is a privilege that students, teachers, and staff earn by consistently demonstrating respect and sympathy for their fellow human beings." The Public HS was like, "what happens, happens."

SkyboxWriter
Oct 5, 2002

REAL Champs don't care too much - just enough to keep their wins up.
^ Isn't it great when faith/spirituality is both humanistic and applied correctly?

Anderson Koopa posted:

God, grant me the serenity
to accept the fact that I poop
the courage to trust that fart
and the wisdom to know the difference.

It's all about pausing before the final push, and contemplating what it actually feels like. And remember: the powers that be, gave us fiber for a reason!

The Loin King
Feb 16, 2017

Check out this goddamned cat
That kid is loving cool as hell

Stay Alright
Sep 18, 2024

In grade school an octogenarian nun was introduced to a school assembly to say a few words, but I only remember the part about gays and Crisco.

Follow the lard.

flubber nuts
Oct 5, 2005


Dear God Jesus and the rest
What are you wearing?

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Hold on to your butts!

Toxic Mental
Jun 1, 2019



Brainworm posted:

Our local public schools are not very diverse and while they have some great teachers they are administratively inept.

The Catholics, OTOH, run a shockingly tolerant and inclusive system which, even though it is much smaller, offers more opportunities for advanced courses and experiential learning. Because it is not districted like the publics (and since we're in a voucher state) it is also more diverse.

Just so you understand how this played out: we were for a time guardians of our nephews, one of whom is trans. The Catholics were straight up "we do not tolerate bulling or harassment of our students. Working and learning here is a privilege that students, teachers, and staff earn by consistently demonstrating respect and sympathy for their fellow human beings." The Public HS was like, "what happens, happens."

Aren't you worried about the whole indoctrination/right wing/pedo thing that the Catholic church has always been overtly or covertly doing

I think I'd rather just homeschool my kids if the only option was the world's most tolerant religious school

Brainworm
Mar 23, 2007

...one of these--
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd...
Nap Ghost

Toxic Mental posted:

Aren't you worried about the whole indoctrination/right wing/pedo thing that the Catholic church has always been overtly or covertly doing

I was going to make a joke that my kids are too goony to be molestable, but I ate a probe for something like that so I'll give you an honest answer.

You are going to find war crimes in any system. For instance: Public school districting, and the property-tax-based funding systems embedded in it, is one of the most widespread and brazen forms of legislated racial and social inequality in the United States. Hard to say you're not complicit in that if you're sending your kids there.

You are also going to find risks. My kids are much more likely to be gunned down in a public school than in a private one, for instance. Shouldn't that be something I'm worried about?

Both of those are 100% the wrong end of the stick. Moral certainty, worry, and fear are no basis for good decision making. I have been careful not to model them for either my nephews or my children.

Instead I think it's about people: how is this principal or this teacher going to handle, say, a trans kid getting bullied? What kinds of values and institutional process guide their decision? What commitments are they willing to make? Most important: Do they consider a big-tittied anthropomorphic passenger jet pornography, or does it have to also be doing something actively sexual instead of just, say, existing?

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
That email said it was inappropriate pornographic content, which implies appropriate pornographic content in this contex.

Also lol that they recommend a prayer that implies the world is a swirling chaos bursting at the seams with evil spirits as some sort of solution. Apotropaic spells and medallions and the like don’t work after the fact, you big dummies. They’re prophylactics in intention. If the prayer had been said over the Smart Board in question previously, assumedly this shouldn’t have happened!

AcidCat
Feb 10, 2005

Brainworm posted:

Moral certainty, worry, and fear are no basis for good decision making.

Tru dat duder

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Dear Lord,
please hide penises,
please hide cocks,
please hide dicks,
please hide dongs,
please hide knobs,
please hide pricks,
please hide peters,
please hide peckers,
please hide weenies,
please hide weiners,
please hide tools,
please hide willies,
please hide woods,
please hide phalluses,
please hide schlongs,
please hide all manner of manhoods,
unless its a priest, Amen.

Brainworm
Mar 23, 2007

...one of these--
As he hath spices of them all, not all,
For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd...
Nap Ghost

Pvt.Scott posted:

That email said it was inappropriate pornographic content, which implies appropriate pornographic content in this context.

Word around the campfire was that it was just pictures of naked women. Which:

(a) isn't even pornography? and
(b) if appropriate pornographic content exists, surely this is it, and
(c) sets a record for high school student lameness that may not be breakable.

Like, he did the hard work of circumventing both the State and the school's content filters, and getting a classroom SmartBoard to work as intended, all to look at different nudes from the ones in the sculpture garden. A snuff level of effort for National Geographic results.

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cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 14 hours!
dear god in heaven please dont kill me this time as i try kings field 2 deathless/saveless for the umpteenth time

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