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Cartoonist

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17. Works both ways
Fri Oct 6, 2017, 08:56 AM
Oct 2017

Some of my fellow prisoners are still devout. They still support the same parish. The nuns however, are long gone. I guess they didn't get enough of a share from the collection plate.

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I'm guessing the nuns were promoting "obedience". no_hypocrisy Oct 2017 #1
Indoctrination of students, being in command. Some love authoritarianism as a way of life. n/t RKP5637 Oct 2017 #2
But must it be so edhopper Oct 2017 #5
Likely their childhood experiences bred them to be truly unhappy and angry women. And they RKP5637 Oct 2017 #11
Attended Catholic school for 7 years flakey_foont Oct 2017 #3
I think it is the era Sanity Claws Oct 2017 #4
My first grade class had an even one hundred kids. Demit Oct 2017 #8
Some most definitely were Siwsan Oct 2017 #6
In my school not all nuns were not cruel. They were strict and I think wasupaloopa Oct 2017 #7
They say that Catholic Schools are one of the primary sources of atheists. trotsky Oct 2017 #9
Works both ways Cartoonist Oct 2017 #17
Would the requirement of having to get up in the middle of the night and pray for a while shraby Oct 2017 #10
Selection helps. Selecting for not wanting to have a family. sharedvalues Oct 2017 #12
Husband went to Catholic school Freddie Oct 2017 #13
Lack of sex Soxfan58 Oct 2017 #14
Some were obvious couples at my school so not always the case . Yet closeted and in a convent lunasun Oct 2017 #26
In the late 1970s, the nuns at my Catholic high school were amazingly liberal, Mrs. Overall Oct 2017 #15
I went to 8 years of Catholic grade school graduating in 1956. Hangingon Oct 2017 #16
late 60&early 70s. Catholic Grade School irisblue Oct 2017 #18
Went to a Catholic boarding school Cuthbert Allgood Oct 2017 #19
I went to Catholic school and the nuns were cruel and brutal to me, and humiliated me at every turn. Binkie The Clown Oct 2017 #20
There weren't many nuns at my school. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2017 #21
My first husband is left handed mountain grammy Oct 2017 #22
Well, I may be the exception that proves the rule rurallib Oct 2017 #23
It's true, but I'll say this for a Catholic school: Pope George Ringo II Oct 2017 #24
My wife got expelled from Catholic School at age 6 RussBLib Oct 2017 #25
They hate you if your smart and despise the fool... lunasun Oct 2017 #28
Don't forget Sister Cathy. They were abused by the creeps who ran the church then. JoeOtterbein Oct 2017 #27
I didn't. JNelson6563 Oct 2017 #29
My boyfriend went to Catholic school up until Doreen Oct 2017 #30
The kids run up to the nun at my son's school and hug her. RandySF Oct 2017 #31
Went to 2 Catholic schools run by 2 different orders of nuns. The first group was very harsh but I Squinch Oct 2017 #32
I did Catholic school from K-12 Glamrock Oct 2017 #33
i went to catholic school. drray23 Oct 2017 #34
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