You know you’ve got issues when…
Kasia May 18th, 2008
I saw a post over on Mulier Fortis about a web game called Ikariam. It’s kind of fun, though a bit maddening at times. Basically it’s an empire-building game set in a world of ancient Greek islands. All sorts of good economic lessons, with much more fun than you get in your basic economics classes. :-p
I’m waiting impatiently for my scientists to finish researching “Wealth” so I can start tapping the vineyards on my island. And like any good economically based game, you can only do so much at a time, i.e. however many workers I assign to the vineyards can only produce one unit of grapes per hour, and there’s an opportunity cost in gold for each worker who’s in the vineyards instead of in the village plying his trade.
I must be taking this game waaaayyy too seriously, because when I realized that my scientists were going to finish with “Wealth” at about 12:30 or 1 a.m. tonight, I actually considered setting my alarm so I could come in here and start tapping the vineyards then. You know, so I take advantage of those six or seven hours before I have to get up and get ready for work…and then I could start building my trading post…
If I were half this attentive to my prayer life, I would probably be well on the road to sainthood. That should probably tell me something…
Uh-oh! Empire-building Kasias? Now, I’ll *never* see her! (Unless I can figure out a way to give her cyber-grapes or some such….)
Sounds serious. I’ve stayed up fairly late trying to get my little Sims married (she kept wanting to smack him, or thought that he was annoying…so irritating when you are trying to re-create real life and she doesn’t have a choice of who she will marry). However, I don’t think I’ve actually gone so far as to set up an alarm clock.
Sadly, I don’t think I’ve played a computer game since I became Catholic. I just do not have the time. Now, if they can find for me one that as I play, I learn more of Church teachings or the catechism, I’ll be all over that! I’ve realized that my Sims are sinful, and I haven’t found a way for them to go to confession. Most of them co-habit prior to marriage. Some have divorced and taken up with other Sims — really quite scandalous. And quite a few have — gasp — cheated to get more money, so they can have the coolest, latest SimProducts.
Hahaha! I never got into Sims - I used to play SimCity, but not the more recent Sims games. But really, can Sims receive grace? Since they are fictitious, can they really even GO to confession?! :-p
BTW, funny quote I heard recently, attributed to Fulton Sheen: “Hearing a nun’s confesson is like being stoned to death with popcorn.” I wonder if Fr. Ben or Fr. JJ ever feel like that with me?…probably not, mine are probably heavier than popcorn. :-p
New Goal in Life: To go into the confessional and have the priest say to me, “Nice to see you, but would you mind leaving, so I can talk to people who actually *sin*?” I would love to be able to perpetually waste his time in that manner. Of course, were I actually wasting his time, then I would be sinning…. So, I’ll probably never get to hear that. Personally, as much as I would think that it would br great to have my sin compared to popcorn, I’m afraid my review will be more of the millstone variety. And, I just hope that I will not go home to God to hear, “You wicked servant….”
Yeah…the thing is, I think I get so bogged down in the minutiae (sp?) that I probably miss the forest for the trees. I’m pretty sure I’m closer to the millstone end of the spectrum myself…
My guess is that Abp. Sheen was mentally comparing the nuns’ confessions to some of the other confessions he’d heard. Don’t we all wish God graded on a curve?!??!
And hasn’t Fr. Fluffy very nearly said that to you already? (”Do you have anything REALLY bad to confess this time?”)
Ooops… sorry!
I guess I must have started something!
BTW, note that Archbishop Sheen said that nuns’ confessions are like being STONED TO DEATH with popcorn… still deadly, just very, very slow…
Good point, Mac!
And, yes, Fr. Fluffy said something similar, but I think that statement predates Fr. Malleus’s confessional advice. Do you think there’d be any objections if I marinated in the baptismal font for a while?
OOH! OOH! A brilliant idea! “Father, while you are over blessing my house, could you BLESS MY SWIMMING POOL????” Because that would be *awesome*!!!!!
I dunno, but I’m starting to think that the folks who used to wait until their deathbeds to get baptized were on to something… :-/
Yeah, worked out well enough that I waited as long as I did. But a funny thing about that is that God had me go back and confess things pre-Baptism, just to work through them anyway — so you’re never really “off the hook.” “Padre,” as he is called, did say that a day marinating in holy water wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Of course, maybe he meant that *I* specifically needed that…. 
Didn’t speak to the idea of blessing the swimming pool. Maybe if it were a little kiddie pool, and not one where the water is chlorinated, and one that didn’t have a drain to the sewer, but where, when emptied, the water went directly to ground?? I’ll have to think on this one…. 
Well, the Cathedral does have an immersion font…