Give me one good reasons I should not go to Catholic mass next week
>>18470504Religions are adult pretend time.
>>18470510Not OP but so are DnD sessions. Not really a good reason not to go to Mass to be honest, even if you don't believe in God, there are worse ways to waste your time than going somewhere to have someone read a book to you for a couple of hours.
>>18470504Just go to some Buddhist meditation circle instead
>>18470504I don't have one, do whatever you want anon. I hope you enjoy it, find it fulfilling, and are uplifted by it. I hope the wafer tastes good. Unless idk, they don't give the wafer to non-initiates. I've only been in a Catholic church like six times in my life. And the only service I ahve ever attended was a mormon one.
>>18470523I am not sure where those are in my area I would have to look into that, and I do appreciate many things I have read about Buddhist teachings and the ascetic wanderer.One thing that Buddhist circles lack however is Apostolic succession and Ecclesiastical authority
>>18470532Do you think Catholics and mormons are the same thing?
>>18470533Apostolic succession doesn't matter and ecclesiastical authority isn't real. Ask any sedevacantist
>>18470534No, this is why I said I don't know. Mormons gave me the wafer and also water as a substitute for wine. And I don't know if Catholics do (sans the water, ofc). For all I know the process is completely different. Maybe one has to do catechism, and communion, and confirmation and what such.
>>18470504Skip it and go to the synagogue instead
>>18470541Iirc once upon a time in the middle ages people just took communion by seeing some old monk take it and that was their communion. It was called ocular communion.
>>18470533>One thing that Buddhist circles lack however is Apostolic succession and Ecclesiastical authorityBuddhism does have its own ordination systems>monks and nuns are ordained by other monks (and nuns) according to local sangha traditions>zen has dharma heirs, which is believed to stretch back to the buddha himself
>>18470504The diet of wormies
>>18470510I'm trans btw in case anyone cares.
