Author Topic: Life as a Seminarian was like movie Platoon (Read 50036 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #45 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:08:46 PM »

Quote from: Tiffany

I've never dismissed someone's suffering as nothing.

Your saying going through the horrors of what the infantry soldiers did in Vietnam would be easier to deal with is ludicrous.

No, what is ludicrous is attempting to weigh which suffering is greater.

"This person was only waterboarded. Being scourged is MUCH worse."
"Being drowned is MUCH less painful than being burned at the stake."
"Having your fingernails pulled out is WAY worse than having your teeth pulled out."
etc.

I think it's silly because I'm sure each of those sufferings is horrible in its own way. Human beings are capable of suffering in a near-infinite variety of ways.

And it's not like you're exactly a Vietnam vet yourself. You don't think a highly thoughtful, intelligent thirty-something man can attain as good a grasp of the horrors of war as you have? You're an American single mom in your thirties! What personal experience of war can you lay claim to!?

THAT is what I find hilarious.

Miseremini · « **Reply #46 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:23:31 PM »

Didn't Jean Vianney have a similar seminary experience (with his teachers) with the addition of uncharitable fellow seminarians.? Also Father Damian if I remember correctly had it really rough in seminary. Maybe some things never change.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #47 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:28:02 PM »

Quote from: Miseremini

Didn't Jean Vianney have a similar seminary experience (with his teachers) with the addition of uncharitable fellow seminarians.? Also Father Damian if I remember correctly had it really rough in seminary. Maybe some things never change.

Yes, the Cure if Ars. I was thinking of him too.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #48 on:** August 12, 2014, 10:48:30 PM »

More Christian charity needed in the seminaries, convents and even
Among the laity too.

IllyricumSacrum · « **Reply #49 on:** August 12, 2014, 11:45:30 PM »

Quote from: Miseremini

Didn't Jean Vianney have a similar seminary experience (with his teachers) with the addition of uncharitable fellow seminarians.? Also Father Damian if I remember correctly had it really rough in seminary. Maybe some things never change.

His fellow seminarians started a petition to have him thrown out because he was not academically and mentally up to the challenge.
He signed it.