"To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart."

[mdmc]

To be liberal...
also...
taken from the Moynihan thread...

[villager]

1. To be human?

n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Celtics lose in 7.

[asdjrocky]

12. Turn around three times and then spit!

DO IT NOW!!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Should read, "To be Irish Catholic...."

Being Irish and an ex-Catholic I've learned to love the world and enjoy the daily magic show.

[mitchtv]

4. As Peter O'Toole said

"I am a retired Catholic".

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Might as well enjoy life before the benevolent deity tosses you on the barbie.

I retired at age 12 when father Halloran gave me the "God works in mysterious ways" runaround and told me that I was hellbound for touching certain parts of my body.

I didn't buy the first part and figured God must be an incompetent ass if he endowed me with something so pleasurable and then forbade the use of it.

[Fumesucker]

7. Not incompetent..

A sadist.

[Bluerthanblue]

8. na, I believe that the

Diety being refered to, is simply another person guilty of identity fraud.

peace~

[mitchtv]

10. I was going to the Italian speaking priest

In a neighboring parish . It was easier than talking to someone who understood what I was saying.I lasted til about 16 y/o

[Bluerthanblue]

6. to be fully ALIVE is to know that-....

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places-" and some, like the author of this statement, break completely.

(Earnest Hemingway)

peace~

[skooooo]

9. "No one goes through life undefeated."

- Don Imus

[mdmc]

11. kick

for the thoughts

[many a good man]

13. Yeats on being Irish

'Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'

[mdmc]

14. nice

[Individualist]

15. We're born, we laugh, we cry, we die.