Nuns

[emony]

So I'm watching The Sound of Music on DVD at the moment, and it set me to thinking. In season 5, after Riley leaves, Buffy briefly considers becoming a nun. It's mostly for humour value, but I was thinking, it's different for blokes, but I know I used to want to be a nun, and my mother went through a time when she wanted to be a nun. Is it a general girl thing, or are we just weird? Does everyone, or a lot of people anyway, have a time when they think nun-hood sounds like a pretty good plan. And if we do, why is it? Is it only after we've been dumped, when life's a bit difficult, or are there things about life as a nun that appeal to us all? Hmm. Late-night thought.

In other news, I joined Farnham library today, discovered they have *no* Dalziel and Pascoe books in the entire library, so instead went to WH Smiths and bought one. Hehe.

ETA: Oh, also, we watched Dragonheart 2 tonight, which was a). really crap and b). really gay. Ah, so amusing! *g*

Comments

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

well, to add another perspective, the closest i came to Catholocism was either my Anglicans run highschool or watching Dogma enough times to memorize the dialogue.

I'm actually a practicing pagan, and I STILL thought nun-hood was cool. I remember saying to someone that we need pagan nuns.

She asked if clothing would be optional in my pagan nunnery, and whether we'd share grounds with a pagan monastery, and that kinda ended the conversation ;)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Pagan nuns would be cool, regardless of whether they shared grounds with pagan monks yo.