IdleRich
IdleRich
Something we just don't get in the UK right?
What do you think anyway? It's really something to me that is completely alien to what I know. Of course in the UK we have caves hollowed out by the sea but ninety percent of them are too cold to hang about in - and this sort of shrine thing seems to be alien to our (UK I mean) culture. This grotto thing is a fairly extreme example but there are loads of gates and stuff with mini versions of that in our village and throughout Lisbon to some extent. What I find quite odd is that no-one I know has shown any inclination whatsoever towards Catholicism, which suggests to me that either there is a huge generational difference with this to the extent that this culture will no longer exist within twenty years or so... or else it's something which people have always turned to and started doing only one they reach a certain age. If I had to guess, I would say the former, I just don't know anyone who is even slightly religious and, even though they are a particular subsection of Portuguese society - Lisbon based hipsters, mainly gay come to think of it - I just don't see any examples of young people anywhere who are even the slightest bit religious. I mean no-one mentions it ever, there is no question of "should I be religious?" - as far as I can tell no-one even thinks about religion. In fact even in that cave Augustus is just laughing at the dolls, he's not even laughing at or discussing the reason behind them. Does that make sense?
Obviously I was joking then, but I was getting some kind of performance anxiety when I thought that you were waiting for the grotto pictures and I kept putting them up in the wrong order and then trying to get them right and deleting the wrong ones and stuff.I mean sorry Mr Version, please don't hurt me with all your weapons. It's coming up and it's worth it I promise.
What do you think anyway? It's really something to me that is completely alien to what I know. Of course in the UK we have caves hollowed out by the sea but ninety percent of them are too cold to hang about in - and this sort of shrine thing seems to be alien to our (UK I mean) culture. This grotto thing is a fairly extreme example but there are loads of gates and stuff with mini versions of that in our village and throughout Lisbon to some extent. What I find quite odd is that no-one I know has shown any inclination whatsoever towards Catholicism, which suggests to me that either there is a huge generational difference with this to the extent that this culture will no longer exist within twenty years or so... or else it's something which people have always turned to and started doing only one they reach a certain age. If I had to guess, I would say the former, I just don't know anyone who is even slightly religious and, even though they are a particular subsection of Portuguese society - Lisbon based hipsters, mainly gay come to think of it - I just don't see any examples of young people anywhere who are even the slightest bit religious. I mean no-one mentions it ever, there is no question of "should I be religious?" - as far as I can tell no-one even thinks about religion. In fact even in that cave Augustus is just laughing at the dolls, he's not even laughing at or discussing the reason behind them. Does that make sense?