I pit my judgemental roommate and catholic upbringing

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*this is my first pit thread. If it is too over-the-top, harsh, not harsh enough, or otherwise too much of a ramble, I apologize. I’ll take constructive critisism.
Yes, I pit my roommate. Specifically, I pit the “I am fucking better than everyone else” attitude he has that stems from him being a catholic. Let me explain the most recent incident:

I’m playing video games in the living room, minding my own business. He comes in and mentions they are making a 4th Indiana Jones movie. Since I’ve read quite alot about it, I feel confident I can have an opinion on this. Apparently, I was wrong.

I say “Yeah, but I wish they wouldn’t make it. The first 3 were so good, it has nowhere to go but down.” His reply was something along the lines of “Well, I look at movies in their own right, not compared to their predecessors. My father raised my siblings and I to be non-judgemental, and I try to look at things with a non-biased outlook. Maybe you should do that.”

Of course, to which I retorted “Maybe I should do that?! FUCK YOU! If you think you aren’t judgemental, you have to be the most delusional fucktard on the planet! I’m so glaaaad that your father raised you much better than mine. How my family even managed to survive in their hethan ways must be beyond you.”

Yes, apparently judging me and my opinion doesn’t count as judgemental. Apparently telling me I am wasting my life in god’s eyes for choosing my career path isn’t judgemental. Apparently glaring at me every time my girlfriend comes over for the night isn’t judgemental. Apparently constantly trying to get me to go to those fucking church dinner things that catholics feel they need to be a part of isn’t judgemental.
I swear if I have to put up with him telling me he is praying for my soul one more time, I am going to stick his beloved jesus figurine so far up his ass he’ll be coughing wine for weeks.

Fuck you catholosism, for teaching an otherwise bright individual that he is better than everyone else, and that everyone should strive to be as good as he is.

And before someone points it out, yes I am being judgemental of him. But unlike him, I never said I wasn’t. I’m proud to be human.
Wow, I see why people pit now, I feel much better.

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Shoulda said, “My father raised my siblings and me…”

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Where’s the Catholicism? I see arrogance disguised as fairness, but no Catholicism.

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Never mind. I missed a paragraph…I thought the Catholicism had to do with his reaction to your opinion about a new IJ movie…

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Eh, it could just be the way his parents taught him and his siblings how to deal with their religion. But it seems to be his cite for most of his basis of reasoning.

I am not a psychologist.

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Glad to hear it.

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In fairness, I think even the Pope has come out against a fourth Indiana Jones movie.

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Both of you college undergrads, I presume? :slight_smile:

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First year out after graduation, so still can’t afford to live alone.

And it wasn’t so much the subject he brought up, as the “I know everything and you may bow before my awesomeness” tone it carried. Most things that come out of this guy’s mouth are similiar. I feel better now.

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Oh, you should SO go to those church dinner things. If they’re anything like the ones my mom’s church has, they are totally awesome. And usually free. (Kat’s Rule #273: Never turn down free food cooked by people’s mothers.)

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I was dragged to Rocky Balboa about a week ago. If that movie is any indication, I suspect the OP’s skepticism about the new Indiana Jones movie is justified.

Well, there’s your problem–you never should’ve come out. :wink:

Seriously though, living with a judgmental roomie can be very irritating. I suspect my roommate has sexual identity issues (that is to say, he’s deep in the closet and feels insecure in his masculinity and male attractiveness) that inform the closed-minded things he says sometimes. He’s a decently tolerant guy in general, but when I put an Eddie Izzard special on the TV he looked down at the coffee table the whole time and said “He’s funny, but I can’t look at him–it’s just disturbing”. I think he feels a subconscious need to loudly state his opposition to male femininity in order to deflect attention from (what he perceives as) his own shortcomings in achieving traditional male success.

FTR, he’s thoroughly agnostic, leaning towards atheism, but he was raised Catholic. He once converted to Mormonism just to piss off his grandma, which I find amusing and admirable.

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I do not see any catholicism. Just a very immature guy

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Oh, I get it! You mean catholic

, not Catholic!

Those catholics can be righteous pains in the butt sometimes can’t they.

:smiley:

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Actually, I think the OP was talking about Catholosism, the belief in the ancient Greek god/tentacle-monster-of-the-sea Catholos.

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You could be right.

This quote

certainly suggests he is quite concerned about differentiating himself from other animal species.

I mean, that makes just about as much sense as the OP really.

:wink:

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I can understand where the OP is coming from. It’s the same thing with left handed Mormoms who look at you funny when you write notes. I hate them and their parents. Also, those lactose intolerant atheists that act all high and mighty when you go get ice cream. They act like they’re afraid they’ll find Jesus in a cup of Rocky Road. And don’t even get me started on Black Jewish Lesbian Republicans who’ve had LASIK eye surgery. Apparently, they don’t know that people can see them roll their eyes now.

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I don’t see where the confusion is. Everyone knows that Catholics are non-judgmental and unbiases, right? :smiley:

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There’s more than one?

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Hell, does the guy post in Cafe Society? Sounds like any fanboy who just got his favorite jones (yuck-yuck) dissed.

I’m sure his Catholic upbringing also taught him better spelling and grammar. :wink:

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I had a roommate in college like that. I’d known him in high school when he was self-righteously gay after he’d moved in with some chicken-hawk twice his age. Then he got out of that relationship, went off to college and denied he ever was gay. But he then took up with a Fundie Christian woman and started to preach Jesus at us other 3 roomies. We’d be hanging out, talking and he’d come in and kill the conversation by pointing out our moral errors. At first it was funny, but not too funny for too long.

(There was also the incident when he hit a skunk of the way home, so he brought it into the basement and skinned it, salted the pelt, and let it sit down there stinking up the whole house. So I can claim that our ire was not simply anti-religious)

His fag-hag (or whatever you call women who seek no-sex relationships with guys who deny they’re gay) girlfriend’s landlord made her give up her cat, so he took it in, over the protest of one of the roommates who was allergic. Pretty soon the allergic roommate couldn’t go anywhere in the house besides his own room, so we demanded that Fundie-boy post a giveaway notice on the school kiosk.

Soon the phone rang, and it was someone wanting the cat, with the proviso that it was neutered. Fundie-boy was telling her that the cat was not, at which I picked up the cat, held its ass up and yelled so that the person calling could hear “hey, look: NO BALLS!” He then hung up on her.

I yelled to him I was sick of his bullshit and stormed off to my room. He followed me and kicked open my door, demanding an explanation.

I’ve noticed over the years that Irish-Americans don’t actually throw punches but rather grab their victims and slam their heads into things. I followed this procedure for a bit, until he crawled under the kitchen table to get away from me while I kicked him in the ass as he went.