ORIGINAL: shoevarek
It is just a facade. I never have been deeply religious person but before going to university I haven't missed a Sunday mass. I remember going to church to meet friends, see some girls, exchange jokes, make plans for the rest of the Sunday - "Hey guys, are we going to play football today?". I remember once I stared into the shoes of the person nearby (during the first post-communist days when fake chinese Adidas were good as gold) and imagined my own shoe factory, design, business stategy - all that wierd stuff went through my head during entire mass [&:], i did not remember what was preached. When you go to the village you see many people (young and old) right outside the door. Why? Cause it is more convenient, talking inside during mass is ackward and sacrilegious, not so just behind the door. You get two things done at same time.
In Poland there are some bigots, some people who do not care and a mass of people who go to church just because they got used to it.
The absurdity of things make Poland so deeply annoying and at the samme time so interesting [:D].
Exactly! Great description. Even though I couldn't understand what was being said, I could tell there was the whole social thing going on just outside the atrium of the church. Nobody seemed to lost in pious concentration. Also it appeared that many of the young women, in their sincere effort to bare their souls to God, had also uncovered other parts of their anatomy, perhaps in some confusion as to where their souls were.
I couldn't believe what they were wearing. Nowhere was there a burka to be found.
As to the broader question of why the Polish women in Paris and London were so hot (
especially at the Malia Hotel near Marleybone St ..I forget what it was called now)...I suspect it is a question of selection bias (ie..the good looking ones moved to Western Europe) [:)]
