Has Your Tastes Changed?

[Starwynd]

I’m sorry, but I don’t know where to put this particular question,.

This question is aimed at those who were converted into Catholicism as an adult. This is out of curiosity more than anything else.

After you first became a Catholic, you had certain tastes in music and enterttainment. After a few years down that road, did those tastes change? And did you lose some of your interests?

For example, one guy I know who converted loved Star Trek, but claims he grew out of it because of his faith and considers it to be a satanic show and won’t watch it anymore. Did something similar happen to you after a number of years down the road as a Catholic?

 

[Nickkname]

Not me. I still like video games, rock music, comics, and comedy.

But like any human being, I have matured. So some interests have changed. For example, I no longer like Star Trek. It’s just boring to me now.

 

[Tic_Toc]

I think you friend is looking at things a little oddly and taking things a little too literally.

When you convert to Catholicism, you’ll look at things differently, perhaps, but your interests will probably remain the same, unless you learn that you’ve been doing horrible things.

 

[fhansen]

On a general note, the things of this world are supposed to grow dimmer and become less attractive as our faith in and love for God grows-which would only make sense, I think.

 

[Oz_Girl]

I’ve notice that my music taste has changed alot however I still watch trashy reality shows on TV.

 

[daeve]

Star Trek is Satanic? I’ve never thought of that. Nope, I don’t think I see that at all.

However, my tastes have certainly changed over the years. I’m not a convert, cradle Catholic, Catholic grade school, high school and even college. But I don’t like the same books I used to read, I don’t like the same kind of movies. Give me a movie with a nice natural disaster like an earthquake or a vocano, and throw in an alligator or maybe a cloned dinosaur and I’ll sit there for hours. I’ve seen Dante’s Peak enough that I know most of the dialog. I don’t think it has anything to do with faith or religion or conversion. I think it’s more of a natural progression. People just change what they like as time goes by…

Music however, ended for me in the 1970s. I still listen to the classic rock station.

 

[vonRatzinger]

On a general note, the things of this world are supposed to grow dimmer and become less attractive as our faith in and love for God grows-which would only make sense, I think.

That pretty much sums me up. I was baptized into the church three years ago, and over that time I’ve lost interest in quite a bit that I used to enjoy before. It was not a question for me of finding any of the old stuff evil, it’s just that I’ve found a new world of art, music, literature, and philosophy/theology that is so much better. There is more than I can fit into a single lifetime. For ex., I can visit a Church and take in the architecture and sacred art, I can listen to a Mass by Palestrina, I can read the fiction of Evelyn Waugh and/or Flannery O’Connor, I can read the thought of Augustine and Aquinas and Pieper…

And then there’s something very beautiful about praying in Latin. Ave Maria, gratia plena, dominus tecum…

 

[Dranu]

Made a move to conversion over a year ago, got confirmed recently. Like others here, my music tastes have definitely changed, and I can barely stand most popular music of the last hundred years anymore. I am also far more productive, intellectual, and rational. Not just that I have thrown out all stupid superstition, but that I spend most of my free time researching, socializing philosophically, working out, reading philosophy, and painting, (all of which I now thoroughly enjoy) rather than watching T.V., ‘slothing’ around, and playing video games (though I do from time to time.).

 

[richardwy]

Big changes. Horse and the rider tossed into the sea. I got rid of some of my DVD’s after converting. All of them were high quality shows. Those I pitched just too racy, and might be considered milder by some’s standards. Just not into the “message” they display.

I’m more after things that affirm faith and the works of mercy now.

I admit to still being a mystery buff though Library has Perry Mason

 

[daeve]

Big changes. Horse and the rider tossed into the sea. I got rid of some of my DVD’s after converting. All of them were high quality shows. Those I pitched just too racy, and might be considered milder by some’s standards. Just not into the “message” they display.

I’m more after things that affirm faith and the works of mercy now.

I admit to still being a mystery buff though Library has Perry Mason

I have a great collection of Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen. I have a lot of more current authors too, but at my age I’m lucky to remember my own name. I have all the Rabbi books…those are great. I think the author is Herbert Kemelman. In addition to a nice story, you get a little look into the life of an orthodox rabbi and his family.