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Pontiff is difficult to rhyme. OR Smoke on the Vatican
Since one of my many youthful indisecretions involved "going Catholic" for a time, I feel more than qualified to weigh in on this dizzeal with the Pope dying and all.
As one may have guessed, I am slightly annoyed at the pervasive well, TMI aspect of the coverage of his failing health and subsequent passing. Similar to one's beloved grandparent, we can feel empathy for the fact that someone is ill without have to hear each gory detail every time we get near the news. Not to mention that many people do not consider the Pope any more holy or important than any other religious figure. And some people are against that sort of borderline idolitry all together.
That said, John Paul seemed like a good man. Aside from the "George Ringo" joke, which is still funny as it happens, JP was also the first notable Catholic to expressly tell parents not to disown thier homosexual children. Since there are plenty of people who do anything the Pope says, I would imagine at least some people were helped by that. It's just too bad it didn't have more of an effect.
As you Catholics know, God speaks directly to the Pope. This was true of all Popes except Pope Joan, who God knew was a woman. I wonder if this gives God more time to start talking to other people. Nothing makes a person sound crazier than when they hear God talking to them. Trust me.
So now they'll have to choose a new Pope.
I feel so out of the loop, I don't even know who's running.
And I kind of wish I had a job, just so I could start an office pool.
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On a completely unrelated topic, I lost another hard drive this morning.
Fucker outbid me by 62 cents.
I think I'm just going to have H pay $10 more so I can do the "buy it now" option.
$60 for 20gig isn't too much is it?
As one may have guessed, I am slightly annoyed at the pervasive well, TMI aspect of the coverage of his failing health and subsequent passing. Similar to one's beloved grandparent, we can feel empathy for the fact that someone is ill without have to hear each gory detail every time we get near the news. Not to mention that many people do not consider the Pope any more holy or important than any other religious figure. And some people are against that sort of borderline idolitry all together.
That said, John Paul seemed like a good man. Aside from the "George Ringo" joke, which is still funny as it happens, JP was also the first notable Catholic to expressly tell parents not to disown thier homosexual children. Since there are plenty of people who do anything the Pope says, I would imagine at least some people were helped by that. It's just too bad it didn't have more of an effect.
As you Catholics know, God speaks directly to the Pope. This was true of all Popes except Pope Joan, who God knew was a woman. I wonder if this gives God more time to start talking to other people. Nothing makes a person sound crazier than when they hear God talking to them. Trust me.
So now they'll have to choose a new Pope.
I feel so out of the loop, I don't even know who's running.
And I kind of wish I had a job, just so I could start an office pool.
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On a completely unrelated topic, I lost another hard drive this morning.
Fucker outbid me by 62 cents.
I think I'm just going to have H pay $10 more so I can do the "buy it now" option.
$60 for 20gig isn't too much is it?
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That guy sues everyone.
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But we don't.
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Not sure why you're being so testy about all this. Religion and spirituality are intensly personal, and there really is no right or wrong.
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I'm sorry I missed it!
;-)
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In 5th grade, my folks put me in a Catholic school. Having been in public school I was accustomed to teachers answering questions. E.G. "Why did the dinosaurs become extinct?"
At St. Mike's, I'd ask questions like "Why, How?" And the nuns would always tell me, "Just because the Bible says so." Fuck that!!! I want to know why. The public school teachers never just said, "Because the book says so.
Fucking rotten nuns.
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Taking something on faith alone does not make the nuns "rotten". In a way, I envy people with the ability to have blind faith. Not all of them, mind you, but the ones that aren't dim.
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It just lets the students know that the other one exists.
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There were soem terrible, terrible kids there.
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You told me an anecdote once about you being a kid and doing things because "pastor said so". I do not remember any "Pastors" in Catholic church or school.
What gives?
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Or you could look at this one, instead:
Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160.0GB Internal Drive for $130 minus a $70 rebate = $60 (also at Bestbuy.com) Link
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/popeJoan.html
I did a play in college wherein a woman has a dream she is having dinner with famous fictitious women. One of them was Pope Joan, another (me) was Dulle Grete from the famous Bruegel painting. Good stuff.
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But he still proclaimed homosexuality to be evil. Here's a good article on his "legacy": http://www.gay.com/news/roundups/package.html?sernum=1123&coll=news_feature&navpath=channels/news
And that article doesn't even go into his unquestioning support of the Church's institutionalized misogyny. I was never a big fan myself, but I was never Catholic.
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So I can't really tell you not to use it, now can I?
Since the pics were from google and the joke is from a fansite, it's not really anyones intellectual property.
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I said, "I don't know anything about him."
He said, "Well, it'd just be weird to have a black Pope. That'd make all the black people really happy."
I said, "Oh yeah." (paused a long time). "For some reason, I didn't automaticaly make the connection between 'black' and 'Nigerian'." Now, I honestly do't give a shit what race the new Pope belongs to, if Nigerian dude becomes Pope I hope he's less conservative (altough I am glad he's no longer suffering, just because I disagree with the chuch I grew up in doesn't mean I thought he was a total asshole). It was just a funny conversation, weird that he brought that up (well, not weird for P).
I hope I'm not 'mock the stupid' material. I simply didn't make the connection.
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Note: I can make Canada jokes because part of my heritage is Canadian.
(And the one sport I like watcing on TV, is Hockey.)