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Ziff Micro-Goomba         Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Beyond the broken tables and wretched theology you people put forward, I don't know what to make of this thread.
First off, someone made a terrible analogy about "God controlling two wars, blah, blah, blah". Well, that is something called Providence. Based on which Christian scholar and interpretation of the Bible you believe in, it ranges from the idea of absolute destiny (no choice) to moralistic existence (where one must make one's on choices). I'm a fairly hardcore Catholic. I know alot about my own religion (and more about pretty much the rest of them than most people). JP2 did some good things. Then there are the rest. His bishop's stance on condoms and AIDS in Africa has caused uncountable deaths. His motions that undermined the College of the Cardinals, and the Synod of Bishops mock the founding fathers of the Church. Furthermore, his motions to alter the selection process of the Conclave angered a great many Archbishops and Cardinals. The Pope CAN declare war. The Vatican is its own City-State and its own international country. The Pope can also form edicts that all Catholics are supposed to follow called Bulls. When a Bull is made up, it can range from calling a Crusade (also known as a WAR) to excommunicating NAZI commanders (Mit Brennen Der Sorge). Ratzinger has some staunchly conservative ideas. And he is being hailed as a transitionary Pope that will do nothing, really. He is too old to make any drastic changes, and he is not well loved. He will maintain the status quo and other precidents set forward by his predecessor. His past in the Hitler Jugend is sketchy, again. We don't know EXACTLY what he did. The AA battery he operated was stationed in front of a concentration camp labour factory. Later when he was transferred to Hungary, he was at another slave labour factory. It's a problematic issue. And one cannot easily dismiss his past given his current position in the world (effectively one of the top 5 most powerful men on the planet). If anyone wants to de |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Booze and drugs. Gotta love 'em. That and arguing.
I don't think I could live without the Red Elvises. My favourite band. I also don't think that I'd be able to live without constantly fighting people on bad socio-economic ideals. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Dogs. Virgil and Abbey can run 45 miles an hour and have killed both squirrels and birds. | |||
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Apple iPods have brand recognition. Nothing else. They are overly simplistic, lack features and are easily erased. One drop and your hard drive will malfunction.
Your X-Box...Well, I'm saying that the best you can do for that is about...Well, what ARE the games? If they are old budget titles, you'll get 100 CDN for the box itself, and then about 5 dollars a title, I'd say that's fair. If they are new games, then you can range the prices to 20 a piece. And then it would be a fair 300-400 CDN for the shibang. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| "It is better to live believing there is a God and die to find out there is none, then to live not believing only to die and discover there is a God."
- Wise words of the Romance period. "which way shall I flie Infinite wrauth, and infinite despaire? Which way I flie is Hell; my self am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n." - John Milton's Paradise Lost Book 4 "Felix Qui Potuit Rerum Cognoscere Causas" - Latin for "Blessed Is He Who Has Learnt The Causes Of Things" "If radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" -Bhavagad Gita (description of Vishnu's final incarnation) "That is not dead which may eternal lie, And after strange Aeons, Even Death may die" -H.P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu - relating to Abdul Al-Hazred's Necronomicon "Every happy family is the same, every unhappy family is unique in its unhappiness" -Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina I have a million quotes of wisdom from the Talmud, the Nog Hammadi scrolls, the Koran, the Divine Comedy and of course Shakespeare. But I'd think the most telling quotes would be from Aristophones, Euripides and Aeschlyus. I'd quote Virgil and other Roman poets, but I don't have any good source books with me at the current time. And I doubt that this place would really gain the appreciation of Camus or Shakespeare.  |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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Well, that would mean having to dig up my collected works. 
And that means navigating my library.
And that means that I'd probably get distracted by comic books or Pierre Vallieres. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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I can't remember what I was going to say 
Regardless, he is an interim Pontifex Maximus, Habemus Papem, whateva! His concerns about gays in the Church is what bothers me. I have many gay friends who have problems with getting acceptance outside of their parishes. 
Oh well, we can just hope for Claudio Hummes or Godfreid Daneels to be the next Pope.
On a following note, I'm going to voice my biggest problem with the reign of JP2. The ignoring of one of the most heroic men ever born. Oscar Romero. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Summoning
Burzum Galdalf Falconer Erik the Red Venom Sigh MANOWAR Immortal There are probably other bands that are slipping my mind right now. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Um. He did. Three months ago, he had the office that Ratzinger occupied issue a formal apology and repentence for the past sins of the Church. He didn't just issue it for the Catholic Church either, he made an apology on the part of all Christians.
Oscar Romero. Made Bishop in El Salvador. He was chosen because he was quiet and thought that he would just sit around and wait til' he died, then they could get a new one in. That didn't work. He saw the rampant poverty being caused by American backed land owners. He began having his diocese clean up its act and supported a socialist movement to remove the pro-fascist American-installed dictatorship. When he was giving mas in front of 500 people in a basilica, he was shot. He died. The Pope didn't make a statement until two weeks later. Didn't even go to the funeral, nor did he put him forward for beatification. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| **yawn**
I think that there are better things to find your time and fight against than some police trying to play what is effectively a practicle joke to scare some kids. Nevermind police brutality towards the ethnic minorities of New York City, or the horrific practises that they have towards dealing with the homeless. No, let's worry about the ones that were just trying to put a little scare into a kid. Fuck, when I was a kid, I was put into the back of a K-9 Cruiser, with the attack dog in his cell right beside me fucking barking and drooling because I j-walked. Was the fact that the officer doing this too much? Not really, people will do that to teach these things called lessons. Deal with the real problems in the police before you deal with this. Christ. Jobes, those plastic ties HURT. They cut the skin, and are difficult for the people putting them onto the inmate to break. That generally causes a massive infection. They are rarely properly sanatized and they cause too little movement between the arms for any level of comfort. |
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| I watch blaxploitation films. Does that mean I'm mega goth? That's black times black! | |||
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Ziff Micro-Goomba Since: 04-22-05 Since last post: 6945 days Last activity: 6944 days |
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| Yes, there was both. Incidentally, as a lapsed Catholic (affectionatly called a Lapsolic) I take great offence to the charigin of the Baptist, Pentecostal and anti-Catholic Orange elements of this world. This dissemination of direct and utter attacks and LIES against the Catholic world makes me sick. "We worshipped the Virgin Mary" No. You were taught about her example. You gave your praise to the Lord Christ. That is unless you are a heretical moron.
It's this stupid born-again crap that is being disseminated among the youth. "Well, my religion is like...totally right. Bill Heine, I gave him like...50 bucks and he totally cured me of my tumour! Yeah! I'm so glad that I started becoming a hateful bigot using Christianity as a shield! Huzzah! Christ was a hate warrior, not a man of love and peace! "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ANTI-CATHOLIC ARMADA!" |
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