Wall of Mouths

All the ‘religious’ people around him making him spend the short time he has left with as little dignity as possible…how very humane.

Sorry, I don’t understand you. Again.

I’m not Catholic so his death and whoever eventually replaces him doesn’t affect me in any way.

That RHCP’s song Catholic School Girls Rule is true i remember when i was on school trips there would be other schools from the local area and the catholic girls were always the easiest to get off with!!:D

No but the priest found out that that would improve after two bottles of mas wine.

Have you ever tasted that thing they call mas wine. Horrible, me tells ya. So, no, I don’t think your suggestion is correct

I’d be well fucked off if I’d spent my life worshipping god, and in return he gave me Parkinson’s and a lingering death.

Bad Karma wrote:

I saw the favourites on the ITN news they’re all in their 70’s and 80’s.

And you’re saying that’s like finding a new Doctor Who or James Bond…? :p

A little while ago (weeks, maybe), they were saying on the news about possible replacements, and giving the ages, and one of them was about 71, I think, and they said that he was considered a bit of an outside chance because he was a little too young. I think venerability is considered a plus for the Pope (which I can’t really argue with).

for a guy who’s supposedly God’s right hand man, he sure is fighting going off to meet his maker. But isn’t that his whole gig, preparing folks for the here-after?

They keep saying he thinks his work isn’t done HUMMM.. thinking you’re the only person in the world could do something…reminds me of something…oh yeah Pride. Isn’t that a no-no in his profession?

I’m sure that’s how the Pope sees it.

Coincidentally I was just rereading Auguries of Innocence (Blake’s poem that begins:
‘To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.’)

There’s a bit later on that goes like this:
‘It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.’

I mention this purely because I haven’t fulfilled my pretention quota for this week. ;)

:D

Since Misanthropologist has quoted from his current reading material i too will do the same.

Number 21 of Peter Cay’s 30 Funniest jokes

From Phoenix Nights series one

Paddy:Prostitutes are rough in AmsterdamFirst one i went with made me wash my old man.

Max:You took your dad?

:D

mr self destruct wrote:

I think I should be the next Pope.

You can be antipope.

@Bad Karma,:) you’re surely cheating, though, if it’s from Phoenix Nights, how can it be reading material? Or do you have the script books?

It’s pretty mundane, really: When a new Pope is decided upon, you just basically deny that he is really pope, and just claim that you are the true pope. Antipope’s basically differ only in that they don’t live in the Vatican.

But it does sound cooler, and does present opportunities to play ‘Antipope by the Damned. ;)

Well, I believe you have to set yourself up as some sort of alternative, so I guess it depends how you want to define that. But I gather that at least a few people have to genuinely acknowledge that you are truly God’s envoy on Earth, so you’ve got to ask yourself: how reliable are your friends, and how much respect do you hold with them? :)