Botany
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Mon Apr-04-05 06:54 PM
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From the all Pope news today ....... |
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..... A Vatican spokesman today said after the Pope's body was transfered to another place that the Pope was now going to be, "Earnestly laying in state." Gee, I didn't know he wasn't being earnest before when I saw the pictures of him "laying in state."
Look I know and respect the need for rituals and feel pity for those who mourn his passing but EARNESTLY LAYING IN STATE???? Over the top.
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Mon Apr-04-05 06:56 PM
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I mean, doesn't the pope's shit stink just like anyone's?
Can't the pope be a rigid, hardline, nasty, autocratic asshole just like any Reeptile?
Of course he can.. and he was.
Sheesh. You'd think that the media wants him canonized with the word "great" behind his name.
Now.. why is that?
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Mon Apr-04-05 06:57 PM
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2. One thing you can say for the Catholics |
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they've definitely got their rituals down.
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Mon Apr-04-05 06:58 PM
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3. A pope without spectacle? |
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Take a good look at the middle ages while you can. Like a visit to colonial Williamsburg. Except it's only here for a short while like Cadbury eggs.
Really, what else have they got?
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Mon Apr-04-05 06:58 PM
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4. Vatican City is its' own city-state |
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Many nations - including the United States - have formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
Hope that clears that up!
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:12 PM
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:23 PM
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Yes it clears it up. and what does it clear? It.
Now go and get wacked on the head with a silver hammer 3 times.
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:39 PM
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But I am a poor man. Will Iron do as well?
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Botany
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:46 PM
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Get a silver hammer.
"Bang Bang Bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down on his head Bang Bang Bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure he was dead"
J Lennon
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:33 PM
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7. Maybe it's something in the translation. Or maybe it's this... |
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earnest
The Spirit is the earnest of the believer's destined inheritance (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14). The word thus rendered is the same as that rendered "pledge" in Gen. 38:17-20; "indeed, the Hebrew word has simply passed into the Greek and Latin languages, probably through commercial dealings with the Phoenicians, the great trading people of ancient days. Originally it meant no more than a pledge; but in common usage it came to denote that particular kind of pledge which is a part of the full price of an article paid in advance; and as it is joined with the figure of a seal when applied to the Spirit, it seems to be used by Paul in this specific sense." The Spirit's gracious presence and working in believers is a foretaste to them of the blessedness of heaven. God is graciously pleased to give not only pledges but foretastes of future blessedness.
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:37 PM
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8. Is that regular Pledge |
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Or new improved Lemon Pledge??
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Mon Apr-04-05 07:43 PM
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..... He is dead. How can he (the Pope) be taking pledges?
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