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this is great, isnt it?
it took them 800 years to do this !!! so its probably only another 300 years before they forgive us for the 30 years war ?!
and i thought its slow if the EU needs 15 years for a CAP-reform.

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thats why the catholic church is COOL

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better late than never. The Church is rather slow though, I mean, they have been waiting for the 2nd coming for some good 2000 years now (the second coming is soon, and it always will be)

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i thought it was happening like 5 years agon when the millenium came on?

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Well they have so much crap lying around I'm sure they just got misplaced.
It was probably resolved when the Greeks called the Repo Men.

*knock knock*
Pope: Who's there?
Guy: Repo Guy
Pope; No way! I just payed the f*cking installment on the TV! You bastards are always callin round here! I didn't even get a second notice you f...
Guy: We're here for the saints!
Pope: Saints? What Saints? Err...we have quite a few you'll have to be more specific.
Guy: Um....Saint Gregory of Nazianze and Saint John Chrysostom
Pope: Chrysostom?? Isn't that a for atheletes foot??!
Guy: Open the damn door Pope! And don't think about trying that excommunication thing again, I'm athiest!
Pope: Fine! Take the bastards...800 years doesn't exactly do much for the smell!....Those damn Greek bastards, that's the last time I go on an 18-30s holiday to Crete!

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To be fair to the Catholic church, they never intended for the crusaders to sack Constantinople. I believe the Fourth Crusade had already been excommunicated for attacking a roman catholic city. Blame the 'merchants of Venice' who provided transportation for the crusaders in exchange for a bit of 'regime changing.'

Oh well, at least they didn't charge them for 800-years of "storage fees". ;)

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and it makes no difference whatsoever, JPII is really trying, i will give him that, but none of the orthodox churches will ever trust the catholics

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They're considering apologising to the Templars as well it seems...

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You'll choke on your words tomorrow - I've heard that Jesus is visiting your college.

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Considering Jesus was born in either 6 or 5 BC, the Second Coming should have been in 1994 or 1995. So watch those little kids running around your house. They may be Jesus.

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The Templars no longer exist. The Vatican has been taken in by some wacky historical recreationists who like to think they are part of an organisation that ceased to exist hundreds of years ago.

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St Malachi said there'll be two more Popes, the last one (Peter II) being Pope while the RCC falls. (Of course, if he's right, then he was inspired by God, and the heretics who overthrow the Pope will feel like right idiots when they come before the Pearly Gates.)

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does this mean we have a legitemate reason for killing (annoying?) children? or did that only work the first time?

-mist

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I giggle everytime I see someone mention christianity and the church these days.

I'm also reading the Da Vinci Code.

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It's pretty good as a read. I finished it in twenty four hours which I always do with books I'm really into. I hope you're not taking it all at face value though :(

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Firstly, how does that affect the prospect of an apology?
Secondly, who made you the expert?

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I would tend to agree with your first point but your second makes you sound disturbingly like a conspiracy theorist.

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I thought it was an amazing book! I'm noticing symbolism everywhere now...


In reference to the second coming - if it did happen - noone would believe him. He'd be straight in a mental institute.

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If there is a second coming we'll all know about it
whatever in glory means I have a feeling it'd be rather hard to miss it.

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morning glory?

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I don't know (and tbh don't care) whether the order still exists or not, but to say they don't as if it's fact seems a bit sundayish to me...

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But the order doesn't exist. I suppose it may exist in the same sense that something utterly unknowable and unprovable may exist but that's not exactly much. The evidence for the order still existing versus the evidence for it no longer existing weighs in pretty conclusively on the no longer existing side.

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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled...? :p

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If there are any secret societies, we don't know about them.

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He was crowned in York cathedral as 'Expert in the West' by Pope Urban III in 1186.

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Is convincing the world that he never existed...

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I would probably agree with this. I read the Da Vinci Code and found it a great read, but it obviously takes lots of liberties in certain areas. I think that if there really is a society that has carreid on what the book suggests the Knights of Templar had/knew, than it is secret and not in the mainstream.

The most interesting fact in the book to me was phi. It is pretty amazing that so many different things in nature use that ratio.

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Nah, it was when he pulled a tortoise out of a see-through tupawear tub at my cousin's 8th birthday party.

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we always has clowns. they were scarey :/

-mist

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I thought the exact same thing.
I immediately went here. Stunned me I have to say. The beauty of maths...

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I went to the site and browsed around a bit. it makes you wonder if the number just happens to be a coincidence in nature or if it is truly divine. Being a Christian I like to think that it is divine :)...

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the first page of that site didn't tell me everything i wanted to know about this number.

instant gratification--

:(

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Yeah, thanks for that Einstein. I was wondering how that sentence ended. :rolleyes:

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Just here to help.

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I'm reading it while I shit on the crapper, it is a pretty good read, It documents almost every religion quite well with regards to rituals and practices, a few errors, at least in the edition I'm reading, but none the less a good way to read up on religions and cultures without being bored shitless by some 20 years in the making PHD study on Wicca/Paganism/Symbology in religion etc.

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You know, I don't mean to alarm you, but if God visited Earth I think it slightly unlikely that he would be placed in a mental institute.

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Considering he was crucified the last time, a mental institute would be an improvement! ;)

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To be honest if the last time you came to earth and said "lets all be nice to each other" you got nailed to a tree for your troubles, then would you be in a rush to come back?

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If some kid went around proclaiming he was God then he would probably get ignored. Even Priests would probably not believe him.
If he carried on, and annoyed people, he would get put in a mental institute or something.
What could he do that would make us believe him?
We're not as easily impressed as people were 2000 years ago.

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slightly related, did anyone see that thing llast year about the second coming? had that guy from our friends in the north as the second coming?

that was really good that was

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Look, 'God' as an idea may well be incomprehensible, or even fictional in your mind, but if 'God' really did come to Earth (in divine form, Tactitius) then he would not need to be believed - it would be painfully obvious to everyone.

If 'God', therefore, according to its definition, is an omniscient, omnipotent being, the fact that you have argued that he could 'annoy people', and be forcibly placed in a mental institute has convinced me that you are either:

1. Forgetting that even hypotheses must not be mind mind-warpingly obtuse.

2. Or some kind of post-modern radical thinker that defines a generation/genre.

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I think most people were thinking if there was a second coming of Jesus it'd be more like the first time, i.e. in human form.

Obviously if some dude came who could do fireballs from his hand and shit that'd be different.

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Well, of course, you do realise that if Jesus had wanted to, he could have do fireballs etc... - but that is beside the point.
The second coming, theologically speaking, refers to Jesus' return in divine form.

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Well I'm pretty sure that most people are aware that you couldn't actually place God (appearing as, erm, God) in an asylum which makes your post somewhat redundant.

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There is this bloke in brazil that constantly says hes crist itself. He plocaims to be the reicarnation of the son of god, and he has like a dozen virgins which go with him wherever he goes ( usually low budget telly programs).

Most people just point and laugh....
There is this other lad, "chiquinho diabo" something like joe devil, that says he is devil himself. They usually put both on the same show for comedy effect.
heres a pic of him
http://planeta.terra.com.br/lazer/noiamen/inri.htm

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Heretic!

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Who do you think you are?
Do you damn well think you're god or something?
God giveth life, god taketh it away, not you.
I think you are the devil itself.

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i make some crap thread and people actually talk in it. if i make a thead about a topic i care about i get 5 replies if im lucky.
the world is bad :(

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i tend to find the same thing wu_trax, its just not fair is it?