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32nd degree |
What ever happened to him?? does he get all the bennies of a Pope, or is he a persona non grata? ___________________  "the world doesn't end til yer dead, 'til then there's more beatin's in store, stand it like a man, and give some back" Al Swearengen | ||
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| No Compromise |
I've always wondered that. He said he was retiring "for prayer and self reflection", or something like that. Sounds kinda' fishy to me. Makes you wonder what really is going on. I know we don't much pick on peoples appearance here, but Pope Benedict XVI looked exactly like Senator Palpatine. Just saying'. H&K-Guy | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Pope Emeritus. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI For details. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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He lives in an old villa former monastery on the grounds of the Vatican. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
And paid vacations complete with altar boys. | |||
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goodheart |
 Seriously, I wish his successor would follow the good Benedict's example. Christmas would be a good time. _________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
I miss Benedict. He abandoned us to a GDC. Kind of like if Trump resigned and we got the Hildabeast. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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   --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Drug Dealer |
 When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Fire begets Fire |
He left happily/willingly ... or was he moved outta the way for the GDC? "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
I miss Pope John Paul II ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 2024....Save America! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Objectively Reasonable |
Amen. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
We will never know what went on behind the closed doors of the curia. Makes for interesting speculation though because I do not like or trust the GDC, Francis. I, too, miss Pope John Paul II. He understood the evils of socialism/communism. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Firsthand experience, having grown up in a free, independent Poland in the '20s and '30s, then suffering under the yoke of Communism in the late '40s, '50s, 60s, and '70s. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Or maybe Benedict felt that he wasn't cut out to be Pope. Or wasn't in good health. Or felt that God was not calling him to be Pope. It may well not have been clear who would be the new pope. In other words, there may have been nothing nefarious about his resignation. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Fire begets Fire |
When was the last time a pope willingly stepped down? Isn’t it rather highly unusual? "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
It is obviously unusual. Most popes die in office. That means it is unusual, not evil. The church is very closed mouthed, and I know that engenders speculation of all kinds, but that still doesn't mean we know more than we actually know. I didn't say there isn't a bad motive, just that we can't say that there was. I realize speculating about a bad motive is more fun and is human nature, though. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Maybe the administrative workload expected of a Pope makes the job less desirable for some who prefer to “judge not, lest ye be judged.” Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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