Bwah ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha hee hee ha ha ha! HA!

Holy fark! This new pope is becoming as quotable (and idiotic) as Joe Biden.

If the pope that backed Hitler and his genocidal ways was dis-affectionately called "Hitler's Pope," then what should we call this one?

"Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me."

sattizahn: Did anyone here even RTA?

The article isn't very informative.

Here's the speech translated from Italian courtesy of Google.

My attempt to summarize this guy:

Member of the Hitler Youth? Check.
Personally responsible for the cover-up and continuation of worldwide child rape? Check.
Thinks that the gods speak to him personally? Check.
Wears dresses and Dorthy's ruby slippers around town? Check.
Responsible for keeping AIDS alive via the teachings of ignorance? Check.
Personally leaked the plans for the death star? Check.

What a fracking loser.

Pope said that it is "the media's" increasing reliance on images.

Pope Tip: Go into the Sistine Chapel and look UP, tell me what it is that you see. Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted 12,000 square feet of IMAGES on the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512 all without the help of the internet or media.

Candy Little Boy?

best use of ironic tag, way to be bold subby!

Shut up and drop the disk in the funnel.

While I don't agree that all new tech is bad, I do think that it can create a certain level of apathy due to inherent anonymity. Sort of along the lines of "The internet is so big I couldn't possibly get caught - so let's see what I can get away with."

Cyber-bullying is a case in point. Teenagers can be cruel under *normal* circumstances where they are liable to have consequences for their actions. Give them an anonymous forum on which to harrass and you have a perfect storm of unchecked cruel behavior.

Is there a solution? I don't know. I *do* know that technological regression won't solve things, nor will Big Brother type behavior.

Isn't he about 2000 years too late to make that assumption?

CPUYODA: Pair-o-Dice: So, when Judge was wacking it to Phoebe...that wasn't real?!?

My god man she was real though....

Can you believe that she is married to Kevin Kline?

He's right.
It hurts to say that because I just told my archbishop that he and the Catholic church can go autofornicate for sending me a disk saying I should discriminate against homosexuals.
Still, he's right.
Many people who can't distinguish between "reality" TV programming and reality and consequently emulate the asinine, boorish, and selfish behavior they see on these shows.

xav: Atomic_Cockroach: Good God is there a single photo of Benedict XVI that doesn't make him look like a Sith Lord? I want to photoshop force lightning into that pic in TFA.

Ratzinger as a padawan:

You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. You were to bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness.

genner: brainiac-dumdum: Kirk's_Toupee: Atheism: The complete lack of belief and/or the belief that no-one created the universe. It has always been here.

if god can exist w/out being created, why can't the universe?

either way there's an uncaused cause.

Yup and either way it's a belief based on faith.

Occam's razor FTW

Now that I'm well past it, the catlic church, that is, I'll think back to the times when as a little kid, I'd be all alone in the confessional box with who knows what was lurking on the other side of the mesh. Thankfully, gratefully, luckily, I dodged the hell that befell so many other little kids in those places.

This dick was ordained in 1951.

He's seen it all, and if not quite done it all, himself, him and his ilk have, and are likely shielding still, plenty who have.

Yet, here's this prick pontificating like anything that comes out of either side of his mouth should be paid any heed by anybody, in what is it, 2010?

Weaver95: when the Technological Singularity happens and we all become free from our primative biological shells, the Church (and other bio-conservatives) are going to have a lot of problems adjusting to the new reality.

They won't be invited.

SweetSilverBlues: God must have an enormous farking hat.

That's all I came here to say.

I'm not sure why but I really laughed out load when I read that. Thanks for the laugh. I'm still giggling like a school girl.

Everyone sit down! I am NOT Galdalf the White!

Ramona A Stone: Well, thank you Pope Obvious...

Yep.

This is not a repeat from 3200 B.C.

leonel: Atheists are the easiest religious group to troll.

Gandalf

/can't spell
//turkey withdrawl

leonel: Atheists are the easiest religious group to troll.

Ha!

The Asshole Guy: SweetSilverBlues: God must have an enormous farking hat.

That's all I came here to say.

I'm not sure why but I really laughed out load when I read that. Thanks for the laugh. I'm still giggling like a school girl.

Glad I brightened your day. I thought that up all by myself with no help whatsoever from Dennis Leary.

No, really!

Oh goody, another thread where everything can be explained with clever macros.



Amidoinitriteguyz?

aspAddict: Oh goody, another thread where everything can be explained with clever macros.
Amidoinitriteguyz?

The FSM frowns upon your shenanigans.

SweetSilverBlues: The FSM frowns upon your shenanigans.

A lot of people do, my friend...a lot of people do.

cedarpark: Everyone sit down! I am NOT Galdalf the White!

Really? I was thinking: "Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL battle station!"

aspAddict: Oh goody, another thread where everything can be explained with clever macros.



Amidoinitriteguyz?

I don't have a macro, but hopefully this will suffice.

Agnosticism

The belief that whatever the true origins of life are, they are too complex for human minds at worst, and completely ambiguous at best. But that's okay, because it won't make the laundry fold itself or give me a week's paid vacation.

aspAddict: SweetSilverBlues: The FSM frowns upon your shenanigans.

A lot of people do, my friend...a lot of people do.

Ah, then you are doing it right.

leonel: Atheists are the easiest religious group to troll.

10/10

"Pope worried that people might be confusing reality and fiction"

And christians aren't?

Mock26: "Pope worried that people might be confusing reality and fiction"

And christians aren't?

The pope depends on that for his income, actually.

That's right Benny, just keep us in the farking dark ages

Cute little popie, thinking that his opinion is still relevant.

Stantz: That's right Benny, just keep us in the farking dark ages

See, the problem is, with advances in technology, people will start expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

And we just can't have that.

ahh, another thread where farkers who claim to not have a belief system spend hours preaching and defending it.

At what point did Atheism and the Big Bang Theory get joined at the hip?

/I was out that day.

Subby gets "Best Use of Ironic Tag" Award