tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post8316421177249120364..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond brings together coal and western civilisation, thanks to nattering "Ned" and Tess of the Catholic Boys' Daily ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6565290198124198172017-07-21T11:22:11.267+10:002017-07-21T11:22:11.267+10:00Nearly as good as Patrick's "conversion&q...Nearly as good as Patrick's "conversion" of the Irish (and thence the later "conversion" of the British Isles).<br /><br />They really could doodle on in no uncertain terms, couldn't they. Almost as good as Arthur, Guinevere and the mighty cuckolding Lancelot.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44263614374526186002017-07-19T17:03:25.102+10:002017-07-19T17:03:25.102+10:00"Product discrimination" old Neddles spo..."<i>Product discrimination</i>" old Neddles spouts. "discrimination" ?<br /><br />I think Neddles really means <b>product differentiation</b>. He really is a decrepit old doodlebug, isn't he.<br />http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-the-hell-is-a-doodlebugGrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82026108566360383802017-07-19T16:56:57.902+10:002017-07-19T16:56:57.902+10:00"...the worlds first transnational business c..."...the worlds first transnational business corporation"<br /><br />I think you'll find that was actually the Roman Army under their SPQR trademark, Anony. Though yes, the 'Church of Rome' is by far the most successful and longest surviving.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61580991180861561372017-07-19T16:53:21.155+10:002017-07-19T16:53:21.155+10:00I am betting the accommodation was better than Man...I am betting the accommodation was better than Manus Island - then again the heathens might have been more hospitable than the christian folk in AustraliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55837616384008814872017-07-19T15:19:28.748+10:002017-07-19T15:19:28.748+10:00Hi Dorothy,
"When our Lord ascended to heave...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />"When our Lord ascended to heaven after His sufferings in the fourteenth year, when Stephanus had long before been stoned by the Jews and the other disciples had been expelled from Judea, the disciples went into many lands in order to spread the word of God. With these apostles was Maximinus, one of the Lord's seventy - two disciples to whose guardianship St. Peter had commended Mary Magdalene. When the disciples were scattered St. Maximinus, Mary Magdalene, her brother Lazarus, her sister Martha with her servant Martilla and Cedonius (who was born blind but who had been cured by the Lord) and many other Christians were gathered on a ship by the heathens which was then pushed into the ocean so that they would all perish. By God's providence, however, they arrived in Massilia (Marseille). They found no one who wanted to give them hospitality and therefore remained in the vestibule of the heathens' temple."<br /><br />The Life of Mary Magdalen, from the Legenda Aurea (13th Century) by Jacopo di Voragine.<br /><br />The Magdalene evidently then converted the whole of Provence to Christianity. Not bad for a Fugee.<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41511375255031195182017-07-19T13:50:39.003+10:002017-07-19T13:50:39.003+10:00You gotta roll around the floor in laughter when t...You gotta roll around the floor in laughter when this dim-witted twit complains that the francis the talking mule (aka the pope, or is that the poop) has politicized the "catholic" church. <br />Never mind that the "catholic" church is first and foremost a political entity, and the worlds first transnational business corporation - FULL STOP. As a business corporation its principal motives are to protect its assets and to increase its market share in the "religion" business. <br />As a political entity it has at its root a drive to obtain totalitarian control over all of humankind - such a drive/motive is part of its mission statement. Never mind too that it is not in any sense a or the "universal" church.<br /><br />And who has really destroyed the "authority" of the church? <br />According to Matthew Fox in his book it was the benighted Ratzinger and the completely obnoxious poop JPII, both of whom facilitated the rise to control of the church by opus dei and similar right-wing "traditionalist" outfits. See The Popes War Why Ratzingers Secret Crusade Has Imperilled the Church.<br />Also check out the latest essay on the worse-than-horrible behind the scenes machinations of the benighted denizens who infest the vatican cess-pit on The Open Tabernacle website.<br />The sooner that the bogus "authority" of the "catholic" church and its associated heavy yoke on the hearts bodies and minds of humankind is broken then the better off we will all be.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com