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I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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it could be interesting. i wonder if any descendants of the borgias are at a loose end...Originally posted by Dr Strangelove View Post"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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I'm still waiting to hear who is going to get Benedict's relics. I think his head should go to Germany. Will they wait until the new pope is elected to chop him up?There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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I think they will have to. You just can't go around chopping up saints without the Pope's approval.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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Even Da Shi knows more about the Catholic church than you.I'm under the impression that Catholics pray to symbols and images.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
"Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
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Can't we just let the poor old guy retire in peace? I'm more interested in the next."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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Washes eyes & imagination out with Drano.Originally posted by DaShi View Post
DaShi, easy on the simile nasties.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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You should (fakes fierce demonic glare) .Originally posted by Aeson View Post
Judas Iscariot (at least by the name's implications) wanted urgent social reform as well as wealth redistribution.
Term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem, to the jewish Zealots who attempted to expel the Romans and their partizans from the country, even resorting to murder to attain their object. Under their cloaks they concealed "sicæ," or small daggers, whence they received their name; and at popular assemblies, especially during the pilgrimage to the Temple mount, they stabbed their enemies, or, in other words, those who were friendly to the Romans, lamenting ostentatiously after the deed, and thus escaping detection (Josephus, "Ant." xx. 8, § 10;idem, "B. J." ii. 13, § 3). Although Felix had cleared the country of the so-called "robbers," their place was taken by the Sicarii, who were not so easily to be suppressed. The high priest Jonathan was assassinated by them at the instigation of Felix, who did not hesitate to make use of the Sicarii in this way. During the procuratorship, of Cumanus they killed an imperial servant on the open highway near Beth-horon, an act which resulted in lamentable consequences.
This (The Last Coin) is a rather enjoyable book by the way:
Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Twenty-nine of the coins are already in the possession of the unpleasant Pennyman. The last coin is all that stands between the world and doom, and it now belongs to ordinary Andrew Vanbergen, owner of an inn where dark magic and bizarre heroism are about to intertwine.
I should of course like to affirm that I possess no small daggers and have never stabbed anyone for political purposes or monetary gain. Or at all, actually.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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