This not not about the ailing pope (I do hope he gets better, he seems ok, for a pope and all), but I wanted to ask this of any Catholics on board:
If the Pope declared something really outrageous, such as Islam is the one true religion or that God is a bubble gum machine, and he was speaking Ex Cathedra , would it have to be obeyed? I don't know if that can be overrided? I'm asking in case I become Pope.
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Ace Cassidy
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04-01-2005 09:46
Ahhh....
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
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04-01-2005 11:15
I became a Cardinal in Jah Pope's church last night....The smoke from our bongs will turn white when we select a new pope, if we ever motivate enough to do that....and our wafers are Ritz crackers.
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Zuzi Martinez
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04-01-2005 13:15
i'm guessing they take his mental state into it when he starts declaring stupid things. as long as we're talking hypothetical popes........think we'll ever have a robot pope?
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04-01-2005 13:16
I was Hypothetical Pope once...
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04-01-2005 13:25
I'm an official Pope!
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Isis Becquerel
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04-01-2005 13:30
God is a bubble gum machine but not the ordinary barbershop one quarter gets you fifteen tasteless chicklets and all proceeds go to the Riddlin for Tots Foundation machine; he is one of those ginormous crazy gum ball machines that after you insert your hard earned 50 cents into it the God begins to dance and sing with bells and lights that spin discoesque while the gumball spirals downward for what seems an eternity into the 8th concentric circle of hell which is a 4 year old with sticky snot crusted hands screaming for the car seat staining confection that is doomed to bring on an undue haircut to hurry up already while his mother stands a foot away, her lobster red face twisted in an anxious "isn't he cute" smile because she can't just bust his ass and tell him to calm the hell down without some do gooder calling cps on her....or maybe god is a bag of microwavable popcorn...
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Once for halloween I wore a pope hat and crotchless chaps.
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David Valentino
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04-01-2005 13:49
God is a bubble gum machine but not the ordinary barbershop one quarter gets you fifteen tasteless chicklets and all proceeds go to the Riddlin for Tots Foundation machine; he is one of those ginormous crazy gum ball machines with that after you your hard earned 50 cents begins to dance and scream with bells and lights that spin discoesque, while the gumball spirals downward for what seems an eternity into the 8th concentric circle of hell which is a 4 year old with sticky snot crusted hands screaming for the car seat staining confection that is doomed to bring on an undue haircut to hurry up already while his mother stands a foot away, her lobster red face twisted in an anxious "isn't he cute" smile because she can't just bust his ass and tell him to calm the hell down without some do gooder calling cps on her....or maybe god is a bag of microwavable popcorn... /bows before you  _____________________
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04-01-2005 13:54
Once for halloween I wore a pope hat and crotchless chaps. I had a t-shirt on that said, "I'm the Pope. Kiss my ring." Oh, and I was wearing a cockring. You truly are going to Hell, Neehai... See ya there! - Ace _____________________
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04-01-2005 14:06
You truly are going to Hell, Neehai... See ya there! - Ace Nee is too intelligent for hell; he'll go to limbo where we will all sip tea with Socrates and discuss the foibles of humanity. _____________________
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daz Groshomme
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04-01-2005 14:15
being a student of the classical tradition in art,there have been many references to popes, most of which are negative, it was a pope who threatened to throw Michaelangelo from the scaffolding if he didn't hurry to finish the Sistine chappel ceiling, a pope who painted a young boy in gold paint as a party decoration and subsiquently caused the boy to die from it, a pope who collaborated and sympathised with the Nazi's (in history books), a pope who caused Phillippino children to starve because of his medieval stand on birth control (I saw with my own eyes), a pope who aparantly allows bishops to get away with shuffling child molestors around the world, so I personally think they are praying to some evil god, not a good one....
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04-01-2005 14:17
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04-01-2005 14:20
The pope needs to die already.
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04-01-2005 16:31
The college of cardinals may remove a pope who is found to be in heresy or moral failure...
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04-01-2005 16:33
The college of cardinals may remove a pope who is found to be in heresy or moral failure... _____________________
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04-02-2005 15:54
How does painting someone gold kill them? oO
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04-02-2005 16:15
I think "Hypothetical Pope" is a great name for a band.
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04-02-2005 16:25
I love hypothetical questions.
I think the majority of educated Catholics would not hesitate to question (and defy) anything that was too off-the-wall. hmmm.... is it possible I might be a virus occupying a cell (the Earth) in God's body (the Cosmos)... _____________________
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04-02-2005 19:33
This not not about the ailing pope (I do hope he gets better, he seems ok, for a pope and all), but I wanted to ask this of any Catholics on board: If the Pope declared something really outrageous, such as Islam is the one true religion or that God is a bubble gum machine, and he was speaking Ex Cathedra , would it have to be obeyed? I don't know if that can be overrided? I'm asking in case I become Pope. Many would argue that the Pope has/had already declared some really outrageous stuff  http://www.holysmoke.org/fem/fem0503.htm http://www.religioustolerance.org/pope_apo.htm http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/04/040105popeDies.htm http://slate.msn.com/id/2116085/ http://www.cathnews.com/news/312/3.php Join the Discordians. "We want everybody to recognise their own divinity and infallibility and stop looking outside themselves for orders." http://www.frogboy.freeuk.com/illuminatus.html -- Neal Stewart |
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Pitch Black
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04-02-2005 23:39
Don't know if I could be a "Hypothetical Pope." Maybe a "Highly Pathetic Pope."
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Osprey Therian
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04-03-2005 00:46
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Eggy Lippmann
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04-03-2005 01:51
Historically, whenever the pope does something a bit more radical, one of two things have happened:
a) The people around him silently sweep him into a back room where he will have a terrible accident, or at least be confined for the rest of his life. b) A large portion of catholics split off to make a new religion. _____________________
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