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nameless said:
he retired from the nazi youth party cos he was too old too.
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Mawhahahahahahaha

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Thing I hate about Catholicism is the whole idea of a pope. So someone becomes a priest, a bishop, a cardinal......then one day they get voted by their peers into a job (how special of them to have a job ) and hey presto! You have a living (nearly) deity supposedly with a direct line to God!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Now I try not to actually mock religious people, only the beliefs, but this pope stuff is beyond ridiculous and I just cannot hold back. He's a man, he's a man, he's a man. Period.
 
Well, I'm not Catholic myself, I just do not have a memory within my own lifetime of anyone retiring or resigning from that post. I'm pretty sure it's happened in the past, but not recently...
 
According to The New York Times: "The last pope to resign, Gregory XII, did so in 1415, 10 years into his tenure, in the midst of a leadership crisis in the church known as the Great Western Schism."

This means it'll be another 600 years or so before the next one decides to leave his (or her) job. :)​
 
Given all the troubles in the catholic church today, we're going to be seeing a lot of black smoke, I think.
 
Amidst all the black smoke, in the wake of holy resignations, it looks like the Christian community is still really reaching the people. :p
P.s... They start dropping the N-bomb on the chorus

 
Genuine things usually don't need gimmicks to sell them. I didn't watch the vid but I can only imagine.....The fact is there is a fringe element to just about any movement. There is the solid middle core and then there are always a few nut jobs around the edges.

Anything that invites everyone and anyone into the fold will inevitably get anything and anyone ;) ...just look at the so called ufo movement.
 
I lol'd


But before we have people jump to the "GOD IS ANGRY" answer, the weather conditions have been ripe for this sort of storm for days, add to that what the roof of the building is clad with (to seal the stone in) and that the lightning rod at the top is the tallest point for miles around... well hey no surprises.

Just for those that do not know the building construction: The roof is not all brick but has a huge amount of copper and iron in it as well as lead, the quote below references some of the Iron added to help stabilize the construction.

As built, the double dome is brick, 42.3 metres (138.8 ft) in interior diameter (almost as large as the Pantheon), rising to 120 metres (394 ft) above the floor. In the mid-18th century, cracks appeared in the dome, so four iron chains were installed between the two shells to bind it, like the rings that keep a barrel from bursting. (Visitors who climb the spiral stairs between the dome shells can glimpse them.) The four piers of the crossing that support it are each 18 metres (59 ft) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 m or 448.06 ft from the floor of the church to the top of the added cross) that makes it extraordinary
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Most people do not realize that large structures such as this and Cathedrals are not just stones and mortar, they use large amounts of metal to bond the stone in arches and window/portal surrounds.
This is not visible to you as mortar is pushed into the cracks as a final seal but inside the construction you would find that lead had been poured into special cut channels along the upper side of each stone in say an arch to help bond the arch as a solid whole.

Also note that the cross on top of the dome is iron with a massive metal ball at the base of this... this is meant to act as a lightning conductor (as well as decorative) so no surprise when it gets hit by some.
 
Has anyone taken a look at Petrus Romanus by Thomas Horn and Chris Putnam? I heard an interview with Chris in July last year where he outlined St. Malachi's prophecies which pretty much say that the last pope would be the one that succeeds pope Benedict. Their interpretation led the authors to believe pope Benedict would cease to be Pope at the end of 2012 but hey they might not be far off!
 
Mortlach said:
Has anyone taken a look at Petrus Romanus by Thomas Horn and Chris Putnam? I heard an interview with Chris in July last year where he outlined St. Malachi's prophecies which pretty much say that the last pope would be the one that succeeds pope Benedict. Their interpretation led the authors to believe pope Benedict would cease to be Pope at the end of 2012 but hey they might not be far off!
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please feel free to elaborate in the "Seers" thread. would like to know if there is any Medjugorge and Nostradamus cross reference.
 
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