Boston is for hillary loving pieces of trash.
Boston is for hillary loving pieces of trash.
Bad Wigins wrote:
1) there is absolutely nothing wrong with insulting delusional belief systems, especially when they are fanatically held to the point of influencing laws and society. Ironically, new ones are now appearing to compete with the old ones and gaining equal protection from insult. Those who adhere to the old ones need to learn from this.
2) they said they saved the "crown of thorns." Do they mean THE crown of thorns? Still running a relic racket? What a shame that wasn't the first thing to burn.
Wiggie, your point 1) seriously lacks clarity. I now respond to your point 2). The sale of relics was forbidden as early as the publication of the Theodosian Code in the fifth century AD. Further, according to the online Catholic Encyclopedia (published circa 1911):
The decrees of synods upon this subject are generally practical and sensible, as when, for example, Bishop Quivil of Exeter, in 1287 after recalling the prohibition of the General Council of Lyons against venerating recently found relics unless they were first of all approved by the Roman Pontiff, adds: "We command the above prohibition to be carefully observed by all and decree that no person shall expose relics for sale, and that neither stones, nor fountains, trees, wood, or garments shall in any way be venerated on account of dreams or on fictitious grounds." So, again, the whole procedure before Clement VII (the antipope) in 1359, recently brought to light by Canon Chevalier, in connexion with the alleged Holy Shroud of Lirey, proves that some check at least was exercised upon the excesses of the unscrupulous or the mercenary.
And further from the same source:
Nevertheless it remains true that many of the more ancient relics duly exhibited for veneration in the great sanctuaries of Christendom or even at Rome itself must now be pronounced to be either certainty{sic} spurious or open to grave suspicion. To take one example of the latter class, the boards of the Crib (Praesaepe)— a name which for much more than a thousand years has been associated, as now, with the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore—can only be considered to be of doubtful. In his monograph "Le memorie Liberiane dell' Infanzia di N. S. Gesù Cristo" (Rome, 1894), Mgr. Cozza Luzi frankly avows that all positive evidence for the authenticity of the relics of the Crib etc., is wanting before the eleventh century. Strangely enough, an inscription in Greek uncials of the eighth century is found on one of the boards, the inscription having nothing to do with the Crib but being apparently concerned with some commercial transaction. It is hard to explain its presence on the supposition that the relic is authentic. Similar difficulties might he urged against the supposed "column of the flagellation" venerated at Rome in the Church of Santa Prassede and against many other famous relics.
You too can get an architecture history degree if your parents are able to bribe the right rowing coach. Veritas.
comedyrelief wrote:
You too can get an architecture history degree if your parents are able to bribe the right rowing coach. Veritas.
Harvard was never implicated -- but Yale was. Don't tell the Brojos
Popular Mathematics wrote:
ivy grad wrote:
For nearly 70k, you too can learn such great thoughts if you are admitted to Harvard.
“The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-fire-whats-next-822743/Fully recognizing that not everyone pays the “full sticker price” of an Ivy, given the de facto subsidy they are receiving from those who do, I can’t understand why anyone would pay this ridiculously inflated tuition for a bastion of “higher learning.” “Liberal arts” degrees are becoming increasingly worthless, and these institutions are churning out more liberals lacking tangible skills.
still burt hurt eh?
bulldogbro wrote:
comedyrelief wrote:
You too can get an architecture history degree if your parents are able to bribe the right rowing coach. Veritas.
Harvard was never implicated -- but Yale was. Don't tell the Brojos
Never implicated in that specific conspiracy. But don't worry bribery is alive in well at Harvard.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.htmlI think all posters have ignored Crusades. Notre Dame was built with wealth after Arabia was raped and pillaged during Crusades. Victorious Crusaders traded the death of a million Muslims for War Booty.
Built post-Crusades wrote:
I think all posters have ignored Crusades. Notre Dame was built with wealth after Arabia was raped and pillaged during Crusades. Victorious Crusaders traded the death of a million Muslims for War Booty.
Europe was raped and pillaged and enslaved by Muslims for hundreds of years. The Crusades were liberation and payback.
In fact, the term slave means "Slav", because so many Slavs were enslaved by the Muslims in Europe.
zdfgsdfgsdfgsdfg wrote:
Built post-Crusades wrote:
I think all posters have ignored Crusades. Notre Dame was built with wealth after Arabia was raped and pillaged during Crusades. Victorious Crusaders traded the death of a million Muslims for War Booty.
Europe was raped and pillaged and enslaved by Muslims for hundreds of years. The Crusades were liberation and payback.
In fact, the term slave means "Slav", because so many Slavs were enslaved by the Muslims in Europe.
You do not disagree Notre Dame was built from the death of one million Muslims and War Booty. You are simply offering your justifications.
St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:
1) there is absolutely nothing wrong with insulting delusional belief systems, especially when they are fanatically held to the point of influencing laws and society. Ironically, new ones are now appearing to compete with the old ones and gaining equal protection from insult. Those who adhere to the old ones need to learn from this.
Wiggie, your point 1) seriously lacks clarity.
Then allow me to explicate. Delusional belief systems, especially when fanatically held by enough people as to wield political power, are oppressive and harmful. It is not wrong but in fact beneficial to insult them.
Clear now?
What does "overburdened with meaning" mean?
ivy grad wrote:
For nearly 70k, you too can learn such great thoughts if you are admitted to Harvard.
“The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-fire-whats-next-822743/
It's also true that some intelligent, but foolish people swear all the time, and see nothing wrong with it as well.
Popular Mathematics wrote:
ivy grad wrote:
For nearly 70k, you too can learn such great thoughts if you are admitted to Harvard.
“The building was so overburdened with meaning that its burning feels like an act of liberation,” says Patricio del Real, an architecture historian at Harvard University.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-fire-whats-next-822743/Fully recognizing that not everyone pays the “full sticker price” of an Ivy, given the de facto subsidy they are receiving from those who do, I can’t understand why anyone would pay this ridiculously inflated tuition for a bastion of “higher learning.” “Liberal arts” degrees are becoming increasingly worthless, and these institutions are churning out more liberals lacking tangible skills.
as a liberal-leaning person, i completely agree with you.
Michelle Obama was on a river cruise in Paris, and just sat there sipping wine while Notre Dame burned. Typical liberal hypocrite.
Sad that your lame thread saying as much got deleted? :`(
cheeseandwine wrote:
Sad that your lame thread saying as much got deleted? :`(
No. I'm not a liberal, so I don't need to react emotionally to everything that happens.
aweaefasdfasdf wrote:
Patricio del Real | Harvard University
https://0.academia-photos.com/27672/13725510/15293716/s200_patricio.del_real.jpgHow White Liberals Will Wake Up
http://www.unz.com/article/how-white-liberals-will-wake-up/"Most white liberals will not be convinced by rational arguments, no matter how strong or well-supported those arguments may be. They will only be convinced by threats to their basic safety. This, in turn, points to the real barrier. Most white liberals do not feel threatened."
The Growing Threat
"The coming awakening of white liberals, which in the United States will probably occur over the next decade, will be primarily due to five factors."
"A third factor is growing cultural threat. Unlike direct contact, which is lessened by white flight, there is no escaping mass culture. As was noted in a recent Vox article, White Threat in a Browning America:
We live in an America where television programs, commercials, and movies are trying to represent a browner country; where Black Panther is a celebrated cultural event and #OscarsSoWhite is a nationally known hashtag; where NFL players kneel during the national anthem to protest police brutality and pressing 1 for English is commonplace.
This unavoidable onslaught is a constant reminder to America’s white population that their nation is changing. Research has shown that such messages make them more conservative, view minorities less positively, and feel more attachment to other whites.
A fourth factor is the growth of explicitly anti-white rhetoric. The idea that “whiteness” is inherently evil and should be abolished originated in academia, but now it is seeping into our broader culture and political discourse. Treating people equally and with decency regardless of their race was once sufficient to avoid the racist label, but now it elicits charges of color-blind racism and implicit bias. Unsurprisingly, research has found that accusations of white privilege can make people feel defensive and resentful. Even white allies are not immune. Black Lives Matter demonstrators protested Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. White feminists were blamed for Trump’s election and criticized for their “white supremacy in heels.”
I am Anti-Racist and I find it extremely disturbing the explicit Anti-White Rhetoric (Which Oddly/Shockingly is coming MOSTLY from people who are White Themselves (I even got a 12 Hour Ban on Twitter for telling a Professor who was White himself, if he spouted that hate towards Whites (Or any group) in my presence, I would hit him hard and often in the mouth and the people there would be treated to a fight. Don't the people know that hate against ANY group threatens to Balkanize a Country, especially one that has lots of different groups, wasn't it President Theodore Roosevelt who said we are united as Americans and to put any hyphen in front of America, could divide people and threaten to turn the UNITED States into The Squabbling Nationalities? I do not know why Colleges don't fire EVERY Professor who spouts hate against ANY group, be it White, Black, Spanish, Asian. I know the 1st Amendment allows free speech, but Colleges/Universities don't have to hire these hate mongers, And People should be kind and respectful with everybody, but when someone spouts hate (Especially Professors who are well educated and know better) You should hand their head to them and I mean that in Spades.
caught in the act wrote:
cheeseandwine wrote:
Sad that your lame thread saying as much got deleted? :`(
No. I'm not a liberal, so I don't need to react emotionally to everything that happens.
I know you aren't liberal, because you don't know what words (like hypocrite) mean.
just stating the obvious here wrote:
There has been vandalism and church burnings all over France for several years. The question which is not being asked in the media is, WHO IS DOING THIS?
Most likely some French fireman . Fireman probably woke up from a nap, wacked off, then went out to burn something .
cheeseandwine wrote:
caught in the act wrote:
No. I'm not a liberal, so I don't need to react emotionally to everything that happens.
I know you aren't liberal, because you don't know what words (like hypocrite) mean.
I do know what "hypocrite" means. Being a hypocrite is just part of being human. We're all hypocritical. Are you arguing that Michelle Obama is the single human being on the face of the earth that isn't at least a little bit of a hypocrite?
