Tuesday, April 05, 2005
The Pope Died
Unless you're one of those Siberian reindeer herding people, you probably know this already. I'm sure at this point even they have heard a rumor or two. He was given much credit for bringing the wall down. So was Regan when he died. I'm sure there's a few left to give credit to when they die, like Gorby. The most interesting statistic I saw was the fact he had been seen by more people in person than anyone else in the world. I thought Michael Jackson held that distinction, especially after the performance in front of half the population of India that time.
He was against removing Terri's feeding tube and even made some statement about it back in 2003 saying how wrong this was and risking her soul to eternal damnation by doing so. I didn't see him being carted to a hospital and being kept artificially alive, they let him expire in his apartment. His statement seemed to be directed at food and water saying it was natural to provide that, even artificially. What about an artificial respirator? Air is about as natural as food and water being supplied artificially, and someone on a respirator can have a better chance of coming around than what Terri did. I would appreciate it if the next Pope could let us know what medical equipment is okay to artificially sustain life, and what isn't so we know what we can get rid of.
I do think he was a good Pope, though he definitely kept faithful to the Old Catholic demands of no divorce, no birth control, and no pre-marital sex. Have you ever been to a Catholic wedding? Calling one long is an example of a British understatement in Webster’s. They don’t want pre-marital sex because they don’t want birth control, and since the gestation period of a human female is shorter than a Catholic wedding, they would have to stop the ceremony for the delivery of the baby, which just wouldn’t be acceptable. They don’t allow divorces because that would be unacceptable to all of the people who took time out of their lives to sit through a Catholic wedding. Of course with an appropriate donation you are allowed to buy an annulment and save your eternal soul.
I checked back a few hundred years on previous Popes and they all seemed to end their tenure by dying. I’m suspicious. Now it seems they are allowed to quit, but the thing is they’ve taken a vow of poverty, so they’re essentially broke. They would also be tossed out of their Pope apartment of course, so where does that leave them? Probably with a tin cup and on the streets of Italy. Of course that would be bad for appearances and I don’t think allowed so they, well, die. Odd, never seem to go senile or otherwise incapacitated, they all quietly die. I’m suspicious. What is really interesting is the one previous to this, John Paul number one. There’s a rumor that his first order of business was to allow women to be ordained. After more than twelve centuries they still haven’t been able to squash that rumor about Pope Joan. One month and he quietly died. They couldn’t even get straight who found the corpse or what he was reading. I’m thinking the Cardinal in the Sistine Chapel with the fluffy white pillow.
He was against removing Terri's feeding tube and even made some statement about it back in 2003 saying how wrong this was and risking her soul to eternal damnation by doing so. I didn't see him being carted to a hospital and being kept artificially alive, they let him expire in his apartment. His statement seemed to be directed at food and water saying it was natural to provide that, even artificially. What about an artificial respirator? Air is about as natural as food and water being supplied artificially, and someone on a respirator can have a better chance of coming around than what Terri did. I would appreciate it if the next Pope could let us know what medical equipment is okay to artificially sustain life, and what isn't so we know what we can get rid of.
I do think he was a good Pope, though he definitely kept faithful to the Old Catholic demands of no divorce, no birth control, and no pre-marital sex. Have you ever been to a Catholic wedding? Calling one long is an example of a British understatement in Webster’s. They don’t want pre-marital sex because they don’t want birth control, and since the gestation period of a human female is shorter than a Catholic wedding, they would have to stop the ceremony for the delivery of the baby, which just wouldn’t be acceptable. They don’t allow divorces because that would be unacceptable to all of the people who took time out of their lives to sit through a Catholic wedding. Of course with an appropriate donation you are allowed to buy an annulment and save your eternal soul.
I checked back a few hundred years on previous Popes and they all seemed to end their tenure by dying. I’m suspicious. Now it seems they are allowed to quit, but the thing is they’ve taken a vow of poverty, so they’re essentially broke. They would also be tossed out of their Pope apartment of course, so where does that leave them? Probably with a tin cup and on the streets of Italy. Of course that would be bad for appearances and I don’t think allowed so they, well, die. Odd, never seem to go senile or otherwise incapacitated, they all quietly die. I’m suspicious. What is really interesting is the one previous to this, John Paul number one. There’s a rumor that his first order of business was to allow women to be ordained. After more than twelve centuries they still haven’t been able to squash that rumor about Pope Joan. One month and he quietly died. They couldn’t even get straight who found the corpse or what he was reading. I’m thinking the Cardinal in the Sistine Chapel with the fluffy white pillow.
