Comments on: John, why hast thou forsaken me? ;-)

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:36:15 +0000

1. He's got tons more experience Has he got forty years' experience, or one year's experience forty times? 2. He uses much bigger words Always a bad sign of insecurity. Go back five places, John. 3. He's got a more prominent spot. That's because he has thicker neck and he knows Sinead O Connor, so to speak. 4. I betcha he's paid more than me too So is Bertie Ahern.

By: donkykemore

donkykemore — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:59:33 +0000

Hugh,
Yes I ; I goofed ; I meant the Julian ca lander.
I shall do a Gregorian chant in meek supplication.
It strikes me however that you’d be a dab hand at the Onanism .
However , I should’nt be too hard-on you

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:25:12 +0000

Donkykemore,

sorry to intrude on your rant, but we actually are using the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar wasn’t even forced on us by the religious authorities. As a change in the civil calendar, Pope Gregory VIII had no legal means to enforce it outside of the Papal States, and countries around the world adopted it piecemeal over the next couple of hundred years after he introduced it in 1582. Some European countries (Russia, Greece) didn’t even adopt it until the 20th Century. In Britain and Ireland, the calendar was adopted by Act of Parliament in 1752, and people rioted thinking that the government had somehow stolen 11 days of their lives!

Nothing to see here, move along…

By: donkykemore

donkykemore — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:29:49 +0000

Benedict is proving himself the most polarising force in Christianity; he has alienated Muslims and all Judaeo Abrahamic faiths .
He has declared Turkey unfit to join the EU.
Copernicus and Galleleo would have fallen to his axe and inferno in the Inquisition.
He is as fundamental and intolerant as Bush and the neo cons and like all fundamentalists he will bring wrath rather than any reconciliation .
He carries considerable baggage coming as he does from the Head of the doctrine of the faith.
This is the group of erudite scholars who decide how many angles precisely can fit on the top on a pin.
They have in the past agonized over the suggested curvature of a models limb representing a statue of the virgin Mary – This thinking was later applied by JC MC Quaid in arguing about following a line drawing advertising female undergarments – the suggestion being that to follow the implied line of the figure would lead the viewer to the suggestion of a representation of the mons vernis.

Faith , science , doctrine must be of their nature each of a divergent value system determination.
Faith requires no empirical evidence ; science allows no other basis for testing the merit of theory .
In particle physics the problems become more obscure – Schroedinger’s cat for example suggests that the cat can be both alive and dead at the same time.
Then we’re back to determinism again.
But leave the pope out of this .
He is of the wrong century ; He may yet return us to the Gregorian calender.
the mortal sinfulness of onanism , which as a Jesuit boy Ive just begun to overcome .And I’m now 58… still , No hairs on my palms – yet ‘

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:10:55 +0000

They weren’t mean about his opinions but mean and outrageously defamatory about his personal circumstances. So a) I reserve the right to delete unnecessary abuse and cruelty on this blog – its mine so tough if you don’t like it and b) I reserve the right to protect myself from being sued because some people, in the heat of the moment, say silly things.
I will protect everyone but yes, especially people I like. And John is over the top, but I like him.

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:51:40 +0000

I imagine Sarah would claim that this is a (benevolent?) dictatorship. She’ll delete what she wants when she wants, especially if a mean comment is made about someone she meets from time to time because that would make things a little awkward. .

By: Chirpy

Chirpy — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:33:52 +0000

Can I ask Sarah why you deleted mean comments about John but not about others? Explain the workings of your meanometer please.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:51:25 +0000

Well I can’t help liking him BUT this is bugging me – he set us up for a row and here we are!! We’re the eejits…

By: dc

dc — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:45:27 +0000

“And he is, even if a bit cracked, important.”

Sadly, you might be right Sarah. Important as in “influential”, but in all the wrong ways. My sense – from an admittedly small sample of his writings – is that his oeuvre comes from an inflexible position of hate & distrust. His vitriol doesn’t offer insight or reflection, it only ensures gross responses (for or against). He writes to inflame. To my mind, that’s a waste of paper.

Some posts have suggested that he knows what he’s doing and is cynically doing so to keep himself in business. Irritating as that would be, I doubt that’s where he’s coming from. It would require a degree of self awareness I’m not sure he has. Internet veterans can recognize a troll when we come across it. He takes himself way too seriously to be one.

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:27 +0000

I thought about posting about Water’s latest silly antics, but decided there wasn’t really any point. When a child throws a tantrum in a supermarket because they didn’t get the smarties they wanted, you give them as little attention as possible.

Still, how a man who claims not to read blogs manages to have such a strong opinion about them is a little confusing.