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aciddragon

Public Service Announcement

Mar 27, 2005 20:04

If you are sexually active, be goddamn careful with your chosen form of birth control.

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Re: Nothing to do with your post but... aciddragon April 2 2005, 03:14:17 UTC

Yes, John Paul II has been an incredibly cool Pope, but he is only human. He is suffering and to ask him to prolong that suffering is to ask much of a man who has already given much. I am saddened that your son will not know JPII, and hope that the next Pope will be able to live up to the high standard that John Paull II set.

So I will pray with you, that G-d's Will be done, but also that JPII's suffering will not continue longer than is necessary.

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Re: Nothing to do with your post but... aciddragon April 5 2005, 21:56:50 UTC

I've heard and seen a lot of Jewish sentiment that matches yours - that somehow this Pope was different. I've also, for that matter, seen some of it from Muslims, too. JPII was a good man, you're right ( ... )

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Re: Nothing to do with your post but... aciddragon April 5 2005, 22:41:26 UTC

I think it's worth noting that there's a third group of Catholics, in which I place myself, saying that JPII's papacy was largely "just-right ( ... )

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Re: Nothing to do with your post but... aciddragon April 5 2005, 23:08:20 UTC

I was excited to read this. Too often I've tried explaining Catholicism to people who don't understand that these positions are compassionate and make sense from within a Catholic framework. I also value consistency, compassion, and sense, and look for those things within the ideological arguments made by others ( ... )

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