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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Trauma-san on January 26, 2004, 11:34:29 AM
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To those that were dissing the pope, I ask you to reconsider.... very great man.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II presided over a performance of break-dancers who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tinny boom box.
The 83-year-old pontiff seemed to approve, waving his hand after each dancer completed a move, then applauding for the entire group. He watched the performance from a raised throne.
"For this creative hard work I bless you from my heart," he said.
During Sunday's show, one dancer -- part of a Polish group that helps poor and marginalized youths -- planted his head on the inlaid marble floor of the Vatican hall and spun to loud applause from his group and from Vatican officials.
Another performer flung his body around in a series of spins and handstands.
"Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it," John Paul said.
Earlier Sunday, members of an Italian Catholic youth organization enthusiastically cheered the pope's weekly remarks in St. Peter's Square. A few were invited into his papal apartment and helped him release doves from his window.
The pope, who suffers numerous ailments but appeared relatively strong Sunday, called out to the other children cheering below his window.
"I love you all. I love you very much," he said.
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i saw this on tv last night.. he was drooling heavily, so think he liked them young men in tight clothes gyrating in front of him ;)
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To those that were dissing the pope, I ask you to reconsider.... very great man.
Just out of curiosity who was dissing the Pope?
Anways, this is cool news. The Pope is a great man whom I respect greatly.
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i saw this on tv last night.. he was drooling heavily, so think he liked them young men in tight clothes gyrating in front of him ;)
u an athiest? why are you disrespecting yor pope?
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i'm C.O.E.
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how can you be the Church of England or "Centre of Excellence" :-X YOU ARE AN ATHIEST NO DOUBT
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haha.. i'm christened COE.. thats nothing to do with catholiscism.. quite the opposite.. caused a lot of trouble once ;)
i'm not quite atheist.. i dont believe in god.. but..
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i saw this on tv last night.. he was drooling heavily, so think he liked them young men in tight clothes gyrating in front of him ;)
lol thats funny shit, im atheist, kinda, i could care less aobut the pope
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I love the pope. Of course being Catholic all my life, and him being pope since the year before I was born, I've kinda grown to love the man as my religious leader. I honestly can say that the day he dies, I'll be a very sad man, his done great things for the Catholic Church, though I would like to see the more politically liberal church of the 60's and 70's, but he has done many great trips to the Third World, prayed over the misfortuate, and help spread Catholism world wide just by being understanding. On New Year's 2000, he wanted to set a Jubulie year, and every be forgiven of debts, and of course many cultures were in the celebration. In his time as pope, many other cultures were welcomed into the Catholic Church. Now of course, hip-hop has found a place in the popes approval.
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Whats he ever done for me?
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Whats he ever done for me?
Why do the British hate on the pope. God, let history die after 300 years. I mean, you guys helped the French in both world wars, and all kinds of untraditional British type stuff. Why still the hate for Catholics. I mean after all, we are in the Vatican II era, after the Catholic Church reformed itself.
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Whats he ever done for me?
Why do the British hate on the pope. God, let history die after 300 years. I mean, you guys helped the French in both world wars, and all kinds of untraditional British type stuff. Why still the hate for Catholics. I mean after all, we are in the Vatican II era, after the Catholic Church reformed itself.
Let me rephrase my question.....no actually I'll just say it again....Whats he ever done for me?
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What's next? The Pope goes to a strip-club?
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What's next? The Pope goes to a strip-club?
LMAO!!! That would be hilarious.
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Whats he ever done for me?
He's made the world a better place by helping your brothers and sisters. You've benefited directly from that.
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Whats he ever done for me?
He's made the world a better place by helping your brothers and sisters. You've benefited directly from that.
Wait a sec...I have one brother....no sisters..I have just asked my brother if the pope has ever done anything for him...he said no....so please explain?
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Have it your way, then, brother!
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Have it your way, then, brother!
no man I want you to tell me what the Pope has done for me.
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I did, and you said it wasn't true, so there we stand :) Have a good life!
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I did, and you said it wasn't true, so there we stand :) Have a good life!
hmmmm
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Whats he ever done for me?
His gave his life to serving the people around the world, mainly in 3rd World nations, and those that need it the most. If you are not one of the 5 Billion people living in a 3rd world nation, then I can see why you'd question the pope. But the big problems are not the 1 billion living in the so-called industral world, but helping the 5 billion people in the so-called 3rd world. If you want to the pope to help you directly, then look at it this way. In the United Kingdom, they make more consumer goods than they can consume themselves. So they look at other places, mainly 3rd world nations to sell their goods. The pope when he was younger used to always go to the 3rd world, and make trips, and send Catholic missionaries to try and aid the people. This allows British companies to sell to more people, after all, you have to be alive to buy consumer goods. If this is not good enough for you, I will pray for you, since the fact that the pope goal is helping out 5/6th of the world should have been enough.
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Whats he ever done for me?
His gave his life to serving the people around the world, mainly in 3rd World nations, and those that need it the most. If you are not one of the 5 Billion people living in a 3rd world nation, then I can see why you'd question the pope. But the big problems are not the 1 billion living in the so-called industral world, but helping the 5 billion people in the so-called 3rd world. If you want to the pope to help you directly, then look at it this way. In the United Kingdom, they make more consumer goods than they can consume themselves. So they look at other places, mainly 3rd world nations to sell their goods. The pope when he was younger used to always go to the 3rd world, and make trips, and send Catholic missionaries to try and aid the people. This allows British companies to sell to more people, after all, you have to be alive to buy consumer goods. If this is not good enough for you, I will pray for you, since the fact that the pope goal is helping out 5/6th of the world should have been enough.
5 Billion people don't live in 3rd world nations... ::)
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Whats he ever done for me?
His gave his life to serving the people around the world, mainly in 3rd World nations, and those that need it the most. If you are not one of the 5 Billion people living in a 3rd world nation, then I can see why you'd question the pope. But the big problems are not the 1 billion living in the so-called industral world, but helping the 5 billion people in the so-called 3rd world. If you want to the pope to help you directly, then look at it this way. In the United Kingdom, they make more consumer goods than they can consume themselves. So they look at other places, mainly 3rd world nations to sell their goods. The pope when he was younger used to always go to the 3rd world, and make trips, and send Catholic missionaries to try and aid the people. This allows British companies to sell to more people, after all, you have to be alive to buy consumer goods. If this is not good enough for you, I will pray for you, since the fact that the pope goal is helping out 5/6th of the world should have been enough.
5 Billion people don't live in 3rd world nations... ::)
Yeah your right, it's more like 5.something billion. 1 billion in China, 1 billion in India, and 3 billion in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East and South East Asia. And this is not counting Russia, which is a very poor nation, and holds many people in the 1st world. Check your stats homie. And 3rd world nations have way higher birth rates than us. The United States has like a 1.2 per person birth rates, some places in Africa have like a 5 per person birth rates.
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^ dont trust NIKs "facts"... ever
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^^ ill agree , the world has like 6 billion people, and 5 of them are poor :-\, riiiiight....
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^ dont trust NIKs "facts"... ever
What's that supposed to mean...You truely believe 5 billion people live in 3rd world countries?
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As of right now, the top populations of countries with over 50 million people looks like this. Now my english is bad, but my math is what got my into college, as I was in the top 90% of all high school students in math my year. So lets calculate. I'll even give you Russia as first world country, even though they are far from it. I had friends go to Russia, they say it's not exactly the most advance place in the world, but oh well. Also remember that most first world countries are in this poll, with the exceptions of Canada, Australia, and a couple of Northern European countries, and most Eastern Europe got knocked down to 3rd World status, so with the exception of a few other nations, most the countries not on here are 3rd world, including most of Africa, and Latin America.
1) China, 1.275 billion - 3rd
2) India, 1.017 billion - 3rd
3) United States, 285 million - 1st
4) Indonesia, 212 million - 3rd
5) Brazil, 172 million - 3rd
6) Russia, 146 million - 1st
7) Pakistan, 143 million - 3rd
8) Bangladesh, 138 million - 3rd
9) Japan, 127 million - 1st
10) Nigeria, 115 million - 3rd
11) Mexico, 99 million - 3rd
12) Germany, 82 million - 1st
13) Vietnam, 78 million - 3rd
14) Philippines, 76 million - 3rd
15) Turkey, 68 million - 3rd
16) Egypt, 68 million - 3rd
17) Iran, 66 million - 3rd
18) Ethiopia, 66 million - 3rd
19) Thailand, 61 million - 3rd
20) France, 59 million - 1st
21) United Kingdom, 59 million - 1st
22) Italy, 58 million - 1st
3.586 billion in just those 3rd world nations alone.
816 million in the 1st world, with not that many more 1st world to go
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^ You're wasting your time, M Dogg... most of us on the board knew what you were talking about when you said it, and all NIK's going to do is come back and argue about it. You were better off just letting us think what we want, we all knew your numbers were about right.
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I don't consider countries like China & Brazil 3rd world countries...When you say 3rd world country, I think Singapore or Afghanistan...Oh well.
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I don't consider countries like China & Brazil 3rd world countries...When you say 3rd world country, I think Singapore or Afghanistan...Oh well.
me neither.
Third world countries in my eyes are countrys where everyone is dying, people have to walk miles to get water from a well, people live in homes made out of mud and shiity brick and shit, people have to reley on food from the red cross in order to stay alive, over population because no rubbers for sex, no tv, no leisure, no nothing. You cant possibly class china as this, Brazil in place yes, but that too in my eyes aint a third world country.
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I don't consider countries like China & Brazil 3rd world countries...When you say 3rd world country, I think Singapore or Afghanistan...Oh well.
Hold up, hold up, hooooold tha fuck up.
Heeellll naaaaw.
SINGAPORE?!
You done lost your mind.
One more time..
HOOOOOOOOOLD UP.
Singapore richer than a motherfucker!
You done looooooooooooost your mind.
Singapore... RICH AS FUUUCK.
Singapore's got a big ass harbor and one fucking expensive airport.
You ever been in a Singapore Airlines plane?
Naw, ya ain't. Second class has a TV for EACH seat.
Naw, it don't hold up there. A fucking PLAYSTATION with GAMES too.
For EACH SEAT.
Singapore richer than a motherfucker. 3rd world my asssssssssssssssssssss.
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I don't consider countries like China & Brazil 3rd world countries...When you say 3rd world country, I think Singapore or Afghanistan...Oh well.
Hold up, hold up, hooooold tha fuck up.
Heeellll naaaaw.
SINGAPORE?!
You done lost your mind.
One more time..
HOOOOOOOOOLD UP.
Singapore richer than a motherfucker!
You done looooooooooooost your mind.
Singapore... RICH AS FUUUCK.
Singapore's got a big ass harbor and one fucking expensive airport.
You ever been in a Singapore Airlines plane?
Naw, ya ain't. Second class has a TV for EACH seat.
Naw, it don't hold up there. A fucking PLAYSTATION with GAMES too.
For EACH SEAT.
Singapore richer than a motherfucker. 3rd world my asssssssssssssssssssss.
Ok, relax dude...I've never really been to Singapore, I just heard they were living under bad conditions...But you just helped prove my point...You can't just go around throwing the word "3rd world" like Mdogg has been doing.
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No, Singlepore is a 1st World Nation, other non American/European 1st World nations are South Africa and Saudi Arabia. But still the 3rd World population is 5 Billion. It doesn't matter who you throw in. And Brazil and China are still considered 3rd World, one because China has an unstable government that is known for violating human rights, which the U.N. takes into consideration, and because most of the nation, outside of the capital and Hong Kong, are poor as fuck. Also, in Brazil, where most people travel in the place that are especially made for people like us. I have a homegirl from South America. She told me all about Brazil, since it's one of her favorite places to go. Basically, it's a 3rd World nation with rich spots that American's visit all the time. Same with most 3rd World nations like China, or India. Basically, you are seeing the world from and American perspective. And oh, should I get the starvation numbers of the world. Makes you feel really glad we live in America. I can get any numbers you want. I know Trauma says leave you guys alone. But honestly, I love dealing with numbers, and I can get as many as you want. Any requst or dedications. The sad part is, you can't play with numbers at all.
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No, Singlepore is a 1st World Nation, other non American/European 1st World nations are South Africa and Saudi Arabia. But still the 3rd World population is 5 Billion. It doesn't matter who you throw in. And Brazil and China are still considered 3rd World, one because China has an unstable government that is known for violating human rights, which the U.N. takes into consideration, and because most of the nation, outside of the capital and Hong Kong, are poor as fuck. Also, in Brazil, where most people travel in the place that are especially made for people like us. I have a homegirl from South America. She told me all about Brazil, since it's one of her favorite places to go. Basically, it's a 3rd World nation with rich spots that American's visit all the time. Same with most 3rd World nations like China, or India. Basically, you are seeing the world from and American perspective. And oh, should I get the starvation numbers of the world. Makes you feel really glad we live in America. I can get any numbers you want. I know Trauma says leave you guys alone. But honestly, I love dealing with numbers, and I can get as many as you want. Any requst or dedications. The sad part is, you can't play with numbers at all.
China is a second world country...
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm (http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm)
I'm right...You, Trauma, and Overseer are wrong...PeACe
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Have you heard of outdated information. For reals, it's only 1st and 3rd now, or more commonly known as devolped and undevolped. The 2nd World went out with the Soviet Union, and only few people still use it.
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WHO CARES.
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I don't consider countries like China & Brazil 3rd world countries...When you say 3rd world country, I think Singapore or Afghanistan...Oh well.
Hold up, hold up, hooooold tha fuck up.
Heeellll naaaaw.
SINGAPORE?!
You done lost your mind.
One more time..
HOOOOOOOOOLD UP.
Singapore richer than a motherfucker!
You done looooooooooooost your mind.
Singapore... RICH AS FUUUCK.
Singapore's got a big ass harbor and one fucking expensive airport.
You ever been in a Singapore Airlines plane?
Naw, ya ain't. Second class has a TV for EACH seat.
Naw, it don't hold up there. A fucking PLAYSTATION with GAMES too.
For EACH SEAT.
Singapore richer than a motherfucker. 3rd world my asssssssssssssssssssss.
Ok, relax dude...I've never really been to Singapore, I just heard they were living under bad conditions...But you just helped prove my point...You can't just go around throwing the word "3rd world" like Mdogg has been doing.
:)
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Funny shit about the pope, though like bez said he has no real impact on me, +a lot of his view are really outdated (could be his age)
I knew about the 5billion in the 3rd world before, its still shocking though, you'd never guess that the "rich" countries are a minority the way it rules the roost. Hopefully some day it'll be at least 50:50