now, now turq, we all know that wine drinking is merely a cultural phenomenon in certain Mediterranean countries, nothing to do with addiction, etc.
Anyway, yes, too bad Lichtenberg can't join FFL. But hey, there's always Erik Thorson not to mention the new Shankaracharya of the female persuasion. (-: On Thursday, February 27, 2014 5:17 AM, TurquoiseBee <turquoi...@yahoo.com> wrote: Thanks for the clarification, which made me laugh out loud because my first reaction as I quickly skimmed the original post before clicking Next was "Who cares?" Really, who *does* care what a bunch of old men in dresses think about a work of fiction? But this will possibly prove to be an interesting demonstration of the point I made the other day about those who get their buttons pushed over matters of belief "self-identifying" as idiots. Lichtenberg sounds like my kinda guy... :-) BTW, did you see the article the other day pointing out that the nation that has the world's largest consumption of wine per capita is the Vatican? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-city-drinks-more-wine-per-person-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world-9151475.html ________________________________ From: merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:51 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: There Is No Hell Fire; Adam & Eve Not Real – Pope Francis Not a news article. It is a fictional story at a satirical site. . This is a satire article, not real. Please folks over there tell that to everyone you see posting it! Because shortly afterwards that posting by Erik Thorson links and excerpts referencing this article were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered the item mistaking it for a genuine news item. However, the article was just a spoof: No Third Vatican Council has been convened (the Second Vatican Council took place in the early 1960s), and the blog that published this item, the Diversity Chronicle includes a disclaimer noting that “The original content on this blog is largely satirical.”and Erik Thorson writes it in spirit of a quote by the great German scientist, satirist, and anglophile Lichtenberg and for his own personal amusement --pushing button-may be, too “I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. So look at the disclaimer on that site first before you quote.... and. .. again there is no 3rd Vatican Council going on right now You do not need to take my word for it. The Vatican has a state-of-the-art website. It is interesting to compare what we think we know about the Church and the Vactican with what is actually published on this site. It is immense. http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm You can read the Pope’s speeches here. http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/index.htm?openMenu=14
