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Natter 36: But We Digress...  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Jun 21, 2005 12:32:42 pm PDT #3499 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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Tanacu, Romania - A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the crucifixion of a young nun because she was "possessed by the devil" and now faces murder charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for his alleged victim.

"God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil," Father Daniel, 29, the superior of the Holy Trinity monastery in north-eastern Romania, said before celebrating a short mass "for the soul of the deceased", in the presence of 13 nuns who showed no visible emotion.

He insisted that from the religious point of view, the crucifixion of Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, was "entirely justified", but admitted that he faced excommunication as well as prosecution, and was seeking a "good lawyer".

Is the whole world getting more wingnutty, or was this sort of thing happening 10 and 20 years ago and we just weren't paying attention?


Topic!Cindy - Jun 21, 2005 12:34:21 pm PDT #3500 of 10001
What is even happening?

There comes a point when the wingnuttery is immeasurable. We passed that three exits back.

And what's up in UK? I saw something about some cultish gookety stuff there, too.


Jessica - Jun 21, 2005 12:38:14 pm PDT #3501 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. PEOPLE???


Topic!Cindy - Jun 21, 2005 12:41:29 pm PDT #3502 of 10001
What is even happening?

Sin.


tommyrot - Jun 21, 2005 12:44:29 pm PDT #3503 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Then there's that whole "stupidity" thing....


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2005 12:44:42 pm PDT #3504 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Funny, I was going to say Righteousness.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 21, 2005 12:46:21 pm PDT #3505 of 10001
What is even happening?

I think a picture of priest nailing a nun to a cross because *he* thinks *she* is evil, ought to be in the dictionary, next to sin.


§ ita § - Jun 21, 2005 12:49:22 pm PDT #3506 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It was for her own good.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 21, 2005 12:51:33 pm PDT #3507 of 10001
What is even happening?

We read it on the internet, so it must be true. And, you know, let's assume the possession for a moment, because how often can we do that, in polite conversation. That's some theology there, huh? Kill someone in a state of sin, rather than try to help them out of it.


§ ita § - Jun 21, 2005 12:55:02 pm PDT #3508 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kill someone in a state of sin, rather than try to help them out of it.

I guess I can't quite be devil's advocate here, but ... better dead and in the arms of her God, than infected by Satan?