Shit I Didn't Say At Starbucks:
Dude. If you aren't OCD, I will eat this recycled cup holder.
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
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.
shrift - Mar 05, 2007 5:49:19 am PST #5071 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
sumi - Mar 05, 2007 5:52:19 am PST #5072 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Awww, Roger Federer as a boy with Jimmy Connors.
flea - Mar 05, 2007 5:57:24 am PST #5073 of 10001
information libertarian
Shit I didn't say to people on the neighborhood list-serv:
You people really need to get a Shit I Didn't Say file and start putting stuff in it.
shrift - Mar 05, 2007 5:57:45 am PST #5074 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It's just not fair that Federer can be a lethal cuteness bomb and the tennis robot of doom.
Vortex - Mar 05, 2007 6:21:59 am PST #5075 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Hmmm, maybe a "shit I didn't say" thread.
shrift - Mar 05, 2007 6:24:26 am PST #5076 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, hey, it's Casimir Pulaski Day.
JenP - Mar 05, 2007 6:24:58 am PST #5077 of 10001
Awww, Roger Federer as a boy with Jimmy Connors.
I read that as has a boy with Jimmy Connors and was expecting some weird hybrid picture. That one was much cuter.
Nutty - Mar 05, 2007 6:32:50 am PST #5078 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Cardinal Biffi
I think this man's doom is the name he has been saddled with. Possibly in Italy it might come across differently, but I cannot help but cackle thinking of his mom, shouting out the back door, "Biffi household! Time for dinner! Jim Biffi, this means you! Get your butt over here, Biffi!"
It would be like a Grand Inquisitor named Father Binkie.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 05, 2007 6:36:27 am PST #5079 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It would be like a Grand Inquisitor named Father Binkie.
Heh, and then there were all those years he must have spent as "Bishop Biffi".
Topic!Cindy - Mar 05, 2007 6:46:45 am PST #5080 of 10001
What is even happening?
Biffi does seem like a hardliner, but his discussion of antichrist seems less eccentric with a little more included:
Cardinal Biffi said that the Antichrist was not necessarily a person but “the reduction of Christianity to an ideology . . . The teaching that the great Russian philosopher left us is that Christianity cannot be reduced to a set of values. At the heart of being a Christian is the personal encounter with Jesus Christ.” But he quoted with approval from Solovyov’s Three Dialogues on War, Progress and the End of History, which suggests that the Antichrist is a real figure.
Cardinal Biffi said that Christianity stood for “absolute values, such as goodness, truth, beauty”. If “relative values” such as “solidarity, love of peace and respect for nature” became absolute, they would encourage “idolatry” and “put obstacles in the way of salvation”.
I'm not sure beauty is any less relative than the values he calls relative -- even if I try to look at it from his theological perspective, but I think I understand what he means by the rest. From a Christian theological perspective, anything that puts itself above Christ (which I typed 'Chris' and only caught in proofing -- paging Dr. Freud) is of the spirit of the antichrist.
I can't find a full transcript of his talk, but there seems to be some more context here: [link]