h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ah, yoyu see, you have too many friends.


And I expect you spend too much time playing Mafia Wars. Maybe if you gave up Mafia Wars you'd walk around more and not have to give up

can only play 2x10 min sessions a day now

don't have the ingame energy to do much more

I've never played a facebook game and I don't intend to start.

This place is bad enough -- I'm trying to finish reading Mervyn Peake's collected poems before bedtime, fo gosh sakes!

stay away from bejewelled blitz

its PC crack

I was thinking:



'bejeweled blitz'? I'm almost finished Peake's poems and I've not heard of that one. I have to find a copy -- oh. Facebook game.

"In conscience, and before God, I must inform your Excellency that I am adamantly opposed to Fr. Prince receiving any Papal honour or ever being promoted to the Episcopate," Windle wrote.
"The consequences of such an action would disastrous, not only for the Canadian Church but for the Holy See, as well."

'Vatican was urged not to promote abusive priest'


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/04/09/bernard-prince-abuse.html

<<"The consequences of such an action would disastrous, not only for the Canadian Church but for the Holy See>>

what about all the choir boys that will get?????

Well, they won´t get pregnant. Taff - in Germany you dont tithe, there´s a church tax deducted from your income if you don´t (costs time and money)give up membership. All my family are considered cheapskate heathens by the local parsons.

The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/09/pope-priest-defrocking.html

I don't believe in Darwin. Captain Fitzroy had an imaginary friend on the Beagle and the sailors went along with it.

It's a conspiracy.

Google for Darwin Award. Evolution at its best.

The crazy nutters are going to be pouring out of the woodwork now. The National Day of Prayer has been challenged!

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/04/let_the_fireworks_begin.php

(See the comments for links to nutters being nutty.)

TRiG.

National Day of prayer - peanuts. During the French revolution there was planning to have a completely decimal calendar (with ten days per week @ ten hours per day etc.)that included a regularly occurring year (ten months of course)with no work, just sports and prayer.
With gyms and churches doing a roaring trade in America one might feel there must be some centuries old connection.

'An Alabama evangelist who authorities say terrorized his family while preaching at revivals has been sentenced to life plus 51 years in prison after being convicted of killing his wife and storing her body in a home freezer.

Circuit Judge John Lockett imposed the sentence Thursday on Anthony Hopkins, 39, who showed no remorse during the proceeding. He got the maximum sentence of life for murder and additional time for convictions including sodomy and sexual abuse.'

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/21/alabama-evangelist-gets-life-plus-years-dead-wife-freezer-abuse-girl/?test=latestnews






a bit more of that old time religion.

I´d love to be able to say pseudoreligious nutters over here are harmless - but I´d be lieing in my teeth.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/06/christian-love-family-research-council.html

They actually want us dead. It's that bad.

TRiG.

"A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut was charged Tuesday with stealing $1.3 million US in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotels and restaurants."

http://alturl.com/9m29m

'SmedleyButler' made the following comment, presumably first quoting another commenter:


Dennis Brady: Interesting priority the RCC has. If a priest takes their money, they turn him over to the civil authorities for criminal prosecution. If a priest rapes a young boy, they protect and relocate him.

Stealing from the church is bad but raping children isn't?

- No no Dennis, the RCC wasn't mad that he stole the money, they were irked that he spent it on male escorts when there were soo many altar boys readily available for free.

Right you are - 1.3m well spent. Keep tithing.