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POPSGitmo prosecutor consulted priest for help This is one more reason why American's are hated in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Give prisoners a fair trail and don't hide evidence or use torture. At least you will gain respect, unless you have a hidden agenda!!
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POPS How A Catholic Priest Gave Us The Primeval Atom Theory
Returning to Belgium in 1925, where he worked at the Catholic University of Leuven as a part-time lecturer, his big break came two years later in 1927 when he proposed his theory of an expanding Universe to explain the movement of the galaxies, published in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussels. Lemaitre was still pretty hazy about how the process of expansion could have begun. Like many scientists, he was still committed to the idea of a static Universe of unchanging size... Einstein, though interested, was largely dismissive, telling Lemaitre that, "Your calculations are good, but your physics is terrible". Einstein was also a little suspicious of the religious implications of these ideas. He declined to describe himself as an atheist (or a theist, or a pantheist) and liked to use the vocabulary of religion, most famously in his misguided rejection of much of quantum physics, "God does not play dice!" British physicist, Fred Hoyle coined the Big Bang term
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POPSStephen Hawking turned down knighthood
In an interview with Harlan Ellison I read recently at the Onion Av Club, he said something that mirrors this attitude but put a very fine point on it. After listening to a Jesuit priest give his personal interpretation of one of Ellison's stories, one that was terribly incorrect. Ellison took the stage and said this: "Well," I said, "what was your name again?" He said, "William," I said, "Well, look, Billy," because the minute you have to start calling someone "Father," you've lost the argument. And that's the problem with titles right there. The moment you have to call someone by one, you've already lost the argument. Where I work, I occasionally get doctors that insist with an air of arrogance that I refer to them by Dr. Well I work in a tech field and could care less what your damn title is. I know more than you if you are calling me for help and referring to you as such places me at a societal disadvantage. From that point on you don't even have a name to me. You are merely
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POPSHuman Skin Bound Book for Sale Binding books with human skin!? It's like printing with human ink or ink mixed with blood ... sort of ghoulish isn't it? But knowing what I know about the past , and never throwing anything away (finding a use for everything), this doesn't seen too unusual. Waste not, want not.
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POPSBe Careful What You Believe Another seventeenth-century scholar, Jean Hardouin, became convinced that the majority of classical Greek and Roman literature, as well as all extant Greek and Roman coins, had actually been forged by medieval Benedictine monks. Hardouin declared that when he died he would he would leave behind a scrap of paper on which was written the reason why the monks had committed this forgery. Unfortunately, Hardouin’s mysterious scrap of paper was never found.
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POPS The Mission Ruins in Rio Grande do Sul If you saw the film "The Mission" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mission_%28film%29) with Robert De Nio, you can have an idea of this place. It´s a sad aprt of our History. "In 1570, treaty of Madrid ruled the reductions localized in the brazilian territory become property of the Portugal Kingdon. Natives didn´t accept and began the war called Guaranitical (from the word Guarani, native) Wars. Native resistence was coordinated by the native 'Sepe Tiaraju' and his historical slogan: "This land has an owner!". Although navites was victorious in the early begining the war against luso and hispanic troops due to knowledge of the terrain, more entusiasm and tactical mobility, the troops of the kingdon prevail due to technological superiorty and fire power." see more in the sites: http://rodrigomochileiro.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_archive.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Miguel_das_Miss%C3%B5es
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POPSPropaganda ‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.’ (Jesuit saying)
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POPSOscar Nominee Interesting interview from the reporting of the pope's recent to Brazil. Catholics, of course, know that to be considered "papabile" generally guarantees that one walks away from the conclave with a red hat, not the white. In that spirit, I pray Cardinal Maradiaga is left off such lists. ;-)
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POPSIlluminati Master Plan This is from www.nogw.com.. Please go through the website with an open mind and understand that we are the victims of this 'New World Order' and its many tentacles that involve all our lives.
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POPSGeorge Washington's Rules of Civility
Insightful precepts of civil social behavior; as applicable now as ever. As a young schoolboy in Virginia, George Washington took his first steps toward greatness by copying out by hand a list of 110 ' Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation .' Based on a 16th-century set of precepts compiled for young gentlemen by Jesuit instructors, the Rules of Civility were one of the earliest and most powerful forces to shape America's first president.... Most of the rules are concerned with details of etiquette, offering pointers on such issues as how to dress, walk, eat in public and address one's superiors. But in the introduction to the newly published Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , Brookhiser warns against dismissing the maxims as "mere" etiquette. "The rules address moral issues, but they address them indirectly," writes. "They seek to form the inner man (or boy) by shaping the outer."
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