Everyone makes mistakes. It is part and parcel of being human. Even saints and scholars are susceptible to it. I mean, if someone held a hand grenade in their hand, it is so easy to absentmindedly pull the pin. You can't blame them for that, can you?
Look at the Pope. He was sitting there, alone in the Vatican palace, getting bored. Apart from a few tourists who managed to fit in a coupla hours at the Vatican in their All-Europe tour itinerary, there weren't many people to even wave at. And the world, the world was getting too sensible.
Bush had admitted that perhaps the war on Iraq was possibly a mistake. I don't mean to say it was wrong. But maybe, the possibility that the war could have been a mistake cannot be entirely ruled out. If you know what I mean.
Blair was going to be kicked out. Israel was going to withdraw from Lebanon. Oil prices were stabilising. Even hurricanes petered out to harmless storms.
The world wasn't without problems. There was rain in Malaysia that stole the thunder from Sachin's comeback and the new baby boy 'Sutton', who was born to pop diva Britney.
Still, there really wasn't much happening. So...
poop... (that was the grenade pin if you didn't realise)
This Pope totally rocks. He will be the pin-up poster boy of every dreamy-eyed Muslim. Only the true Muslims. Not the "We are peace-loving, faithful followers of Mohamed" posers. He has retracted his comments and almost apologised but that's like trying to put the pin back in. In some models of grenades, that would work. This one... I am not so sure.
4 comments:
well, going by angels and demons, the pope doesnt seem to have enough time to get bored.
i think so too. i mean, there'll be daily reports about how many heathens are brought to the righteous path, pouring in from all over the world..
and he might have to strategize and all that to maximize reach.
well, maybe this is due to one of the strategies... project it as an alternative to the other bunch of mass-converters, something to ensure he's always in the news.... cheap publicity stunt... not much harm done, and it gets worldwide publicity.
it strikes me as strange that in the age of AIDS and nanotech, people are fighting about having a cross over one's chest, about prefixing a michael or david before a name...... pah!
wats with the prefixing michael or david... i haven't heard tht one yet. doesn't look like a cheap publicity stunt to me... but strategy, yes! possible.
well,,... prefixing a michael or a david... just another way of saying 'trying to bring more heathens into the fold', which is, anyway, another euphemism for conversion.
hey, and if you dont mind, just to optimize my SEO ratings, i might start commenting as autophyte or invernesshire or shaastra or some such ridiculous name.
go ahead...
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