Rumor: Maybe girls don't have cooties after all. Or at least not as much.

[sparks]

Bunch of ass kissing pedophiles. What the hell would you expect them to say?

[Witness]

The Buddha's Prediction

Ananda sat at the Buddha,s side and argued on behalf of the ordination of women. The Buddha continued to refuse the request. Finally, Ananda asked if there was any reason women could not realize enlightenment and enter Nirvana as well as men.

The Buddha admitted there was no reason a woman could not be enlightened. "Women, Ananda, having gone forth are able to realize the fruit of stream-attainment or the fruit of once-returning or the fruit of non-returning or arahantship," he said.

Ananda had made his point, and the Buddha relented. Pajapati and her 500 followers would be the first Buddhist nuns. But he predicted that allowing women into the Sangha would cause his teachings to survive only half as long -- 500 years instead of 1,000.

Doomed. :|

[Anaxagoras]

Kinda looks like this will probably happen eventually.

I take it that it would require overturning official dogma though? Something they have been loathe to do in the past.

[Witness]

Each claiming to be the real-o true-lo Roman Catholic Church, and each with a Pope.

https://i.imgur.com/VBeKEcg.jpg

[gnome]

If it does, there will be a split, just as there was when the Lutherans in the USA went that way.

Each claiming to be the real-o true-lo Roman Catholic Church, and each with a Pope.

It's about time we spruced up Avignon again.

[Witness]

It's about time we spruced up Avignon again.

Deal! The Pope's palace there is one of my favorite examples of medieval (defensive) architecture.

https://i.imgur.com/iuCa3TY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/t98pvKS.jpg

But the inside is frankly mind-boggling:

https://i.imgur.com/c4yOdSJ.jpg
Some little chapel.

https://i.imgur.com/J6juFY9.jpg
The Pope's quarters.

https://i.imgur.com/rQSdCYC.jpg
His modest office.

[Anaxagoras]

But the inside is frankly mind-boggling:

https://i.imgur.com/c4yOdSJ.jpg

Did the ceiling collapse and have to be replaced at some point?

[Anaxagoras]

Was the late pope speaking "ex cathedra" or whatever it is that makes what he says officially infallible?

So ridiculous.

And wasn't he just reiterating what was already the official dogma?

[Witness]

Ecclesia Amazonica?

Amazon Synod Pachamama Idols Thrown into Tiber River in Rome [Updated with Reactions]

https://i.imgur.com/h3qSO3a.jpg

Breaking news from Rome, everyone: Some courageous soul has decided there’s been enough dialogue and bridge building and it’s now time for some action: The disgusting Pachamama idols that had popped up in the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina and that Francis had blessed in the Vatican Gardens on Oct. 4 in connection with the ongoing Amazon Synod, have been removed by an as-yet unidentified individual and cast into the Tiber river.

Novus Ordo Watch.

Clearly of the devil! :mrgreen:

[Witness]

Well, he did a lot for the Germans. :P