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You are here: Home / But it’s so hard to refuse

But it’s so hard to refuse

by DougJ|  February 26, 20131:50 pm| 131 Comments

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The papal resignation is fascinating:

Rev Lombardi said he would continue to wear a simple white cassock, but his footwear would change.

Gone will be the red “Prada” loafers, replaced by brown shoes made in Leon, Mexico.

A pair was given to the Pope on a recent trip there. After Thursday, the Pope’s “fisherman’s ring” will also be destroyed.

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Pays A State Visit To The UK - Day 2

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  1. 1.

    reflectionephemeral

    February 26, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    How can you say that he’s too old?

  2. 2.

    Patricia Kayden

    February 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    Fisherman’s ring? Inherited from Apostle Peter?

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    February 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    I thought he could just turn his fisherman’s ring around, you know, pointing at the world to tell people he’s on the market again.

    relationship status: it’s complicated.

  4. 4.

    ellie

    February 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    When I first saw this photo I was taken aback that the shoes weren’t all sparkly, like Dorothy’s from The Wizard of Oz or the cover of Eldorado. It was confusing for a moment.

  5. 5.

    low-tech cyclist

    February 26, 2013 at 1:56 pm

    She said “drop dead” and left with another guy.

  6. 6.

    Bobby Thomson

    February 26, 2013 at 1:57 pm

    I don’t think those shoes will come off while he’s still alive.

  7. 7.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 26, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    The devil does wear Prada!

  8. 8.

    Comrade Dread

    February 26, 2013 at 2:00 pm

    @ellie: Those are only for when they go out clubbing.

    I too find myself fascinated. Mostly at wondering how all of the pomp and circumstances feels really out of place in a religion that claims to be directly descended from a penniless, itinerate rabbi who spent his time devoted to the poor, the sick, the outcasts of society and had nothing but bad things to say about the organized religious leaders of His day.

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    February 26, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    After Thursday, the Pope’s “fisherman’s ring” will also be destroyed.

    Thrown into the volcano where it was originally forged, I trust.

  10. 10.

    chris

    February 26, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    pimp’s gotta keep pippin

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 26, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    After Wednesday, the devil will no longer wear Prada!

  12. 12.

    Ruckus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:01 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Internets on the way. Special delivery!

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    Oh, I know that [he’s] disgusted. (Oh why’s that)
    ‘Cause [he’s] feeling so abused. (Oh that’s too bad)
    [He] gets tired of the lust, (Oh I’m so sad)
    But it’s so hard to refuse.

  14. 14.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 26, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    @Comrade Dread:

    claims to be directly descended from a penniless, itinerate rabbi who spent his time devoted to the poor, the sick, the outcasts of society and had nothing but bad things to say about the organized religious leaders of His day.

    DFH lies!

  15. 15.

    beltane

    February 26, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    They say his official title will be “Pope Emeritus”. There is a joke there but I’m too tired to think of what it could be.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 26, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    @beltane:

    Dowager Pope.

  17. 17.

    Summer

    February 26, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    I know I’m very excited about the field of candidates.

  18. 18.

    Poopyman

    February 26, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    @dmsilev: Exactly my first thought. Should we be concerned about Vesuvius?

  19. 19.

    Robin G.

    February 26, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: Now I’m picturing Maggie Smith in the pope’s hat.

  20. 20.

    Poopyman

    February 26, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    BTW, in actual news:

    All of the Republican stalling and temper tantrums over Republican former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination for defense secretary, including an historic filibuster, succeeded in drawing out the confirmation process and giving a number of Republican senators a chance to grandstand extensively. But all that has finally given way to a cloture vote in which the Senate voted, 71 to 27, to move forward to an actual up or down vote.

  21. 21.

    Djur

    February 26, 2013 at 2:08 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Every Pope gets his own seal ring bearing the device of Peter as fisherman of souls. It’s cast from gold for the new Pope and then ceremonially melted down in front of the cardinals after he dies. This is to prevent the manufacture of fraudulent papal missives (“hey guys, look what we just found in the Popemobile’s glove compartment, it has his seal and everything”).

    Apparently Ratzinger wears his on a daily basis, which is unusual.

  22. 22.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 26, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    @Poopyman: Shorter GOP senators,
    We is in your Senate being whiny brats.

  23. 23.

    Southern Beale

    February 26, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    Swapping Italian designer for Mexican leather? THE HORROR.

    Then again, Jesus wore sandals.

  24. 24.

    flukebucket

    February 26, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    The next Pope.

  25. 25.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 26, 2013 at 2:09 pm

    @Ruckus: Thanks!

  26. 26.

    PeakVT

    February 26, 2013 at 2:11 pm

    @Poopyman: Enta is where the action is right now.

  27. 27.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 26, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    I have been looking for the right red color shoes to wear with my LBD, this color is perfect! I can has peep-toe sling backs in this color?

  28. 28.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    February 26, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    Same thing happened to Dorothy when she returned to Kansas, she lost the Ruby Slippers.

  29. 29.

    ranchandsyrup

    February 26, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    There’s no place like Rome Ze Germany

  30. 30.

    MattF

    February 26, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    The shoe thing is just… well…

  31. 31.

    gocart mozart

    February 26, 2013 at 2:14 pm

    Maybe the angels want to wear his red shoes?*

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyrD3BuEDTw

    *Obvious song reference fail DougJ

  32. 32.

    Cassidy

    February 26, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    The shoe thing is just… well…

    FABULOUSSSSSSSSS!

  33. 33.

    scav

    February 26, 2013 at 2:17 pm

    Huh, just remembered one of the traditional ways of recognizing the Devil in all his disguises is looking for the cloven hooves (CGI resistent, apparently). Are red non-cloven feet the Pope tell for those of wishing to avoid both? In any case, quite the footwear fetishists the group is revealing itself as. Quite the least of their freaks.

  34. 34.

    Quaker in a Basement

    February 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    “the Pope’s “fisherman’s ring” will also be destroyed.”

    Not the precious! Must have the precious!

  35. 35.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    Are we sure that he wants to give up the ring of power, his precious…

  36. 36.

    kc

    February 26, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    Those shoes look comfy, and I love that red. If I were Pope, I’d stay Pope, just for the shoes.

  37. 37.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    @gocart mozart: The title is a line from that song.

  38. 38.

    kc

    February 26, 2013 at 2:19 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Bwahahaha!

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    February 26, 2013 at 2:20 pm

    I know it’s happening, but I still can’t believe that you can up and give God a ‘ two week notice’ and be outta there.

  40. 40.

    eldorado

    February 26, 2013 at 2:22 pm

    he’s still going to get to keep the fabulous dresses

  41. 41.

    handsmile

    February 26, 2013 at 2:22 pm

    @Comrade Dread:

    “Let me introduce myself…,” sez Martin Luther almost 500 years ago. And he was such a punk-ass, he nailed his protest flyer to the church door.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

    @Southern Beale:

    He’s being punished for embarrassing the Holy See by resigning. If he’d only waited a little while longer, he could have kept the Prada shoes and the Versace burial vestments.

  42. 42.

    gocart mozart

    February 26, 2013 at 2:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    nevermind

  43. 43.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:23 pm

    @rikyrah: Maybe God asked him for his resignation. It’s not like there wasn’t just cause.

  44. 44.

    scav

    February 26, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    @eldorado: His bag is still smoking too.

  45. 45.

    Amir Khalid

    February 26, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    It’s probably just my laptop monitor, but that colour looks kind of like Doc Martens Cherry Red leather to me.

  46. 46.

    GregB

    February 26, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    Does anyone know if Benedict is going to keep the two Papal wetsuits and gold encrusted dildo?

  47. 47.

    ? Martin

    February 26, 2013 at 2:25 pm

    @Southern Beale:

    Then again, Jesus wore sandals.

    Fucking hippy. Bet he was too lazy to fundraise for his own cathedral too.

  48. 48.

    Roger Moore

    February 26, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    Where would you like your internet delivered?

  49. 49.

    ? Martin

    February 26, 2013 at 2:28 pm

    @rikyrah:

    I know it’s happening, but I still can’t believe that you can up and give God a ‘ two week notice’ and be outta there.

    Two weeks is plenty. The big man can build two whole universes in that time. Should be no problem getting a replacement and training them up in time.

  50. 50.

    piratedan

    February 26, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: kudos for the Costello reference…because I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused….

  51. 51.

    MikeJ

    February 26, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    I still can’t get used to all the pink boots on footballers. Everton-Oldham about to start.

  52. 52.

    PurpleGirl

    February 26, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    @PeakVT: I didn’t know that Etna was active but I was going to suggest it anyway. (My mother’s family comes from a couple of small villages on the slope of Etna.)

  53. 53.

    Roger Moore

    February 26, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    @beltane:

    There is a joke there but I’m too tired to think of what it could be.

    I thought he was without merit even when he was the active Pope.

  54. 54.

    Misterpuff

    February 26, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    The Shooz of The Fisherman.

    Peter would be so proud.

    ETA: Loving the EC luv in this thread…

  55. 55.

    Amir Khalid

    February 26, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    @rikyrah:
    Well, a guy in his position gets to say what the rules are; and by definition, no one gets to contradict him. According to Wikipedia, the very first pope to quit the job did so right after making up receiving from God the rule that popes were allowed to quit.

  56. 56.

    Ruckus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:35 pm

    @GregB:
    The internets have already been shipped today, if only you had been faster we might have been able to hold a run off.

  57. 57.

    ...now I try to be amused

    February 26, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    HE’S GIVING UP THE SHOES? Now that’s the biggest surprise of all. I was thinking he resigned to avoid all the red shoe snark.

  58. 58.

    Comrade Dread

    February 26, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    @handsmile: I know, I’m one of those Protestant heretics, and goodness knows, we’ve got some of the same problems with church politics and spending our money on gilded cathedrals. Ours are just gaudier.

  59. 59.

    Ruckus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    Notice that you got in under the wire and avoided the run off with GregB

  60. 60.

    PeakVT

    February 26, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Is he giving up the red shoes permanently, or just for Lent?

  61. 61.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    What is the angels’ side of the bargain, anyway?

  62. 62.

    Eric S

    February 26, 2013 at 2:43 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Thrown into the volcano where it was originally forged, I trust.

    Mt. Etna just erupted.

  63. 63.

    The Other Chuck

    February 26, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    @handsmile: Actually, Luther *mailed* his theses to the church. Somewhere along the way, someone changed a letter to have him nailing them to the church instead.

    It certainly is a nice visual, but it’s as tall a tale as Washington’s cherry tree.

  64. 64.

    Short Bus Bully

    February 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    /thread winned

  65. 65.

    The Other Chuck

    February 26, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    Tradition has it that when the time comes to select a new pope, the old pope gets whacked in the head with a hammer. I see no reason to stop this tradition just because the old pope is still alive.

  66. 66.

    ricky

    February 26, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    Brown shoes????

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3HsZHe_AI

  67. 67.

    Schlemizel

    February 26, 2013 at 2:52 pm

    @ranchandsyrup:

    damn! I am so mad you beat me to this joke – arg!

    Good for you.

  68. 68.

    PeakVT

    February 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    @PurpleGirl: Etna is very active, but recent eruptions haven’t been dangerous to the surrounding population, so you don’t hear much about them. It’s a Decade Volcano, so it’s monitored and studied in detail.

  69. 69.

    The Other Chuck

    February 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    We can look forward to His Eminence giving an incoherent rambling farewell speech, then touring the countryside in the Popemobile® before settling down to a gig on Fox News.

  70. 70.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    February 26, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    The “fisherman’s ring”? Is that the one they’re given when they’ve played The Lucky Fisherman with the 100th altar boy?

  71. 71.

    MomSense

    February 26, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    @ellie:

    Click your heels three times and say “There’s no place like Rome. There’s no place like Rome. There’s no place like Rome.”

  72. 72.

    scav

    February 26, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    For Etna watchers, this site looks good — has a web-cam link, plus attractive false-color satellite imagery to prove it’s not really happening.

  73. 73.

    Mister Harvest

    February 26, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    @Poopyman: So, help out someone who really does not understand these rituals. Was the entire point of the Hagel thing to give cover to Republican senators who are worried about a Tea Party primary challenge?

    After all, wasn’t Hagel McCain’s choice as SecDef? How much more “It’s not OK if the black guy does it” can one be?

  74. 74.

    S. Holland

    February 26, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    @comrade dread
    AMEN

  75. 75.

    MikeJ

    February 26, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    @Mister Harvest:

    Was the entire point of the Hagel thing to give cover to Republican senators who are worried about a Tea Party primary challenge?

    I think trying to annoy the dusky usurper was in there too.

  76. 76.

    Schlemizel

    February 26, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    Entertainment Tonight:
    The Pope, resplendent in a taupe gown from Balenciaga, kicky red flats by Prada and stunning hat by Harry Winston made a grand entrance on the red carpet . . .

  77. 77.

    Trollhattan

    February 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm

    @Poopyman:

    The very helpful Dan Amira has compiled a “you were wrong” list of conservapundits sentencing Hagel’s nom to dooooooom.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/you-were-wrong-chuck-hagel-pundit-predictions.html

    It has most of my favorites, lined up in short, mockable form.

  78. 78.

    schrodinger's cat

    February 26, 2013 at 3:04 pm

    Thanks everybody, I made my comment into a lol and posted it on my blog, because of your response.

  79. 79.

    Chris

    February 26, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    @Mister Harvest:

    I didn’t know Hagel was McCain’s pick for SecDef, but if so, it partly explains the petulance. It means McCain saw Hagel as “his” guy. For him to accept the same offer when made by the opposite side (worse, by the man who defeated McCain) is a betrayal that proves Hagel wasn’t on McCain’s side after all, and for that betrayal he must pay. McCain is one angry and vindictive son of a bitch.

  80. 80.

    Comrade Mary

    February 26, 2013 at 3:06 pm

    Ratsy shops for new shoes.

  81. 81.

    Roger Moore

    February 26, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @GregB:

    the two Papal wetsuits

    Are they made out of tachash skins?

  82. 82.

    The Other Chuck

    February 26, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @Chris:

    McCain is one angry and vindictive son of a bitch.

    In other news, the sky is blue.

  83. 83.

    Kay

    February 26, 2013 at 3:08 pm

    @Trollhattan:

    I suspect along with the eggnog and mistletoe, Hagel will disappear after the holidays.

    Gotta love that Jennifer Rubin. Paid, every day, to be wrong about everything.

  84. 84.

    Poopyman

    February 26, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    I can’t believe I’m the first one to point out that in the pic above, the Pope is wearing white socks with his Pradas. How tacky can you get? A nice Popish Argyle would look much better.

  85. 85.

    Chris

    February 26, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    @The Other Chuck:

    In other news, the sky is blue. liberals claim that the sky is blue, but conservatives strenuously and seriously retort that it is pink. Are liberals once again playing politics in a way that many claim endangers the nation’s very survival, or could some in the conservative establishment have made a slight and uncharacteristic mistake? We report, you decide!

    Fixed for media-worthiness.

  86. 86.

    handsmile

    February 26, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    @The Other Chuck:

    Well, wait just one pope-picking minute there, Charles!

    According to this section of the Intertubes, Luther (who was not, I admit, actually a punk-ass) may indeed have been a Wittenberg vandal:

    http://cyberbrethren.com/2010/04/07/did-luther-nail-the-theses-to-the-church-door-in-wittenberg/

    And as you know, the Intertubes, much like the Bishop of Rome, is inerrant.

    Also too, after a final spin around St. Peter’s Square tomorrow, Joey Ratz is going to have to give back the keys to the company car.

  87. 87.

    gbear

    February 26, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    After Thursday, the Pope’s “fisherman’s ring” will also be destroyed.

    He will become a fisher of men.

  88. 88.

    patrick II

    February 26, 2013 at 3:31 pm

    DougJ
    it seems that Kevin Drumm over mother Jones has changed his mind decided to call a filibuster a filibuster.

  89. 89.

    shortstop

    February 26, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    That’s what you get when you go chasing after penitents.

  90. 90.

    Trollhattan

    February 26, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    @Kay:

    Breathtaking, isn’t she? It’s hard to believe she wasn’t on Romney’s payroll, the persistent fashion on which she kept hawking him and his campaign. She’s Special.

  91. 91.

    jheartney

    February 26, 2013 at 3:56 pm

    Throwing the Ring into a volcano is right out. The Vatican would spontaneously collapse into ruin.

  92. 92.

    Kristine

    February 26, 2013 at 3:58 pm

    @Southern Beale: Which designer sandals would Jesus wear?

  93. 93.

    Michele C

    February 26, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    @gbear: Ewwwwww.

  94. 94.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Oh Gawd.

    Oh, Gawd? Wherefore art thou, oh Gawd? And dost thou approve of these men in red Prada shoes and gold fisherman’s rings?

    Take your time, but please answer in a form we might understand (i.e., no burning bushes or golden tablets).

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 4:03 pm

    @shortstop: Well played.

  96. 96.

    grandpa john

    February 26, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    @Mister Harvest:

    Was the entire point of the Hagel thing to give cover to Republican senators who are worried about a Tea Party primary challenge?

    Definitely so in the case of Graham don’t kn ow about the others.

  97. 97.

    gelfling545

    February 26, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    @Bobby Thomson: I think St. Peter’s has to fall on him for that to happen.

  98. 98.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 26, 2013 at 5:44 pm

    For breakfast Thursday morning, I’m ordering Ex Benedict.

  99. 99.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 5:59 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Heh. I had Ex Benedict with crabcakes this weekend.

    No red shoes! Too chewy.

  100. 100.

    LABiker

    February 26, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    The shoes of the fisherman’s wife are some jive-ass slippers.

  101. 101.

    LanceThruser

    February 26, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    There’s no place like home,there’s no place like home…

  102. 102.

    mclaren

    February 26, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    So if the pope clicks his heels three times, does he return to Kansas?

  103. 103.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    I’ve got the inside scoop on the possible next Popes.

    MUST CREDIT REDSHIRT!

  104. 104.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    @Redshirt: I’m pretty cool with Space Pope.

    Makes as much sense as anything Popish.

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    @Redshirt: @dance around in your bones: I sort of go for the Owl Bear dude. He seems John XXIIIish to me.

  106. 106.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    @dance around in your bones: Yeah, Space Pope rules.

  107. 107.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 9:09 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Owl Bear Jesus is a good guy, but too “Jesusy” to be Pope, I fear.

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    @Redshirt: Too bad, a hipster pope would be interesting. Eusebius, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria would be the next hot things.

  109. 109.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    @Redshirt:

    I could rule the world
    , if I could only get the parts.

    Popish.

  110. 110.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    @dance around in your bones: I love the Waitresses. Yippee!

  111. 111.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    @dance around in your bones: No joke – the day is for real soon upon us. Parts to order. Mechanical and Biological.

  112. 112.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Gawd damn. I saw them live several times in LA in small venues and was blown away.

    So, again I say! everyone should listen to The Waitresses. Like, right now.

    It’s my car, I’m gonna do the drivin’!

  113. 113.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    Oh FUCK YOU WORD PRESS, like, forever and ever!

    I’m stopping for some more wine.

  114. 114.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    Ok.Pus.sy Strut by The Waitresses will prolly get moderated as well – but just try to find it, ok?

    You’ll thank me some day.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 9:59 pm

    @dance around in your bones: Freshman year in college, Fall 1982. Oh, I know that song.

  116. 116.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Gawd damn, Omnes!

    I was prolly 30 yrs old by then. Other than that we could be a good match! (hahaha – joke is all).

    But I still love The Waitresses.

  117. 117.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 10:41 pm

    @dance around in your bones: One is born when one is born and chronological age flows ever forward from there.

  118. 118.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Jesus fuck, that is profound.

    No, really – one can’t pick the year they are born or the family they are born into. That’s just fate, or karma, or some such shit.

    I guess we all just have to suck it up.

  119. 119.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 10:52 pm

    @dance around in your bones: My s-i-l turned just turned forty and my 91 y/o grandmother nearly died last week due to heart problems – they just put in a pacemaker and she is on the road to recovery. I was thinking about some of this shit over the weekend.

  120. 120.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    Tibetan reincarnation myth says you choose your birth parents based on your life experiences.

    Fun Rome Fact! The Romans had contact with Buddhism.

  121. 121.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 10:56 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Aw, jeez – I am sorry to hear that.

    Unfortunately as we get older, these things become more and more frequent in our lives. I speak from experience.

  122. 122.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 26, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    @dance around in your bones: The old lady may make it back to her home. She has to put in some time in a rehab facility, but there is hope. She is a tough old bird; neither ventricle of her heart was working, yet she is still kicking – just not very hard right now. Thanks for the sympathy; I fucking hate waiting around in hospitals.

  123. 123.

    dance around in your bones

    February 26, 2013 at 11:04 pm

    @Redshirt:

    Gads, I remember picking up a used book at my daughter’s wedding in Mexico called Destiny of Souls or something like that – it was all about our lives between our lives or something. It made a huge impression on me at the time.

    I really liked the idea that if your last life was really stressful, you could kinda hang out in a cave in a fetal position until you were ready to take on physical life again.

    ETA: Omnes – yes, hospitals suck.

  124. 124.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 11:42 pm

    @dance around in your bones: I know of it! For reference, I was referring to “Tibetan Book of the Dead”. Bardo Thodol, yo.

  125. 125.

    Redshirt

    February 26, 2013 at 11:59 pm

    I’d also like to add how wonderful the picture is for this post. So vivid – lots of textures, and deep colors. Just an amazing photo, especially in evoking the Oz myth.

  126. 126.

    dance around in your bones

    February 27, 2013 at 12:12 am

    @Redshirt:

    Oh, Redshirt – I read that back in the day. Like in the late 60’s. Not sure I understood anything but the most basic ‘been there, done that’ concept.

    I didn’t mean to step on your excellent book ref.

  127. 127.

    Redshirt

    February 27, 2013 at 12:51 am

    @dance around in your bones: Follow the light! is all you need to remember. :)

  128. 128.

    Jeff

    February 27, 2013 at 8:31 am

    The current pope doesn’t get to decide what the next pope will wear. The only way this story makes sense is if the next pope has already been chosen and he’s telling people he’s wearing the brown shoes.

    It might also be interpretted as “MFer ain’t gettin’ my pradas and my ring.”

  129. 129.

    vitaminC

    February 27, 2013 at 9:47 am

    @mclaren: Hell.

  130. 130.

    socraticsilence

    February 27, 2013 at 11:50 am

    @Southern Beale: Was hoping for the announcement of a deal with Skechers

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