What is it with people and the Pope?

[MikeO]

1. What the fsck is it with people and the Pope? I swear, they are much worse than a bunch of pre-pubescent girls at a <<Insert engineered boy band name here>> concert! When they catch a glimpse of the old guy, they start crying, falling to their knees, hyperventilating, hugging each other. When a paper quotes them, they say its the climax of their lives, that they never thought it'd happen to them etc etc. WTF? The guy is just....a guy. A glorified priest! I don't get it....

I call it insanity, but of course that's just my opinion.

2. Since the pope came here, every damn paper has started resembling a Jehovah witness' pamphlet! Every single day the pope is on the front page, there are page long articles about how he walked down the stairs etc. What's even more is that there are at least 3 pages dedicated (both articles and columns) to telling us how great the pope is, how great the church is, how amazing having faith is, how Jesus loves us, how we need faith, how all the world's problems are caused by lack of faith, how great it is to have faith, how Jesus rocks, how youth should not do drugs, sex and alcohol, but should focus on Jesus the pope being a "living saint" (yes, that is a direct quote) etc etc etc. The people don't bother me, but the fscking media does. Can't wait til everyone leaves.

Don't read the papers, or just use them as another source for humor.

 

[puffpio]

Did you see the video of when there was a little girl that got to meet him. She was freaked out cuz he looked like a zombie! All hunched over and wrinkled. She wanted to get away and he pulled her in and gave her a kiss or something. Scariest thing in her life.

She ran to her mom and was all crying! (Saw it on the Daily Show a couple nights ago)

 

[Balt]

Originally posted by: pio!pio!
Did you see the video of when there was a little girl that got to meet him. She was freaked out cuz he looked like a zombie! All hunched over and wrinkled. She wanted to get away and he pulled her in and gave her a kiss or something. Scariest thing in her life.

She ran to her mom and was all crying! (Saw it on the Daily Show a couple nights ago)

I feel sorry for the guy. I think if I were at his age I'd be ready to just die happily away from the masses and the press. With his obligations, though, I think he's unable to.

I think he will be kept alive as long as possible (whether he wants to or not), just like Mother Teresa.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: LordUnum

1. What the fsck is it with people and the Pope? I swear, they are much worse than a bunch of pre-pubescent girls at a <<Insert engineered boy band name here>> concert! When they catch a glimpse of the old guy, they start crying, falling to their knees, hyperventilating, hugging each other. When a paper quotes them, they say its the climax of their lives, that they never thought it'd happen to them etc etc. WTF? The guy is just....a guy. A glorified priest! I don't get it....

"Just a guy?" I was raised Catholic, and to be completely honest, I don't consider him to be much "above" (if any) you or I in any sense of the word, but the guy's got brains, give that to him. True, he doesn't have the looks only teenaged-youth, good lighting and make-up can bring... but when was the last time you considered a person fluent in seven (or more?!) languages, a studious scholar with life-long devotion to his faith, and at the head of a church that still represents the beliefs of a good portion of this Earth's population, just another 75-100-I.Q., minds-his-own-business, gets-his-fruit-at-the-corner-market Joe Nobody?

You may question why girls may scream and lose control when catching a glimpse of this "old fogey," but I find their reactions more thoughtful and less shallow than those who cry and faint at the mere sight of "Joey" from the marketing machine that is "New Boy Band on the Block." You may not agree with what the guy is about, but at least he's got substance and character.

Saying the pope has more substance and character than celebrities doesn't mean anything. 90% of poeple have more substance and character than those phony, shallow, self-decieving, overpaid dumbasses. (For the record, I can't help put look down on poeple who glorify celebrities).


But yes, over all he is just another guy. In one of the Sun colums the other day this professor tried to make it seem as if the Pope was the defining figure in our world today, a living saint, a man who understands people, "a man whose intellect reveals great depths". He went on to quote the pope on 3 subjects (wanting a better life, tyranny and moral relativism) and surprise surprise, it is the same sh!t you hear from street corner preachers, only said more eloquently. Deep meanings...yeah right