Have been contributing a bit to legacy site #2 recently due to some issues I’m interested in addressing and have noticed one similar trend there to the one that is so glaringly obvious here.
1. Can it be true that women have a better sense of humor than men? (ST excluded, of course.)
Now, for the stuff I will never understand:
1. Again, this annoying obsession to pick up one sentence in a post, blow it up and then change the subject. I’d love for our Catholic intellectual here (Nanda) to take a look at some commentary I made on JP II on The Most Consequential Events in 2019.
Let me know what you think ‘Ettes.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Happy to, Liz; I don’t frequent L-2; could you make your post available here? Or email me?
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Surely! Your opinion means a great deal to me on this subject.
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Nanda:
Comment #1:
MJBubba:
Consequential, but probably not in the top five of “most” consequential:
Pope Francis approved a Pagan worship event on the grounds of the Vatican as part of the Amazon Synod.
My Response:
Did you see on Fox last night that he aggressively shoved aside a female worshiper who annoyed him while he was “mingling with the masses”? I suppose he has mistaken himself for a Hollywood celebrity and was looking to get on TMZ.
No John Paul II, he. I’m not even Catholic but boy, do I miss that man.
Comment #2:
Devereaux:
The Catholic Church is going through trying times. But so are many of the Protestant sects also. I have never considered JPII all that great. He resisted change within the church, and I suspect he knew about the pedophilia and condoned its cover-up; hard to envision that widespread a problem that the bishops and cardinals knew about but he didn’t.
To me Benedict was the great pope. He reconciled the Orthodox and Catholics, a huge deal. He tried mightily to do so with the Protestants also but they refused. OTOH, Orthodox and Catholic are very close doctrinally, so it was probably easier to do.
But this guy! He has gotten more fabulous press than any recent or even older pope, mostly because the Left-media think he is one of them. In some aspects he may well be.
Comment #3:
EThompson:
You “suspect?” That’s a pretty harsh accusation to make if you aren’t certain. There are plenty of CEOs and even presidents that are protected from bad news simply because their subordinates are trying to protect their own reputations.
I always liked that JP II had lived a life outside the church as a gifted athlete and Resistance fighter. That latter occupation impressed me greatly. He struck a chord with people even those outside the faith. He even forgave a man who tried to assassinate him.
I have always admired the man and if he refused to veer from orthodoxy, he is no different than Evangelicals or Orthodox Judaism/Hasidim.
P.S. This post was not about Protestants so why bring them up?
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Good morning ladies. Carry on.
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P.S. Real men have a more highly developed sense of humor than you babes because being funny helps us to pass on our genes. The operative word here is – real.
C U later crocogators
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Liz, MJB is merely spouting mainstream non-Catholic media buzzwords; some do have concerns about the Pan-Amazon Synod’s wish-list in its working documents and the faux “indigenous” trappings, but that’s *theater*.
Dev’s opinions abut the Latin-Rite Church and Pope-St. John Paul II are his own. He’s entitled to them, but they don’t carry any weight, Benedict was PJPII’s right hand man in all the reconciliation efforts between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches – decades in the making. Benedict closed out PJPII’s papacy. (I personally fault PBXVI for retiring.)
I admire your balanced, nuanced response, ma’am!
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Thanks Nanda because I didn’t really know what I was talking about in a religious sense.
I simply admired a man. Period. Why do people want to make it more complicated than that?
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As my 16-year-old right hand man of a brother used to say: “You got me hangin’….”
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P.P.S. In case anyone missed my point, ladies have so many other charms that a sense of humor is merely icing on the cake.
Sometimes I do feel like I am peering into some secret and mysterious world, and I thank you!
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“…and on her lute she then begins to strum:/ “Into my golden chamber, come!”
(From the Johnson translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin)
I remember studying some tribes where men and women actually speak different languages (or at least, dialects..). I always wondered what men do talk about when they’re all alone. Sports? Their organs? Do they gossip about other men? Do they talk about the sex act—in detail, I mean, or just about the conquest in general?
I read some of the novels in that Master and Commander series which was popular some years ago, but I was struck by the fact that the characters—all men—don’t seem to think much at all. They just DO stuff. The only way you know what they’re thinking or feeling is by what they do, And I have never been able to read The Naked and the Dead, even though I love a lot of Mailer’s books. I think of that as a man’s novel.
I sometimes read the novels recommended by our men in the Mischief, and it’s usually the same kinda thing. I like reading about what the men do, but I wanna know how they feel, and I don’t get much of that until they sweep one of the female characters into an all-powerful embrace, then there’ll be a few terse words about ecstasy. In the abstract.
OTOH, I am in love with the main character in Cornwell’s Saxon Chronicles, and he never does anything but make war and kill people, either. Importunate heart!
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My buddies and I usually talk about women when we are not talking about women. But seriously, we usually just tell (sea) stories to try to make each other laugh. The guys without stories just listen and try to cover the ears of their girlfriends.
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