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31 Mar 2005, 05:39 #6001

pcmodem wrote:Today (Wednesday) is my first day back to work after twisting my back on the slopes of Squaw Valley on Saturday. :beaten:

Sorry to hear that, PCM... Lower back?

Those are tough to recover from, since your lower back is sort of the focal point of all body movement... :sweat:

31 Mar 2005, 07:04 #6002

Today (Wednesday) is my first day back to work after twisting my back on the slopes of Squaw Valley on Saturday. :beaten:

Ouch. :beaten:

I remember the painkillers they gave me when I was in the hospital...I fell asleep and didn't wake up for a good eight hours, even when the rescue helicopter stormed over the building and woke my roomates up. :sleep:

2 Apr 2005, 02:37 #6003

The Pope just passed away, according to various online news sources.
-PCM

2 Apr 2005, 03:17 #6004

I wonder who's next in line....

2 Apr 2005, 04:34 #6005

pcmodem wrote:The Pope just passed away, according to various online news sources.

Yahoo! News is still reporting him as alive, but it seems pretty imminent...

2 Apr 2005, 05:13 #6006

bmwracer wrote:
Yahoo! News is still reporting him as alive, but it seems pretty imminent...

Yep, Yahoo changed it's link.
-PCM

4 Apr 2005, 00:49 #6007

Enna wrote:O.K. here is a question for you bmwracer? Why is it when I clicked on Quote in your last post to me, I only got your last 2 comments in Quote form? Should I be asking you these questions in a PM? Now that I know how to figure out!!! :nut:

It's not a bug, it's intentional to keep down the nesting of quote after quote...

IMO, I think it's a mistake and it causes problems like what you just stated. It should be at least two or three deep, but I'm in the minority on this... :sweat:

4 Apr 2005, 05:09 #6008

bmwracer wrote:
It's not a bug, it's intentional to keep down the nesting of quote after quote...

IMO, I think it's a mistake and it causes problems like what you just stated. It should be at least two or three deep, but I'm in the minority on this... :sweat:

I can understand the reason for it bmwracer. But how did you get 4 seperate quote boxes of my anonymous quotes when you answered my Congrats, Cute, Mr Green etc...questions? :confused:

4 Apr 2005, 07:41 #6009

Enna wrote:But how did you get 4 seperate quote boxes of my anonymous quotes when you answered my Congrats, Cute, Mr Green etc...questions?

he copied and paste than quoting it from your post.. heheh got it?

4 Apr 2005, 09:29 #6010

Enna wrote:I can understand the reason for it bmwracer. But how did you get 4 seperate quote boxes of my anonymous quotes when you answered my Congrats, Cute, Mr Green etc...questions? :confused:

I manually broke up the original message using additional [quote ] [ /quote] tags... :)

4 Apr 2005, 09:32 #6011

MixxDreamer wrote:he copied and paste than quoting it from your post.. heheh got it?

Thanks MixxDreamer. Yes I think I .... heheh....got it. :)

7 Apr 2005, 02:49 #6012

Well it seems that millions travelled to Rome to pay him respect, pretty amazing... on the other hand I hope they elect a new one soon and get over with it. It's really tiring to see nothing than pope on every tv channel.

7 Apr 2005, 02:54 #6013

In my local newspaper, the Press Democrat, they showed a picture of a Japanese Catholic in prayer during mass after the pope had died. I thought it was kind of strange, since Christians make up less than 5% of the Japanese population....

7 Apr 2005, 02:58 #6014

kitakaze wrote:In my local newspaper, the Press Democrat, they showed a picture of a Japanese Catholic in prayer during mass after the pope had died. I thought it was kind of strange, since Christians make up less than 5% of the Japanese population....

It woulda been larger if not for the purge during the Tokugawa (?) period, ne?

7 Apr 2005, 03:02 #6015

Maybe. If Christianity had flourished after the Tokugawa, I doubt it would have ended up in a form recognizable to most Christians then or now. It's been a historical trait of the Japanese to make things their own. Many Jesuits lamented "rice Christians" who joined the church but continued to practice various shinto rites.

7 Apr 2005, 03:03 #6016

Are most Christians in Japan still centered around Nagasaki?

7 Apr 2005, 03:06 #6017

Hmmm...you know, I'm not sure about that. I'll have to poke around. I would assume that south-west Japan might be more heavily Christian than the rest of Japan. However, I'd think there'd be sizable populations in the major cities too, especially Tokyo.

7 Apr 2005, 03:12 #6018

This conversation is fasincating. And informative. :woot:

7 Apr 2005, 03:33 #6019

kitakaze

If Christianity had flourished after the Tokugawa, I doubt it would have ended up in a form recognizable to most Christians then or now. It's been a historical trait of the Japanese to make things their own. Many Jesuits lamented "rice Christians" who joined the church but continued to practice various shinto rites.

I've heard that for years. There was even a documentary on the Discovery channel about it.

But what very few American Catholics realize is that the denizens of the Vatican view American Catholics in much the same light.

As far as they're concerned, Americans only play at being Catholics, they (we) don't quite get it... and American Catholics are a problem.

I wonder if that makes us hamburger catholics?

7 Apr 2005, 03:46 #6020

Geezer wrote:
I wonder if that makes us hamburger catholics?

:rofl: Probably.

Except we don't worship fertility gods and goddesses :mrgreen: . Or maybe we do.... :hehe:

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