Youth

You, the youth!

You the you, that is.

You, the you. That isn't me!!!

Habemus Benedictum!

Yesterday, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, John Paul II's favourite has been chosen has the new Pope. Most people are reluctant about him, for many reasons, I'd however like to welcome him in his new job as I know how hard it will be for him to get the public's acceptance.

I know, he's said controversory things about homosexuals and he described homosexuality has an evil. But the guy is Catholic, and he promotes the family. And he wrote about it in 1986, I am not even sure the Pasteur Institute had already isolated the HIV virus, back then... A Pope puts spirituality before the rest, fecondity before pleasure because, as a priest, he took the ordeal to give up his physical comfort for his spiritual enlightenment. Given this point of view, as two gays can only make love for pleasure, how is it abnormal that a priest suggests (and NOT accuse, condemn, harass or whatever) this could not always only be about love itself (please, note the "not always only")?

Of course, this might sound extreme to whoever will refuse to accept my relativisation of his words, but this has to be taken as a suggestion. Love is always promoted as the best value out there by the Church and most faithful Catholics, which I consider myself a part of, will simply suggest what their hearts dictate them but always accept and forgive one another's point of view even if it goes in a 100%-opposite direction.

John Paul II recently wrote about evangelisation. He thought that the Church had a permanent duty of teaching God's word, not only to aborigens or whatever but also where the believers base erodes: in Europe itself. In this point of view, I think that the election of a German Cardinal is a good thing. This will remind Europeans of their Christian roots and also allow the German people to go vorwärts, vowing their life to a better world for ALL.

Joseph Ratzinger chose Benedictus XVI (Benedict XVI) to pay hommage to Benedictus XV (Benedict XV), the Pope who spoke against WWI, I see there the willingness to make the Peace triumph over this World.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MY WOULD-BE MURDERER:
A tale of stupidity and annoyance

Dear Crazy Important Man,

I understand that you are extremely important and that the traffic signal's inability to properly direct traffic due to power failure was very inconvenient to you. It was also inconvenient to those of us that live in that city block, as the entire block, including a fire station, lost power this morning. You were delayed at a traffic signal. I strolled into work 2.5 hours later than usual. Which of us was more inconvenienced by the power outage?

Furthermore, when a traffic signal isn't directing traffic, the intersection doesn't become the free-for-all that you seem to have enjoyed. Somebody goes first (this had happened by the time I arrived at the intersection). Then traffic continues in a clockwise manner until all parties are through the intersection. Sometimes people moving in parallel but opposite directions cross at the same time. Great! We've killed two birds with one stone. HOWEVER, it is never the right thing to do to rush out into the intersection when it's not your turn and nearly kill me! You probably just made it take longer to get through the intersection because everybody stopped what they were doing to look over at us and see if there was a need to call emergency personnel. Thankfully, neither of us (nor our vehicles) was hurt, and I hope you've learned a lesson: ATTEMPTED KILLING OF OTHER MOTORISTS IS A BAD THING!!

Thank you. That will be all.