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So who's going to see the Pope?

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    #3002
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,727 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Believing Catholics seem to be a bit stupid - why are there people standing in pens that are almost empty when they could just walk forward and get a bit more into it.

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    Because they got a better vantage point to see the Pope up close as he drove through the various sections so all could see him up close.


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    #3003
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Believing Catholics seem to be a bit stupid - why are there people standing in pens that are almost empty when they could just walk forward and get a bit more into it.

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    Sheep pens.


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    #3004
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Collie D wrote: »
    Doesn't matter a jot to him. Whether you were there today, are a believer or not, once you were baptised a Catholic you'll always be "one of them" to that poster.

    One of us
    One of us
    One of us


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    #3005
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,727 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    Are they worse than child abusers though? Graces7 certainly thinks so.

    Why compare apples and oranges, or bring in people who are not present at this moment to comment?


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    #3006
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,391 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Believing Catholics seem to be a bit stupid - why are there people standing in pens that are almost empty when they could just walk forward and get a bit more into it.

    I assume their tickets had allocated pens (just like sheep(, that they had to go to.

    Really a poor turn out.


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    #3007
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,829 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Patww79 wrote: »
    The political and ethical cause of you people is to see all of us wiped out, not just the religion.
    Huh?
    Are you saying atheists... Want what exactly?!
    Wiping out of the human race!?!... Come on now


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    #3008
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    gmisk wrote: »
    Huh?
    Are you saying atheists... Want what exactly?!
    Wiping out of the human race!?!... Come on now

    The Irish, I was replying to a shankhill butcher in waiting.


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    #3009
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    batgoat wrote: »
    Tickets were literally being handed out on the Christianity forum. They were incredibly easy to come by. Also they were readily available to order online for weeks. Seems clear that the selling out was always misrepresented as there was absolutely no difficultly ordering.

    That doesn't fit the narrative of people trying to make excuses for nobody turning up.


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    #3010
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Why compare apples and oranges, or bring in people who are not present at this moment to comment?

    I was asking you the question.


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    #3011
    Taytoland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭Taytoland


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Taytoland wrote: »
    I'm an Atheist. The demise of the Catholic Church is great for my political and ethical cause.

    The political and ethical cause of you people is to see all of us wiped out, not just the religion.
    And how do you come to that frankly bizarre conclusion?


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    #3012
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    People over booked tickets and others booked tickets in a protest, but all were booked up.

    Clearly far from 500,000 showed up


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    #3013
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Taytoland wrote: »
    And how do you come to that frankly bizarre conclusion?

    I've witnessed you all before. You have a constant yearning for all our blood to be spilt, your whole world is built around it. It's also the main reason every other aspect of your country is still in the 1980's.


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    #3014
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,727 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    I was asking you the question.

    You are bringing someone else into it and I do not have to answer for someone else's views which I don't know if you are misrepresenting.


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    #3015
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    With all this chat about the attendance and Ed Sheeran selling out nine stadium gigs in Ireland this year, is Ed Sheeran now officially and empirically bigger than Jesus?


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    #3016
    SPDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    Sleeper12 wrote: »

    I do admit that I'm delighted with the low turnout as it demonstrates that the census will wrong. .

    What it actually shows is that there are a lot of people lying on the census form .


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    #3017
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Patww79 wrote: »
    I've witnessed you all before. You have a constant yearning for all our blood to be spilt, your whole world is built around it.

    That's frankly scary. I suggest you seek mental help.


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Patww79 wrote: »
    The political and ethical cause of you people is to see all of us wiped out, not just the religion.

    You've a serious case of inflated self worth. I doubt anyone has any interest in wiping you out.


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    #3019
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    RobertKK wrote: »
    You are bringing someone else into it and I do not have to answer for someone else's views which I don't know if you are misrepresenting.

    Ok. Ignore the bit about Graces7.

    Question just for you. Are the people that snapped up tickets with no intention to go worse than child abusers and the people that cover it up?

    Simple yes or no question for you Robert.


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    #3020
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    You've a serious case of inflated self worth. I doubt anyone has any interest in wiping you out.

    We're all one entity to them, I'm the same as you and you me.


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    #3021
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,878 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Patww79 wrote:
    Yes they did, I know lots of people that booked tickets to stop people going. It may not have had much effect in the end but the intention was there. There is lots of triumphalism too, you just don't want to see it because you have your own views. The big twitter brigade jumping on the coat tails of real protests don't want anyone to think anything different than they do themselves.

    Tickets were still available free of charge online right up to last night. No one was deprived of tickets but I do agree that the intention was there. As it turns out no one needed to get tickets in protest. So few actually bothered their arse going. Even Dublin City yesterday had a tiny turnout. They expected 100,000 at that but it was closer to 20,000. Not tickets needed. Now the country people showed up the dubs big time. Total respect 45,000 was a great turnout for knock.

    No one wants you to convert or dump your religion but many people are delighted that we can no longer be treated as 78 percent RC. It's been very unfair for a long while now the way schools have been very biased towards RC when in reality RC is possibly in the minority now


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    #3022
    Bubbaclaus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    super_furry wrote: »
    With all this chat about the attendance and Ed Sheeran selling out nine stadium gigs in Ireland this year, is Ed Sheeran now officially and empirically bigger than Jesus?

    He is an order of magnitude bigger than Jesus.


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    #3023
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Whats going to see the pope got to do with anti Islamic paranoia?


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    #3024
    erica74
    Registered Users Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭erica74


    Excuses about tickets. Excuses about abuse and coverups. Excuses, excuses, excuses.


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    #3025
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,878 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    SPDUB wrote:
    What it actually shows is that there are a lot of people lying on the census form .


    I'll buy that as fact.


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    #3026
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Bubbaclaus wrote: »
    He is an order of magnitude bigger than Jesus.

    Bigger than the pope anyway


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    #3027
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    That's frankly scary. I suggest you seek mental help.

    Up to their knees in it, one could say. But they're not the mental ones.


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    #3028
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users Posts: 16,878 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    erica74 wrote:
    Excuses about tickets. Excuses about abuse and coverups. Excuses, excuses, excuses.


    Plenty of free tickets online up to last night. People didn't want to go


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    #3029
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users Posts: 6,482 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Yes indeed, I think too the RCC haters are totally over-represented on this forum....the vast majority of the population are just getting on with their lives.

    There were loads more pro-Catholic contributors until they acted very unchristian and got banned.


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    #3030
    erica74
    Registered Users Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭erica74


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    Plenty of free tickets online up to last night. People didn't want to go

    There's more fervour for tickets to the All Ireland.


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    #3031
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    erica74 wrote: »
    There's more fervour for tickets to the All Ireland.

    Well there are far less available tbf


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