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Quote from: Neil Obstat

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Anyone who wants to argue that John Paul the 'Great' patron of child molesters is not the promoter of the 6.66 mystery Rosary because one third of twenty is 6.67, not 6.66, my answer is that it is actually LESS than 6.66, because it is literally 6.666666..., or,

six point six six
six six six
six six six
six six six
six six six
six six six
six six six

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This is Paul VI’s signature upside down. Honestly, who makes a “P” like this?

You mean this was Paul VI?  VI?  VI?  


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No, see it would have been Paul 6666. Notice the VI and the 6 6 6.

Oh, but you would call Lucifer a "separated angel," poche?

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Quote from: Neil Obstat

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Anyone who wants to argue that John Paul the 'Great' patron of child molesters is not the promoter of the 6.66 mystery Rosary because one third of twenty is 6.67, not 6.66, my answer is that it is actually LESS than 6.67, because it is literally 6.666666..., or,

six  point
six six six
six six six
six six six
six six six
six six six
six six six

etc.


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Neil I'm having a dense moment today.  I understand that the luminous mysteries added account for the "20" but I don't understand the "1/3".  Aren't they 1/4 of this new rosary?  Regardless not Our Lady's rosary.

It's okay.  When I first heard this I had to rewind and hear it again.  Maybe I didn't say it very well.. how about this:

The luminous mysteries added, account for the "20" -- there are 20 mysteries that way.

But I don't understand the "1/3" -- the 1/3 is APPLIED TO the 20, not derived from it.

Aren't they 1/4 of this new rosary?  --  Yes, 5 decades are 1/4 of 20 decades.  But thinking about that isn't the thinking that I'm referring to.




Think of it this way:  
TRADITIONALLY, we say, "There are 15 Mysteries in the Rosary and one-third of them is 5 mysteries, which we like to call 'a Rosary' even though it's only ONE THIRD of a complete 15-decade Rosary."  

So we speak, therefore, traditionally thusly:  "When we say 'a Rosary' we usually mean one third of a complete Rosary."

Now, along comes the Newfangled Newrosary with an additional 5 decades, and so if we want to ask traditionally about that, we would ask,

Question:
"One third of a Complete Newfangled Newrosary is how many decades?"  

(The Newfangled Newrosary is 20 decades and when you divide that by three you get 6.66 decades.)  

Answer:
"One third of a Complete Newfangled Newrosary is 6.66 decades."



The point is not that when you pray the 'luminous mysteries' you have to find a way of saying only 6.66 decades.  That's not reasonable. It would amount to some fraction of the 13 prayers, like 8-2/3 of them.  You'd be somewhere in the second half of the 8th Hail Mary.  What about the concluding prayers?  Etc. &c, etc.  It's just a joke.  And explaining all the nuances like this means it won't be funny.  Here is how to present it:


You say:
Hi, Mike.  We're going to pray the Rosary today.

Mike:
Oh!  That's great!  I like to pray the 'luminous mysteries'!  Is that what you're doing?

You:
Actually, it's Paschal Time, so we'll pray the Glorious Mysteries.

Mike:
Why not the 'luminous mysteries'?

You:
Well, have you thought about it this way?  When we pray all 15 decades, that's called a Complete Rosary, and the shorter version is one third, so the number of your decades is 5, correct?

Mike:
Yeah, one third of those is the number 5.  So what's your point?

You:
Okay, so a regular "ROSARY" is one third of a complete Rosary, but if you're saying there are 20 decades in a complete Rosary, when you pray one-third of those, the number of your decades is 6.66.

Mike:
Oh.  6.66, huh?  I don't know if that's such a good idea anymore.  Okay then, it's the Glorious Mysteries.


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