Believe what you want. I don't give a damn, this website is full of hypocrites. I just wanted to say that. Just like any other "Traditional" catholic website, just crying babies, who don't want to look at the Truth.
Pot, the kettle hath called thee black.
Perhaps. If we.
Spoke in short.
Truncated semi-sentences we.
Might appear sophisticated and technical.
Like you.
And thereby.
Grasp.
Your gnostic "truth."
...or at least dazzle our opponents into submission with the impression we give of being just too caught up in the celestial echelons of gnosis to condescend to speaking intelligibly to mere mortals in full and comprehensible sentences and paragraphs.
You put me in mind of Glaston. You wouldn't happen to be a sock puppet or side project of his, would you?
About the Fata morgana I saw one suspicious boat that I don't believe in it, and the other is due to known principles of optics that are correct. a.k.a Reflection and Refraction, in which medieval men were great researchers of this area.
Go to a very hot or very cold place with open views of the horizon and you'll see them. Indiana residents have reported seeing the skyline of Cleveland (300 miles away) hovering above the horizon on very hot summer days. The mechanics are simple - super heated strata of air causes an extreme refraction of light such that it is bent at a greater degree than the curvature of the earth, making very distant objects visible when the curvature of the earth would ordinarily obscure them.
It's a simple, common phenomenon; its mechanics easily explicable. The fact that you lot have nothing to offer to explain it is far more deadly to your theory than any of you admit.
Morgana is a famous name for a witch so I wouldn't venture in this area.
Gosh, what an awfully convenient instance of Jack Chick-like superstition masquerading as piety and prudence.
Go ahead and run from the scary optical phenomenon that disproves your asinine theory.
Better raid your medicine chest and throw out all your witch hazel too, you know, for consistency's sake.
Now that some invoked the popes and saints and whatever.
Yeah. "Whatever." The great Doctor of the Church St. Bede for one, who could not have been more explicit in his affirmation of a spherical earth.
Are you going to anathematize him, or will merely dismissing him with words like "whatever" suffice?
Tell me guys why the Sistine Chapel stand still and worst than that, it's the chosen place for the papal conclave. Since 1492 cough cough
Those are not sentences, by the way. That's not how the English language works. Even the glorious likes of you has to submit himself to the rules of the language if we're going to hold a discussion.
That's not a tangential point, either. Being able to communicate properly is pretty central to making yourself intelligible to others. If being intelligible to others doesn't interest you, then get off the forum and return to your contemplative study of your own navel.
Let me show just one picture that I guess it should be enough, it's full of nudity anyways, special attention to the fruit:
I bet there are lot of "Catholics" here saying ohh Michaelangelo, ohh da Vinci, ohh Newton, ohh Einstein...beyond pathetic
Strawmen and association fallacies aplenty from the newbie.
Well, most of us here do swoon in admiration for the likes of St. Pius V and St. Pius X, both of whom were elected in that chapel. Is that "beyond pathetic?" Ought we look askance at those superheroic champions of Catholic Orthodoxy just because you say so?
I hate the old lizard Michael Hoffman but in this regard he is absolutely correct regarding this forum.
I doubt you hate him. You sound an awful lot like him, in your castigation of more than a millennium's worth of popes - some of them great saints - simply because they dare to differ with your own pet obsession.
Why if your great intellect has arrived at this conclusion, who are they to contradict it?Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver. The path of the just departeth from evils: he that keepeth his soul keepeth his way. Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall. It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.
Proverbs xvi:xvi-xixAmen.