You mocked us when we said "hey maybe this cat will Vatican III up in here." You pooh-poohed us when we said we were getting a real good feeling he would liberalize the Church. You rolled your terrible eyes and gnashed your terrible teeth when we said not to be a bunch of goddamn Naderites for whom perfection is never quite perfect enough, all "waaaah, we won't be happy until organized religion is wiped off the face of the earth," and also, "waaah." Well, suck it, beloved Terrible Ones, because New Pope just released
Signed, One of those crazy kids who took Latin during <i>all four years</i> of high school.
Also too, Apropos Of Nothing: On Monday Yr Philosoph completed his sixth full decade on this planet and commenced his seventh. He thinks it&#039;s weird because based on how he feels he is convinced that he&#039;s been on this carnival ride for only half that number of circuits and he is mystified regarding how the other three decades got snuck in there. Something must be wrong with the lap counter. In any event he has no plans to jump off the merry-go-round any time soon, so that hoodie guy with the scythe can just suck it.
Hypothetically, perhaps. Assuming that the world economy, and especially the art market, actually operated like they did in freshman economics lessons, that is, free of any real-world factors and constraints. The actual operation of world markets isn&#039;t anything close to that simple though. An individual asset, such as, say, a Renaissance painting, held by the Vatican has a potential market value, a monetary amount that it could fetch if it was sold on the open market. Total up all of those individual valuations and you have, on paper at least, the equivalent of a pretty substantial sum of money. But this doesn&#039;t mean that you could actually liquidate even a portion of those assets (on any time frame shorter than a few centuries, that is) and actually recoup money in amounts that are anywhere close to those assessed valuations. At any given time there is a finite amount of money in the art market and a finite number of potential buyers possessing the requisite financial resources and the willingness to part with sizable portions of those resources in order to acquire rare and expensive objects of art. Feeding even a small portion of the world&#039;s hungry would require expenditures measured in billions, not millions, of dollars, and there simply isn&#039;t enough of a market for rare items of art to yield anything like the sums needed to fund such a project.
So while the Vatican possesses assets worth billions in estimated value, it doesn&#039;t mean that it could actually liquidate even a portion of those assets at any given time in order to accumulate real monetary assets that were equivalent to those valuation estimates.
Sorry, I don&#039;t mean to dump on your comment in isolation. This is a popular argument that I have encountered many times over the years. The argument sounds plausible enough on the surface, but it doesn&#039;t hold up when it is subjected to any kind of economic analysis. If you take into account factors like those that I mention then I think you&#039;ll agree.
Everything is better in the original Latin.
Signed, One of those crazy kids who took Latin during <i>all four years</i> of high school.
Also too, Apropos Of Nothing: On Monday Yr Philosoph completed his sixth full decade on this planet and commenced his seventh. He thinks it&#039;s weird because based on how he feels he is convinced that he&#039;s been on this carnival ride for only half that number of circuits and he is mystified regarding how the other three decades got snuck in there. Something must be wrong with the lap counter. In any event he has no plans to jump off the merry-go-round any time soon, so that hoodie guy with the scythe can just suck it.
St. Nicholas?
Stay tuned...
Hypothetically, perhaps. Assuming that the world economy, and especially the art market, actually operated like they did in freshman economics lessons, that is, free of any real-world factors and constraints. The actual operation of world markets isn&#039;t anything close to that simple though. An individual asset, such as, say, a Renaissance painting, held by the Vatican has a potential market value, a monetary amount that it could fetch if it was sold on the open market. Total up all of those individual valuations and you have, on paper at least, the equivalent of a pretty substantial sum of money. But this doesn&#039;t mean that you could actually liquidate even a portion of those assets (on any time frame shorter than a few centuries, that is) and actually recoup money in amounts that are anywhere close to those assessed valuations. At any given time there is a finite amount of money in the art market and a finite number of potential buyers possessing the requisite financial resources and the willingness to part with sizable portions of those resources in order to acquire rare and expensive objects of art. Feeding even a small portion of the world&#039;s hungry would require expenditures measured in billions, not millions, of dollars, and there simply isn&#039;t enough of a market for rare items of art to yield anything like the sums needed to fund such a project.
So while the Vatican possesses assets worth billions in estimated value, it doesn&#039;t mean that it could actually liquidate even a portion of those assets at any given time in order to accumulate real monetary assets that were equivalent to those valuation estimates.
Sorry, I don&#039;t mean to dump on your comment in isolation. This is a popular argument that I have encountered many times over the years. The argument sounds plausible enough on the surface, but it doesn&#039;t hold up when it is subjected to any kind of economic analysis. If you take into account factors like those that I mention then I think you&#039;ll agree.
the new pope be rockin the boat for a whole lot of people quite comfortable with the status quo
Still waiting for her to be able to join in holy matrimony Adam and Steve.
borrow Miley&#039;s
Thursday this year
Fat Tony isn&#039;t going to like this....
a stripper having a seizure, what&#039;s not to like?
your move, Sarah
I am beginning to suspect that this Pope actually believes in Jesus.
Weird, I know...
Naked Pope?
Just imagine what a commie touch would do...
Well, my mind sure went in the gutter when I read that.
My problem with eating the rich is Aerosmith&#039;s crappy song about it.