Re: Chimps outsmart college students

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:16:20 GMT, peachy a****e passion
<exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Anim8rFSK wrote:
>
>> In article <C_zdj.461$jX4.315@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Merrick Baldelli wrote:
>> 
>> Well, here's the deal.
>> 
>> He went to Germany (not intending to stay) to make a bunch of money.
>> 
>> Apparently at the time you filled out a form with your work permits as 
>> to your religion and who you were going to tithe too.  He wrote 'none'
>> 
>> This didn't sit well with the powers that be, so they started 
>> investigating him.
>> 
>> Then they sent some flunky to tell him that the found out he was a 
>> Catholic in the USA, so he had to give the German Catholic church
money.
>> 
>> He laughed.
>> 
>> They sent increasingly higher and higher ups after him, finally getting

>> to some ridiculous level like a Bishop (for Monty Python fans:  "It's 
>> the Bishop!!")
>> 
>> He told the guy that as far as he was concerned, the US Catholic church

>> and the German Catholic church were 2 different religions, and the 
>> German Catholic church wasn't getting a dime.
>> 
>> The German Catholic church excommunicated and damned him.  But here's 
>> the catch:  It didn't come from the Vatican.  They did it at a local 
>> level.
>> 
>> So, if he were to get over the border before he breathed his last 
>> breath, he was okay.  But if he were to die within Germany, he went 
>> straight to Hell.
>> 
>> He didn't make it over the border in time.
>
>    I see.
>
>  goodness, religion can be complex.

	Think of it the politics of the soul.  

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