Debate Questions

Here is my proposed list of debate questions from Stacy McCloud to Dym Tim & Fr. Chad:

1. Why do you want to be Bishop of Knoxville?

2. If you were Bishop of Knoxville, what would you do to help the waterfront development project?

3. If you were Bishop of Knoxville, would you wear the funny hat, or dress normally?

4. The Bishop of Knoxville gets to live in a mansion, while many people in Knoxville have to live in cardboard boxes or trailers.  If you were Bishop of Knoxville, would you keep living in the mansion, or would you move into a cardboard box?

5. What year was the Council of Trent concluded?

6. I'm not Catholic, but if I wanted to be a priest, why couldn't I be one?

7. Aren't all Catholics idol worshippers?  What's with the statues?

8. Don't Catholics pray to Mary?

9. Boxers, or briefs?

10. Who was UT's quarterback when the Vols defeated Miami in the Sugar Bowl?

11. Do you feel like in today's troubled world it is desirable to recapture a pre-Chalcedonian soteriology centered around the Monophysite Christological theorum, or would doing so risk a return to Nestorianism?

12.  You do know that the Bishop of Knoxville doesn't get elected, don't you?  My research indicates that Bishops get appointed by the Pope.  What is your view on this issue?

13. Fr. Plarvik - public records show that your parish has experienced two riots, a meth-lab explosion, several people disappearing, seventy-two civil lawsuits, and is currently providing sanctuary to 1,560 illegal immigrants.  Not to mention that it is reported to be under investigation by the TBI, FBI, and Homeland Security.  If you were Bishop, is this the kind of activity we would expect to get to cover as journalists?

14. Fr. Chad - your parish has proved to be a downtown eyesore and nuisance.  You've been cited on numerous occasions for your constant processions blocking traffic, and the manure left behind by the horse-drawn carts left in front of your parish has cost the city considerable expense.  Your parishioners are well known for accosting people who frequent alternative lifestyle clubs.  Do you think you could really represent Knoxville as Bishop?

15.  If you got to be Bishop of Knoxville, and a little while later they wanted you to be a cardinal, would you accept?

Surrealism

I thought about posting the following as H. Robert Williams:

... I'm not sure exactly where I am.

I just vaguely remember the smell of curry. In fact, I think I taste a little turmeric right now. Ah, the pungent smell, I recall how at Villanoce college my good friend Krishna Visuvudean would have us over to discuss comparative religions and we would sit and laugh and talk about Budha and Confucius and Zoroaster.

We talked all night. I think that was the year we held a rally for Mumia Abu-Jamal. All the students wrote papers on exploitation in the criminal justice system. I drank too much ouzu and under the purple fog of an opiate I dreamed of a world without bigotry where we all embraced the eternal feminine. That eight armed goddess with the luscious lips and tear drop eyes.

We laughed and joked, Jezebel and I, of a dreamy new land. I lay my head on her lap and she plucked olives from an overhanging vine and fed me. I consumed them pit and all. There Endology was born, a final leap of human consciousness into the Noosphere. The first to take that step would find an undiscovered country, and an empty land above all others. An endless plateau. Where he alone would rule. His mind dominate the minds of all others. And he would shut the doorway forever behind himself and take his seat on the throne. But first all must be laid low. All must be reduced.

For those who don;t know me, I have a certain fascination with surrealism. Not that I am good at it. The idea I have been going with is that H. Robert created a backup file of his secret plan to use Che's berets to control the minds of the masses. Of course, H. Robert is also being reincarnated in Peevee at the same time. The idea is that the two H. Roberts will inevitably battle it out for supremacy.

However, the fundamental idea of the Church of Endology (study of the end I suppose but really just a kind of mix of Endogenous and Scientology) is that it seeks to reduce people down to the level of objects. H. Robert's vision is one in which, by virtue of having been the first to enter the noosphere and finding it devoid of God, he can set himself up as God on the empty throne and live eternally - married to the divine feminine.

A lot could be developed from this truly satanic vision, but it is perhaps a little too creepy to pursue.

End game

We are 3/4 of the way through 1 year with SOV2. Poor Fr. Tim has had a wild ride this year, which has seen alien abductions, various takeovers of the parish, a forced imprisonment in Venezuela, various riots in the parking lots, the many adventures of Che, the cannibalistic demise of H. Robert Williams, the arrival of the Gorebertines, a debate with Christopher Hitchens, the government investigation of a potential terrorist staff member, and of course, the slow takeover by OCP.

I am fairly well convinced that SOV2 should only have a 1 year life. You can already see interest and enthusiasm waning. If you can stick it out for four more months, let's try to bring SOV2 to a natural conclusion just after Easter. Start thinking of ways that SOV2 could be eradicated. Anything from a climactic battle between Scientologists, Rationalists, and VOTF fanatics, to the destructive resonance set up by Todd Turk's rebel liturgical dance team.

Following are some unresolved plot threads:

Fr. Juno
Fr. Kurt Cane & the Brothers of Love
Peevee Rajendajendan (he's still at SOV2)
Dr. Al-Fakkir
Palestinian occupation of the parking lot
Illegal immigrant occupation of the front lawn
Plarvik's campaign to be Bishop
The relationship with SSLI
OCP
Todd Turk
Che's marriage
Keith's ongoing weight and drug problems
Clyde Hummin's affair with Mizz Argot
Maryann McGronk's desire to be ordained
Deacon Bernadette Rose Carnahan's desire to be ordained
The Gorebertine's radical environmentalism

I'm sure there are more that I'm forgetting.

What's going on with I.R.???!!!

Would someone (not a stalker) please tell me what is going on with I.R.?