Today is a big day for Cat-Licks: the canonization of two Popes (John Paul II and John XXIII). And we do have a rare miracle today: two Hili dialogues!
Of course Hili, as a nonbeliever, has only one thing on her mind. First, realizing that the candidates for canonization are watching from above on a cloud, she wonders about the state of their digestion:
Hili: I haven’t been able to get my mind off the problem of whether the candidate for sainthood comes to the canonization on an empty stomach or after a substantial breakfast.
In Polish:
Hili: W głowę zachodzę, czy kandydat na świętego przystępuje do kanonizacji na czczo, czy po obfitym śniadaniu?(Foto: Małgorzata Chudzińska)
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And Hili #2:
Hili: Everybody is reading and I am the only one who thinks.
A: What are you thinking about?
Hili: Whether anybody remembered to fill my bowls?
In Polish:
Hili: Wszyscy sobie coś czytają, tylko ja jedna muszę myśleć.
Ja: O czym myślisz?
Hili: Czy ktoś pamiętał, żeby napełnić moje miseczki?
Her Royal Fluffiness is certainly full of deep thoughts this morning.
Those Poles sure do love them their Polish pope (at least the ones I know do) so my hat’s off to Hili for the gentle mocking.
I suspect that this is serious stuff back in Poland, it would be like pointing out that “Mother” Teresa was “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud” as Hitchens did on her canonization.
I thought that (one of) the common descriptions of heaven is that everyone has access to abundant food, but the eating implements are 1.5m-long chopsticks. Same for hell too, of course. So in heaven, eeryone is well fed, and in hell everyone is starving.
Actually, everybody in Heaven has bruised cheeks, chipped teeth, and food smeared all over their faces…and, in Hell, the buffet table is fully stocked with whatever utensils are appropriate for the food.
You don’t actually believe the propaganda, do you? I mean, Satan manages a successful rebellion against YHWH only to meekly agree to do YHWH’s dirtiest of his dirty work? Not a chance.
I do get a kick out of how the Catholics likely have the largest official named pantheon in all of human religion and are constantly growing it and they like to pretend that they’re monotheists. How cute!
b&
Yeah, my dad always said that – couldn’t understand how they basically had a pantheon of gods just like the pagans they so disdained.
Yup. To the Christians, “monotheism” means, “has one god bigger and more of a badass than any other and therefore who’s the only one who gets to be called by his job title.” Well, by that definition, the Greeks were monotheists. “Deity” comes from “Deus” which is just an archaic spelling of “Zeus.”
b&
I love that! Succinct and obvious; once you point it out, anyway.
This Irish blogger has a very amusing take on the double canonization if anyone is interested.
http://bocktherobber.com/2014/04/canonising-popes/
Fun read, thanks!
Hili looks like she needs a belly rub.
She’s a cat. Of course she needs a belly rub.
…which is why Baihu is getting one as I type….
b&