Is everybody OK?

[rug]

Anyone need a cup of tea or a hug?

[Humanist_Activist]

1. Time's person of the year is a judgement on influence in that year...

to put it bluntly, both Hitler and Stalin were persons of the year. Just saying.

[rug]

2. As was Obama and Einstein.

Such times we live in.



Some cream, sugar?

[SecularMotion]

3. Isn't gloating a sin?

Is it a sin to be boasting and gloating your happiness towards people?

Best Answer

Separocia answered 4 year ago

I agree, pretty dickish move. I'm a happy content person, but I don't feel the need to slam it in people's faces at every opportunity. Boasting and gloating about being soooo happy really just says to me "i'm insecure, alone and really damned confused..so i'm going to say this to make everyone think my life is so much better than theirs" To be honest if someone boasted and gloated about being so happy to me, I'd pity them. You don't need to boast and gloat about true happiness, you just feel it inside and sure it makes you smile..but the over the top happiness you're describing is fake, and masking a big fault.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100219012433AAGjaBK

[rug]

4. Who are we to judge?

[Feral Child]

5. Is this post a joke?

[rug]

8. No, we take things very seriously in here.

Welcome to DU.

[Feral Child]

34. Thanks, rug.

[SecularMotion]

12. Does The Pope shit in the woods?

[Feral Child]

35. On Holy Camping Trips,

yes.

But bears are Episcopalian.

[edhopper]

6. He is a very influential leader

who has at least given voice to changes in his institution, which has global reach.
Seems appropriate.
Also it is based on impact, not the correctness of the person.

You must be happy that your Pope has joined G W Bush (twice), Ken Starr Rudy Giuliani, and Vladimir Putin as recent honorees.

Do you think this is somehow an affirmation of his actions?

[rug]

9. You left out Hitler.

Say hello to Thomas Lipton.

[edhopper]

10. I was listing recent

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recipients. These are the people you proudly put your Pope next to. None of whom are Hitler
If you think it is an honor and not Time's impression of influence, go with it.

You presumption that those of us who have a problem with the Church would find this troublesome is very revealing.

[rug]

11. Lol.

QED

[okasha]

43. Maybe some chamomile tea.

Where I come from, it's used to calm cranky babies. I'm pretty sure it works for the dyspeptic in general.

[longship]

7. I thought he would get Time POY.

The way his rhetoric has been chewing up the media, to say nothing of Vatican behavior prior to his selection, Francis was the obvious choice for a media outlet like Time Mag.

It was nearly inevitable.

[Jim__]

13. I'd prefer a shot of irish whiskey.

[rug]

14. The eternal struggle.

http://sipologyblog.com/2011/03/14/head-to-head-the-eternal-struggle-jameson-vs-powers/

I was always partial to Powers.

[LongTomH]

26. Then there's always.....

Formerly the official drink of science fiction fandom!

[No Vested Interest]

25. Can't we have both- Whiskey and the Pope?

I'll drink to that.
In fact, I am drinking to that.

[MisterP]

27. hda they elected Jack Hackett, we'd've had a whiskey Pope

[cbayer]

15. I've had both this afternoon, thanks!

I think he's a good choice and that this may help as he comes up against the old guard (who can probably feel their power slowly slipping away).

Not going to throw a party, but I am optimistic.

[edhopper]

16. BTW

As a fellow New Yorker, your post title has a certain resonance and I wouldn't use it for such a trivial and light-hearted thread.
Since that is how we asked after people after 9/11.

[rug]

17. .

[edhopper]

19. Not sure what you are going for there.

Does telling you that your title has a connection to 9/11 for me make you need a hug and a cup of tea?

[rug]

21. 9/11 is not the answer to every question.

[edhopper]

22. No

but that particular phrase; "is everyone OK?", though I believe you did think about it's connection, was something that I heard and said over and over during that time. It resonates with me and a lot of New Yorkers. So 9/11 happens to be the answer to this question.
I guess that is immaterial to you while you do this victory dance for your guy getting such an incredible, meaningful honor. :sarcasm"

[rug]

23. I think you're taking this far too seriously.

[edhopper]

24. I'm not talking about your victory lap

For the Pope. I am talking about about your use of that phrase. But I guess inadvertantly upsetting another DU member and fellow New Yorker isn't a big deal. Very Christian of you.

[okasha]

44. Chamomile.

n/t

[rrneck]

18. I'm cool with it. nt

[edhopper]

20. Another thought on this

So half a dozen editors from a magazine that has a 10th of the clout it did twenty years ago and sit around pick a person that will sell the most issues, and we should be impressed why?

[cbayer]

28. Who said you should be impressed?

[edhopper]

29. Rug

seems to think it's would be significant to us.

[rug]

30. Got a quote for that?

Although I would be remiss in failing to notice your reaction.

[edhopper]

31. Your original post

asks if this upsets us and if we need a hug and a cup of tea. If you didn't think we thought it significant, why ask if we are OK?

[rug]

32. Given the regular and persisitent Pope-bashing from some quarters, I had concern for my compadres.

[edhopper]

33. So you did think

we might find it significant.
Ergo my reply to cbayer.
Don't see where you disagree.

[cbayer]

36. It's hard to deny that it has some significance.

Whether it impresses or not is optional.

[edhopper]

37. What he says:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/greenwald-mocks-time-for-person-of-the-year-selection

It's really just about selling magazines.

[rug]

38. He was rooting for #2.

Nevertheless, Greenwald indicated that the pope was a worthy choice.

"I don't begrudge the choice of Pope Francis: some of his pronouncements are impressive with the potential to achieve real change," Greenwald wrote, before citing others who share his view that Snowden "influenced this year's news events" more than any other.

"But for the reasons which the New Yorker's John Cassidy, the New York Times' Margaret Sullivan, and the Washington Post's Andrea Peterson all stated, Snowden is clearly, by far, the person who has most influenced this year's news events. If it were a serious magazine with minimally brave editors, then of course Snowden would have been chosen, but I never expected him to be precisely because that's not what TIME is."

[cbayer]

41. And Greenwald is just about selling Greenwald.

Of course it's about selling magazines.

[eShirl]

39. Actually I could really use a cup of tea and a hug.

Thanks!

I can't wait to see what Francis does over the next year.

[rug]

40. All I have is coffee.

But here's a hug.

[LostOne4Ever]

42. Whoever created that cover image

Must have a very wicked sense of humor by positioning the pope under the M like that

[okasha]

45. Makes him look a bit like Michelangelo's Moses.

n/t