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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:47 PM Jul 2013

Tweet, Tweet. Catholic Church promises time off purgatory to Twitter followers

Shorten your #PeriodOfPurification ROFLMFAO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/07/17/catholic-church-promises-time-off-purgatory-to-twitter-followers/

Social media may damage friendships, ruin concentration and cause anxiety — but for some Catholics, at least, it can also help save their souls.

The Vatican has turned heads with a recent decree that grants “indulgences” not only to attendees of the upcoming World Youth Day, but to Catholics who follow the event on Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, as well. Indulgences are complicated business — the Church has an entire court overseeing them — but they essentially grant the receiver time-off purgatory, the period of purification before a soul moves into heaven. ..........

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Tweet, Tweet. Catholic Church promises time off purgatory to Twitter followers (Original Post) Coyotl Jul 2013 OP

In principo erat Verbum et factus est Verbum pipatum. nt msanthrope Jul 2013 #1

Me transmitte sursum, Scotty Coyotl Jul 2013 #2

In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word became a tweet. msanthrope Jul 2013 #4

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat Balbutium. Coyotl Jul 2013 #7

Pipatum is what the Vatican is using for the word 'tweet.' nt msanthrope Jul 2013 #12

Passeribus non Tweet sunt pipiabat. Coyotl Jul 2013 #14

Ah--Francis and the sparrows! I suspect that in relation to a sparrow, the tweet of the Pope msanthrope Jul 2013 #15

Ah, the catholic church customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #3

Well surely all those who follow me on twitter defacto7 Jul 2013 #5

The return of Indulgences? TlalocW Jul 2013 #6

+1 hobbit709 Jul 2013 #8

lol! bunnies Jul 2013 #9

If this doesn't prove religion is a scam and a joke snooper2 Jul 2013 #10

Si non crediderint, non vidi. Coyotl Jul 2013 #11

LOL. I'm going straight to hell. ananda Jul 2013 #13

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

1. In principo erat Verbum et factus est Verbum pipatum. nt

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Wed Jul 17, 2013, 11:50 PM

Jul 2013

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

2. Me transmitte sursum, Scotty

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 12:00 AM

Jul 2013

msanthrope

(37,549 posts)

4. In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word became a tweet.

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 12:02 AM

Jul 2013

Pipatum is the word the Vatican is using for 'tweet.' I am paraphrasing the Gospel of John, and also badly mangling Latin grammar.

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

7. In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat Balbutium.

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:34 AM

Jul 2013

Pipatum??

msanthrope

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12. Pipatum is what the Vatican is using for the word 'tweet.' nt

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 03:05 PM

Jul 2013

Coyotl

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14. Passeribus non Tweet sunt pipiabat.

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 04:08 PM

Jul 2013

The noise of Catullus's girlfriend's sparrow, would be a chirp, warble, or trill.
Sparrows don't tweet, they chirp. A bird tweet is a weak chirp, usually of an immature bird.

pipar, to chirp
pipare, a chirp

A big chirp is the opposite of a tweet!