It's Best to Let People Think You're a Fool
“We see that the forces of darkness are undermining this country and are trying to remove Christianity from Greece and create a new order in our society so that in a few years nobody remembers God or the Church.”--Archbishop Christodoulos (Kathimerini Dec.13, 2005)I honestly think the Church has a reference book on "Hyperbolic Retorts" and whenever the priesthood find itself on the wrong end of a court summons or caught in a power struggle or scandal, they use a quote from it. Either that or they're playing too many video games and watching too many vampire movies.
“Our staff do not have the knowledge to verify whether a sports shoe is counterfeit or not,” he said. “We need help from the companies.” (Athanassios Skordas, the Development Ministry’s secretary for consumer affairs) Kathimerini Dec. 13, 2005
I'm going to hlep Mr. Skordas out here for free because sometimes, I really am just THAT nice.
1. If you see someone selling what looks like Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Dior goods on a cardboard box on the corner of any street, I think it's safe to say they're knock-offs.
2. If name brands are misspelled (ie., SONYE, Guci, Dolce & Gabana) then you can presume they're knock-offs.
3. If music CDs are sold from people carrying backpacks, inserted into plastic envelopes with low res cover art, then you're looking at a pirated CD
4. If a movie hasn't even arrived in Greece in the cinemas and it's on sale at the laiki or from other street vendors, then it's a pirated DVD.
5. Hire new staff who have actually graduated from elementary school to work for you.
Well the pirate movie people have been around for a long time. I'm not really a movie person so I don't have time for pirate copies as if I'm going to watch a movie, it has to be top quality with Greek subtitles (which the pirates dont have I think).
Who said that the people who download movies and then burn them onto DVD (as is how most of them get onto the market) are supporting terrorism?? Although saying that, I can see why it'd be cool for people to believe that! It'd stop them buying the pirate copies!
Posted by
Anonymous |
13/12/05 15:47
Yes, I am sure that every kid who uses BitTorrent is supporting terrorism. Yet we aren't allowed to say that everyone who drives an SUV in the city is supporting terrorism.
I think the politicians and the Archbishop went to school with Bush. They are all starting to sound the same.
Posted by
melusina |
13/12/05 15:57
When the communists succeed ( they will fail just as they failed in the former USSR)to separate church from State, Greece will cease to be a nation for Greeks.It will be be turned into an international play pen for crooks, villains,an assorted transnational criminals. A stomping ground for degeneracy,libertinism and debauchery ; an erzat tower of Babel. That is what a Hellas without orthodoxy is destined for. But don't despair, Greece was born as a nation out of the bossom of orthodoxy and it shall not perish, in spite of the frightful odds against it. The Church and the state are intertwined and it is the essence of Hellenism and the Hellenic state. We are living in dark and somber times and satanic forces are converging on Greece ; Globalism, international Democracy ( not Greek Democracy) loss of our sovereignty to the EU,erosion of greek identity, rootless cosmopolitanism, namby pamby administrations, moral defilement . Our greek values are being subverted and trampled upon on a daily basis.
The dissipated and stagnant swamp of greek politics is incompetent to resist the onslaught. Politicians ruled by the call of the purse,mired in contagious corruption, stooped to their basest levels, devoid of spiritual values and patriotism are as good as roulette croupiers in a gambling den. The church is the only beacon of hope and reivindication in the miasma of contemporary Greece.
May God grant Christodolou a long healthy life , spiritual strength and providential inspiration to lead orthodoxy in the troubled times ahead,in the eternal struggle against the forces of luciferian nihilism.
Posted by
Anonymous |
13/12/05 17:27
It will be be turned into an international play pen for crooks, villains,an assorted transnational criminals. A stomping ground for degeneracy,libertinism and debauchery ; an erzat tower of Babel. That is what a Hellas without orthodoxy is destined for.
Just like Greek politics, that's what Greece is WITH Orthodoxy...or haven't you been reading the news in Greece lately? Bishops, priests and the archbishop himself have been mired in scandals involving drugs, prostitution, theft, embezzlement and fraud.
Christodoulos doesn't need to blame sinister forces for the mess the Orthodox Church is in. He needs to clean the debauchery out of the institution entrusted to him if the Church is to survive the "troubled times ahead".
Posted by
The SeaWitch |
13/12/05 17:39
Beautiful post Barabarosa.
Mike ; Was there a pirate called Barbarossa ?.
I know of and read the life of one Frederick Barbarossa , holy roman emperor from 1155 to 1190.
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Anonymous |
14/12/05 06:54