WYD08 – Bruce Llama http://www.brucellama.com That's one crazy Llama Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:22:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.4 World Youth Day http://www.brucellama.com/2010/09/05/world-youth-day/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:22:39 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=1538 I get mail, no really, I do.

The fact that people don’t really understand what the blog is about is beside the point

2010/07/21 at 9:39 pm

Dear Sir/Madam,

I’m Miriam Stefania, web manager of the official website of World Youth Day 2011 Madrid.
I’m writing to you as I saw you had the link to the WYD 2008 official website on yours. I would like to kindly ask you to include the link of our site:http://www.madrid11.com
This is the link to download banners:http://en.madrid11.com/JMJ2011ING/REVISTA/articulos/GestionNoticias_333_ESP.asp

Feel free to contact me with any question about WYD 2011.

Best wishes,
Miriam

How could we forget the World Blow Jesus for the Day here in Australia?  I blogged on it plenty of times1  The pope came to town, we had stupid laws passed to tell us how to behave… and it costs us squillions.

So, off you go then, go check out jesus for the youth, it’ll get your juices flowing.

And next time Miriam, give some thought to who you’re sending your fucking stupid inane requests too.  Why don’t you do something useful with your life, instead of wasting your time thinking about how to extract money out of poor unsuspecting youth to contribute to the coffers of a church that’s all ready way to big.   They don’t need special crosses and icons, they need an understanding of life without your silly fairy tales.

True dinks.

  1. Check out my World Youth Day 08 Blogs here ↩

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]]> Wisdom http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/26/wisdom/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:42:21 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=119 Justin Fair (what a lovely name) left me a comment on one of my WYD08 blogs, and I thought it worthy enough for a blog of its own, but only because when I saw the comment, I thought some religious nutter had been on my site.  Those guys scare me.  When when I clicked through on his link I was prepared for some crappy religious message that would make me vomit.  Instead… well, go have a look.

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]]> I saw Jesus die http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/19/i-saw-jesus-die/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:53:51 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=118 On the TV.  In Sydney, down by the water.  They gathered in their thousands to watch.  It was probably one of the most disgusting things I’d ever seen.  They dragged this guy up on a cross and he took a bloody long time to die.  The pilgrims where beside themselves watching this stuff.

What a cult of death the christians are.  Getting all misty eyed over the fact that yet again, Jesus had died for their sins.  I’ve never been able to work out what that means, considering they still sin on a regular basis, and I presume, could still go to hell.  So much for that death to pay for their sins. [SOURCE]

On other World Youth Day matters, I see that the NoToPope coalition have been out annoying the catholics – remember they tried to make it illegal to annoy the catholics during this ‘festival’ The NTP coalition have been out there wearing silly T-shirts and handing out condoms.  [SOURCE]

And finally, Bendy dick said sorry for the sexual abuse.  He’s deeply sorry apparently.  I hope he follows through and throws a bit of money to the hurt and injured people.  Give ’em a bit of historic art work. [SOURCE]

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]]> I can be annoying http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/15/i-can-be-annoying/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:09:31 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=115 I’m delighted to see that the court has struck down the “don’t annoy the catholics” law.

What a stupid law, fining someone because someone else finds them annoying.  Congrats to the NoToPope coalition.

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]]> Popes in town http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/14/popes-in-town/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:06:14 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=113 The bloody Pope is in town.  Well Sydney.

The media is full of it.  The Sunday Herald-Sun even had a pin up of the man in the centre pages.

He’s going to say sorry, apparently.  Sorry for all the angst caused to sexual abused boys and girls at the hands of his work force.  I can’t wait to see how that goes down.

Then there’s the whole World Youth Day thing.  Too much singing and praying if you ask me.  Its time that would be better spent changing the world, not standing around getting excited by a cross and statue arrive. [SOURCE]

So, Sydney is closed down, the pope is on holiday with a cat, you can’t annoy catholics.  Meanwhile, our food crisis continues, China continues its pre-Olympic crack down and the cost of fuel continues to rise.

Why is it a World Youth Day?  Feels like its been going on for months already.  But then again, this is the same bunch that calls 3 p.m Friday to dawn the following Sunday as 3 days.

So, its ok, do your singing, do your dancing.  Be happy.  God loves you and will take care of all those other problems as you think he shines his face upon you bunch of catholic wankers.

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]]> It’s Everywhere http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/08/its-everywhere/ http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/08/its-everywhere/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:11:46 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=112 This poor Llama resides in Melbourne.  I had rather hoped that World Youth Day would pass me by and the sense of outrage I feel would abate.  Alas, when I flung open the local newspaper (its the only real paper I get now days – I do all my news reading on line) I was confronted with two pages devoted to World Youth Day. Of course, the local rag is part of News corporation company of newspapers, and sponsors of this glorious event.  And its full of twaddle.  I learned about Days in the Dioceses – DID08 – the first line says that the excitement is building, feel the vibe baby, no wait that’s a priest… stop that. I find that Melbourne has the largest bunch of catholics in the country, a million of them.  There’s a blessing from the pope man too, its lovely.  But the best bit is the side bar that gives me “Mass – fact file” it seems there’ll be a mass gathering of the faithful this Friday night at the Testra Dome (sic).  (I assume that’s the Telstra Dome as I couldn’t find the Testra Dome) Is down as a major highlight, and the fact file tells me that there will be 6, count them, 6 visiting cardinals.  I’m getting hard already.  1,000 con-celebrating priests, 300 Australian priests (is that the entire priestly population?) 100 bishops, 300 ministers and 500 choir types.  Woo fucking hoo.  There’s an article too, about the Catholic Church Insurances Limited, they appear to be a sponsor of the event with their ad splashed across the bottom of the page.  Why do catholics need insurance?  Surely god provides…

I’ll finish with the a pope quote, makes you think what this is really all about, he says: “Never forget that the Church expects much from you young people, because you have in you the supreme gift of the father, the spirit of Jesus”

Bend over baby for spirit insertion.

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]]> http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/08/its-everywhere/feed/ 2 Rubber socks and WYD08 http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/05/rubber-socks-and-wyd08/ http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/05/rubber-socks-and-wyd08/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:36:57 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=104 Look, I can’t help myself. I feel such a sense of outrage at the upcoming World Youth Day – WYD or even WYD08 (that’s just for the search engines).

To start, there was the hype of their being 225,000 people arriving, now they’re 60,000 short – but that’s good and of course its always hard to count just how many people will arrive.[SOURCE]

The NSW Government has brought in some new laws just for the event.  In short, you could get fined if you do anything to annoy the catholics.  Fined – for not liking someone. [SOURCE] In a nut shell, if you tried to even do a standing protest wearing a T-Shirt you could get fined $5,500.  How strange.  Why do the micks need such protection.

Oh, I don’t know about rubber socks.

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People protesting about the Pope coming to town.  Should be a hoot.  I like the name of the group – NoToPope Coaltion – they’re going to distribute condoms during the youth week thingy.  I reckon some of those horny catholic bastards will need them.

“By calling homosexuality an objective disorder, and saying gay sex is evil, Pope Benedict nurtures bigotry and violence, not love,” notes organizer Luke Roberts.  Luke has got it right you know.  Why are religions allowed to spread this sort of disgusting hate, based purely on their interpretation of a book  that they disregard whole swags of?  (You know, we don’t stone our naughty children any more….).  Its faith by picking and choosing the bits you like out of the rule book, bugger the rest.

The thing that still gets me about the whole World Youth Day is how much its going to cost the tax payer.  Millions.  This is the catholic church we’re talking about, more money that you can poke a bloody great big stick at.  Its sickening.

I wonder if they’ll get their 225,000 people, as predicted.

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]]> http://www.brucellama.com/2008/07/01/pope-protests/feed/ 7 World Youth Day WYD08 http://www.brucellama.com/2008/06/08/world-youth-day-wyd08/ http://www.brucellama.com/2008/06/08/world-youth-day-wyd08/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:26:05 +0000 http://www.brucellama.com/?p=93 This July about 225,000 youth are expected to descend upon Sydney for World Youth Day, which is being organised by the catholic church as a week long pilgrimage for the young people of the world to share in the love of christ (poor bastards)  It has a youth festival which includes such wonderful things as the vocation expos – that’s where you go along to learn about becoming a nun or a priest and not ever having sex in your whole life.  Sounds like fun.  You can also join in the Journey of the Cross & Icon, which sounds like the best time of all.  The Holy See has even granted a Plenary Indulgence – that’s the forgiveness of your sins

This purification takes place through patient bearing of trials and sufferings through charitable and merciful acts, and through prayer.

Who would’ve thought.

But I wanted to save my scorn really for their corporate sponsors.  Even the catholics know that to survive in this world you need the help of big business, because they’ll come flocking to your door to help you out when you’re trying to reach out to 225, 000 young people – just the right demographic.

There’s a code of ethics if you want to offer sponsorship. (SOURCE) among the things that it says

Partnership

WYD08 regards selected Corporate Affiliates and Suppliers as partners in the work of hosting WYD08, together with the Pope, and the youth of the world. Therefore, no individual or organisation is acceptable who conducts or is associated with the conduct of business, or who continues to endorse past business, that:

  • is clearly inconsistent with the moral teaching of the Catholic Church
  • seeks to promote, or to benefit from, addictive or other harmful responses in young people
  • is likely to be judged socially irresponsible by Church teaching or current business ethics practice

Get that?  If you’re clearly inconsistent with the moral teaching, if you promote or benefit from harmful things to young people, and then there’s the whole business ethics thing.

So, some of the main players this year are Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, Qantas, The Daily Telegraph, and plenty of others.

The Daily Telegraph, owned by News Limited owns the match.com website which you can join for free and find a man or woman, as you like and I assume form a relationship and have sex with them, or if you’re gay you can find a man (or a woman if you’re a woman). Is that in keeping with the moral teaching of the church?  You can get to match.com by going to The Daily Telegraph website and clicking on classifieds and dating.

Telstra, our national telecommunications company. The ACCC has on numerous occasions found them guilty of misleading conduct.  That’s not very christian now is it? (SOURCE) Not to mention the questionable telephone services that they supply through their networks. (SOURCE)

Qantas, our beloved national carrier – first of all, well done for sacking the attendant who admitted to having sex in the loo on your one of your planes (SOURCE), that showed some real moral fibre didn’t it.  I mean after all, we can’t have unmarried people having sex in a space that can’t be accessed by the anyone once the door is locked.  Perhaps Qantas could explain how it managed to get a $70 million dollar fine in the US for a six year price fixing scam. (SOURCE)  It took six years to get caught, and they admitted their guilt.  How ethical is that do you think?  When quizzed about the fine, the CEO said he didn’t think it would do much harm to their bottom line.  Whew, I’d hate to think it actually hurt.

The Commonwealth Bank recorded a profit for the 6 months to December 2007 as $2,371 million dollars (that’s just half a year) money earned from its customers.  You see, we all started using Netbank, it was free to start with, but now costs us for just about every transaction (SOURCE).  Or how about the Loan servicing fee, mine is $7.00 a month, although its not clear what service I get for my money and they still manage to charge me interest.  That’s not too bad on the scale of sins, apart from their lack of compassion and social responsibility for looking after those less able to pay.

It’s worth having a look over the World Youth Day disclosure statement, as you read it make a few mental notes and tick off where you think their major sponsors are unworthy of the catholics.

Disclosure

Applicants for a business relationship with WYD 2008 should use their best endeavours to disclose any business or professional activities or involvements which they suspect may be judged unethical or contrary to Catholic teaching by WYD08, or which may promote or benefit from addictive or other harmful responses in young people.

As guidance, causing, promoting or willingly benefiting from any of the following would be judged unethical and contrary to Catholic Church teaching:

  • promiscuity, contraception, abortion, adultery;
  • violence, abuse, intentional self-harm, addiction to harmful substances or activities, marital or family breakdown;
  • unjust discrimination, payment of unjust wages, unethical work conditions, illegal business dealings;
  • attacks on Catholic faith, attacks on Church leaders, religious discrimination, religious bigotry

The following would be judged addictive or harmful responses in young people:

  • substance abuse
  • under-age drinking
  • under-age sex
  • pornography, including inappropriate Internet usage
  • problem gambling
  • serious credit card or other debt
  • self-harm or tendencies towards self-harm
  • depression and other psychological disorders
  • serious truancy or inattentiveness in school
  • significant anti-social tendencies

My challenge here, for a church rocked by its own mistreatment of its youth in its care, is for them to fess up and cut loose those organisations that don’t stand the scrunity of its own code of ethics.  Or is the money more important?

What other links can you find that highlight reasons for these organisation to be thrown down in front of the swines?

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