Cardinal Georg Sterzinsky, who kept the Catholic Church alive under the East German state, has died early in the day today at the age of 75.
Officially atheistic as Socialists need to be to justify their power, the DDR tried to convince the people that they had no souls. Eventually, they had to back off and leave at least some of the people to be free to guide their consciences in the way that they choose.
Born in 1936, his childhood years were the hardest times in the lives of the German people as a whole. He was ordained 11 years after the establishment of the Marxist-Leninist state. The best years of his adulthood were spent in a church that had to find a way to survive and coexist with the immutable, seemingly eternal oppressive state.
What is little understood about German Communism was that it was not generous to those in society who face difficulties in life. The churches, particularly the significantly larger Lutheran church, were depended upon for charitable work that (in a strange way,) was not provided by the “workers’ and peasants’ state” the way those needs would be covered in the west by government and civil society. Despite that, the invasive ideology of Marx and Engels was at war with faith. It though it needed to BE the only faith, but failed in the same way that it couldn’t serve the needs of society.
The all-powerful nanny state still depended on the people of faith that they were at war with to provide for those in need. Remember, in a command economy, those who don’t work are of inherently no use to the state.
30 June 2011
For the Repose of a Good Soul
Mullet's, Now to be Made Dull by Academia
It's the hairstyle that time forgotJust long enough to get sidetracked:
It's the mullet of the moment. Yes we're talking about the male ponytail. If you want to look like a crim, a weasel or most probably both, grow your thinning hair long and scrape it back. Into a girl's hairband.
Dude! I’m Sooooo Wasted
I dream of camels all day and night. I think they mightbe, like, after me or something sometimes. Mmmmmm... Camels.
29 June 2011
28 June 2011
"Mullets and models, they just don't go together"
Now we're getting somewhere!
Isabel has long, curly dark hair, which she keeps… on one side of her head. Other side is shaved completely. Looks a bit Flashdance but can't say I disapprove. Delightfully, Bianca has a
mullet! "Mullets and models, they just don't go together,"
27 June 2011
25 June 2011
They Got Da Fever
Mullet mania grips Dust Devils
Mr T in Your Pocket Talking Keychain
Hancock, a third-round draft pick by the Colorado Rockies out of Rowlett (Texas) High School in 2005, is the brain behind what he calls the "Mullet Militia";
Mr T in Your Pocket Talking Keychain
24 June 2011
News Digest from the Fake-Crisis Management Center, no. 2011\06F
US, Russia fight over asteroid that could destroy Earth
According to Spacewatch, the asteroid is "en route and headed our way,... "
20 June 2011
Mullet on my Mind
Jared Allen on losing his mullet: "It's in my heart still"
Sometimes you gotta do things for love and for your parents and I cut the mullet for my wedding. Hopefully the Propecia helps and keeps my hair from falling out." Awesome.
19 June 2011
Fables of the Mullet
The 23 Best Mullets in NHL History
I wonder if we will ever see hair pour out of a hockey helmet more than Handzus. George Parros cracks the top 10 for the dual mullet-facial hair alone...
18 June 2011
Haterz Hate
Deranged with Sarah Palin, and deranged by the working class nature of the Mullet... How much more predictable can U get?
From Australia's Herald Sun
Sarah Palin more concerned about her hair than real issuesReally? How do you get to that conclusion? Because she bathes and doesn't look like a fat old union organizing Lesbian?
From Australia's Herald Sun
From trying to secretly install a tanning bed in the governor's mansion to complaining that her hair looked like a mullet, the emails offer an intimate portrait of a politician constantly concerned about image.
17 June 2011
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