http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/ Discussion of constructed cultures Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:04:42 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34388 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34388 ... Prejudice as a celibate RC priest? ;))))) ... My question really revolved around the MR being, basically, an Orthodox country whose inhabitants are either Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:42:48 GMT caeruleancentaur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34387 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34387 St. Athanasius the Athonite, son of an Antiochene, was a Byzantine monk who founded the monastic community on Mount Athos which has since evolved into the Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:01:08 GMT caeruleancentaur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34386 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34386 ... LOL. I had a feeling that someone would ask this. I'm afraid that my first response is "personal prejudice." However, maybe I can make an argument from Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:21:47 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34385 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34385 ... What is the rationale for their celibacy in the MR? Padraic Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:54:55 GMT caeruleancentaur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34384 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34384 In 1885, when the Lebanese arrived in the Monastic Republic from Lebanon, they were accompanied by a priest, the Reverend Youssef Ghanem, and four Sisters of Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:33:36 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34383 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34383 ... Hm. Guess I was thinking of someone else. Well, I guess she's at least a step up from Catholics and Pagans, leastways according to the wisdom of secular Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:32:49 GMT caeruleancentaur http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34382 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34382 ... Are we talking about Alexandra Theodopoulos-Palaiologos? If so, her IB page says that she is a Greek Buddhist. Charlie Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:29:47 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34381 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34381 ... Very interesting point indeed, after all, isn't the empress a Catholic? The history implied by this repression is also quite interesting because it comes Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:53:58 GMT David http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34380 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34380 ... I have two points to raise. (1) What really intrigues me about this item is the history implied by it. Quite simply, where did this repression of anyone Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:53:15 GMT Ben Karnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34379 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34379 ... Actually, I've made a lot of corrections since making that initial post, including getting right and left all mixed up in the description of marshalling. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:56:25 GMT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34378 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34378 Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the conculture group. File : /IB/Kamono Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:30:59 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34377 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34377 ... Looks quite goot! I was actually rather hoping you'd eliminate the penny coin. I can hear the Scots skirling away in ire up in their highland manses even Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:25:44 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34376 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34376 ... Kind of weird, that. ... One would wonder, really, if Neopaganism even exists in IB to anything like the extent it does *here*. After all, with real live Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:19:20 GMT Padraic Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34375 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34375 ... Guess we'll just have to bring some! ;) ... Padraic Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:02:01 GMT Ben Karnell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34374 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/message/34374 ... Ah! Spotted my mistake immediately. So sorry! Do the Veneds use basically the same system of heraldry as our Poles, or is it more Western? Ben