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Name the New Pope Thread

Pope Solo?
The Popey Cokey?
Pope Smokesdope?
Pope Apalooza?

I think going for something from contemporary culture would be better. Like Pope Voldermort or maybe Pope Sauron.
 
aggle-rithm said:
The New Pope Thread should be named "Bob". Thanks for asking.
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I think we should go for the simple and elegant and call it "The New Pope Thread."

Also, I think the next Pope should just be called The New Guy. That way it could be used for every new Pope, without all this speculation on the symbolism of the Pope's name.
 
Pope Bono.

With all his pontificating, he might as well be pontiff.
 
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Meadmaker said:
So, what name will the new Pope take?
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The choice of the new pope depends on the decision of God who goes by the rules that separate the special or the unique from the ordinary. But the rules are not affected by theological considerations - they are set into strictly scientific modeling frame. That means they don't include choice governed over by formal uniqueness. For example, there is currently only one cardinal in the continent of Oceania, and since only one == unique, cardinals from there will be always selected as new popes, as long as the condition in Oceania remains unchanged. It doesn't really go that way, as it cannot.

God usually arrives to the unique via the special. That means the whole population of eligibles would be reduced by the choice that establishes a specialty in that population and from the special group, a unique item is found. The choices are based on several criteria which are not equal to each other.

Here is an example of a related selection of the special (more than one item.) The whole population to choose from looks like this:

e l e c t o r s

Now we observe a change:

e L E c t o r s

The choice to capitalize two letters could be spontaneous or random - like the changes in DNA - or there could be a reason including natural causality. Since the scientists are not going to entertain an intelligent intervention being responsible for the change, but the option of natural causality is very much real, they would try to figure out what could possibly act on electors to cause the observed change.

Scientific mind will not be stopped by the fact that there is no other word in the proximity of electors. There have been lots of scientific theories predicting existence of something that we couldn't perceive with our senses or lacked the technological know-how necessary for the detection. In this particular case, a researcher proposed the Adjective hypothesis. In other words, there is an adjective to the noun electors - an adjective whose influence caused the change in the letter-case. In order to elevate the hypothesis into a theory, the researcher has to come up with a particular adjective, so his hypothesis could be properly tested. So here is the hypothetical adjective:

cardinal e L E c t o r s

The testing of the hypothesis lies in options. You need to show that the adjective can affect only the second and the third letter an no other ones. That's done by interpreting the whole expression. If cardinal electors refers to those guys dressed in red who like to hang around in the Vatican, then the selection of LE is provably a special choice, because there are 125 cardinal electors.
http://www.romereports.com/palio/ho...ere-and-where-are-they-from-english-6084.html

If 125 cardinal electors
And
electors --> eLEctors

And

If A=1, B=2, C=3, ...
Then
eLEctors = e125ctors

This is a rather oversimplified conceptual model of the dark matter theory. We cannot see or detect the dark matter, but we can observe its theoretical influence on the galaxies.

Oh, these are cool dark glasses you're wearing right now, Heavenly Father. I wonder why you wear them right now, like ten minutes before midnight...

I must clue the atheists so they would make a magnificently omniscient, scientifically based prediction and nail down both the civil and the papal name and the date of the inauguration of the new pope. If LE is special so is the ending of bibLE. The answers to the identity of the new pope is there.
 
Elizabeth I said:
:boggled: At first I thought you were talking about Sonny Bono and was going to point out that he hasn't been around for a while.
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But if they do elect him, and he does show up to take the job, I will seriously consider rejoining the church.
 
epix said:
The choice of the new pope depends on the decision of God who goes by the rules that separate the special or the unique from the ordinary. But the rules are not affected by theological considerations - they are set into strictly scientific modeling frame. That means they don't include choice governed over by formal uniqueness. For example, there is currently only one cardinal in the continent of Oceania, and since only one == unique, cardinals from there will be always selected as new popes, as long as the condition in Oceania remains unchanged. It doesn't really go that way, as it cannot.

God usually arrives to the unique via the special. That means the whole population of eligibles would be reduced by the choice that establishes a specialty in that population and from the special group, a unique item is found. The choices are based on several criteria which are not equal to each other.

Here is an example of a related selection of the special (more than one item.) The whole population to choose from looks like this:

e l e c t o r s

Now we observe a change:

e L E c t o r s

The choice to capitalize two letters could be spontaneous or random - like the changes in DNA - or there could be a reason including natural causality. Since the scientists are not going to entertain an intelligent intervention being responsible for the change, but the option of natural causality is very much real, they would try to figure out what could possibly act on electors to cause the observed change.

Scientific mind will not be stopped by the fact that there is no other word in the proximity of electors. There have been lots of scientific theories predicting existence of something that we couldn't perceive with our senses or lacked the technological know-how necessary for the detection. In this particular case, a researcher proposed the Adjective hypothesis. In other words, there is an adjective to the noun electors - an adjective whose influence caused the change in the letter-case. In order to elevate the hypothesis into a theory, the researcher has to come up with a particular adjective, so his hypothesis could be properly tested. So here is the hypothetical adjective:

cardinal e L E c t o r s

The testing of the hypothesis lies in options. You need to show that the adjective can affect only the second and the third letter an no other ones. That's done by interpreting the whole expression. If cardinal electors refers to those guys dressed in red who like to hang around in the Vatican, then the selection of LE is provably a special choice, because there are 125 cardinal electors.
http://www.romereports.com/palio/ho...ere-and-where-are-they-from-english-6084.html

If 125 cardinal electors
And
electors --> eLEctors

And

If A=1, B=2, C=3, ...
Then
eLEctors = e125ctors

This is a rather oversimplified conceptual model of the dark matter theory. We cannot see or detect the dark matter, but we can observe its theoretical influence on the galaxies.

Oh, these are cool dark glasses you're wearing right now, Heavenly Father. I wonder why you wear them right now, like ten minutes before midnight...

I must clue the atheists so they would make a magnificently omniscient, scientifically based prediction and nail down both the civil and the papal name and the date of the inauguration of the new pope. If LE is special so is the ending of bibLE. The answers to the identity of the new pope is there.
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I think Epyx is suggesting that the next Pope will be named Poe.

ETA: But only if Epix->Epyx. (In other words, I misspelled his name.)
 
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