Lightning strikes Vatican After Pope Resignation

It was struck a few hours later? What took the diety so long? Why lightning? If you want to express displeasure, give us an earthquake, a volcano AND lightning. Then we would get it.
 
RenaissanceBiker said:
It was struck a few hours later? What took the diety so long? Why lightning? If you want to express displeasure, give us an earthquake, a volcano AND lightning. Then we would get it.
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And if you want to make a point, why not have thelightning do something that it would not do naturally? I'd be more impressed if it missed the lightning rod, the steeple, and the roof, weaved between buildings, and hit the ground just in front of the doors.

I mean, this is like claiming your rain dance works, but only when it's stormy.
 
Tall building with lightning rod in 'struck by lightning' shock. In other weather news-: Rain reported to be 'wet'.
 
What on earth would be the message anyway? Does the lightning mean he is happy about this? Sad? angry?
 
And how large a window of time before during and after the announcement does the lightning strike count as meaningful? If it hit a week later, would people still be amazed?
 
JohnG said:
And how large a window of time before during and after the announcement does the lightning strike count as meaningful? If it hit a week later, would people still be amazed?
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The only way I would be amazed is if the lightning never stopped hitting the dome.
 
At the risk of bringing the MonkeyWrath down on this thread, here's a Troi quote...

LIKO: I have no choice. I must do as the Picard wishes.
TROI: Are you sure you know what he wants? That's the problem with believing in a supernatural being. Trying to determine what he wants.
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Biscuit said:
How far back does the study of weather, or meteorology, go? I am not certain but you should be able to google that. I am sure that the forecasting, not predicting, of weather has improved greatly since the early days of the science.

I am not sure what your point is with this line of thinking as forecasting thunderstorms does not tell you exactly where lightning will strike. What we do know is that lightning is a natural and common occurrence that happens thousands of times every day.

The vatican fairly dominates it's surroundings and is probably struck several times a year.
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That's the word that I was thinking about. Sorry for any confusion.

Biscuit said:
What on earth would be the message anyway? Does the lightning mean he is happy about this? Sad? angry?
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And that's another major problem with omens in general.
 
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skyguy said:
I was not aware that lightning struck the Vatican the day the pope said nope to being pope. It is certainly an odd coincidence. It would be very interesting to know if lightning hitting the Vatican is a common occurrence. It would be astounding if the last time that happened was approximately 600 years ago. Which would make it the last time a pope quite.

I was baptised Catholic when I was a child but I do not follow it today. Even so, it did bother me somewhat when the cardinals elected Ratzinger ( the pope who said nope) as he was a member of the Nazi youth during world war 2. He said he was obligated to and that all children in Germany at that time had to be Nazi youth, but that sounds to me a lot like the "I was just following orders" excuse that didn't excuse Nazi war criminals for their actions during the trials that occrued after the war.

I am not a religious man, but to me, it shows just how false the papacy is if they could elect someone tainted with anything to do with the Nazis. How can anyone believe that such a man is the representative of God on this earth?
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The pope was a mope?
 
RenaissanceBiker said:
It was struck a few hours later? What took the diety so long? Why lightning? If you want to express displeasure, give us an earthquake, a volcano AND lightning. Then we would get it.
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Better aim would help.
 
Strawberry said:
BBM.

It sounds to me like the truth. Membership of the Hitler Youth was legally mandated from 1935 onwards, and I think its a bit silly to compare a 14 year old boy living under a totalitarian regime to a Nazi war criminal. Of all the criticisms that could be made of Ratzinger, that one doesn't hold up to any kind of scrutiny.
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His infallible years were ahead of him.
 
"We have carried out a theoretical calculation for a building like St Peter's Basilica. The outcome is that - compared to a tolerable risk level of one in 100,000 (in any one year) - we have actually come out with a risk of one in 112. That is pretty high."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21630874
 
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