Last week I was bored, discussing that the German bishop Tebartz van Elst took 40 million $ for his private residence. I wrote a lot for the Huffingtonpost, German version at huffingtonpost, social, frizztext – maybe praying would help more …
title: “praying or bored?” – photo shot in Palermo by mym from London – kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com
related: my German version of wordpress:
http://frizzfocus.wordpress.com/2013/10/16/der-bischof-von-limburg/#comments
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Flickr Comments 
It is boring for you to have to repeat this but it’s essential that we are reminded where money is actually going while we are constantly being told as ordinary citizens that we must make economies!
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Some individual’s sense of entitlement is totally breath-taking. When they are also a representative of religious authority, well – the word hypocrisy doesn’t seem quite big enough!!!
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I know this is a serious matter but your presentation of the photo made me laugh out loud!
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Yes. this is serious and not a joking matter! The poor bishop was deep in prayer asking the Good lord for guidance and direction regarding international exchange rates and investment options
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Praying is always good!
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I know it´s a serious topic and I completely agree with the position take. But you gotta give it to the guy on the picture, man if I was praying I don´t want to sit on an uncomfortable wooden chair. That freaking chair probably costs more than my house. God bless him.
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hi Charly priest: below: me, sitting on an uncomfortable chair in Italy
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Maybe uncomfortable, but you sure look like a king. Actually know that I look at you with the beard and all you sort of remind me of King Jorge of England, one of those I see in medieval movies. Nice contrast your black outfit against the white.
Where in Italy is this? I´ve been there two times, Milan, Rome, Venice, the Pizza monument(don´t know if I got the name right but it´s the tall building that´s falling to one side)
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I was bold enough to use the chair in the Guggenheim museum, Venice. But my wife, as a 12 year child, sat with her ass on the wooden throne of Charles the great in Aachen. She still feels like a royal highness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aachen_Cathedral
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haha, as long as she´s happy..
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Most assume that the clergy caught in a moment of reverie like the photo above are pondering the divine, I think they are wondering what to have for lunch…
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