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[SubHunter]

does anyone know if theta is on this forum? i just found out we have a new forum......its been a long time......

[bender]

Just look Theta on members section and welcome

[Anteroinen]

Theta changed his name to Taalit. I think it was a Najavo thing.

[Vortex]

does anyone know if theta is on this forum? i just found out we have a new forum......its been a long time......

He posted just before you

[Vurn]

I don't really see why it's notable at all that he's unfamiliar with John Paul II. He's obviously not Catholic, so why should he care about what the pope's name is? I definitely don't know the name of Burma's President, but I'm not Burmese, so who cares?

I'm not saying he *should* know his name, but I was just kinda surprised that he didn't. After all, the Pope is one of the most important/influential/powerful/whatever people in the world, no matter if you like him or not. Analogically, I *shouldn't care* what is the name of, say, the president of the US. But I do, of similar reasons. And he's just in the news a lot.

[borys610]

Or Cuba dictator. Or England queen.

[Anteroinen]

I don't really see why it's notable at all that he's unfamiliar with John Paul II. He's obviously not Catholic, so why should he care about what the pope's name is? I definitely don't know the name of Burma's President, but I'm not Burmese, so who cares?

I'm not saying he *should* know his name, but I was just kinda surprised that he didn't. After all, the Pope is one of the most important/influential/powerful/whatever people in the world, no matter if you like him or not. Analogically, I *shouldn't care* what is the name of, say, the president of the US. But I do, of similar reasons. And he's just in the news a lot.

To be honest you only hear of the Pope in this part of the world very rarely. I mean, the abdication was news but before that he was ever mentioned in the news when he read something in Finnish (along with a bunch of languages). The Pope is absolutely disregarded in the Nordic countries as a whole. His influentiality is zero (or similar in status to any other modern monarch).

EDIT: To demonstrate this further, I'll admit I wouldn't have known the name of the previous Pope (the one that just abdicated) if you had asked. I might actually have said John Paul III or something. It was Benedictus XVI right?

[borys610]

Right.

[Oleander]

Theta changed his name to Taalit. I think it was a Najavo thing.

Arabic, actually. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8 ... ian_Arabic

[Anteroinen]

Theta changed his name to Taalit. I think it was a Najavo thing.

Arabic, actually. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8 ... ian_Arabic

Oh yeah. I remember you explaining it once, but I had forgot what it was.