All right, I thought it was clickbait when I read the title video of "Pope
Francis trying to avoid having his ring kiss goes viral." then I watched it it's
incredible I thought I was gonna be like one or two people here watch this video
all right it starts out pretty calm enough there's the first time he pulls
back bro she kind of kissed her own hand there kind of pulled back look at the
smile on his face though look at this one this is like a prank he's playing on
her she tries to grab the hand see these people knew that he didn't want to have
his hand kiss you can tell that because as it gets deeper and deeper they try to
play more of a trick on look at this lady she tries to pull his hand out so
she can kiss it and look at him pull it back
that's incredible just got a joke later that's awesome oh just line him up and
knock him down but what did he do there geez look at this one she goes down he
kind of smacks her on the shoulder dude this is getting better and better watch
this one he's not happy but look at that smile this is like if we were to count
this off just like 25 people who have tried to kiss his ring and he keeps
pulling it back what I'll tell you though is he has great cheer look at
everyone who comes look at the smile even after 25 people look how he greets
them still with a nice big smile so the way that this is explained in some of
the articles written about it is it's a battle between the Conservatives and the
progressives and the Conservatives think that you should still be able to kiss
the Pope's ring and the progressives think it's kind of a relic one of the
guys who supporter of Francis said he tweeted this he said he's making
sure they engage with him not treat him like a sacred relic
he's the victor of Christ not a Roman Emperor but down the other hand a guy
tweeted Francis if you don't want to be the victor of Christ then get out of
here so clearly it's a hot-button issue but the funniest thing is that these
people you can tell kind of knew that he was gonna pull it back and they tried to
get out in front of it by kind of tricking him and pulling his hand in
it's out of control when they asked the Vatican what their thoughts and stance
were on it they didn't have any comments then I'm not here to pass judgment on
the Pope if you have any hard thoughts leaving the comments below but what I
want to point out is the Pope is demonstrating a very advanced social
skill in a very advanced way and that's the ability to maintain completely
unreactive no emotion in the face of chaos and dissent there's literally tens
of people grabbing at his hand pulling at his hand trying to trick him trying
to get down trying to kneel everything they can do and every single person he
greets with a smile he's not getting worked up a lot of
people like when they sit down for an interview with someone and they ask one
question that they don't like what do they do they tear the microphone off and
they run out of here not only is the Pope not leave he stays there with a
genuine smile and greets people that's very powerful that's actually what we
call an honest signal and the reason is called on a signal it's very hard to
fake people know if they see somebody demonstrating an honest thing like this
they can rest assured that the person is truly high-status they're a leader and
it's also an attractive characteristic as well and this video is about the Pope
cracking everyone had lied as they come try to kiss his ring it's not about
social status but if you want to learn about how you can boost your social
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it with this one of the aides said this afterwards they said referring to people
kissing his ring sometimes he likes it and sometimes he doesn't it's really as
simple as that and they'd also become added that he
amused by the reactions I mean the Pope deals with this stuff all the times the
fact that he can take it with a nice sense of humor is a good sign as well
now speaking of conservatives and liberals did you see when Bill Maher had
been Shapiro on a show their polar opposites on their political stances and
they really went at it if you want to see a social breakdown of their
interaction you can click right here and I'll talk to you in that video there's
been you can't walk into a room and see an elephant in a mouse and not know
which one is bigger but it's not no offense to the mouse it's 200 is really
600 officers to protect me at Berkeley yes it's an elephant in a know of