Timelies all!
Happy Birthday msbelle!
Sigh...found out that a guy I "knew" from one of my newsgroups died recently. He was 44. I never met him, but he seemed like a nice guy. 2005 isn't starting all that well with this news.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Jan 15, 2005 9:54:27 am PST #6428 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
DCJensen - Jan 15, 2005 10:02:14 am PST #6429 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
DeLay's bit reminded me of a quote I just posted to Bitches:
"Get some devastation in the back."
-- Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), quoted by the AP, to a staff photographer taking a picture of him before leaving tsunami-stricken southern Sri Lanka.
DCJensen - Jan 15, 2005 10:02:40 am PST #6430 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
Happy Birthday msbelle!
Emily - Jan 15, 2005 10:03:20 am PST #6431 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I seem to have missed the post about Tom DeLay. I take it his conception of God isn't an omnibenevolent one?
vw bug - Jan 15, 2005 10:03:25 am PST #6432 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Happy Birthday, msbelle!
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2005 10:05:18 am PST #6433 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Emily, Allyson posted this link.
Lee - Jan 15, 2005 10:05:25 am PST #6434 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
amych - Jan 15, 2005 10:05:45 am PST #6435 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Lysana - Jan 15, 2005 10:52:13 am PST #6436 of 10002
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog
The whole "why did God let this happen" question makes no sense to me. If you assume a creator or set of same, it follows to me that it's because that's how the world was designed. Every once in a while, Shit Happens. Sometimes it's really humongous, like a tsunami. How we react to it would seem more important to me.
And besides, from where I sit, loving someone doesn't mean you have to make everything gentle and soft for them. Sometimes, you have to get harsh. Sometimes, you end up hurting them as a side effect of doing something else that's important. The planet has to have earthquakes to get stuff like mountains. It's not the fault of people who don't believe or act the right way. We just happen to live on a geologically active planet with everything that entails.
brenda m - Jan 15, 2005 11:18:22 am PST #6437 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It's times like this that it's kind of a comfort not to believe in god, as I see people struggle to fit things like this into their worldview. Hmm. That sounds kind of weird. I mean that wth all respect, and I don't mean to suggest that the tragedy we've just seen doesn't have an impact on me, of course it does. But I can appreciate and feel the tragedy without having to grapple with that issue.
I will say that sometimes the shock with which some people react (to the god-related part of it) leaves me a little cold since, as Lysana notes, this is not the first thing to occur nor will it be the last, and for me, it seems strange when people respond as though the question of tragedy in a world of god is a new one. But it seems to me that most of the people who aren't trying to somehow capitalize on such an event just to push their own agenda don't fall into this category, and are honestly working to understand lessons this holds about the nature of their faith.