Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Jesse - Apr 25, 2005 1:55:43 pm PDT #8796 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, hey, remember the conversation about do you have to talk shit about other religions to be the leader of one? My mom's church is a member of the Center for Progressive Christianity, and has this printed in the bulletin. Excerpts:

By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who…

2. Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us;

4. Invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be acceptable (including but not limited to):
believers and agnostics,
conventional Christians and questioning skeptics,
women and men,
those of all sexual orientations and gender identities,
those of all races and cultures,
those of all classes and abilities,
those who hope for a better world and those who have lost hope;

6. Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes;

8. Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.

I thought it was interesting.


Aims - Apr 25, 2005 1:57:41 pm PDT #8797 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Jesse, I love this:

5. Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe;


Jesse - Apr 25, 2005 2:09:17 pm PDT #8798 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Of course, I'm reading the webpage, and thinking it all sounds so familiar...and then I notice that my mother's minister is on the board. Oh. Right.


libkitty - Apr 25, 2005 2:21:45 pm PDT #8799 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

My local bookseller actually rents them to me. So I get through a $20-50 tome for 3 smacks. Such a deal!

Good deal if this is handy. Of course, most public libraries will provide for free. Some even have free downloadable audiobooks now. See one example: [link]


brenda m - Apr 25, 2005 2:33:58 pm PDT #8800 of 10001
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

there's merlot ice cream?

Local place near me makes it. Yummy.


Scrappy - Apr 25, 2005 2:39:51 pm PDT #8801 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The couple we had dinner with last night met online. Very nice folks, but when I asked (hoping to get inside info for single Buffistas) which site they werer using, they both said they "didn't remember." That just seemd...odd to me. I have been madly speculating all day what kind of meet-up site would be embarassing to mention to work friends.


Steph L. - Apr 25, 2005 2:42:41 pm PDT #8802 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I have been madly speculating all day what kind of meet-up site would be embaressing to mention to work friends.

S&M? Or a support-group type online community (like AA, NA, etc.)?

The I'm Wearing a Rubber Chicken on my Head and it's Fucking Great online community?

Fans of Yanni?


Theodosia - Apr 25, 2005 2:48:28 pm PDT #8803 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Robin -- Young Republicans?


Jesse - Apr 25, 2005 2:53:48 pm PDT #8804 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

myjobsucks.com?


erikaj - Apr 25, 2005 2:55:30 pm PDT #8805 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

etiquettehell? Sexual compulsives support group?