Well, my grandfather had a family, whom he adored and who adored him, but there's just something about friends, the people you're not related to and to whom you have no legal ties, whom you've chosen entirely of your own free will to love as family and who often know you in ways that your actual birth family just can't.
Book: Where's the doctor? Not back yet?
Zoe: (beat) We don't make him hurry for the little stuff. He'll be along.
Book: He could hurry... a little.
'Safe'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
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.
JZ - May 02, 2005 2:51:47 pm PDT #684 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Allyson - May 02, 2005 2:51:47 pm PDT #685 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't actually see any proof that god exists, so that's where my head doesn't wrap, Cindy.
Cashmere - May 02, 2005 2:55:24 pm PDT #686 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I don't actually see any proof that god exists, so that's where my head doesn't wrap, Cindy.
There's where folks like us get tripped up, Allyson. It's not about proof. It's about faith. Of which I have none. I don't think you can prove the existence of God. But some people believe in spite of the lack of evidence.
That's also one other thing I don't get. Why doesn't God give us definite proof? Might make converting people a tad bit easier.
Topic!Cindy - May 02, 2005 2:59:54 pm PDT #687 of 10001
What is even happening?
I don't think you can prove the existence of God. But some people believe in spite of the lack of evidence.I don't think you prove the existence of God, either. But I see evidence all around me that other people discount as accident.
Allyson - May 02, 2005 3:00:30 pm PDT #688 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yeah, I have no faith, either. The more I know about the Way Things Work, the more puzzled I am in faith in some supreme being playing with action figures in the dirt for reasons no one can guess. I might as well believe in a custard pie with the face of Mary oozing tears of sugar down the sides of an aluminum pan and fall to my knees and pray.
Jesse - May 02, 2005 3:00:38 pm PDT #689 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, there's no wrapping your head around faith.
Topic!Cindy - May 02, 2005 3:03:48 pm PDT #690 of 10001
What is even happening?
Heh Jesse, I read your name as Jesus, when I first saw that post.
Allyson - May 02, 2005 3:06:36 pm PDT #691 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Yeah, there's no wrapping your head around faith.
It's like trying to imagine infinity. It always hurts my head. One of the physicits brought me a sketch of the universe, shaped like a soccer ball. I said, "what's on the outside of the soccer ball?"
"Nothing"
"Well, that's something isn't it?"
It's like Monty Python around here, all day long, except it's not so funny when you're in the sketch and no one told you.
Jesse - May 02, 2005 3:06:50 pm PDT #692 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And Jesus agrees with me, too!
Cashmere - May 02, 2005 3:07:34 pm PDT #693 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Heh Jesse, I read your name as Jesus, when I first saw that post.
Heh. Proof of God's existence or sock puppet?
But I see evidence all around me that other people discount as accident.
But see, next to rainbows and lollypops, I see mass murders and child molesters. It's a nasty, two-sided coin which makes me doubt the existence of a benevolent diety. *shrugs*
Someone tell me I should be working on a volunteer project that is due TOMORROW and which I have only half-finished.