Oh, and for Nutty: wasn't it St. Peter who got crucified in Rome?
Yup. Upside down, even.
What? I'm not allowed to hit people? Wesley: Not people capable of genocide. Angel: Those are exactly the types of people I should be allowed to hit!
'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
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.
DXMachina - Aug 02, 2005 8:43:47 am PDT #4909 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Cashmere - Aug 02, 2005 8:43:48 am PDT #4910 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
When I first read Genesis I was pissed because there were no dinosaurs. It was pointed out that they hadn't said they didn't exist, just that they hadn't been mentioned by name. Didn't matter. Dinosaurs were so big, I thought they had to be in there.
DH works with an actuary who will not let his son play with toy dinosaurs, since they're not in the bible. He thinks the fossils were placed here on Earth to test man's faith.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2005 8:43:51 am PDT #4911 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A serious question: how do people like this function in a multicultural society?
They mostly interract with people like themselves? They are more likely to live in small towns or in the country?
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2005 8:44:46 am PDT #4912 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yup. Upside down, even.
Didn't he ask to be crucified that way, because he was all macho and shit?
Nutty - Aug 02, 2005 8:44:53 am PDT #4913 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yes. But a Catholic friend of my acquaintance was horrified at my New Testament vaguery. I could recite what INRI stands for (Latin for Jesus of Nazareth, Kong of the Jews) (I mean King there, but Kong of the Jews is SO FUNNY!), but learned a lot of the ambient details from Ben-Hur, which I saw when I was 19.
DavidS - Aug 02, 2005 8:45:13 am PDT #4914 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DH works with an actuary who will not let his son play with toy dinosaurs, since they're not in the bible. He thinks the fossils were placed here on Earth to test man's faith.
There are very very few people like this in San Francisco. One of the reasons why I live in San Francisco. I mean, I'd have to bite my tongue every two minutes so I wouldn't say, "You're a fucking idiot!" Which is rude. But it would involve a lot of effort not to.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2005 8:45:31 am PDT #4915 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
how do people like this function in a multicultural society?
Makes perfect sense to me. Remember -- this was a course, with exams. She might have to lie to get credit, effectively, and I can see not wanting to do that.
Listening to other opinions is one thing -- being taught them is another. I'm walking out of any class that requires me to be taught as if I'm a religion that I'm not.
DXMachina - Aug 02, 2005 8:46:17 am PDT #4916 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Didn't he ask to be crucified that way, because he was all macho and shit?
It was that he didn't think himself worthy to die the same way as Jesus.
tommyrot - Aug 02, 2005 8:46:44 am PDT #4917 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DH works with an actuary who will not let his son play with toy dinosaurs, since they're not in the bible. He thinks the fossils were placed here on Earth to test man's faith.
I was taught that this was a possibility, but they pretty much left the issue of dinosaur fossils open
Cashmere - Aug 02, 2005 8:47:02 am PDT #4918 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Dinosaurs went extinct when Noah couldn't fit them in the ark. But he felt guilty about it, so he wrote them out of Genesis.
I love the Robot Chicken clip of the unicorns and a few other mythical beasts missing the Ark. Then the merman and the mermaid come and mock their own pathetic attempts to build a boat. So. Freakin'. Funny.
A serious question: how do people like this function in a multicultural society?
I seriously think they don't. They just enter a cocoon somewhere they'll feel safe enough to function--leaving it only to evangelize or whatnot.