I just found my new diety.
The Pastafarians will be pissed.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DavidS - Oct 04, 2005 1:28:41 pm PDT #6308 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Susan W. - Oct 04, 2005 1:30:18 pm PDT #6309 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think I'm starting to understand why my mom seems more conservative and less tolerant now than she did when I was growing up. Partly it's because she's older, yes, and partly it's that I've gotten way more liberal since leaving rural Alabama behind and going to live among the Yankees, Brits, and Left Coasters. But I do think she really has changed, and largely because our part of Alabama, while still as red-state and Bible Belt as can be in most ways, really has gotten a lot more secular and a lot more diverse WRT religions and lifestyles over the past 20 years. While she doesn't buy into the notion that Christians are horribly persecuted, and she and my dad considered Roy Moore an embarrassment to the state, she doesn't quite know what to do with all this change. Things like my Wiccan cousin or seeing women in Muslim headcoverings right there in Birmingham freak her right out in a way I have a hard time wrapping my urban coastal-dwelling brain around.
Should be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few decades, though. IME, Christians of the same theological bent who live smack-dab in the buckle of the Bible Belt get more bent out of shape about t insert bogeyman of choice here than Christians who are equally conservative theologically but live in places like Philly or Seattle where they actually meet the bogeyfolk and therefore aren't freaked out by the mere existence of different faiths and lifestyles.
Not sure what my point is, just rambling a bit...
dw - Oct 04, 2005 1:30:52 pm PDT #6310 of 10001
Silence means security silence means approval
I just found my new diety. Sam Wainwright is our Pope.
"Passing of the Peace" is replaced with "Passing of the SAA-LUTE!!!"
Of course, since the schism between the Buckis and the Royites, there's been tension.
sj - Oct 04, 2005 1:31:18 pm PDT #6311 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Yowtch. The Pale Hose are crushing the Bosox.
t whimper
Considering that Boston doesn't have a bullpen, they may already be doomed in this series.
Don't count us out yet.
Sean K - Oct 04, 2005 1:33:03 pm PDT #6312 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Those Christians who have helped push the GOP bandwagon up the hill will soon find themselves going off the cliff with it.
Yet another thing that baffles me, as many of the Christians who have pushed the Religious Right to prominance would tell you in a heartbeat that other politicians are pandering to get votes.
Why they think that politicians who say the nice religious palatives are genuine and on the level is beyond me.
Aims - Oct 04, 2005 1:34:30 pm PDT #6313 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Because they have THE FAITH in them!!
ChiKat - Oct 04, 2005 1:35:02 pm PDT #6314 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Who disowned her brothers, and sent back family pictures with herself cut out of them because her brothers just were not Christian enough to count (where Christian = Hyperconservative Southern Baptist).
Are we related? Because this sounds like my sister. She hasn't actually disowned her siblings. Yet.
Yowtch. The Pale Hose are crushing the Bosox.
WooHoo!!!
Jars - Oct 04, 2005 1:38:12 pm PDT #6315 of 10001
A recent competition to find the funniest religious joke decided on this
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: "Stop. Don't do it."
"Why shouldn't I?" he asked.
"Well, there's so much to live for!"
"Like what?"
"Are you religious?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Me too. Are you Christian or Buddhist?"
"Christian."
"Me too. Are you Catholic or Protestant?"
"Protestant."
"Me too. Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"
"Baptist."
"Wow. Me too. Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"
"Baptist Church of God."
"Me too. Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"
"Reformed Baptist Church of God."
"Me too. Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?"
He said: "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915."
I said: "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off.
The rest of the winners can be found here [link]
amych - Oct 04, 2005 1:39:19 pm PDT #6316 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Why they think that politicians who say the nice religious palatives are genuine and on the level is beyond me.
Easy. I believe X. Furthermore, like Susan's mom, or my in-laws, or lots of others of their ilk, everyone around me believes X and it's quite obvious to me that all reasonable people must believe X. A politician who believes X is quite reasonable, whereas that guy over there couldn't possibly really think Y....
The same applies to all kinds of Xes -- and Susan, I do think you're on to something with the homogeneous population part.
Aims - Oct 04, 2005 1:42:43 pm PDT #6317 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
continues with Hee-Haw, The Donkey God
Hee-Haw loves me this I know! For his neighing tells me so! Big ears and teeth to him belong! I feed him corn and he is strong!