Happy Anniversary, Nora and Tom! It seems like just yesterday that I was sniffling over your beautiful elopement pictures.
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
'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.
Ginger - Oct 05, 2005 6:02:34 am PDT #6465 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Topic!Cindy - Oct 05, 2005 6:03:32 am PDT #6466 of 10001
What is even happening?
It seems like just yesterday that I was sniffling over your beautiful elopement pictures.Yeah, but I'm disturbed we've heard so little of the Rubber Duckies. I fear they've secretly met with Miss Kitty Fantastico's fate.
Emily - Oct 05, 2005 6:04:34 am PDT #6467 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
if you're not converting b/c of your own personal faith/relationship with God/spirituality, then you shouldn't be converting at all. It should be a blessing, not a burden, and I'd think that converting to a religion because you "have to," rather than *want* to, would be a burden.
I'm with you in the ideal case, but I think it often gets complicated in the case of marriage and children, and that isn't necessarily such a bad thing. I mean, being forced to do so is bad, no question. But I think not everyone (here I'm going to the general, not the D.Griswold topic at hand) experiences religion as a search for truth/relationship with God thing; for many people, I think, it is (within certain parameters) a matter of... practicality? I'm saying this wrong. I think I'm trying to describe a sort of combination of "Your people will be my people and your God my God," and "Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!"
ETA: In fact, that may be the best description of the kind of religiosity I admire -- a cross between Ruth and Dolly Parton.
Nora Deirdre - Oct 05, 2005 6:06:15 am PDT #6468 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Yeah, but I'm disturbed we've heard so little of the Rubber Duckies. I fear they've secretly met with Miss Kitty Fantastico's fate.
They are on our bathtub ledge, and Eve aka Casper was playing with them when they came to visit a couple months ago!
Aw, Colin. He is the closest we have come to a pet. Really, he's more an elopement mascot.
Sparky1 - Oct 05, 2005 6:07:09 am PDT #6469 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Happy Anniversary, Nora & Tom!
AmyLiz, all the best to your friend and her son. It's heartbreaking.
Adorable Ellie!
D. Gris, I choose to believe that she is also thinking about how she might change her life to make one work with you, and that the two of you will find a place in which you are both comfortable.
Today a program starts here at the school, and if it flops, it's all on my head. I'm both excited and wishing I could hide under my desk.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 05, 2005 6:07:37 am PDT #6470 of 10001
What is even happening?
They are on our bathtub ledge, and Eve aka Casper was playing with them when they came to visit a couple months ago!
If Eve comes for another visit, I'd keep an eye on her. Her crush on Tom might have been a diversion for a future Rubber Duckie caper.
Topic!Cindy - Oct 05, 2005 6:08:53 am PDT #6471 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh, Gris, when she gets settled again, -t converted to Judaism before her marriage, and it was at least part of the catalyst. I think they might be either Conservative or Reform, but she might prove a resource or sounding board for you. Just thought I'd mention it, before the thought disappears.
Trudy Booth - Oct 05, 2005 6:11:50 am PDT #6472 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Gris, I don't think these are internetable answers.
Judaism has a great deal of debate and nuance within it. Talking to a Rabbi or a series of Rabbis is the only way you're going to find the answers to these questions -- and they may not be straight yes/no doctrinal answers even when you do find them.
This is a really good resource: [link] It's an inter-faith center for religious inquiry. I'm acquainted with the clergy in charge of it (a rabbi and an episcopal priest). They would be very able to help you research these things.
Betsy HP - Oct 05, 2005 6:13:48 am PDT #6473 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I could find Orthodox churches / Rabbies that would convert me without forcing me to dress in a suit or avoid looking at bikini-clad women.
There are certainly flavors of Orthodoxy that don't have the Eastern European Lubavitcher baggage. However, I think any Orthodox rabbi is going to expect you to obey the laws of kashrut and of "family purity" (sexual abstinence for a week after menstruation.)
We really need Nilly here.
Rio - Oct 05, 2005 6:44:21 am PDT #6474 of 10001
Are you ready to be strong?
Let's say some wonderful person just brought you a care package filled with Lush products. There are so many you have to store some of them away for later use. Do you store them in just a drawer? Or do they have to go in the fridge?
I thought you lot might know the answer.