Why do you think it remarkable that God (Christian God, often portrayed as loving) would be anti-cruelty, brenda?
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
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Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
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§ ita § - Nov 07, 2005 8:06:12 am PST #3209 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Nov 07, 2005 8:07:36 am PST #3210 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Fay, have you read Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet? Four interlinked novels set in colonial Alex. Great stuff.
Sweet fancy Moses. I read Justine a million years ago (okay, 11 years), and it was really really REALLY hard slogging. Maybe I should give it another shot now that I'm all growed up and a Woman Of The World.
Emily - Nov 07, 2005 8:09:33 am PST #3211 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
In our church, this was handwaved away with, "God will figure something out."
Well, yeah. I mean, there's, who was it, Augustine, who said only 144,000 people would ever get into heaven, and then Julian of Norwich, whose visitation sort of did a wink and nod and seemed to imply that it might be everyone ever? And the "except through me" is lovely and vague and says, basically, you won't know until you get there. Just do your best, and have faith. Which argues strongly against a checklist -- we've got no way of knowing what'll actually get us in, but we can know generally good and bad and how to do it.
That's my best attempt at what I take to be my mother's belief -- I'm still an agnostic, except that the God I'm not sure I believe in is pretty clearly a Christian God, and I'd sort of like for him to exist so he could answer some questions. Boy will I be disappointed if I die and turn up before Iffler the Crocodile God. I'd be all, "Okay, I want to see who's in charge here, I've got some que... oh. Damn. Okay, never mind."
Aims - Nov 07, 2005 8:09:50 am PST #3212 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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Hey guys.
Nora Deirdre - Nov 07, 2005 8:11:04 am PST #3213 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Hey, Aimee... how are you doing? Are you at work?
Aims - Nov 07, 2005 8:12:19 am PST #3214 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I am exhausted but otherwise doing alright. And I am at work, which sucks.
And launch.com won't give me love.
Bastids.
Trudy Booth - Nov 07, 2005 8:12:29 am PST #3215 of 10003
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
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Emily - Nov 07, 2005 8:13:19 am PST #3216 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Why do you think it remarkable that God (Christian God, often portrayed as loving) would be anti-cruelty, brenda?
Well, presumably the whole thing would be more coherent if you didn't assume omnibenevolence. Cause that's the tricky part. It seems to me.
Emily - Nov 07, 2005 8:13:46 am PST #3217 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Aimee! Welcome home!
Connie Neil - Nov 07, 2005 8:14:55 am PST #3218 of 10003
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Blanket and warm drink and hugs for the Empress.