Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.

'Safe'


Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.  

[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.


tommyrot - Nov 08, 2005 4:47:28 am PST #3440 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

You better not be picking on the naked mole rats now.

As long as they keep it to the privacy of their burrows - you don't see naked mole rats throwing themselves at cats, do you?

Wait, maybe you do....


brenda m - Nov 08, 2005 4:50:57 am PST #3441 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Can I just say hooray for the government today, who sent me my piddly tax refund so that arrived this morning right while I was scrambling around trying to find a way to get an extra fifty bucks or so into my account before my gym payment comes in and overdraws? $83.50, baybee, and my (immediate) problems are solved.

How do I get myself into these spots?


§ ita § - Nov 08, 2005 4:52:21 am PST #3442 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Luckily GWB was there to get you out!


Lyra Jane - Nov 08, 2005 4:53:47 am PST #3443 of 10003
Up with the sun

Not that anyone asked me, but my answer (as a theist, but not one who feels tied to any specific religion) to the "why is there cruelty if there's a God" question is this: If there is a God, and He created and monitors the universe, His purposes and motivations and abilities must be so far beyond anything human beings can conceive of as to render our judgment on anything He does meaningless. It's like we're roaches bitching about Raid, from the Big Guy's perspective. And there's no way we can even begin to understand why He's spraying the Raid around, but there is a reason. Maybe not one we'd like, but one that makes sense to Him.

This doesn't make Him cruel. It certainly doesn't make Him kind. It simply makes Him what He is.


tommyrot - Nov 08, 2005 4:57:33 am PST #3444 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

God is the Orkin Man.

Or maybe God is the virus that makes us seek out cats.


Jars - Nov 08, 2005 4:57:53 am PST #3445 of 10003

Being an atheist is nice sometimes. Shit happens because shit happens. It's not deep, but it make sense to me.


tommyrot - Nov 08, 2005 5:01:06 am PST #3446 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Being an atheist is nice sometimes. Shit happens because shit happens. It's not deep, but it make sense to me.

Uh-huh.

I beg your pardon - I never promised you a rose garden.

Or:

"A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation"


Connie Neil - Nov 08, 2005 5:01:30 am PST #3447 of 10003
brillig

My take on my personal diety is that she's not there to stop bad things happening. She is ultimate comfort and support, though, and the occasional bit of minor good luck.


Jars - Nov 08, 2005 5:02:28 am PST #3448 of 10003

tommyrot, that is actually my favourite poem ever. It's on my desktop at the moment. Fills me with joy.


Emily - Nov 08, 2005 5:07:26 am PST #3449 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

If there is a God, and He created and monitors the universe, His purposes and motivations and abilities must be so far beyond anything human beings can conceive of as to render our judgment on anything He does meaningless. It's like we're roaches bitching about Raid, from the Big Guy's perspective.

Yeah, this is an entirely reasonable and fitting-the-facts view of things. The thing about that, though, is I can't see any reason why that God would be micromanagery and petty over who we have sex with and what we do on Sunday. Which, obviously, is fine with me.

Also, I had a dream this morning that we had a bunch of conservative Christians over to visit and I ended up arguing pretty seriously with one while cleaning up spilled spaghetti. She said she thought liberal democrats like me were making everything worse, and I said that was funny because I thought the same thing about people like her. Also, she said meara was doing heavy drugs. Alas, I awoke before my rebuttal.

(Later, I was Jim Ellison in a really freaky horror movie/video game in a haunted castle. There were really cool special effects, but no Republicans.)