Spike ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
I like Woody Allen's version of this, from an early essay:
"If there is a God then tell me Uncle, why is there poverty . . . and baldness."
Actually, that explains alot.
Speaking of the evolution of language, I read the phrase "equality and parody evaluations" this morning in an HR context. Which sort of mocks itself, really.
Also, I am rip-roaring mad at my child care center, the lying fuckity-fucks who owe me $170.
Maybe we're just an elaborate reality show for a race of hyperdimensional beings with too much time on their hands (or pseudopods, energy fluxes, whatever).
"Which leads me to the question..."
That works, except that usage of "begs the question" implies that a typical, intelligent reader will come up with the same question. I think.
Maybe, "Which leads us to the question..."?
(Personally, I've always thought that polytheism makes the most sense for presupposing divine Creation. "Internal fetal development!" "Egg-laying!" "Screw you guys, I'm going to Australia!")
Maybe we're just an elaborate reality show for a race of hyperdimensional beings with too much time on their hands (or pseudopods, energy fluxes, whatever).
Which means someone's writing fanfic about us and making bets as to who is going to hook up.
Which means someone's writing fanfic about us and making bets as to who is going to hook up.
And we're being mocked on www.spacetimeconstructwithoutpity.com
Which means someone's writing fanfic about us and making bets as to who is going to hook up.
So being gay results in more audience approval?
And we're being mocked on www.spacetimeconstructwithoutpity.com
I'd love to read THOSE recaps.