Buffistas

Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.

Snyder ,'Chosen'

Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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ChiKat - Feb 27, 2006 12:41:38 pm PST #38 of 28094

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?

JZ, you remember as I do, but then, we could both be wrong.

connie, if you liked that book, you might like some stuff by Marcus Borg, specifically Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time which goes into historical Jesus vs. theological Jesus (keeping in mind that Borg is a Christian). He goes into a lot of literary criticism stuff, too.

Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 27, 2006 12:54:03 pm PST #39 of 28094

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Rufus made a big point of the unlikelihood of Mary remaining a virgin during all her years of marriage to Joseph, and said the line of the Last Scion went back to Jesus' sibling(s). So, a blessed and free-of-original sin progenitor, but not actual divine origin.

esse - Feb 27, 2006 5:32:05 pm PST #40 of 28094

S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

(ps love the thread title.)

DebetEsse - Feb 27, 2006 7:21:10 pm PST #41 of 28094

Woe to the fucking wicked.

Matt is right.

The Great great great great great great great great great grand-niece of Jesus Christ

My understanding is that there is a lot of stuff in DVC that's pretty much only from HBatHG, which had a good number of ideas exclusive to it (no, I don't remember a specific example. Some of the supporting stuff, not just the magdeline duaghter premise)

Betsy HP - Feb 28, 2006 8:25:58 am PST #42 of 28094

If I only had a brain...

It's pretty much only the Catholics who insist on the ever-virgin thing. Everybody else takes the line in the Bible about "the brothers of Jesus" at face value.

Calli - Feb 28, 2006 8:39:56 am PST #43 of 28094

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

It's pretty much only the Catholics who insist on the ever-virgin thing.

I kind of wonder about that. I mean, Mary was supposedly married to Joseph after Jesus's birth, right? Aren't married folks kind of supposed to go forth and multiply under Catholic doctrine? How does Mary staying a virgin after His birth make Jesus any more Jesus-y?

I suspect I should corner a nice Jesuit and ask him about this sort of thing.

Aims - Feb 28, 2006 9:14:27 am PST #44 of 28094

Shit's all sorts of different now.

We should find a Jesuit and make him a Buffista.

DXMachina - Feb 28, 2006 9:21:40 am PST #45 of 28094

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Aren't married folks kind of supposed to go forth and multiply under Catholic doctrine?

Mary and Joseph weren't Catholic. They were Jewish.

Fred Pete - Feb 28, 2006 9:33:54 am PST #46 of 28094

Ann, that's a ferret.

I also doubt that the Church these days would expect married couples to go forth. First, or maybe second if someone really important is around. But not as low as forth.

Calli - Feb 28, 2006 9:41:00 am PST #47 of 28094

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Mary and Joseph weren't Catholic. They were Jewish.

True. And "Go forth and multiply" was a post-Flood thing, so I think it still works for them.

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