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.
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
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."
Betsy HP - Feb 28, 2006 8:25:58 am PST #42 of 28094
If I only had a brain...
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.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2006 9:43:42 am PST #48 of 28094
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
"Go forth and multiply" was a post-Flood thing, so I think it still works for them.
It's been ages since confirmation class, but IIRC, there are very specific rules in the Torah about how often married Jews are required to have sex, depending on what tribe you're from.
Aims - Feb 28, 2006 9:44:50 am PST #49 of 28094
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My family descended from the AlwaysFuckin Tribe.
looks askance at dad's 12 siblings
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2006 10:07:17 am PST #50 of 28094
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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
We were just talking about this at work -- even if there's stuff in DVC that's *only* and provably from HBatHG, you can't copyright an idea, so I'm not sure where the teeth are in the lawsuit. Except that it's conveniently timed to coincide with the movie coming out.
Calli - Feb 28, 2006 10:22:21 am PST #51 of 28094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I wonder if the attention to HBatHG will generate enough renewed sales to cover their legal costs.