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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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Emily - Feb 28, 2006 4:53:49 pm PST #55 of 27942

"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

How does Mary staying a virgin after His birth make Jesus any more Jesus-y?

I'd imagine for the same reason Mary's conception got made immaculate -- if she's sin-free enough to bear Jesus, she's sin-free enough to stay that way. In other words, get the sex as far away from Jesus as possible.

brenda m - Feb 28, 2006 4:59:28 pm PST #56 of 27942

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

Don't fuck with the Jesus?

DebetEsse - Feb 28, 2006 5:02:19 pm PST #57 of 27942

Woe to the fucking wicked.

or in the same zip code

Betsy HP - Mar 01, 2006 5:17:29 am PST #58 of 27942

If I only had a brain...

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?

Actually, married couples deciding to abstain from sex is praiseworthy in Catholicism; I'm pretty sure that a couple of saints were married but abstinent.

ChiKat - Mar 01, 2006 8:42:53 am PST #59 of 27942

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?

Not saints, but Abelard and Heloise. Of course, Heloise didn't want to be celibate, but Abelard forced it.

Dana - Mar 01, 2006 1:32:10 pm PST #60 of 27942

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Margery Kempe made her husband be celibate for a while too.

Consuela - Mar 01, 2006 3:15:12 pm PST #61 of 27942

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Um, didn't Heloise' uncle cut off Abelard's penis to enforce the celibacy?

Hmm, according to Wikipedia, well after the celibacy was broken.

Strix - Mar 01, 2006 4:43:53 pm PST #62 of 27942

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Gonads, not the tool o' love itself.

DavidS - Mar 02, 2006 8:58:58 am PST #63 of 27942

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Gonads, not the tool o' love itself.

That's right! Castration is generally not accompanied by dick amputation.

Though in certain Malaysian countries it is not uncommon for women to cut off the johnsons of their cheating husbands and throw it to the pigs.

ChiKat - Mar 02, 2006 8:59:28 am PST #64 of 27942

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?

IIRC, Abelard and Heloise started of having an affair. She was his student. Her uncle (and guardian) found out and sent her away to a convent. They continued the affair. She got knocked up, had the baby, then they married secretly.

After they married, the uncle castrated Abelard as a revenge sort of thing because he thought they weren't married or possibly that Abelard left Heloise (which he didn't).

The celibacy was forced at that point, but even beyond the physical intimacy, Abelard had some sort of change of heart due to the castration and thought he should be pure of mind and spirit which meant cutting Heloise completely out of his life. (This was a time when scholars and priests thought that just being near women would taint them and keep them from achieving intellectual and spiritual enlightenment.)

She tried to have a relationship with him and craved emotional intimacy, but he refused her.

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