Even knowing where it was going, Theo owes me a new monitor.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 15, 2007 5:39:45 am PDT #7222 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Nutty - Mar 15, 2007 5:39:56 am PDT #7223 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Children's Bible stories can be great, though! I mean, the Old Testament anyway -- people are constantly killing each other! And there is lust and murder and occasionally oil-anointing!
(My mother had a children's illustrated Bible at one point, written in modern prose, and I came away from the image of the anointing of David with some vaguely dirty ideas of what the whole thing was about.)
Do you all read the occasional series on Slate about blogging the Bible? It's hilarious, and the author will sometimes really say, "And I don't have anything to say about Books 2-4 of [Book Name], because they are boring."
Frankenbuddha - Mar 15, 2007 5:42:41 am PDT #7224 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Children's Bible stories can be great, though! I mean, the Old Testament anyway -- people are constantly killing each other! And there is lust and murder and occasionally oil-anointing!
Suddenly reminded of Alex's Bible fantasies while in prison in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2007 5:44:58 am PDT #7225 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
When I was a kid in sunday school, we were always acting out bible stories. We did the good Samaritan all the time, who knows why. But one day, we decided to do the sacrifice of Isaac -- and our sunday school room was next to the kitchen, so someone went and got an ENORMOUS KNIFE. The adults were not thrilled, I tell you what.
Cashmere - Mar 15, 2007 5:56:08 am PDT #7226 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Cash, how did the kids react (if they saw him)?
I was going to take the kids downtown to see him but I couldn't get us around. He made the rounds in the building (to raise some more money) and I'm pretty sure he ditched the costume as early as possible. He's got a good sense of humor but that beard looks itchy.
Ginger - Mar 15, 2007 5:57:32 am PDT #7227 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think it's important that the King James Bible be taught as literature, because it's one of the crowning accomplishments of the literature of the 17th century, and its cadence and phrasing are tremendously influential. If you haven't read at least some of the King James Bible, you're handicapped in reading many authors.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2007 5:58:25 am PDT #7228 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I remember we had to do illustrations in Religious Studies. Nice simple way to see what we were getting. The one I remember most clearly is the temptations of Siddartha under the bo tree. Possibly because I really wanted to draw girls in not much clothes.
bon bon - Mar 15, 2007 6:03:41 am PDT #7229 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
When I was in college I took a kind of "Foundations of Literature" class and we had to read the King James. Around the same time I started working as a copy editor at the newspaper. I used my downtime to do my reading for that class. For a semester (this was a very liberal liberal arts college) they all though I was some fundamentalist who relaxed with the Bible.
Jesse - Mar 15, 2007 6:06:49 am PDT #7230 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just got a ridiculously exciting reprieve -- I have something that needs to be emailed by 3, but I just realized it needs to be emailed to Wisconsin by three! I have a whole extra hour!!
sarameg - Mar 15, 2007 6:10:07 am PDT #7231 of 10001
My college required one religion course (it was a Quaker college, afterall.) They had some really interesting and varied courses, in addition to the basic comparative type ones. I wanted to take a fairly broad one. Of course, what happened was that my majors, as usual, locked up my schedule so all I could take was a course on the New Testement. I resented the hell out of it largely because it wasn't what I wanted to take, and transfered this resentment to the work itself. It was sort of literary/historical and now? I'd find it interesting.
At the time, well... there was lots of cursing.