Simon: The decision saved your life. Zoe: Won't happen again, sir. Mal: Good. And thanks. I'm grateful. Zoe: It was my pleasure, sir.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

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.


DebetEsse - Jun 17, 2007 8:44:30 am PDT #3460 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

IME, every Christian Church does Communion in one form or another. I'd actually be startled if one didn't, as it's sort of the central sacrament of the faith.

Growing up in the UCC (where denomination policies are not so much rules as guidelines. Suggestions, really), well, every church also does it differently.


vw bug - Jun 17, 2007 9:09:56 am PDT #3461 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

IME, every Christian Church does Communion in one form or another. I'd actually be startled if one didn't, as it's sort of the central sacrament of the faith.

This is also my experience.


megan walker - Jun 17, 2007 9:16:11 am PDT #3462 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

All my past Protestant churches have. Bread and teeny glasses of wine. They're passed around on trays rather than having people come up for them, IME.

That is my experience as a Congregationalist as well. Sometimes once a month, sometimes every week, depending on the church.


Theodosia - Jun 17, 2007 9:36:12 am PDT #3463 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

It's always amazed me since I learned of it that many Baptist churches celebrate the Eucharist with... grape juice?

There are times when I am very glad I attended a church towards the liberal-end of the Presbyterian spectrum in my youth, because we were actually expected to think.


Hil R. - Jun 17, 2007 9:40:06 am PDT #3464 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

It's always amazed me since I learned of it that many Baptist churches celebrate the Eucharist with... grape juice?

Mormons use water. They don't drink alcohol, and when the church started, unfermented grape juice wasn't available. Doctrines and Covenants says "it mattereth not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink when ye partake of the sacrament, if it so be that ye do it with an eye single to my glory."


Zenkitty - Jun 17, 2007 9:42:01 am PDT #3465 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Can't be wine. Because alcohol is the Devil.


Narrator - Jun 17, 2007 10:04:56 am PDT #3466 of 10001
The evil is this way?

Very good for them. Does Simpson, I wonder, need to backpay what was already given to him?

He probably would, if he had received any of the money. As I recall, the publisher paid $800,000 to a Florida corporation which was owned by OJ's kids. I think that Goldman probably asserted that this was a sham by Simpson to avoid paying the judgment (which is a no-no). However, I'm not sure that this will be successful where children and not the debtor, own the corporation.


vw bug - Jun 17, 2007 10:15:15 am PDT #3467 of 10001
Mostly lurking...

because we were actually expected to think.

Some of us still learned how to think.


aurelia - Jun 17, 2007 10:20:16 am PDT #3468 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Happy birthday, Cass!

The Simpson thing confuses me. Mostly because I don't think I paid much attention to the results of the civil case. But frankly, no matter who the money goes to, I have no interest in reading that book.


aurelia - Jun 17, 2007 10:23:03 am PDT #3469 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

It's always amazed me since I learned of it that many Baptist churches celebrate the Eucharist with... grape juice?

There are times when I am very glad I attended a church towards the liberal-end of the Presbyterian spectrum in my youth, because we were actually expected to think.

I missed a leap in here somewhere. Where does the non-thinking come in?