I'm uncomfortable with the notion that you have to earn the right to disbelief, or to discussing that disbelief and having it taken seriously.
What Brenda Said.
Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.
'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jessica - Dec 19, 2007 5:29:54 am PST #9036 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Daisy Jane - Dec 19, 2007 5:39:20 am PST #9037 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Standing in the corner with Emily, brenda and Jessica.
I'm interested in different religious practices, but mostly in an anthropological sense (is that the word I'm looking for?)
Pix - Dec 19, 2007 5:40:25 am PST #9038 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I find it deeply amusing that when I need religious info, I always turn to my favorite atheist. ND helped me so much while I was teaching the Bible as literature; I don't know what I would have done without him.
Not only could he explain anything I didn't understand, he gave me history, a synopsis of any controversy surrounding the story, and context for how it has been interpreted culturally. That boy KNOWS his Bible.
Vortex - Dec 19, 2007 5:43:47 am PST #9039 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
In fact when I entered college I was planning to be a Pastor.
This? Never not funny. Although I think that you would have been an excellent one had you chosen that path. You would have been the pastor that all of the kids loved, that the conservative parents looked at skeptically, and would have had the strongest church in town.
NoiseDesign - Dec 19, 2007 5:45:25 am PST #9040 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Instead I just do theatre.
Vortex - Dec 19, 2007 5:46:32 am PST #9041 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Instead I just do theatre.
still loved by the kids, still looked at skeptically by conservative parents, and strongest productions in town ;)
NoiseDesign - Dec 19, 2007 5:47:12 am PST #9042 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Oooo, I might be getting a trip to Stockholm for a couple of days at the beginning of February.
Toddson - Dec 19, 2007 5:49:44 am PST #9043 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Nobel prize in sound design?
NoiseDesign - Dec 19, 2007 5:50:32 am PST #9044 of 10002
Our wings are not tired
Bwah! Somehow I think not. It's looking like I get to teach a class out there.
vw bug - Dec 19, 2007 5:54:26 am PST #9045 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
I'm uncomfortable with the notion that you have to earn the right to disbelief, or to discussing that disbelief and having it taken seriously.
I am uncomfortable with the assumption that this is what Hil (or those agreeing with Hil) means, especially when she doesn't seem to be here right now to clarify.
I have a great amount of respect for people's religious or non-religious beliefs, no matter how they got there. And I don't (usually...I can't remember situations where I may have, but I'm not going to say they don't exist or haven't existed in the past) get into discussions with people about my religious beliefs unless they initiate the discussion. And, if someone says they just don't believe in a higher power, I don't try to convince them otherwise, no matter their reasoning. And usually things just drop there.
This is a really touchy subject, clearly for a lot of people, but I feel like we're going to reach kerfuffle status very quickly if we try to continue to make distinctions about this topic.
Walking away now.