I am so tired. I hope that belly dancing gets me going this afternoon. I've missed the first 2 classes but since I've taken with this instructor before I think I should be OK.
All right, no one's killing folk today, on account of our very tight schedule.
Mal ,'Trash'
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.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 19, 2007 6:32:03 am PST #9054 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2007 6:51:55 am PST #9055 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I actually didn't find it that insulting, because he was referring to people who are writing books about religion and the religious, and I think they do have an obligation to know what they're talking about.
Yeah. If you're going to say "Theists say this and theists believe that" either in a book or one of 376 letters to Salon you should have some clue about what theists actually say and believe.
And if someone counters your mis-statement "well its all garbage anyway!" is not an intellectually rigorous response to their point.
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2007 7:08:30 am PST #9056 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
A particular peeve of mine is the assertion that if someone believes in God they are childish or deluded or insane. You can't prove there is such a thing as God. You are merely acting on social conditioning and certain chemical processes that you THINK are some effects of God. Belief in God is a dangerous plague on mankind and more people have been killed because of God...
Do you love your parents? Your friends? Your kids?
Unless you can replace "God" with "Love" (and some people can) you don't get to call me nuts for believing in something intangible yet significant.
Edit: Now I am going to go put that up on Salon and the point will be utterly ignored. Let's go watch!
Miracleman - Dec 19, 2007 7:29:38 am PST #9057 of 10002
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Do you love your parents? Your friends? Your kids?
Unless you can replace "God" with "Love" (and some people can)
Hmmm...
I God my parents.
I God my friends.
I God my kid.
...
My wife Gods me.
Trudy Booth - Dec 19, 2007 7:31:01 am PST #9058 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
aagh@@@
They' won't JUST ignore it! They'll get to pick at my symantics AND ignore it.
SCORE
juliana - Dec 19, 2007 7:36:48 am PST #9059 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
meara! The DC Kings are mentioned in an article in today's Slate! [link]
Emily - Dec 19, 2007 7:38:12 am PST #9060 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Have we not learned about Salon letters?
hippocampus - Dec 19, 2007 7:39:35 am PST #9061 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
::Pulls up chair in bitches. Seethes. Tries not to think. More seethe.::
Steph L. - Dec 19, 2007 7:50:36 am PST #9062 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
billytea, too. IIRC, he came to his atheism the same way that ND did; a seriously strong background in Bible knowledge, and then a whole lot of serious thought and wrestling with issues.
Aims - Dec 19, 2007 7:52:13 am PST #9063 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My wife Gods me.
At least once a day. *w*