Danke, Kristin.
Xander ,'End of Days'
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.
Oh dear. I have just discovered a drawback to teaching the Bible as literature. One of my students just gave me a photo album with a godawful picture of two half naked angels on the front. Um.
t passes Kristin brain bleach and mental floss
I've been nodding and pondering all through the religion discussion. It's a strange topic for me, because in a lot of ways I feel like I should be an atheist now. It just seems to be what happens to people from my type of religious background who have a hyper-analytical turn of mind--see under billytea and ND, and I could list example after example from elsewhere in my life. And I've almost come to that point more times than I can count, but I can't seem to pull the trigger. I can't prove there's a God, and the kind of Christianity I was raised to believe just doesn't hold up under my own scrutiny anymore...but I want to believe, and there's still plenty out there that convinces me that there very well might be a God. So I'm sort of an agnostic Christian. Or, as I sometimes explain it, I have the faith of Puddleglum--I try to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there is no Narnia, and I'm on Aslan's side even if there is no Aslan to lead it.
Heh. Um, I have, of course been sleeping or making my way in to the hospital for the day, so I've only just caught up on the discussion this morning.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that anybody (especially anybody here) needs to justify their theism, atheism, or non-interest. But I damn well do think people need to justify their willful, arrogant ignorance.
Actually I don't think anybody needs to justify that, either, but I reserve the right to hold such people in contempt.
I'm pretty sure.
I'd like to think you'd remember...
Jessica, I'm around and on IM if you can do that kinda thing. It's drewsound on AIM.
I'd like to think you'd remember...
Oh, I remember.
Hee.
Note to Shelby Steele:
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
(Apologies to anyone who really likes his stuff, but with the cramps and PMS, I can't really take him this afternoon)
I'm being very random today.
Susan, that was just beautiful.
I guess I'm sort of like Susan. I'm a Hindu agnostic.
Or, as I sometimes explain it, I have the faith of Puddleglum--I try to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there is no Narnia, and I'm on Aslan's side even if there is no Aslan to lead it.
Hearting this.