Somebody please remind me that I have better things to do with my time tonight than argue with biblical literalists.

I was reminded on Ta-Nehisis Coates's blog today that reason #1 for rejecting a biblical argument against gay marriage is that polygamy and concubines and all the rest were A-OK in biblical times and communities. Argh.

Silverfoxes.provocateuse.com v .5 (alpha).

Took me 5 episodes to work out why the show is called "30 Rock." And to decide it's not for me. I don't like the supporting cast enough.

Today is never actually going to end, is it?

eta: But now I have FUN stuff to look at, at least.

ita, do you need me to do any research for more pictures?

polygamy and concubines and all the rest were A-OK in biblical times and communities

Was that still true in New Testament time? The Leviticus prohibitions can be ignored because of all the other rules that are no longer enforced, but I'm not sure what the best counter to Paul's prohibitions are. Aside from Paul being a general all-around "I hate everyone who's not me" type.

Took me 5 episodes to work out why the show is called "30 Rock."

Why? It's not for me enough that I've never made it that far.

ita, is this silver enough: [link]

The Leviticus prohibitions can be ignored because of all the other rules that are no longer enforced,

People still quote them all the time, though! Even though Jesus said we didn't have to follow all the old laws anymore! (Opening the door for shrimp at office parties and the Reuben sandwich, among so many other things....) I have no need to follow Paul, so maybe I just ignore him.

Guh.

[edit: Guh was in response to Clooney, not shrimp. Although shrimps are delicious too. Just not Clooney levels of tasty.]

I have lobster! in my fridge! They are already dead, thank god.

I had a horrible moment when I realized that I was going to have to take them out of the box because I couldn't stick the whole thing in the freezer if my parents wanted them for supper tomorrow. Then I realized I could just take the frozen peas (how they get around the liquid restrictions on flights) out of the box, stick the box in the fridge and put the peas in the freezer. No lobster touching required.

I have lobster! in my fridge! They are already dead, thank god.

Heh. That reminds me of a night a few years ago, when I was working at a summer program in Baltimore.

I went into the staff dorm common room, and found out that a bunch of the other staff had gone and bought a bag of live crabs, figuring that eating crabs was something they should do in Baltimore. I didn't really feel like being around for the killing of the crabs, so I went back into my room and read for a while. After a bit, I was getting bored, so I went back to the common room. Two of the biology teachers were testing the reflexes of the crabs, which were all still alive. I rolled my eyes and left again.

About an hour later, I went back. The crabs: still alive. The staff: drunk. It was getting late, and I went to bed.

I found out the next morning that none of them actually knew how to cook crabs. They thought you had to kill them before steaming them. They had killed them by stabbing them with the end of a wire coat hanger.