Barb! I was cleaning out my desk and found a packet of letters for you that I never sent. of course, now I can't find your address. Can you please e it to me? msgullo at gmail dot com. Thanks!
I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
Kat - Dec 30, 2008 5:22:15 am PST #8520 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Gudanov - Dec 30, 2008 5:24:35 am PST #8521 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
My uncle just became my friend on Facebook. I'm not sure how I feel about this.
I have too many categories of people in Facebook, I'd like it if FB had group level access control.
Gudanov - Dec 30, 2008 5:30:39 am PST #8522 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Sorry to hear about your job Shir.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 30, 2008 5:37:05 am PST #8523 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Dude, Jesus was WAY cool.
I love it that he was exactly the kind of person his most vociferous followers would condemn as a bleeding-heart Dirty Hippie these days.
Whenever my mom gets snotty about people wearing less than Sunday best to church, I fire back with "So Jesus had a dress code for the lepers, beggars, and whores he ministered to, did he?"
tommyrot - Dec 30, 2008 5:54:08 am PST #8524 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hilarious & Crazy Signage, Part 12
My fave is the sign that says "Dog Crossing" with another sign below it that says:
Old Dog
Young Dog
Several Stupid Dogs
Please Drive Slowly
Also the "Please No Defecating on Subway" sign. (The CTA could use such a sign, based on one experience I had.)
Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2008 6:00:06 am PST #8525 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jesse - Dec 30, 2008 6:03:36 am PST #8526 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am in love with "No vague malaise/No epic complaints."
Kathy A - Dec 30, 2008 6:25:36 am PST #8527 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
heavily bible-based, with a very strong emphasis on studying the nuances of the original languages the books were written in, as well as the historical/social/cultural context, and yet *rigidly* literal in their interpretation
Bart Ehrman, the author of Misquoting Jesus, says in his introduction to that book that he was a literal interpreter of the Bible until he started studying it, whereupon he became more convinced that, since no one really knows what the original writers of the Bible truly wrote (the earliest written manuscript remaining at this point dates to the 4th century), you can't really interpret it literally.
Shir - Dec 30, 2008 6:41:28 am PST #8528 of 10002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Update: rumors about potential cease fire for 48 hours!
(Full deny on both sides, but it's getting headlines. Please, please, please, please let it be true and lasting).
Steph L. - Dec 30, 2008 6:42:42 am PST #8529 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Bart Ehrman, the author of Misquoting Jesus, says in his introduction to that book that he was a literal interpreter of the Bible until he started studying it, whereupon he became more convinced that, since no one really knows what the original writers of the Bible truly wrote (the earliest written manuscript remaining at this point dates to the 4th century), you can't really interpret it literally.
That's been my conclusion, as well. The FAC's fatal flaw (regarding my membership) was to educate me too well.
Also? Even if one believes the bible was divinely inspired, God the celestial being did not actually take pen/quill/stylus in his/her/its divine hand and write the bible.
WRITTEN BY HUMANS. Who are, you know, WAY flawed. And most (all?) were male, so they have a certain....bias.
TRANSLATED BY HUMANS. Who are [blah blah see above].
There's some good stuff in it. One of the things the FAC teaches about bible interpretation is that you don't camp out on *one* passage, or *one* concept that's never repeated again; instead you look at the whole shebang, and at what concept/message is repeated over and over and over and over. Which is, basically: God loves all of us.
And *that,* I can get behind as "what the bible says."