My advisor submitted my letter of recommendation.
Woot! Finally.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Dana - Dec 10, 2009 7:55:11 am PST #2990 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
WindSparrow - Dec 10, 2009 8:08:41 am PST #2991 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
My advisor submitted my letter of recommendation.
Cue Handel: Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Haaaaaaaaaaallelujah!
ducks
Connie Neil - Dec 10, 2009 8:19:07 am PST #2992 of 30000
brillig
Do you ever have to deal with that advisor again?
Steph L. - Dec 10, 2009 8:37:07 am PST #2993 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
"Magical beliefs"? What's magic about them?
Prayer specifically, the story of Christ, the idea of the holy ghost. Religion is myth and superstition. That that fills a need for some people, the majority of people even, isn't a net good or bad, but I do feel that I am expected to be ok with myth and superstition governing my life.
I think that it's absolutely not right for anyone to expect other people to adhere to their belief system. 100%.
But it's also not right to denigrate another belief system by referring to it as "magical beliefs." If you would like respect from people of belief systems not your own, then I think a good way to approach that is to respect them as well.
You may consider prayer, the idea of Christ as God, and the Holy Spirit to be "magical," but the people who believe in them do not consider them to be "magic," and to suggest that is just as disrespectful as Christians expecting atheists to get on board with the godhood of Christ.
Pix - Dec 10, 2009 8:44:15 am PST #2994 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I am an atheist who has an emotional attachment to the idea of Christmas as embodied in A Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and the "Yes, Virginia" editorial. I'm also fond of the music. I think there is some human need for festival at the darkest time of the year.
Ginger is me. I was raised Christian and adore Christmas, but I am now agnostic at best. I love my tree and giving presents and even the music (though I prefer classics and jazz versions of such rather than the newer cheese) even though I no longer consider myself a Christian. Maybe I should change, but I don't want to. I also don't tell other people they should celebrate secularly just because I do, though.
Hil, great news!
Vortex - Dec 10, 2009 8:49:32 am PST #2995 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
My advisor submitted my letter of recommendation.
do you have proof, or did he just say that he did? Did you have to stalk him after his class?
Toddson - Dec 10, 2009 8:49:44 am PST #2996 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Yay for Hil! may you never have to deal with that advisor again!
I'm coming at Christmas from the opposite of most people - after having been raised in a family that was culturally Christian, but not religious, I've joined a church and am now trying to put aside my family's secular approach (it's all about the presents! spending! eating! getting drunk) and approach it as a religious holiday. The fact that I spend Christmas with my family and don't really want to go through the hassle that would be involved in going to church in their area makes it harder.
omnis_audis - Dec 10, 2009 8:52:22 am PST #2997 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Hil, great news!
In my workplace, I have a phone extension! I have a phone! It just doesn't work yet. Hopefully, after lunch the tech guy will call back and tell us what to do when the display gets stuck on network set up and says: "Bad tftp1 address". But it's progress!!!
Oh, and elevator #3 isn't working today. Thankfully, it's #4 that goes to my floor. Maybe only 3 of 4 can be working at a time??? This new fandangled elevator technology. (mind you, the cabs were installed close to a YEAR ago, and still not working right!).
Strix - Dec 10, 2009 9:04:33 am PST #2998 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The nice thing about being agnostic is that you get ALL the holidays, and you're never a hypocrite. I can be all "I get the underlying ethical premise for this holiday and support you in email."
Or be all "Does not compute! I will leave this one to the believers, because I do not agree. Have fun!"
Holidays I like best...Halloween (memento mori, acknowledging ancestors AND laissez le bon temps rouler: made of WIN!) , Yom Kippur (it seems completely logical to me from a psychological PoV -- accountability and action. Me likey), Diwali (joy and fun) and Yulemaskwanzakah (which, to me, ultimately boils down to "Hey! winter is necessary, but kinda blows! Let's think about happy thoughts, light and community. Also, let's constructively set some shit on fire."
(I'm not dissing anyone, or making light of dearly held religious beliefs, btw. Clutch them to your bosom and call them George! I'm just saying what my perspective is.)
Hil R. - Dec 10, 2009 9:21:19 am PST #2999 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
do you have proof, or did he just say that he did? Did you have to stalk him after his class?
I have proof. I did not have to stalk him after his class, because he called me right before his class to tell me that he'd submitted the letter and to ask me to go tell his students that his class was canceled.