Many people said what I was hoping to convey much more succinctly than I managed. For all I like to think of myself as a big picture person, sometimes I can't describe the forest because I get stuck on the trees.
You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[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.
WindSparrow - Mar 06, 2011 11:14:33 am PST #16876 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.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Mar 06, 2011 11:35:55 am PST #16877 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Shir!
Today I sang two services and planned tomorrow's teaching and wrote some of my paper on gospel healing narratives and did some singing practice and went out for lunch and debated theology with The Girl AND fit in a drink in the pub after evensong, so I'm a bit too tired for the history. And also my brain is full of cotton wool and biblical studies. But it's interesting history all the same.
billytea - Mar 06, 2011 11:36:07 am PST #16878 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I am of the opinion that all I need to know about American history may be found in this article: [link]
billytea - Mar 06, 2011 11:36:08 am PST #16879 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Strix - Mar 06, 2011 11:57:56 am PST #16880 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Awesome dovetail with what I am immersed in teaching right now! I am teaching Native Son and The Poisonwood Bible, and the kids are (mostly) digging them. We just came off of Oedipus and Beowulf and these are much more accessible for them, and we're having some good conversations!
I miss Shir, too! I cut the stamps off the box you sent me to send to my stepson, who's Jewish, and was FASCINATED by the fact that I got a box from Israel and I'm NOT EVEN JEWISH! Crazy!!
OK, back to work.
Ginger - Mar 06, 2011 1:20:20 pm PST #16881 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One of the ironies of American history is that Jefferson doomed his own vision of a loose confederation of states inhabited by sturdy yeoman farmers by being unable to pass up one of the great bargains of all time: the Louisiana Purchase. When more land is owned by the government than all the states combined, you end up with a strong central government whether you want it or not.
While the Pilgrims and Puritans were escaping a state-run religion, they promptly established a theocracy that as intolerant as the one they left, and that was certainly part of the thinking behind freedom of religion. The men behind the revolution were a motley crew of Deists, atheists, Unitarians and freethinkers who would be appalled at the notion of this being established as a Christian nation. As Jefferson said, "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
Steph L. - Mar 06, 2011 1:40:51 pm PST #16882 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I am of the opinion that all I need to know about American history may be found in this article: [link]
Right? Andrew Jackson = BAMF.
beekaytee - Mar 06, 2011 2:21:23 pm PST #16883 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
As Jefferson said, "it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
I've never heard that quote, Ginger. That's fantastic.
billytea - Mar 06, 2011 2:23:16 pm PST #16884 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Right? Andrew Jackson = BAMF.
My dad's birthday present last year was a biography of Andrew Jackson, with a printout of that article inside the front cover.
Zenkitty - Mar 06, 2011 3:00:42 pm PST #16885 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I love how smart you all are.
This is why I love studying. It makes sense of the world, and makes the world so much richer with meaning.
This is why I love Shir.
Ginger, thanks for the coop link! I will use to make my garden grow.