Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Finally, after spending all morning on the phone, my prescription is called in. I feel like enough shit that I don't want to drive, but fuck that. There's only so much of this I can handle and remain rational, and I past that hours ago.
He still hasn't refilled another prescription that has to be mailed in from the UK, so I'm definitely going to run out. Grr.
Amyth, I concur with everyone that says numb is good right now. Process in your own time, later.
Video about an exhibition of rock and roll photography in Akron. (Travelling from the Brooklyn Museum.)
That photoretrospective of the gullwings was gorgeous.
A church threatens to hand over a member to Satan if she won't repent for her sin. Her sin was getting a divorce.
While polite, the letter has nasty implications....
For those who thought all Australia's wildlife was just waiting for the moment you turned your back... Well, they are, but some of them are just looking for their chance to tidy up after you: [link]
Why are people at work doing their damnedest to drive me bugfuck today?
Bingo!
Australia really has the coolest animals. Granted, some want to kill you but they do it in really nifty ways. It's like they got sent off on their own and were like, "Fine, I'll evolve totally different creatures. I don't need your biodiversity, I've got my own." And then the mammals laid eggs or got venomous and, lo, the Discovery Channel rejoiced.
... I might not have had enough sleep last night (okay, this morning) ...
A church threatens to hand over a member to Satan if she won't repent for her sin. Her sin was getting a divorce.
That could have been written by the Freak-Ass Church. They did basically the same thing to someone while I was there (which was the beginning of the end for me, because I just couldn't agree with that kind of attitude). And when someone else left the church (not because of divorce, but just because he was a human with free will and agency who decided the church wasn't for him), my home church had a meeting specifically about him, and how we were to treat him if we encountered him -- we didn't have to shun him like the divorced person, because he "didn't leave the church due to sin," but we were not supposed to "waste" time with him that we could otherwise be using "profitably for THE LORD."
I believe the phrase was "if he decided to leave the church, he decided to give up the benefits of our friendship." (Hey, y'all: WWJD? Act like a gaping ASSHOLE, apparently.)
I am so not making that up. Because, of course, the same thing happened to me when I left, which I knew would happen. One of the church elders once said that, of all the people who left the Freak-Ass Church over time, "none of them had a valid reason for leaving." Other than, you know, the whole thing about making your own damn choices because you're a damn adult.
And I actually asked that of the elder -- "There's NO 'valid' reason to leave [FAC]?!?" And he said "No theological reason, no. And that makes them not right with God." You know, I think the people who got the fuck out of that church were "not right" with the church, but just fine with God.
Sign #1 of a cult: you mistake yourself for God.
(That was the same elder who told me that I "wasn't allowed" to date anyone not from our church. To be clear, he didn't say I couldn't date anyone who wasn't a *Christian,* but that I couldn't date someone who didn't belong to our freaky church. Because "You can never know if someone who belongs to another church is *really* a Christian, because a lot of them aren't."
Sign #1 of a cult: YOU THINK YOU'RE GOD. Because last time I checked, I don't really know how some looney dude who thinks he's awesome because he's the church elder of a church full of crazy people is able to know the faith/salvation/whatever status of anyone other than himself. I never figured out if he had radar, ESP, or what.)
It's interesting how people who AREN'T completely separated from reality and batshit crazy can manage to have friendships with people who aren't in their same church (or -- gasp -- not in any church at all).