re: the Rapture
Personally, I really like Wonderella's take on it: [link]
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Steph L. - May 21, 2011 6:59:49 am PDT #9087 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
-t - May 21, 2011 7:04:19 am PDT #9088 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The thing is, he's not even hired yet!
Seriously? Wow.
Kate P. - May 21, 2011 7:11:44 am PDT #9089 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Liese, sounds like he's not going to get hired.
Steph, that was AWESOME.
Erin, I just had a major worlds-colliding moment: The first commenter on your most recent Facebook post ALSO just commented on my mother's most recent Facebook post! (She's someone my mom knows from the days when we were both on an email discussion list for fans of Dar Williams, back in the day.)
Connie Neil - May 21, 2011 7:14:53 am PDT #9090 of 30001
brillig
Back in the day, when I was in my early teens, I was at church youth camp. They showed a movie about the second coming (Rapture is what those weird people who spoke in tongues etc. talked about). The thing that stuck with me most in the movie was a girl my age (oh, the coincidence) who had just heard a sermon about how people would disappear, and she's going around the house trying to find her family, who are all outside, and she starts having screaming hysterics because she thinks she's been left behind. Fortunately, all her family rushes in and reassures her, and they have a touching family prayer moment to reassure her that she's a good kid and God won't forget her.
It took me a while to see that as psychological abuse, not the call to repentance and faith that it was supposed to be.
Liese S. - May 21, 2011 7:15:55 am PDT #9091 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Liese, sounds like he's not going to get hired.
That's the thing. I will bet you one billions dollars he does get hired. Because 1. he's buddies with the pastors, and that's how those things work with this particular group of guys, and 2. they have no other candidates, despite knowing that they needed to hire since Februrary. If they'd started looking then, we could have had a nice working together period with the old leader. But as far as I can tell, they didn't start looking until the old leader was actually gone.
Kate P. - May 21, 2011 7:21:39 am PDT #9092 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ah, yeah, that's super frustrating! I'm sorry he's turning out to be such a flake.
billytea - May 21, 2011 7:33:38 am PDT #9093 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Personally, I really like Wonderella's take on it:
I am quite smitten by the mouseover text.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 21, 2011 7:46:47 am PDT #9094 of 30001
"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
It would be funny to see the televangelists' reaction to that announcement.
"What did you think I meant by 'love thy fellow man,' anyway?"
amyth - May 21, 2011 7:48:47 am PDT #9095 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
I'm totally emailing a link to that Wonderella comic to the kinderqueers. Who would love it more than gay seminarians?
Also, my iPhone autocompletes for kinderqueers now. Heh.
aurelia - May 21, 2011 7:53:53 am PDT #9096 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
You know what this day needs? A random penguin video. [link]