'Serenity'
[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.
I love that you people geek out about this stuff.
Shameful book confession: I've never read the bible. Mom wasn't religious, and Dad was pretty rigorously agnostic after growing up Very Catholic. I went to church a couple of times in my childhood, with friends' families, but that was a purely social thing. And now the onlyreason I'm even vaguely interested in reading the Bible is for ritual magic/occult research.
Linus recites from the book of Luke, but I don't know what version. Probably the King James.
I used to have an NIV/NASB concordance, to compare the differences in the translations, and I loved the shit out of that thing, from a purely geeky standpoint. I think I was supposed to say something like "it revealed the power of THE LORD more purely," or something like that, but I just totally got down with the little fiddly translate-y bits from the Greek.
t edit I really wasn't a very good freak-ass Christian.
King James bible has some of best poetry in English language. As a Jewish Atheist I own one for that reason. Part of me thinks a KJB is a very Goth thing to own, but as a non-Goth my opinion on that is not well informed.
I had a very academically annotated Bible I bought for a Bible as Lit course in grad school, which was a fantastic course, and I'd read it several times before then.
But I sold it at Half Price Books during one of my broke phases for gas or food. There are just SO many resources for the Bible on-line, I don't feel compelled to have a hard copy for reference.
Style guides and the Writer's Market are another matter...
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
Oh, I totally geek out and find it fascinating. I just don't believe in it.
Dang, I can't believe I can still geek out about this shit.
It is eminently geekable. This year my office Christmas party was a bus tour around the Yarra Valley (a wine region just outside Melbourne). I spent the bus ride out doing my own religious geekout in discussion with my boss.
I was the go-to authority of Catholicism and Saints and historical Christianity when I worked for the library cataloging company. We'd be doing libraries with extensive religious collections, and I'd get asked "Is that a person or a place or both or what?" My habit of muttering "Blessed Mother" when annoyed pretty much cemented my identity as "probably not a Protestant, well, she is from Back East, you know."
I love that you people geek out about this stuff.
Me too!