Vortex:
It will be a huge change, but worth it, I think.
Whoah. No kidding. It sounds scary and awesome.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Tom Scola - Oct 18, 2011 7:52:02 am PDT #2033 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Hil R. - Oct 18, 2011 7:53:03 am PDT #2034 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The thing that gets me is that this went all the way into the '80s! the 1980s! You'd think this kind of thing would be in the 1880s or during WWII, but no.
Yeah. I hear "Catholic Church" and "kidnapping," and I think Edgardo Montara.
Scrappy - Oct 18, 2011 7:53:46 am PDT #2035 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Congrats, Vortex! Sounds like a GOOD change for you!
Consuela - Oct 18, 2011 7:53:58 am PDT #2036 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
espousing things like -- his (Tim's Dad) salvation is contingent on getting his children to come back to the church
Seriously? That's ... not very Catholic, to me. No church I've ever attended had that kind of attitude. But then if it did, I wouldn't have been going there.
I wonder if we are getting an intersection of the old-line Catholicism and the new evangelical mega-churches. Certainly the conservatism of the Church hierarchy aligns better with the evangelicals than it does with the old blue-collar unionized/progressive base it used to rely on.
Nobody's talking about liberation theology anymore, that's for sure.
Consuela - Oct 18, 2011 7:55:14 am PDT #2037 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
cold tea:
Vortex, congratulations! I hope you find it challenging and rewarding.
-t - Oct 18, 2011 7:56:42 am PDT #2038 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Vortex, that is wonderful news! I am abstractly fond of Harford Insurance because they took good care of my MiL after Katrina (when not all insurance companies were so inclined), so I'm hopeful it will be a good place to work.
Jesse - Oct 18, 2011 7:56:50 am PDT #2039 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Congrats, Vortex! That's very exciting!
Steph L. - Oct 18, 2011 7:57:29 am PDT #2040 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
espousing things like -- his (Tim's Dad) salvation is contingent on getting his children to come back to the church
Seriously? That's ... not very Catholic, to me. No church I've ever attended had that kind of attitude. But then if it did, I wouldn't have been going there.
Yeah, I was literally speechless when he said that. I have never heard of such a thing. His parish is a little weird.
Nobody's talking about liberation theology anymore, that's for sure.
And that (liberation theology) was something I loved about Catholicism. Don't know where it went.
lisah - Oct 18, 2011 8:00:11 am PDT #2041 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Congrats, Vortex!!!
Vortex - Oct 18, 2011 8:00:40 am PDT #2042 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
It sounds scary and awesome.
That's exactly it.