Adam @ 84:
V jngpurq gur rcvfbqr ntnva - V zhfg unir tbar gb gur xvgpura qhevat gur NW tbrf Ubyyljbbq cbegvba naq zvffrq vg gur svefg gvzr guebhtu. V guvax gur jnl vg ernyyl jrag vf zber pbafvfgrag guna gur jnl V gubhtug vg jnf. Ur unf ab vagebfcrpgvir novyvgl qrfcvgr nyy uvf zbcvat naq rzb-xvq fghss. Ur'f uvf qnq, fcraqvat nyy gung gvzr va gurencl fnlvat jung frrzf evtug ng gur gvzr naq abg trggvat sne.
Naq abj gung V guvax bs vg, Zrnqbj'f batbvat zvaq-punatvat nobhg juvpu nygehvfgvp pnerre tbny fur jbhyq chefhr vf cneg naq cnepry... fur'f zber yvxr Wnavpr, gelvat ba nalguvat gung fbhaqf tbbq yvxr purnc fubrf ng Cnlyrff (jurer abguvat svgf dhvgr evtug naq riraghnyyl lbh whfg unir gb frggyr sbe fbzrguvat).
I watched first and second season recently... the finale made many references to early episodes, some obvious and others less so. It was like a knitter picking up dropped strands and re-weaving them into the work.
V sbhaq gur arj fuevax naq nyy gur bgure arj guvatf gb or pbasvezngvba gung gur raqvat vf gehr gb gur erfg bs gur svany rcvfbqr - gur byq vf tbar, We. vf snqvat vagb gur onpxtebhaq bs gur byq sbyxf' ubzr naq uvf qrzragvn-evqqra oenva unf yrg tb bs gur cnfg, Fvy naq Cuvy naq fb znal bguref unir snyyra gb gur jnlfvqr, naq gur arj NW naq arj Zrnqbj ner fvggvat qbja jvgu gur fnzr byq Gbal naq Pnezryn. NW unf rfpncrq Gbal'f sngr nf n zbofgre gb gur tenir, ol sbphfvat bhgjneq ba gur jbrf bs gur jbeyq naq gur yvsr bs n fbyqvre sbe gubfr pnhfrf. Zrnqbj unf rfpncrq Pnezryn'f - fur'yy or n ynjlre npghnyyl qbvat guvatf gb svtug vawhfgvprf fur frrf, engure guna dhvrgyl fvggvat ol serggvat naq znxvat cnfgn qvfurf sbe gur zra va ure yvsr. Gurer'f gur arj fuevax - Gbal jvyy or sberire pbasbhaqvat n flzcngurgvp fuevax juvyr Pnezryn ebyyf ure rlrf naq gbyrengrf uvf ohyyfuvg jvgu bppnfvbany gvenqrf ntnvafg vg, ohg ab erny npgvba. Gbal jvyy nyjnlf fvg jvgu na rlr ba uvf fheebhaqvatf naq gur arohybhf thazna va gur funqbjf jvyy nyjnlf ubire whfg bhg bs fvtug. Guvatf ner qvssrerag. Guvatf fgnl gur fnzr.
I know what a 'dunsel' is, but only because I watched too much Star Trek as a kid.
via lifehack:
"The first rule of getting a book published is to avoid writing a book."
Added bonus: the graphic at the top is a... crescent! oh nooooo!
It's too bad there's no warranty on governments - this one's in need of an RMA.
One doesn't make up time, one is simply not paid for time not worked.
If one is scraping by on part-time wages and sinking vast amounts of money into tuition and books, and what little is left over into rent and utilities and gas, one makes up the hours, or lives on air and water for a couple of weeks. Can't not go to work or school, and can't avoid the rent.
I went to check on the availability of Eighner's book and found this.
I've seen some inadequate summaries at Alibris before, but this wins a prize.
As someone who abandons books that turn out to be rife with grammatical gaffes (not stylistic choices - the difference is fairly obvious), I am eternally grateful to my English professor. In our grammar class, he explained that there are several grammars -- informal spoken English was the loosest. Then there are informal and formal written English, the latter having many forms (business, scholarly, scientific, etc.). I found that the most functional way to view the twists and turns of English language in all its many contexts. Quite sane. I am spared the task of inflicting on the innocent my corrections of people's spoken English, which is in fact riddled with 'uh' and other verbal tics, sentence fragments, and awkwardly-constructed sentences.
More painful to me than irregularities in informal spoken/written English are comma splices. Give me a sentence fragment any day. Or even passive voice -- I'm lapsing into it after a semester of writing research papers. Must be all those passive-voiced articles I had to ingest.
Variously, as my time is limited:
"Why can't the Buddha vacuum under his sofa?"
"Because he has no attachments."
I told this to my Buddhist roommate. While he nitpicked some of the other jokes, this one got a snort and a "that's kind of clever." He takes his practice seriously, but he has a great sense of humor generally.
Theresa: Did they tell you anything more specific about the dangers posed by Mormons?
Mormons were (if I'm remembering correctly; it's been many years) not actually followers of Christ and would happily entice you away with stories that they were. They believed in some complicated universe where you followed the rules and if you were really really good you got to take your favorite wife and pick a planet, upon which you would become Adam and Eve. This is what I remember of a particularly funny movie I saw at church camp.
They gave us books, too. The only book I remember with any clarity is one of Josh McDowell's. Of course, this book is also mistake-ridden (Buddhism is a sect of Hinduism??). Not that I understood this until I actually went to college and studied some of the religions.
McDowell's book on religions and others he's written on cults and "how to defend your faith" were passed around in my small non-denom Christian school by teachers hoping to pour the precious words into the vulnerable minds of kids who needed their "protection" from the evils of The World.
I look back at it and think how much more effective it would have been to take a serious look at the things they were labeling evil. I think the fear they put into us about those other religions/cults was what turned me sour on the whole notion of the organized church(es), more than anything else. It's what annoys me most about a certain political figure -- the answers are black and white, the only morality is my morality, the only way is my way, and the only protection is in getting everyone else to believe the same way. If I had been presented with accurate information and invited to exercise that "free will" they kept telling me about, I might have a different attitude toward Christianity today.
When I was a little Mormon kid, the denomination that came in for the most abuse was Catholicism, on the grounds that they thought that you could do whatever you wanted, as long as you either confessed it to a priest, or paid money to have it forgiven. When I got older, I was taught that Catholics were responsible for deliberately rewriting scripture and falsifying religious practices in order to disguise the fact that primordial Christianity was indistinguishable from Mormonism.
I remember when an aunt joined a 7th Day church - my honestly-seeking cousin had all this material her mom gave her, plus the Book of Mormon and literature from other "denominations" or "cults" (depended on whose glasses you were wearing at the time). The aunt had jumped on the bandwagon with a group of 7th Dayers who thought the Catholic Church was the Antichrist.
I have relatives in most major religions and denominations - Mormon, Jehovahs Witness, Seventh Day Adventist, and fundie/evangelical free/Baptist (which I lump together as Christian, however diverse and judgemental of each other they really are). It was fun discovering the tracts left behind at grandma's house and comparing them.
The reasons for avoiding Southern Baptists and other low Protestant denominations were less specific. I mostly got the impression that they were (a.) loud, (b.) tacky (that went double for their approach to faith healing), and (c.) out to get us.
The Out to Get Us part seems universal. A common cause will unite people. Or, it's "proof" that "we're on the right track - evil Others are oppressing us!"
Laura: Does "Anybody who doesn't believe exactly the same things we believe is going to burn in hell" denote a cult?
Either that, or you're at my mom's house.
I'm assuming here that you mean the statement as coming from the cult. The Catholic church and many denominations would be then included, of course, but certain evangelical churches I've hopped through back when I was often invited to them thought that Catholicism was indeed a Great Big Cult. I seem to recall books that were passed around to help us innocent teens understand that if we ran across a Mormon we were to turn tail and race home, then bury our faces in the King James.
Great. Now I'm having flashbacks.
No, you can't get to heaven in an electric chair/'Cause the Lord don't want no french fries there
O_O
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I remember that one myself, but it was always "in a rocking chair/cause the rocking chair don't go nowhere."
Oy. No wonder you're traumatized.
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