The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by mayakda:

Marilee:

Thanks for sharing and *hugs*. Awful doesn't even start to cover your experience.

He described it as "the feeling you're going to puke, crap, and faint -- all at once."

That's exactly how I felt when I woke up with hives all over a couple of weeks ago. Prednisone is my new friend.

It's backwards, but I know my intake went up.
Makes perfect sense to me. :)
How is your sweetie allergic to it (stomach upset, or hives, or what?). Just curious.

It's surreal to me that it's been less than a year since Bush was re-elected. I remember I was in a training class the day after the vote and the whole class was so glum. And one colleague said, with savage sarcasm, "Well now they control all three branches of govt, so everything should be perfect, right?"
And they've managed to f*ck up so much in less than 10 months since.
Like Gunn (on Angel) said, "Don't tell me there's no place else to go but up, coz there's always more down."
I didn't vote for Bush, and I blame him, and most of all I blame Diebold and all the other electronic voting machine sin Ohio.

Slightly on-topic (with regards to optimism about humanity's future and all that) -- anyone know of blogs or groups that discuss partnership models vs dominator models and all that?

For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, through small font or large ...

So, merged blog. It's like you guys are married or something. ;)

(Not that I get a vote, but as a reader, I'm nearsighted and prefer larger font. But I just realized I have a double standard, since on my occasional blog I frequently write in small font.)

OMG -- check out the spam I got today:

The subject heading is "hierarchal"

and the message body is:
perihelion
dominion extort dukedom mantle exploit
rever allen
general consort traitor
capital agreeable
diaphanous denominate berg similitude


Even the spambots are reading this thread. ;)

Since I don't know what a hierophant is, beyond a vague idea that it's some kind of high priest, I looked it up to. Per dictionary.com (if you can believe a site that has pop-ups):

-An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian mysteries.
-An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge.
-One who explains or makes a commentary.

[Late Latin hierophanta, from Greek hierophants : hieros, holy; see eis- in Indo-European Roots + -phants, one who shows (from phainein, phan-, to show. See bh-1 in Indo-European Roots).]

Interesting.

I'm thinking of something more along the lines of a "gatekeeper," where caretaking is important but also the notion of granting or witholding access to a place or person.

Protection sounds good.
There's also defense, warding or wardship, preservation, custodianship, care? care and keeping?

guarding

I confess. I'm not a Firefly fan. I enjoyed the shows but that's it.
Maybe I'm just hanging on to past bitterness at Joss neglecting BTVS and Angel because of it. Plus it's not Farscape.
Irrational me.

I am hoping the Hitchhiker movie is good.

Heh. I see the giant centipede achieved Particles fame. *pets the monster*

Benedict XVI meets the first challenge to his papacy.
Color me unimpressed.

JVP, I suspect that there is truth in that study. Tales get handed down because they have power, and if you look at the status of women in history, it pretty much dovetails. I do like finding faery tale retelings for kids that turn the stories around. Gail Carson Levine is one author I really like fo rthat.

What would happen if supposedly infallible doctrine were disproven?

Could probably weasel out of it by saying that at the time the pronouncement was made, it was the right thing to believe, or essential to the path of truth.

Dale, what defines expertise in the Catholic Church? Is it being a member of the Curia? Is it growing up Catholic in a predominantly Catholic country, where abortion and divorce is illegal, and a Cardinal can participate in deposing the head of state? Is it growing up Muslim or indigenous pagan in a Catholic country? Is it being Catholic in a predominantly Muslim country? The One Holy Catholic and Apsotolic Church is many things to many people; to some she is beautiful and comforting, to others cruel and deaf.

(4) No parent or teacher says "It's okay to be illiterate. I have trouble reading too."
(5) Lots of parents and teachers say "It's okay to hate math. I have trouble with Math too."

You know, I've never thought of that but that is so true.

Yet at the very top of the thread we see an argument about papal infallibility that doesn't even seem aware of the definition of that doctrine. I fully expected someone three posts down to observe this little error, especially in a forum frequented by a professional editor.

You must not have read this thread yesterday, then. Infallibility didn't come up as a topic until the day after the post was first published, iirc. Teresa's original post only had one line on it.

For example, it wouldn't even occur to me to go flinging around arguments about the inner workings of, say, Anglicanism, without being absolutely sure of my definitions.

In a debate, maybe, but in an open forum, I like to ask the stupid questions. I find it better to risk looking uninformed and get an answer, than to be silent and remain ignorant.

Pope Benedict XI
Pope Benedict XVI.
damn.

I think the Pope's infallibity is simply a way to emphasize that the doctrinal buck stops there. The bishops can argue all they want, but the Pope has the final say. It's just a lame-ass way to try to head off more schism.

Personally, I think the best way I can deal with Pope Benedict XI is to use my version of rendering unto Caesar. If there are actions he does that I agree with, I will applaud. I am hopeful that we will agree on the evils of poverty, war, and social injustice. On things we disagree with, I will assert my views.

I do agree with him that the Church must be a moral compass in the world. My only problem is that I think his moral compass is skewed. *sigh*

why, well he is German, I am German ;=))

I understand, actually. If they'd elected an ultra-conservative Filipino Pope, I'd be rather tickled. Ah, nationalism.

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