Southern Buddhist

AJ is still missed, because Gabe needs to be talking to someone other than himself.The conversation about Gus and a celibacy bet was lol-worthy, though."What if I accidentally [bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep]?"

Planning to see it this week.I've always wanted a shirt with the classic Alice illustration below, only instead of the bottle she would be holding the cake and the caption would be really large, like so:EAT ME

By the way, Meryl Streep was dressed for the Oscars by PR's big gay sweetheart Chris March:Way to go, Chris!

I am really not getting all the love for Mila. A couple years ago judges were all over Rami's shit for being too one-note, but every week Mila does color blocking and every week they love it. And Rami's clothes were always beautiful, which I couldn't say for Mila. Those paint trays did not "flow."Jay did deserve this one, but I really thought the other two in the top three would be Jonathan and Amy. I could see Maya being there, too.I agree with LG that Seth and Ben should have been in the bottom. Anthony was punished for making something that "didn't look enough like hardware," but unles

Thanks, Base Jester. I was going to say the same thing, but you did it much better. That passage is absolutely not about the resurrection. In Matthew 24 it's even clearer, because the disciples ask "what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" and again they are told that their generation will be alive to see it happen. Paul only "met" a vision of the risen Christ, hence a somewhat metaphorical meeting. I specified "in his lifetime" (althrough I realize now that you probably thought I meant "him" as Paul, when in fact I was using the pronoun about Jesus -- my mista

Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, suicide in Knoxville, TN.Not a listener, but he was from Southwest Virginia coal country not far from where I grew up.

/end thread.It can only get worse from here.

Interesting that you didn't take on the second example, that some alive then would live to see the Second Coming. It's repeated in all three synoptic gospels, reiterated in the letters of Paul, and is unequivically incorrect.[unless, of course, "generation" doesn't mean what it means, "standing here today" doesn't mean what it means, it's all a metaphor, etc., etc.] Christ doesn't say that in Romans 1:16 at all. Paul says it, but he clearly isn't quoting Christ (which would be impossible anyway, seeing as Paul never met Jesus in his lifetime). It's plainer than plain that Paul took the jo

Dang. Just saw this on the New York Times website. Here's their story: Hope this doesn't give anyone ideas about Vegas.

But this is the God who's supposedly unchanging, and you've already said elsewhere (and reiterated here) that it's not possible for new changes now because he's all done. How could you know that? And if God changes his mind repeatedly, then it's really not inaccurate or unfair to call him capricious, unpredictable, and impossible to please.You are in the position of simultaneously claiming that God is unchanging, can change the rules any time he feels like it, and is now done changing. That's funny, because I read, in their entirety, chapters 11-15, and the verses before and after say nothin

Cats eat puke too. Once we watched our oldest cat puke. He walked away. The middle cat then ate the puke and immediately threw it up again. then the kitten came by and ate it. All in a span of a few minutes. Gross, but funny. Third time was the "charm," I guess.

Like most spammers, it's a weasel.

Absinthe FTWOh, and many college ingestions of LSD

No debate at all: British TV pwns American TV. Brilliant!

So you agree that the bible says two mutually exclusive things in different places. Interesting.

From the land of watching too many cartoons:Around three or four AM, driving across Texas on the way to New Orleans: a red plastic bag blows across the road. I yelp, "A rabbit!" [brain says, "no, it's red"] "A rabbit turned inside out!" [brain does facepalm] "No, wait, that doesn't make any sense."Another completely random thing from a road trip: saw a scary church sign that said, "God can only be understood in the light of his wrath."

Yeah, that's one thing about Christians I never got. Okay, when Paul says something, maybe you can reinterpret it as you feel like or need for your agenda at that moment. He's just Paul. But when God or Jesus say something, and they say it plainly, like "I am jealous and punish children" or or referring to the Second Comingthen I think it's the height of hubris to say "well, God or Jesus didn't mean that. Let me tell you what he meant." Call me crazy, but I think when God or Jesus says something plainly, if you're a believer at all, then you should take them seriously and at face value.O

Snowcrash, on my husband's recommendation. I liked it.

What about when God himself attributes human flaws to himself?

You may have missed the first episode because GSN doesn't know its ass from a hole in the ground. For two straight weeks, they had the show blocked out as a two-hour show from 7 - 9, when in fact the 7:00 show was old and 8:00 was the new show. I had to record the later showing of it to get it the first week and sit there with my finger on the button the second week. This week it looks like they've figured out what they're showing.

This is apropos of nothing, but it's in the same collection of quotes where I have the Lapham quote. I just love this. -- Gene Fendt, Shakespeare scholar, in an essay about Hamlet

I think a lot of non-believers initially came at the subject more or less the way Lewis Lapham did, quoted below:

I don't know ... I've read a lot of his writings, and he exhorts people by saying that faith requires works as well.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I misread things -- a lot. Particularly billboards when driving. Freud would say that these misreadings reveals something about my psyche, I'm sure (cf The Psychopathology of Everyday Life). I think it's that driving and reading involve different eye movements and attentional patterns. Either way, I'm a legendary misreader of things. Misreading something on the channel guide just now put it back on my mind.Actual title: Monsters Inside MeI saw: Roosters Inside MeAn example from a long-past road trip: Shoney's billboard said:Pecan Log $2.99Andersonvi

Fair enough. I was just grouchy when I dissed him.