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Comment on Flaws by Klytaimnestra

Klytaimnestra — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:33:47 +0000

Of course it is, but I also think that oh, how do I put this, it’s not because Christ was a brilliant moral philosopher. It’s because he was telling the truth, and what he said was an accurate reflection of the real nature of the whole universe. So you don’t need to forget the supernatural or worry that the whole book is wrong, because it’s not.

Though the interpretations frequently (usually?) suck wildly.

Comment on Esoteric Me by Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:31:32 +0000

Sara, I have always been interested in other religions. I didn’t pick one until I was in my 20s. I was fortunate to grow up in a very open-minded house. We had friends from various cultures who celebrated different religions, and who were usually pretty happy to answer my questions. I think I knew one of every major world religion before I was a teen, and my friends were a good mix.

I read Under the Banner of Heaven because it had been suggested to me. Frankly, it was a hard read. It laid bare some of the ugliest parts of my time at KCM/EMIC in similarities between the doctrines and dogmas. Glad I took the time, but not happy about the nightmares!

Comment on Esoteric Me by saraelise

saraelise — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:49:49 +0000

I’ve not yet picked up Under the Banner of Heaven, but I have been in the “histories and tragedies behind the mormon church” genre as well. It seems silly at this time in our lives (new mommies, working full time, etc) that we’d now finally get to check out other religions. (We were not allowed to do that in my house growing up) Is your interest in reading about other’s religions new or is it something that you’ve been researching long?

I’m gonna go find out what i’m categorized as – yippee!

Comment on Esoteric Me by Kim Yamaguchi

Kim Yamaguchi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:24:28 +0000

Here’s me growing up, officially Mormon (baptized at age 8)my Mom an inactive Mormon and my Dad a devout Catholic, going to Mass with my Dad every Saturday night and having him drop me off at the Mormon church every Sunday morning. Oh yes and when I was very little (age 3 to 6) I attended a Southern Baptist church with my Grandma because the town we lived in in Arkansas was too small for a LDS ward.

Then, every summer I went to a Luthern vacation bible school at the church that my babysitter attended, except for the summer that I went to bible school (in this case about 4 weeks) at the Seventh Day Adventist church that my neighbors attended.

As you can imagine, no one ever wanted to answer the inevitable questions that *I* had!

Comment on The Monopoly on Pain by JamieAnne

JamieAnne — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:53:47 +0000

I have not seen the movie. I loved, loved, loved Heathers, but I have not seen it as a grown, married, mother. I think that “growing up” (be that no longer acting like a child, getting married, having kids, what ever causes your “that’s not okay” gage to move)can change your views on a great many things. I loved blue cream soda and score candy bars during the same time frame that I loved Heathers….now that stuff makes my tummy hurt.

Comment on The Monopoly on Pain by Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:07:58 +0000

I feel bad for the red shirts, too. I’m an awful movie companion. This is why I generally avoid anything related to death.

Comment on The Monopoly on Pain by Christina - LJ's sarcasticwriter

Christina - LJ's sarcasticwriter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:46:20 +0000

Hmm.

I’m not advocating that you consume media you don’t enjoy, but I found something alarming about the tone of your post, an unsaid (and likely unintended) conclusion that parenthood is required if one is to fully appreciate the human condition and when satirizing that condition is Funny or Not Funny.

Except that most of media is not about parenthood – and quite rightly so.

Parenting is a part of life, but it’s only a *part* of it. The vast majority of an adult life is spent not actively parenting, so – quite properly – most of our intellectual and entertainment media has nothing to do with parenting. That’s how it should be. In our long-lived society, we no longer go directly from childhood to parenthood. “Heathers” and “Mean Girls,” explore that in-between time, by studying the way acquiring cynical detachment (or acquiring too much of it) makes us into fully-rounded people. Both movies examine a time when people’s motives and peer-based relationships are becoming increasingly complex, and parents increasingly irrelevant. Parental feelings in these particular movies shouldn’t be considered any more relevant to the story or experience of watching it than those of the extras who wore red shirts on “Star Trek.” There’s a reason stories only tend to focus on one protagonist at a time.

I’ll say again that you should not consume media that you do not enjoy. Just realize, though, that “I love my dead, gay son!” is not objectively unfunny (as is somewhat implied in the tone of your post). If you are paying attention to the ironic humor in the hypocrisy of a father who *would* shun his son if he were alive and homosexual, it’s funny. That’s why its follow up line, “Wonder how he’d react if his son had a limp wrist with a pulse,” completely *slays.*

Comment on Rape-Rape by Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:53:09 +0000

No! You were not. Please. Like you would ever do that! LOL

Comment on Rape-Rape by JamieAnne

JamieAnne — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:59:25 +0000

I hope I was not the friend that implied you were asking for it. My memory is not always that sharp. I’m glad you are at a point where you can talk about it. A lot of people never get there.

XOXO

Comment on Eye of the Beholder by Kim Yamaguchi

Kim Yamaguchi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:53:59 +0000

I also much prefer the photo that is *actually* you. And your eyes aren’t like Shannen Doherty’s. She looks like an unfinished Picasso.