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dragonlady7) wrote2006-11-03 01:42 pm
dragonlady7) wrote2006-11-03 01:42 pm
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Everyone's taking this quiz. "I thought I took that one already," I thought. I went and looked at it. It's not the one I took before.
Which is interesting, as I am a lifelong resident of New York State, and could plausibly be placed either in their Northeast grouping or their Great Lakes grouping (although I haven't been in Buffalo long enough to reasonably have the accent, it does come out at times and astonish me). But no. I instead possess the no-accent of a place I've never been. How nice to hear I'd be good at radio. That's actually been said before.
Another thing: Z is nearly done with the new calendar website for his newspaper. While browsing he discovered that the coffeehouse where the NaNoWriMo writing group meets is actually a church. Did I know this? No, I had no idea, despite having been there at least half a dozen times.
I'm serious. The coffee house is a church. I am not making this up.
Z: They're a Khristian Koffee Kult!
me: ?????????????!!!!!!!!!
I don't know whether I feel better or worse for having tipped them generously.
Actually the idea of spending Friday evening at a church service wherein you can sit on a couch sipping a cappucino would be pretty compelling if they weren't, you know, fundie whackjobs. (I have trouble with the Biblical Infallibility sorts. I'm sorry, I need a little interpretation laid on that shit. It don't make sense if you're trying to be literal about it. No offense. At least the Catholics have a "don't try this at home" clause.)
Meanwhile I'm already at 14000 words and I haven't transitioned to the next act, so I'm running over on wordcount, but at least I'm progressing quickly. As long as I do a major scene every day or two the wordcount shouldn't matter too much.
But I have an assload of laundry to do. Nnnngh.
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Which is interesting, as I am a lifelong resident of New York State, and could plausibly be placed either in their Northeast grouping or their Great Lakes grouping (although I haven't been in Buffalo long enough to reasonably have the accent, it does come out at times and astonish me). But no. I instead possess the no-accent of a place I've never been. How nice to hear I'd be good at radio. That's actually been said before.
Another thing: Z is nearly done with the new calendar website for his newspaper. While browsing he discovered that the coffeehouse where the NaNoWriMo writing group meets is actually a church. Did I know this? No, I had no idea, despite having been there at least half a dozen times.
I'm serious. The coffee house is a church. I am not making this up.
Z: They're a Khristian Koffee Kult!
me: ?????????????!!!!!!!!!
I don't know whether I feel better or worse for having tipped them generously.
Actually the idea of spending Friday evening at a church service wherein you can sit on a couch sipping a cappucino would be pretty compelling if they weren't, you know, fundie whackjobs. (I have trouble with the Biblical Infallibility sorts. I'm sorry, I need a little interpretation laid on that shit. It don't make sense if you're trying to be literal about it. No offense. At least the Catholics have a "don't try this at home" clause.)
Meanwhile I'm already at 14000 words and I haven't transitioned to the next act, so I'm running over on wordcount, but at least I'm progressing quickly. As long as I do a major scene every day or two the wordcount shouldn't matter too much.
But I have an assload of laundry to do. Nnnngh.
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But on the other hand, when I wrote my essay on why slash was not anti-Christian, and began to get involved with various GBLT Christian groups, I encountered some of America's rabid fundementalists myself, and I had had no idea before this of what scary people they were! One of them (while calling me 'my dear friend' went so far as to claim I must be possessed - simply because she could not wrap her mind around the idea that passages in the Bible ought to be interpreted in the light of the culture they came from and preferably in context and in their original language, oh, and that human reason could also be involved in the process.)
Since I got involved with the fight for gay Christians to be affirmed in Church, I've had my eyes opened to the level of religious hatred and hypocracy out there. We fortunately do not have that level of fundementalism over here as yet, but yes, my God! It is terrifying, and it's very very worrying that there are signs that our churches might be moving that way.
But of course, as you say, it doesn't mean that they're *all* completely barmy. Some of them must surely be actually listening to the call to love ones neighbours and not to judge them. It's just unfortunate that they're not standing up and opposing the others.