I’m going to imagine “2012” happens in the same universe as “The Ugly Truth,” so all those characters die horribly.
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God Damn, but I love cross-continuity!
Can all the people in the various doctor and psychic dramas that my wife insists on watching, also live in that universe?
Can all the people in the various doctor and psychic dramas that my wife insists on watching, also live in that universe?
Seconded. I’ve only watched minutes of the various doctor dramas on these days but FSM are they awful!
I had a debate with a religious type yesterday. I love me debates with religious types. Especially religious types who claim that they live in a ‘free’ house and drive a ‘free’ car and got lifted out of poverty through God’s grace.
He made a couple of good points — points that The Church could benefit from — but it’s still steeped in a narrow mindset, ie, you need to believe in Jesus or else you’re doomed and you’re going to hell. Arrrrrg
@Robert
Agreed, as long as Dr. House is on the spaceships.
Of course, I’d also like reality TV to exist in a world smoten out by Mayan prophecies… but unfortunately, that happens to be the real one.
Joy, I also believe that if you live according to His precepts, God will give you everything you need.
However, in reading Scripture I have come to the realization that God will give you everything you need to do His work, not yours. And given that the only material goods he gave his own Son to do the hardest job of all was a robe and a pair of sandals, I wouldn’t be counting on that Mercedes just yet.
People here talk about unions a lot. I tend to talk about the Scouts a lot. The SEIU has been of general interest as they have been a strong supporter of President Obama’s candidacy and agenda. So perhaps everyone will find something of interest in this:
but it’s still steeped in a narrow mindset, ie, you need to believe in Jesus or else you’re doomed and you’re going to hell. Arrrrrg
It’s funny, that sounds familiar, and not just from bible troublers. If you replace ‘Jesus’ with say, ‘calorie counting’ and ‘hell’, with ‘unhealthiness’, it works out much the same.
Or “public option” and “national bankruptcy”, or “global warming” and “doooooom”.
One of Amp’s cartoons came up in StumbleUpon today. I gave it the thumbs up. :)
@B. Adu, yeah, it does, hey? And I had *the* most frustrating gchat with a friend yesterday about weight and fat and the link to heart disease and stuff. He refuses to even acknowledge that thin people — athletes! — also get heart disease. We’ve been indoctrinated to hate ourselves. Yeah, he’s fat and hates himself :(
Joy-Mari,
We’ve been indoctrinated to hate ourselves. Yeah, he’s fat and hates himself
I was thinking a bit about this the other day from this vantage point, we-humans in general- seem to have intrinsic desires toward masochistic worship of others. Before, I thought about it more from the POV of being in receipt of this kind of conditioning.
I know there is pressure on fat people, but I can’t work out why so many behave like your friend, this collusion seems above and beyond the call of duty.
@B.Adu
It’s sad. I experience the same thing with one of my colleagues. She’s adamant that I’m not fat — she calls me chubby/curvy/voluptuous but she’ll happily denigrate her own body.
And this is oh-so-similar to other groups who denigrate themselves, especially POC. All too often I hear excuses for bad behaviour as “Yeah, but you know what we blacks are like”
@B. Adu Writes:
November 16th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
but it’s still steeped in a narrow mindset, ie, you need to believe in Jesus or else you’re doomed and you’re going to hell. Arrrrrg
It’s funny, that sounds familiar, and not just from bible troublers. If you replace ‘Jesus’ with say, ‘calorie counting’ and ‘hell’, with ‘unhealthiness’, it works out much the same.
Short explanition of why variants are betrayed between transfer of cloned data resulting in tone both affecting the value of said such statements,
What happens if the person seeking the communication through the activation of words for the expression of self perceived conceptions of a singulararity mindset following rules based on social programming and predetermined expections based on theory’s of fact causes the listener, reader, watcher or limited receiver also grounded with systems of control both of mind and enviormental sets unaware or under the illusion that the self is the subject in debate and can not help but to project beliefs into data streams of information unaware of the actuality as the pupil has yet to learn any other way than to obey their own at the expense of a totality of time of possibility’s and idea’s without realising the other side of the looking glass.
This is a website I feel many here would be interested in: Charter for Compassion
@rciky: ?
Joy-Mari,
And this is oh-so-similar to other groups who denigrate themselves, especially POC. All too often I hear excuses for bad behaviour as “Yeah, but you know what we blacks are like”
I was thinking about this and I agree that when people internalize negativity and denigrate themselves, there are similarities. But I feel in the case of POC those feelings are an expression of the pressure structures of class and race, exerts on people. It’s the way society is formed and shaped.
Whereas with fat, it’s more on the surface, more about the social pressure and the force of influence. Because of this is more of a collusion on the part of fat people, you have more of a choice as to how you view yourself as a fat person.
That isn’t to nullify the suffering of fat people or say that this treatment is acceptable, we are social animals and are affected deeply by this kind of disapproval but it doesn’t have the same roots and it certainly feels as there would be a far greater impact on that social disapproval if fat people refused to go along with this denigration.
Been blogging about the police officer on trial for sexual assault under the color of authority and it’s getting pretty ugly. Officers contradicting themselves and each other and IA sitting in the back of the room (asking me if I’m going to blog on the police union elections).
It’s interesting because the prosecution, defense, witnesses are reading the blog. There’s been some sexist behavior testified to by officers at the scene several hours before the alleged sexual assault. Am working on a blog posting involving that.
Here’s the latest installment of the trial.
I’m still working on why it’s not cool to play with a woman’s underwear when you’re a police officer. You’d think that would be obvious but I guess not.
Joke a friend just told me:
A guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head.
The bartender smiles, and says “good day mate, what can I do for you?”
The duck answers, “can you get this guy off my ass?”
And THAT, my friends, is what happens when you are still at work with hours left on a friday night. you start telling baaad jokes.
Is your friend Australian, Sailorman? I mean: “G’day mate”?
new zealand, actually.
Am I the only one who the spam filter hates? The comment just above me was flagged as spam, and I’ll be damned if I know why.