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[Feb. 2nd, 2009|07:01 pm] |
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This is the view from our living room window:
and this is my new art blog, which I will probably be updating a lot more than I will be here.
Precious Messes
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[Jan. 30th, 2009|12:52 pm] |
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Let me see... where were we?
I have the internet again.
oh yeah, and i got married. and its pretty awesome. |
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[May. 13th, 2008|12:41 pm] |
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the seagulls are having sex on my roof again. |
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[May. 1st, 2008|02:54 am] |
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Is the repeated pattern too much on the back of my LJ page? come check and see! I wish to know. |
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[Mar. 17th, 2008|06:25 am] |
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Here's the deal, Apple and all you greedy record companies. When I buy something, I want to be able to play it on the media of my choice. That means, if I buy a CD, i want to be able to rip it to mp3 and play it on my computer and my mp3 player. If I buy an MP3, i want to be able to play it on my computer and my mp3 player, and write it to a CD if I really want to.
What I DO NOT want, is to have to waste time and money and CD's by writing all the DRM protected music that I OWN to a CD, just so I can play it on whatever machine I want, or take it with me on my MP3 player. If I wanted a CD in the first place, dont you think i would have bought one? This isnt on. This just forces me to download illegal mp3's because I refuse to spend money on something which I am prevented from using how i want to for my own, personal use unless i go out of my way to make that happen. GET RID OF THE DRM. It hurts consumers and artists alike. |
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[Mar. 5th, 2008|03:03 pm] |
I am struggling right now with the idea that women cannot lead in church. This is a commonly held belief by Catholics and also a belief that divides Christianity.
To be frank, it really, really pisses me off. I want to know WHY. someone explain to me WHY women cannot lead in church, and I want an answer that doesnt have its roots in 'women are less than men'. Because to me, thats what it amounts to.
here is my reasoning:
God created Male and Female equal. Different, but Equal in gods eyes. there is no male nor female, slave nor master.
Yes men and women have different roles, but both men and women are capable of leadership and have all the skills required for it.
In leadership in the church, gender should not come into it. The church is made up of male and female, therefore the leadership should be able to be male or female.
Why is there fear there of female leadership? is it that she will be 'incompetent'. that she will 'usurp the mans authority', or is a protection against a man's own weakness?
I know there is the model of the church being the bride and so on, but does it really stretch to men having authority over women to the extent that women cannot lead men? |
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[Feb. 1st, 2008|04:40 pm] |
while im here, I just had to write down the thought that the general anecdotal claim that 'hardly anyone was ever obese before the last half century!' comes from people that don't know jack shit about their history.
Obesity most definately existed. and at the turn of the 1900's, obesity had almost just as many quack doctors and phoney dieting guru's trying to 'solve the problem' . the interest in obesity didnt arise because of the health implications at all, what started the obsession was in fact revulsion, and the moral overtones of the appetite. Health didnt come into the picture for a good while after the obese were being chastised for their size.
guess what we have now? a sticky mess of health replacing the moral issue of appetite with a heck of a lot of revulsion mixed in, telling us to treat people who lay outside what is considered 'good' by the mass media with utter contempt.
You're no leading thinker. You're just unable to break out of the circles of thinking that we've travelled round for centuries in attempt to justify bigotry. |
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