My ordered copy of a CD with the 1970s Christian pop group Fjedur arrived today, and I put it into the computer at once, revelling in the nostalgia.

And just as when I've played the LP at my parents' place, the song "Jorden ska brukas av alla" made me grin in not just nostalgia, but in delight at how very leftist it is.

Jorden ska brukas av alla ( Read more... )

I apologize for getting my religious hat on again so soon after last time, but I can't help it. A side-effect of yuletide is that I spend a lot of time pondering my other fics, and it occurred to me that the Good Friday verse of "Lord of the Dance" might fit the SPN/JoA story, as title or quotation or something else. (Songs: the lifeboat for the ( Read more... )

Happy first of advent! In some ways, I like advent better than Christmas - the lighting of candles, the music, and the sense that while it's still dark and rainy outside, we're entering a new state of cozyness. And it's also a lot easier to start thinking about religion than it is later in the Christmas preparations ( Read more... )

The Cymothoa exigua proves that the world is on crack - and that it's freaking awesome crack ( Read more... )

rozk wrote an article comparing religion and fandom, which made me finally get my ass in gear and finish the meta post I started in May, concerning the similarities in how religious groups and fannish groups are structured ( Read more... )

Torchwood fan? Feeling sad after Children of Earth? Here, have a Torchwood fan video with lots of blooper material, set to "Yatta". Very happymaking.

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In other news, a church that seems to think it's a computer game. It's stuff like this that makes me convinced the satire of Saved! is actually an understatement.

I'm back from the Diana Wynne Jones conference in Bristol. I tried to talk as little as possible about Bristol before I went, in part not to jinx it, and in part because I'm always afraid that if I speak on the internet about leaving my home, burglars will show up. Irrational, but there you have it ( Read more... )

Things what I learned at lectures yesterday:

• If 10 people are sitting on 10 chars, there are 3,628,800 different ways for them to sit. (1*2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9*10)
• You can predict the movement of a pendulum exactly using mathematics, but if you add a "knee joint" to the pendulum and thus make it a double pendulum, you can't predict it AT ALL for more ( Read more... )

Nobody wanted to talk to me about Lene Kaaberbøl's Shamer chronicles. I am sad. (jadelennox, have pity on me ( Read more... )

Gacked from icarusancalion

If you're religious and support gay marriage, then paste this meme in your LJ.I am [insert religion here] and I support gay marriage ( Read more... )