Sweet wine from the grapes of wrath

[blackdjinn]

I’ve had an interesting set of talks recently, and I thought I’d digest them and share. Firstly, and old friend of mine and I spent some time doing a post-mortem on our shattered hopes. We decided that the key element is that people are still acting like a bunch of frightened children. Something in them wants a Father figure... an infallible

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[deromilly]

Frightened children. You've nailed it.

DH has always referred to the majority as sheep who go where the loudest yapping sheepdog dictates (and Shrub did yap loudest this year...,) which although it seems to fit, always seemed ever so slightly off to me. Children fits better. It covers more ground. I suspect, like anything else, it's not black and white but a bit of both. But thank you for the ideas. :)

And getting real money for going to school rocks. :) How did your exams go, anyway?

[blackdjinn]

Still waiting for one to be graded, but the two hardest came back As, the third was... unsatisfactory but passing. Thankfully the fellow who scored 1 out of 100 points brought the average down enough to put me over it. Thankfully Dr. Zhao is really a nice guy and said that with significant improvement on the final, he'll overlook poor scores on the midterms when calculating our final grades. I think it may have been my lousy performance and the simple fact that it was lack of preparation not lack of understanding that was to blame for my crappy score that made him consider that policy... he seems to think I'm really smart (but I'll show him!) ;)

[blackbishop]

I don’t mind listening to wandering fanatics that knock at my door... until they start talking about God’s parental role and plans for His children. - my favourite cartoon, is two wandering Godbothers you know the type, neatly dressed, with a tie and bible at some blokes front door. Old mate is standing in his door, pair of shorts, a tinnie and smoke in hand and says, "Jesus who?"
It's always appealed to me.