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dragojustine

In which I am less articulate than I would like about Star Trek

May 12, 2009 23:58

Every day I think "I've been away from the flist forever! I should post!" and then I don't. Basically, a combination of a particularly bad bout of underemployment and a nostalgic trip back to some old computer games has left me doing that weird hours/sleeping way too much/can't quite manage to do anything/not quite depressed thing ( Read more... )

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desertport May 13 2009, 07:13:52 UTC

Tell me this is a Christian nation. Go on. I dare you.

THANK you. I hate that one.

Way to go on law school apps! It's so hard to make that decision to even apply. I bet you do great.

And yes, Star Trek was amazing. My sis and I continue to squee over it almost a week later.

dragojustine May 13 2009, 07:16:04 UTC

I hate that one.

And the whole package of arguments that goes with it. *shudder*

And YES! Consider your week-old squee enthusiastically joined by my pre-emptive squee.

desertport May 13 2009, 07:38:44 UTC

Don't even get me started on the subject. It's like, "Here, be invisible for me. But let me invoke you every December in the "war on Christmas" meme." Makes me want to throw things.

Totally worth the preemptive squee. I really wasn't expecting it to rock so hard. :D

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dragojustine May 16 2009, 00:05:18 UTC

I was aware of trek and was a fan but was not a FAN. but this movie (which I've seen) also makes me want to reinvestigate the classic series again.

And that can only be to the good. Yaay!

i have a friend who has degrees in english, linguistics, law, and at least one more. he was in school for over a decade and then he didn't know what to do with himself so he joined the Peace Corps. Today he's a judge.

See, I think I want to be your friend. Thank you for that. Good story- I needed it.

*hugs*

buaidhnobas May 13 2009, 20:39:14 UTC

"Tell me this is a Christian nation. Go on. I dare you ( ... )

dragojustine May 16 2009, 00:54:51 UTC

The way that was phrased begs me to play devil's advocate. You know this right?

Of course it does! (and pardon me if this is more of an outline for an argument than an actual argument, but in any case I don't want to preach at you)

The first thing to establish is that there's a difference between what we historically have been culturally and what we were established as legally. If you want to tell me that this nation has been overwhelmingly culturally Christian since its founding, I won't argue very hard (though I will point out that it was never 100% and your understanding of history will be much richer if you remember that and that, even taking into account bumps in the Red Scare 50s and Moral Majority 80s-90s, this has been growing steadily less true over the country's entire history)

But was this legally a Christian nation? Not on your life. You point out examples of laws that now seem to indicate that the country is legally Christian, but I would say that it's not fair to say that eighteenth-century legislators had no ( ... )