Roundup of Recent Activites

Mar 04, 2008 16:00



My friend Colleen gave my friend Michelle some pop rocks a few days ago. This made Michelle very hyper. When she went home and Michelle's mother asked her why she was so hyper, Michelle told her about the pop rocks. Mrs Michelle instantly assumed that pop rocks were some sort of drug and started making frantic phone calls to Colleen's parents, the ( Read more... )

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akashasheiress March 4 2008, 21:41:10 UTC
Dominionist? Eeek!D:

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airie_fairy March 4 2008, 22:05:34 UTC
I loved The Magician's Nephew. A couple of the other early Narnia chronicles I also enjoyed. That's about where it ends. I forced myself through the inhumane abuse of all that are different that is The Last Battle due to nothing but committment to finishing the series JUST 'CAUSE. There were a couple of ways in which I saw bits of what he said as possible to be interpreted in ways that lent itself to the human level transcendent of dogmatic absolutism, but I tend to think the interpretations I soothed myself with weren't what he was actually going for. If he wants to recreate the Crusades for me and give me that explanation, we're going to have problems. And if he expects me to look at him with anything but horror after he thrusts two lone children in that position on whatever level of a point he feels that he's making, we're going to have nothing BUT problems. And I fucking HATE THAT LION. With unabashed vigor. I saw nothing but self-important power-complacent egomaniac, which is similar to what I see in many though not all places in ( ... )

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melengro March 4 2008, 22:19:37 UTC
Re: your second point.

The whole thing is maybe 40% serious. Also keep in mind that women, being the targets of a vast majority of violence, ought to be taught defensive skills at the very least. This actually came up again in a conversation that I had to-day, where several of my friends were complaining about the different treatment of men and women during training.

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airie_fairy March 4 2008, 22:25:24 UTC
Don't worry, I got it! =D I did mention being behind the overall idea, which would include the defensive training that the list would encompass.

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melengro March 4 2008, 22:30:21 UTC
Martha Jones! Now there's somebody one can emulate (except for the whiny unrequited love part, but that's Rusty's fault).

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