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[zinniazayda]

At B's family's house. Her sister's new puppy, Portia, looks like a tiny fuzzy bear. We went to the library book sale today and for $4.50 I got a textbook on trigonometry, The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas, How Children Learn by John Holt, Bowling Alone, which is about the value or lack of value of social capital in modern America, and The

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[jadeejf]

I really enjoyed The Irresistible Revolution. Sounds like you're running into a lot of interesting ideas down there. I'm glad you mentioned Ash Wednesday being this Wednesday. I didn't realize it was so soon! Snuck up on me!

[tsunobrat]

Which trig book? =)

[zinniazayda]

Oh, nothing too exciting, just a college algebra/trig combo. Can't recall the title now, and it's still in Corvallis. But hey, it looked decent, and it was only a dollar on the second day of the book fair! Gotta love that.

[vruba]

(I assume you’re au fait with Walter Wink?)

[zinniazayda]

I actually wasn't. Thanks for pointing me toward him. I found one of his most famous essays on the subject and it was very thought-provoking. Though my own attitude (in which I am apparently far from alone) is that the whole thing is kind of irrelevant. You can argue all you want about whether all Biblical prohibitions hold, but Jesus had little to say about sexuality at all, being much more focused on feeding people and hanging out with the poor and marginalized and important things like that.

[vruba]

Good, but actually I wasn’t thinking of his stuff homosexuality at all. Just seemed like your style in general.

[vruba]

Or his stuff on homosexuality. Syntax excuse my.