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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Anything happen around here since 2009? (Yes, I know the major bits. I have lurked occasionally.)
The major reason I drifted away is that I was a WaMu employee, and after the crash I landed at an employer who filters forums. Not being able to check in every hour or so pretty much cured my Ship addiction.
I wrapped up a long-term committee position at church this past December. It was a nice chance to serve and I love what we accomplished, but I'm glad to able to be a full-time Pagan now.
I've been writing on pop-culture from a Pagan prospective over at a blog called The Juggler for nearly three years now. I've now reviewed more books with "witch" in the title than I'd care to count.
My son became a teenager a couple of weeks ago. (A few of you might remember him from one Shipmeet.) He's doing well, and is currently most interested in History. We're off to see some terracotta warriors this afternoon.
It was nice to load the site and see so many familiar names still hoisting the sails here. I'll check in on this thread for at least a few days, if you care to say hi.
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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I would recommend checking out the glory board if you haven't been around for a while - it feels as if we have lost a lot of people in a short time.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Thanks, Doublethink, and, indeed, I already had. Some definite shockers there. But I had managed to clue in to our loss of Erin only a couple of months after the fact which, of course, was the true tsunami.
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Hi Mertseger, nice to see you back.
Being the lone pagan can be a hard corn dolly to plait sometimes.
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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(Re Doublethink's sig link: Garfunkle and Oates have a topically related, but thematically entirely unrelated song with the best NSFW chorus ever: The Loophole. Did it ever get it's moment in the sun around here? I checked Hell and Purgatory.)
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Hi, Firenze! I'm just glad someone around here is speaking up for all those Pagan things like candles, celebrations of Eostre and Solstices, etc. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Welcome back! Does your change of job mean you've changed your views on the ethics of credit (which is where I think we left off in about 2009 ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) )?
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QLib
Bad Example
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Welcome back ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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flags_fiend
Shipmate
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Hi Mertseger,
I also recently came back to posting on the ship after a similar length of absence. I saw your name and thought it was quite familiar and then I remembered, you just beat me in the knockout quiz 2008.
So, welcome back...
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Hi Mertseger! Nice to see you here again!
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by Mertseger:
My son became a teenager a couple of weeks ago. (A few of you might remember him from one Shipmeet.)
Yep! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Hey Merts! Nice to see you!
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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Good to see you! Welcome back.
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Hi, all!
I miss my no cal peeps!
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Welcome back! Does your change of job mean you've changed your views on the ethics of credit (which is where I think we left off in about 2009 [Two face] )?
I did a "WTF did we learn" lecture over at USF last year. I do think banks should be allowed to fail, and investment banking should be far more regulated than it is. Banking capital needs to be more micro-based than micro-based as it was under Basel II, but it needs to be more prescriptive than just "do stress-testing" so that the regulators can cover their asses during the next down-cycle. But I still think consumer loans are still largely a social positive.
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I also recently came back to posting on the ship after a similar length of absence. I saw your name and thought it was quite familiar and then I remembered, you just beat me in the knockout quiz 2008.
That battle was way, way too much fun. But truly participating in knockout quizes is really a full-time job.
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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That should be "...more macro-based than micro-based..."
[ 11. March 2013, 00:02: Message edited by: Mertseger ]
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Amos
Shipmate
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Hey! Good to see you back.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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You know that there is likely a happy medium between "check in every hour or so" and not posting for years. That's just a broad hint that we like seeing you and would love to see you just a weensy bit more often.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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Yay! Great to have you back!
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Who?
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Even more so than I was before
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Good to see you again!
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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Waves flag at M. Does it feel like coming home?
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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Hi there! Welcome back!
I'm still in Oakland, still at GTU (working on a PhD now). Other than that, nothing huge to report.
Good to see you here again!
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I reserve the right to change my mind.
My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Hi, all!
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You know that there is likely a happy medium between "check in every hour or so" and not posting for years. That's just a broad hint that we like seeing you and would love to see you just a weensy bit more often. [Smile]
Thanks, Lyda*Rose, that's much appreciated. But I would not want to be as addicted as I once was.
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I'm still in Oakland, still at GTU (working on a PhD now). Other than that, nothing huge to report.
I was wondering why you were still showing Oakland as your locale. I got like three candidates through seminary since I saw you last. So, Piled high and Deeper for you? Congratulations and commiserations. May your thesis committee be as nice as mine was.
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Waves flag at M. Does it feel like coming home?
All the furniture seems to be in the same place, and the paint job's the same. Nice new memorial chapel, though.
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Who?
Exactly.
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Only the lucky few know, Merts, only the lucky few
So, the name "Fenton's" is suddenly coming to mind...
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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Mertz,
JB and I are so glad to see you back.
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In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Mertseger
Faerie Bard
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Hi, Ye Olde MB,
I'm glad to see that you're still weaving the community threads across the US and beyond!
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Go and be who you are:
The Body of Christ,
The Goddess of Body,
The Manifest Song of Faerie.
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