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I find myself being chaotically neutral about all this.

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Quoted for truth. (And because I found it amusing.)

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Blue and white cotton floral print flared skirt tied with matching sash, indigo top, with cardigan of almost the same blue as the flowers on the skirt. Pearl drop earrings, white summer shoes.

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Ariel, you dress exactly the way I've always pictured you. The strange thing is -- so does Welease Woderwick.

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I'm now struggling with a vision of WW in a cotton floral skirt and pearl ear-rings ...

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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
God is kind to authors, and feeds them like the ravens in the desert with good things.

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From the banqueting place that is "Difficult Relatives".

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I much prefer integral hostess trolleys to derivative ones.

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Lately all the big stuff happens when I'm in bed...

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Well, it amused the inner teenager.

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Originally posted by IngoB:
Do you actually think that the Logos, the Second Person of the Trinity as God wanders into the Trinitarian kitchen, sees the First Person and says "Morning, Dad"?

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Well, apart from the "kitchen" existing beyond all space and time (and thus perhaps not permitting wandering into or out of, since that implies both, though the image of a kitchen does perhaps suggest the concept of creation (we're like gingerbread people, you see)), and the Son eternally beholds and communicates with the Father in an endless realm of light (would that count as "morning" in a sense if it never begins nor ends?)...

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Kelly shares some of her personal life in the Styx:

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Lately all the big stuff happens when I'm in bed...

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A bagpipe is a bag, filled with hot air, and making a droning noise.

As is Alex Salmond.

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Originally posted by Starlight: Although I am still eager to hear all about why gay sex is bad

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Woman, cleave to your man. The clitoris doesn't make babies.

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Originally posted by Boogie:
God created the conditions for total freedom, so that we can have total freedom to choose. We could not love Him without that and He did all this for Love imo. Horrible those bacteria and viruses are to us, they are necessary to a system which works the way it does - freedom to evolve.

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Originally posted by Ariston:
"By their fruits ye shall know them" and all that, right? Sometimes you let them be known as kinda fruity.

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Originally posted by Gildas:
[B]ecause the speaker is a Christian it would be terminally naive to assume that his or her pronouncements were the outworking of Holy Charity. Equally, just because someone claims to be a rationalist it does not follow that their view are necessarily rational.

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Originally posted by Gildas:
Courage, Grasshopper, lies in learning not to wet one's bed. Blaming the Islamists for making your Action Man pyjamas smell of wee is not an adequate substitute.

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One shouldn't anthropomorphise objects. They don't like it.

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Bumping for Wood!

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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
Just the thing when you need a little Snackrament.

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People, people, people. That sat there for four days!

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. God said...

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Just for fun, I tried this out. At one of the group sessions, I ended up saying stuff like "We need to subjectivize the project variables, using the kitchen for more than just preparing a meal, but without too many baroque ornaments" and they loved it! During the break, various people complimented me on my input

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[Ian] Paisley once came to the church I was a member off when he was on holiday. I must have been about 15. As he was leaving he said, 'In my church we don't use the NIV.' When I replied, 'In my church we don't support sectarianism and terrorism' he stormed off.

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So I've been trying to figure out what the heck the cat experiment means.

I have been told by a number of people it proves the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics. (see below). Then I came across this article.
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The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics essentially states that an object in a physical system can simultaneously exist in all possible configurations, but observing the system forces the system to collapse and forces the object into just one of those possible states. Schrödinger disagreed with this interpretation.

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because it is impossible for an organism to be simultaneously alive and dead. Thus, he reasoned that the Copenhagen Interpretation must be inherently flawed.

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I'll get me coat.

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Originally posted by Autenrieth Road, in the usual furor that follows H & A Days:

Votes in the Styx for whether Shipmates should be planked. No wait, no planking without prior recourse. Therefore, trials with witnesses and consulting council so that the accused can properly defend themselves before being planked. Debates about whether the proper criterion is whether the accused could have, should have, or did know that they were posting like a jerk.

A proper constitutional committee to review whether we want to be governed by the 10 Commandments or not, to be reconvened every 6 months to take account of the views of newcomers who are otherwise forced into servitude to the despotism of those who have come before them.

Proper anonymous voting for proposals for new boards. Votes on the proper procedures for anonymous voting. Who gets to vote? Is campaigning allowed on the day of the vote? Committees formed to settle these questions. Threads in the Styx complaining that the committees are formed of an in-crowd.

Votes for the appointment of Hosts and Admins (or is this like voting for judges: seems like a good application of democracy, but turns out to be a really crap idea?). Recall elections whenever a Host or Admin does something unpopular.

Investigation of whether the idea of having Hosts and Admins at all is too in-crowd and anti-democratic. Constitutional committee to investigate running the Ship as a collective.

H&A Days to be put to a vote prior. Endless threads in the Styx about how "I didn't know an H&A Day vote was coming up." Timing of votes for H&A Days to be put to a vote prior. Endless threads in the Styx about how "I didn't know an H&A Day Vote Timing vote was coming up." Timing of Votes for Timing of Votes for H&A Days to be put to a vote prior. Threads in the Styx...

Ship ceases to need to appeal for financial support, as Simon discovers that the threads in the Styx are running a perpetual motion machine. Day of celebration declared. Threads in the Styx about how the day of celebration interfered with the normal running of the boards. Perpetual motion machine runs amok.

Careful policing of anarchy so it doesn't offend anyone. Creation of Despotic Anarchy board so that those who like Despotic Anarchy can do it whenever they like without bothering anyone else. Accusations that the Despotic Anarchy board is the haven of the most in of in-crowds, and people who might like a spot of anarchy feel intimidated from joining in.

There's so much that could be improved about the Ship.

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Great. One parakeet is mocking us by imitating a human snore.

We will now fight about whose snore it is.

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Think of H&A Day as a sacrament instituted the first time by Simon through the alligator in whom he had invested his power, which has been handed over through her ordained sucessors, and through which he still works our salvation. We don't need to understand all of it, parts of it may even seem to be undemocratic or —gasp— immoral to us, but in the end it will all work out to our best.

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If it turns out that Simon's vision for SoF has been to mould hanky-wringing liberals into a spitting image of the RCC, with conservatives waging guerrilla warfare of enlightened laissez-faire against it, then I for one don't care whether this is a prank or a work of art, evil or good. It would be so unspeakably epic, a breathtaking tour de force in social manipulation, irony so deep that it would form a wormhole right into the Holy of Holies, with God saying "peek-a-boo".

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This thread is starting to read like a Brae version of " we didn't start the fire."

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Rab C Nesbitt, Irn Bru, Robbie Burns and Lulu
Robert Stirling, James Watt, horrid bagpipes scream.
Braveheart, Duncan Smith, Blair and Brown, James the Sixth,
Beige porridge, single malt, Alastair MacLean.

Deep fryed mars bars are a thing, midgie bites really sting,
Carol Smilie, cast steel, Ronnie Corbett, Falkirk Wheel.
Porridge cooling in the sinks, playing golf upon the links,
Susan Boyle - North Sea Oil - Arthur Fucking Conan Doyle!

We didn't start the fire...

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It's hardly our fault that the current ideal of female beauty is a kind of stick figure with a couple of melons bolted to her chest. Blame Barbie, if it makes you feel better.

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Dear ProudHouseMom,

Thankyou so much for the great favor you are doing to our family. My son Jimmy started to read the "original books" (as you put it), but I had to stop him. He's been so pleased to now be able to read your version, and I'm so pleased he's reading again!

May I make a request? In the books, the boys spend a lot of time playing with their wands. When Jimmy started following their lead, I knew it was time to take them away from him. I'm pleased to see there isn't any of that in your story, but there's also nothing explicitly telling him its wrong. Could you include this? I know he pays attention to the lessons in your book. Just the other day I asked him to help me by putting the brownies I was making in the oven. He looked nervous and said, "I don't want to be disobedient, mother dearest, but that's something Harry's Uncle did. I'm not sure if I should." I've never been prouder of him.

Blessings!

FanMom. xxox.

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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Surely, you just point the aspirant at half a pomegranate and tell them to eat it without using their teeth ?

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Your level of knowledge is truly remarkable, I am sure you have forgotten more than you ever knew.
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