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And a week finishes.
Sep. 8th, 2005 11:45 pmIt wasn't a complete week, but I'm already feeling like I'm going to drown in the paperwork and the papers. Ye gods, grad school loves their papers. (Almost as much as undergraduate did. But now they're longer.) Thus, I may become a hermit, without joking, while I try to work through all of it. At least the thesis has given me practice on how to sit at a machine for several hours on end and get work done.
Best. Liberal. Picture. Ever. Period. Add whatever else you need to from there. Further amusement derived from this license plate. Am surprised it passed the DMV.
This is something I would expect out of my hometown. But I would also want these Christian animatronics builders to do some of their fine placement work on any church that wanted something like that. I'm still out on whether the majority of the clergy of Christianity believes option one or option two in regards to Katrina. I'd like to say option one over option two. I'm not sure, though, and that worries me.
If you need a little luck (and who doesn't?), and if you like elephant-deities, it was Ganesh Chaturti today. So hopefully the blessings of luck fill your households far past their carrying capacities.
No, not much on the "OMG Philosophy/Angst/Thought so thick you need a sharp steak knife to carve it with". Although I did have a humorous thought today about one of our protest groups - their name is By Any Means Necessary, and they were wearing red shirts. I skipped past any socialist/communist implications (came back to them later, as supposedly BAMN receives major funding from what claims to be a Trotsky-socialist organization) and noted something a little more functional - red is also the colour of blood. If one is indeed ready to do things By Any Means Necessary, then perhaps it is unwise to be going about in red shirts. (All Star Trek jokes aside)
Another nagging bit - when I was talking about the Enlightened Beings/Great Philosophers, I wonder how many of them acknowledged or promoted themselves as such. I'm not sure whether even Jesus said Son of God. Lots of Son of Man, as I recall, but not so much on Son of God. Did the Buddha ever claim himself to be enlightened? Or any of the Zen masters? Mohammed might have claimed himself a Prophet of God. It's poking at the back of my head, wondering how many people actually said that they were enlightened/divine beings...
Best. Liberal. Picture. Ever. Period. Add whatever else you need to from there. Further amusement derived from this license plate. Am surprised it passed the DMV.
This is something I would expect out of my hometown. But I would also want these Christian animatronics builders to do some of their fine placement work on any church that wanted something like that. I'm still out on whether the majority of the clergy of Christianity believes option one or option two in regards to Katrina. I'd like to say option one over option two. I'm not sure, though, and that worries me.
If you need a little luck (and who doesn't?), and if you like elephant-deities, it was Ganesh Chaturti today. So hopefully the blessings of luck fill your households far past their carrying capacities.
No, not much on the "OMG Philosophy/Angst/Thought so thick you need a sharp steak knife to carve it with". Although I did have a humorous thought today about one of our protest groups - their name is By Any Means Necessary, and they were wearing red shirts. I skipped past any socialist/communist implications (came back to them later, as supposedly BAMN receives major funding from what claims to be a Trotsky-socialist organization) and noted something a little more functional - red is also the colour of blood. If one is indeed ready to do things By Any Means Necessary, then perhaps it is unwise to be going about in red shirts. (All Star Trek jokes aside)
Another nagging bit - when I was talking about the Enlightened Beings/Great Philosophers, I wonder how many of them acknowledged or promoted themselves as such. I'm not sure whether even Jesus said Son of God. Lots of Son of Man, as I recall, but not so much on Son of God. Did the Buddha ever claim himself to be enlightened? Or any of the Zen masters? Mohammed might have claimed himself a Prophet of God. It's poking at the back of my head, wondering how many people actually said that they were enlightened/divine beings...
