Wow, time went by quickly today.
Jul. 20th, 2006 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptMaybe it was that whole sleeping in thing. You never know, these days. Anyway, there's almost always a feast of the strange and odd around when I put up a post, and today is no exception. A personal anecdote today, however. As I was at work, an adult (or as near as I could tell) came up to the desk, pointed at our containers of mints and said "Give me one." I explained to her that they were prizes for signup for our teen reading game, and that she needed to sign someone up to get one. She said "Oh. Someone gave me one yesterday, and I gave it to a friend thinking I could get another one. Give me one." And then she reached into the box, without as much as a by-your-leave, took a box, and walked away. I was left with the distinct feeling that this person hadn't heard a word I had said at all, or ignored it so totally that, to her, I had said "Sure, have one." I'm flabbergasted by it, and wonder how such a thing could come to pass. After all, she responded when I said, "No, I'm sorry", so it couldn't have been deafness or inability to understand, but... gah. I don't get it. Did she just block me totally or what?
An article with the "smacking" guide posted earlier. To shed, perhaps, a little more light on the subject. Although, perhaps as a success story, it turns out that if you do beat your child regularly, impose a quadrillion rules on them and punish them for inconsequential things, then you too can raise a fine fundamentalist. How many other leaders of the movement to force Christianity on the rest have such checkered pasts.
Other weirdness aboundeth, specifically this extraordinarily medieval view on what witchcraft is, peppered with almost all of the common ignorant accusations. It would seem that either this person didn't do what they are exhorting others to do so, or the validity of their sources is seriously in question. (And, yes, that would include Torah and the Christian Foundational Writings.) Then again, with the government attempting to seize land to protect a giant cross built on it, and trying to block judges from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance, perhaps "research" in this day and age is simply praying and waiting for a message from somewhere, be it God or otherwise. More people should start paying attention to the growing threat of Right-Wing "Christians", as I'm sure things have only gotten worse since they began.
An Open Letter to the Iraqi People: Amplify the scandals that happen to you. We might hear more of it at home, but it appears that FEMA is insisting on one of their representatives being present when people in their care talk to the press. Don't want anything bad to slip out now, do we? Nevermind that these days, you need to practically shout to get the media to notice, and then holding their attention is damn near impossible, as they have sound bites and short attention spans and pandering to the masses to take into account.
Inspirational RPG posters. Funny thing is, I get them. And I've only played one module in my life.
This achievement takes iron balls and a lot of skill - namely a 15-year-old with cerebral palsy swims across Lake Ontario, in a little over a day.
That's the workout for tonight. As always, a mess of stuff. None of it necessarily interesting or thought-provoking, but if you get something out of it, all the better.
An article with the "smacking" guide posted earlier. To shed, perhaps, a little more light on the subject. Although, perhaps as a success story, it turns out that if you do beat your child regularly, impose a quadrillion rules on them and punish them for inconsequential things, then you too can raise a fine fundamentalist. How many other leaders of the movement to force Christianity on the rest have such checkered pasts.
Other weirdness aboundeth, specifically this extraordinarily medieval view on what witchcraft is, peppered with almost all of the common ignorant accusations. It would seem that either this person didn't do what they are exhorting others to do so, or the validity of their sources is seriously in question. (And, yes, that would include Torah and the Christian Foundational Writings.) Then again, with the government attempting to seize land to protect a giant cross built on it, and trying to block judges from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance, perhaps "research" in this day and age is simply praying and waiting for a message from somewhere, be it God or otherwise. More people should start paying attention to the growing threat of Right-Wing "Christians", as I'm sure things have only gotten worse since they began.
An Open Letter to the Iraqi People: Amplify the scandals that happen to you. We might hear more of it at home, but it appears that FEMA is insisting on one of their representatives being present when people in their care talk to the press. Don't want anything bad to slip out now, do we? Nevermind that these days, you need to practically shout to get the media to notice, and then holding their attention is damn near impossible, as they have sound bites and short attention spans and pandering to the masses to take into account.
Inspirational RPG posters. Funny thing is, I get them. And I've only played one module in my life.
This achievement takes iron balls and a lot of skill - namely a 15-year-old with cerebral palsy swims across Lake Ontario, in a little over a day.
That's the workout for tonight. As always, a mess of stuff. None of it necessarily interesting or thought-provoking, but if you get something out of it, all the better.
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Date: 2006-07-22 02:36 pm (UTC)