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 Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:22 pm
So, I danced and then I got drunk. I got this whole Dionysos thing WRONG.
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:27 pm
Zomg ...that was the first time that during a meeting with all my teachers students and him in one group....that I came away feeling like i've made much progress and I'm keeping a good pace...
Normally I come away feeling like I'm lagging behind, but quite the reverse. I received nominal tounge lashing that consisted mostly of reminders to keep working on the things i've been working on.
Could it be? Am I actually Growing!
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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:28 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:28 am
Re: the title of this thread, my girlfriend keeps saying that this week sucked and things have been crazy at her work and it seems like everyone is having issues. I told her kind of jokingly that maybe Mercury was retrograde. Apparently it is! Joy.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 9:24 am
TheDisreputableDog Re: the title of this thread, my girlfriend keeps saying that this week sucked and things have been crazy at her work and it seems like everyone is having issues. I told her kind of jokingly that maybe Mercury was retrograde. Apparently it is! Joy. I was chatting with Celeblin and she said something to the effect of "Mercury is retrograde?! Why am I always the last to know these things!" I almost died from the laughter.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:51 am
TeaDidikai TheDisreputableDog Re: the title of this thread, my girlfriend keeps saying that this week sucked and things have been crazy at her work and it seems like everyone is having issues. I told her kind of jokingly that maybe Mercury was retrograde. Apparently it is! Joy. I was chatting with Celeblin and she said something to the effect of "Mercury is retrograde?! Why am I always the last to know these things!" I almost died from the laughter. Stupid ******** stars ruling my life. wink Arg, it'd be nice to have a chart. I just don't know anyone who does them.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:33 am
Celeblin Galadeneryn TeaDidikai TheDisreputableDog Re: the title of this thread, my girlfriend keeps saying that this week sucked and things have been crazy at her work and it seems like everyone is having issues. I told her kind of jokingly that maybe Mercury was retrograde. Apparently it is! Joy. I was chatting with Celeblin and she said something to the effect of "Mercury is retrograde?! Why am I always the last to know these things!" I almost died from the laughter. Stupid ******** stars ruling my life. wink Arg, it'd be nice to have a chart. I just don't know anyone who does them.
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:42 am
TeaDidikai Celeblin Galadeneryn TeaDidikai TheDisreputableDog Re: the title of this thread, my girlfriend keeps saying that this week sucked and things have been crazy at her work and it seems like everyone is having issues. I told her kind of jokingly that maybe Mercury was retrograde. Apparently it is! Joy. I was chatting with Celeblin and she said something to the effect of "Mercury is retrograde?! Why am I always the last to know these things!" I almost died from the laughter. Stupid ******** stars ruling my life. wink Arg, it'd be nice to have a chart. I just don't know anyone who does them. Seriously? *shakes fist at Mercury*
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:22 pm
I dreamed about Futhark runes last night. They were silver pendants in a wooden box. I think I picked up either Dagaz, O(thorn)ila, or Ingwaz (but the Anglo-Saxon variant according to Wikipedia). Maybe Gebo. I was trying to pay attention so I would remember, because I don't know anything about Futhark and I thought "hey, this is important" in the dream, but now I'm not sure. I don't remember the rest of the dream now either. Just the silver runes in a box. (Not etched in silver disks, either, but the shapes directly.)
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 3:20 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:34 pm
Hi everyone! Super busy with school, super tired.
Absolutely LOVING my Critical Thinking: Science and the Occult class. Even if the teacher didn't seem to understand the distinction between different kinds of atheism. He says he used to get speakers from Scientology to come into the class and do presentations, but his classes got blacklisted (not because he was rude or anything, he's quite polite to everyone). He said the best speaker he's ever had come in (for a different class he teaches) was a Mormon from the local temple. He's going to let us know when the next psychic fair comes to town.
Math, I am not enjoying so much. It makes my poor dyscalculiac brain hurt. The teacher keeps saying things like, "You need to know your multiplication tables," and I just die a little inside, worrying about when this is actually going to come up. He doesn't know I have dyscalculia. I don't really think it'd be helpful to tell him -- I guess mostly I'm afraid he won't believe in it or something, y'know? Apparently, despite my approved academic accommodations, he can't let me use a calculator on the tests. The first exam is Wednesday and I'm terrified.
Ceramics is a blast, even if I'm not making anything that's actually pretty. Heh.
Sleepytimes.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:21 am
MoonJeli Hi everyone! Super busy with school, super tired. Absolutely LOVING my Critical Thinking: Science and the Occult class. Even if the teacher didn't seem to understand the distinction between different kinds of atheism. He says he used to get speakers from Scientology to come into the class and do presentations, but his classes got blacklisted (not because he was rude or anything, he's quite polite to everyone). He said the best speaker he's ever had come in (for a different class he teaches) was a Mormon from the local temple. He's going to let us know when the next psychic fair comes to town. Math, I am not enjoying so much. It makes my poor dyscalculiac brain hurt. The teacher keeps saying things like, "You need to know your multiplication tables," and I just die a little inside, worrying about when this is actually going to come up. He doesn't know I have dyscalculia. I don't really think it'd be helpful to tell him -- I guess mostly I'm afraid he won't believe in it or something, y'know? Apparently, despite my approved academic accommodations, he can't let me use a calculator on the tests. The first exam is Wednesday and I'm terrified. Ceramics is a blast, even if I'm not making anything that's actually pretty. Heh. Sleepytimes. Tell him and then take it up with special needs. Especially if this is a required course. I don't know about your school, but at mine all reasonable accomodations must be made. And if he accuses you of not even having a condition, REALLY take it up with special needs. I had a friend who got a failing grade after there was some conflict about when she had to hand things in due to her needs. As it turns out the teacher didn't think she was right for the program, partially due to some of the things she needs.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:22 pm
Has anyone heard of a book called Now They Call Me Infidel, by Nonie Darwish?
From what my boyfriend has told me, it's a very interesting story of an Egyptian lady who's father was a Shahid and she later renounced jihad and moved to the United States.
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:41 pm
From obsessionwithhate.com:
Nonie Darwish is the creator of the website "Arabs for Israel" where she seeks to promote her Messianic Evangelical vision of unconditional support for Israel in order to pave the way for the second coming of Christ. She tells Israelis and Jews to support the apartheid wall that effectively partitions portions of the West Bank while at the same time encouraging Israelis and Jews not to work for a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
She is also the author of Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror. In that book, she gives conflicting accounts of her identity: she stresses that she is not "anti-Arab or anti-Islamic, and even suggests from time to time that she is still a Muslim. Then she pivots nimbly and attacks "the Arab mind," "the seething Arab street," and "the Muslim world," with its "culture of jihad," "culture of death," and "culture of envy." There are "no real distinctions between moderate or radical Muslims," and no significant differences within or among Arab or Muslim cultures. For Darwish, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's secular Arab nationalism was essentially Islamic jihadist.
Darwish holds simplistic views on the Middle-East that seem to demonize the Arab/Palestinian/Muslim side: "I realized that the Arab-Israeli conflict is not a crisis over land, but a crisis of hate, lack of compassion, ingratitude, and insecurity." Rather than sound scholarship, Darwish offers us a watered-down version of Raphael Patai's The Arab Mind: a dictionary of Islamophobic commonplaces, underwritten by the authority of an ex-Muslim native informant: "I was there -- I know."
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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:38 pm
Romanus From obsessionwithhate.com: Nonie Darwish is the creator of the website "Arabs for Israel" where she seeks to promote her Messianic Evangelical vision of unconditional support for Israel in order to pave the way for the second coming of Christ. She tells Israelis and Jews to support the apartheid wall that effectively partitions portions of the West Bank while at the same time encouraging Israelis and Jews not to work for a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
She is also the author of Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror. In that book, she gives conflicting accounts of her identity: she stresses that she is not "anti-Arab or anti-Islamic, and even suggests from time to time that she is still a Muslim. Then she pivots nimbly and attacks "the Arab mind," "the seething Arab street," and "the Muslim world," with its "culture of jihad," "culture of death," and "culture of envy." There are "no real distinctions between moderate or radical Muslims," and no significant differences within or among Arab or Muslim cultures. For Darwish, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's secular Arab nationalism was essentially Islamic jihadist.
Darwish holds simplistic views on the Middle-East that seem to demonize the Arab/Palestinian/Muslim side: "I realized that the Arab-Israeli conflict is not a crisis over land, but a crisis of hate, lack of compassion, ingratitude, and insecurity." Rather than sound scholarship, Darwish offers us a watered-down version of Raphael Patai's The Arab Mind: a dictionary of Islamophobic commonplaces, underwritten by the authority of an ex-Muslim native informant: "I was there -- I know." That's a lot in such a small quote. So does the website claim she is wishy washy about her split from Islam? Or like, she's clinging to parts of it so that she appeals to other Muslims?
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