Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[Wrath of Ezekiel]

Gho the Girl

SpaceTerminal Destiny

O----O We learned a fallacy in my math class. Ecological fallacy anyone?

Nan desu ka?

I'm going to assume you just said, "What is that?"

An ecological fallacy comes from one looks at a data set and says conclusively that a certain pattern must be true, without looking at other variables and things that might effect the pattern.

Basically, unless you're the scientist who has conducted the experiment and gathered all the data on all the different factors and produced the results, someone else can't just look at it and say something is true.  

[Taliah]

Gho the Girl

Also, is D.J. Conway a reputable author on pagan matters?

From my understanding? He/she is not an authority, as least where Wicca is concerned. I bought a book called Solitary Witch, and it was (what Tea calls it) Eclectic Neopaganism, though it claims Wicca. From the regular pagan standpoint? I'm not as sure.  

[patch99329]

Gho the Girl

Also, is D.J. Conway a reputable author on pagan matters?

Apparantly her work on norse and celtic mythology is bad. Loose scholarship and all. wink  

[Taliah]

Update:So, I did finish Twilight.

Short answer is that I was not being unfair.

Long answer... I wasn't impressed, by her writing or her "romance". Characters were paper thin, and didn't develop as they should have. Dialog literally made me laugh out loud in a few places. They didn't even actually fall in love, they just suddenly stated it as if fact one chapter, and it happened. I won't even bother to say how much eye-rolling I did to Bella's descriptions of Edward. And finally, can someone show me where the plot was? I couldn't find it.

I won't bring in the Twilight rants in here after this, just wanted to post it here for clarity.  

[TeaDidikai]

patch99329

Apparantly her work on norse and celtic mythology is bad. Loose scholarship and all. wink

Heh... when you have to publish a second book to "make up" and apologize for the first one you publish... you know that's bad.  

[maenad nuri]

Why are we never on AIM at the same time anymore, Tea. It makes me sad.


In my happy news, I did "I Lost it at the Gym" at my local Golds Gym since the beginning of January. I lost one whole pound, but lost 1.75 inches off my waist. I'm okay with this, and intend to do the next program in April.  

[Recursive Paradox]

Taliah

Update:So, I did finish Twilight.

Short answer is that I was not being unfair.

Long answer... I wasn't impressed, by her writing or her "romance". Characters were paper thin, and didn't develop as they should have. Dialog literally made me laugh out loud in a few places. They didn't even actually fall in love, they just suddenly stated it as if fact one chapter, and it happened. I won't even bother to say how much eye-rolling I did to Bella's descriptions of Edward. And finally, can someone show me where the plot was? I couldn't find it.

I won't bring in the Twilight rants in here after this, just wanted to post it here for clarity.

I watched the movie. It was horrific. Only six actual good lines in the entirety of it and the relationship between Edward and Bella was most emotionally abusive, stalkerrific, dangerously codependent relationship I had seen on the silver screen in a long time.

Oh and the editing, focus and camera work was atrocious. My film major friends could do better. Hell, they have done better.  

[Recursive Paradox]

The letter arrived home. My mom decided to hold onto it until things cleared up a bit for my dad at work, so he'll probably read it this weekend.

I don't know whether to be intensely angry with her for interfering with my disclosure to my father or intensely grateful that she gave me the opportunity of knowing exactly when he's going to read it so I can have my sister in arms, my partners and my friends around me when he responds.

Maybe a little of both really.  

[TeaDidikai]

maenad nuri

Why are we never on AIM at the same time anymore, Tea. It makes me sad.

Because Leo is on life support. We transfered his brain to a new body, but it won't last.  

[Shearaha]

Taliah

Update:So, I did finish Twilight.

Short answer is that I was not being unfair.

Long answer... I wasn't impressed, by her writing or her "romance". Characters were paper thin, and didn't develop as they should have. Dialog literally made me laugh out loud in a few places. They didn't even actually fall in love, they just suddenly stated it as if fact one chapter, and it happened. I won't even bother to say how much eye-rolling I did to Bella's descriptions of Edward. And finally, can someone show me where the plot was? I couldn't find it.

I won't bring in the Twilight rants in here after this, just wanted to post it here for clarity.

Hey, I read all four of them. Yes they were horribly written, but I mainly read them to laugh at how badly done they were. I read them before all the hype too crying  

[Wrath of Ezekiel]

Shearaha

Taliah

Update:So, I did finish Twilight.

Short answer is that I was not being unfair.

Long answer... I wasn't impressed, by her writing or her "romance". Characters were paper thin, and didn't develop as they should have. Dialog literally made me laugh out loud in a few places. They didn't even actually fall in love, they just suddenly stated it as if fact one chapter, and it happened. I won't even bother to say how much eye-rolling I did to Bella's descriptions of Edward. And finally, can someone show me where the plot was? I couldn't find it.

I won't bring in the Twilight rants in here after this, just wanted to post it here for clarity.

Hey, I read all four of them. Yes they were horribly written, but I mainly read them to laugh at how badly done they were. I read them before all the hype too crying

My sister's just finishing Breaking Dawn now. She, in the spring time, was interning with the magazine Elle Canada and so they sent her to the set of Twilight in March (she got to go to Portland!!!) and she interviewed the actress who played, I think her name is, Victoria in the film. It was published in December. ^___^

But after she went to the set, she bought a copy of Twilight to read, read it in a day, and then returned it to the bookstore, saying it was a lousy piece of garbage. But she's read the other books because she's still freelancing for Elle while doing another magazine, and so they might want to send her for the other movies.

I have read Twilight myself. It's entertaining, but not worth buying and has no literary value what so ever.

Ehhh, sorry for the Twilight rant >...>  

[Shearaha]

SpaceTerminal Destiny

Shearaha

Taliah

Update:So, I did finish Twilight.

Short answer is that I was not being unfair.

Long answer... I wasn't impressed, by her writing or her "romance". Characters were paper thin, and didn't develop as they should have. Dialog literally made me laugh out loud in a few places. They didn't even actually fall in love, they just suddenly stated it as if fact one chapter, and it happened. I won't even bother to say how much eye-rolling I did to Bella's descriptions of Edward. And finally, can someone show me where the plot was? I couldn't find it.

I won't bring in the Twilight rants in here after this, just wanted to post it here for clarity.

Hey, I read all four of them. Yes they were horribly written, but I mainly read them to laugh at how badly done they were. I read them before all the hype too crying

My sister's just finishing Breaking Dawn now. She, in the spring time, was interning with the magazine Elle Canada and so they sent her to the set of Twilight in March (she got to go to Portland!!!) and she interviewed the actress who played, I think her name is, Victoria in the film. It was published in December. ^___^

But after she went to the set, she bought a copy of Twilight to read, read it in a day, and then returned it to the bookstore, saying it was a lousy piece of garbage. But she's read the other books because she's still freelancing for Elle while doing another magazine, and so they might want to send her for the other movies.

I have read Twilight myself. It's entertaining, but not worth buying and has no literary value what so ever.

Ehhh, sorry for the Twilight rant >...>

Exactly why I just got them from the library. Unless I know the author is one that I really like and are hit more then miss I always read from the library first. If I like it then I buy it.  

[scorplett]

Gho the Girl

Also, is D.J. Conway a reputable author on pagan matters?

No, no and um... NO  

[Gho the Girl]

scorplett

Gho the Girl

Also, is D.J. Conway a reputable author on pagan matters?

No, no and um... NO

Might I ask specifically why? The other members who replied to my query gave some reasons, but weren't as vehement in their posts as you, so I'm curious as to what exactly causes such an irate sounding response.  

[maenad nuri]

sushi. NOM NOM NOM

I went out for Japanese for the first time in a couple of years. Oh sweet unagi rolls, how I have missed you.

The $40.00 we spent, that I'll miss (but I'm getting about a meal or so more out of my lunch), but NOM NOM NOM NOM.