The Karlie Chronicles

Cannot. Wait. To vote. This Idiot. Out.

Karma, baby

The stock market is up 350 pts, because of course it is. Apparently nothing can sink the Dow.

This breaks my heart. I've been to Tyre. I've been to Sidon. I KNOW people in Lebanon. Their neighbor to the south has no right and should be stopped.

Yes, it's frustrating, especially since I am the student pastor at a PCUSA church and I am UMC. We're not that different. And we're in full communion with the ELCA, so why can't we just make friends with each other?

And according to David Scott Moore in The Dependent Gene, traits depend on environment as much as the actual gene, even for eye color, and we don't know enough about epigenetics to say how any modification will work.

You ever think about how most likely, people (on the whole) are more bisexual than our society allows, and the stigma against bisexuality is compulsory heterosexuality writ large. You ever think about how more people would be happy if they could admit to being bi

Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted by Richard Beck

Gee, Congressman, ya think? Like they haven't been doing this for over a year now?

Great.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

"The Day After" scared me to death when I was a kid growing up in the eighties. And I have been against the use of nukes ever since.

"Progressive Intellectual" - I'll take it!

How come it was okay for Mace to call Sarah McBride a man?

But, written by a European white guy

I don't know the answer. The Hermeneia commentary I used said 12 or 13 for her and 19 or 20 for Joseph would have been typical. www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

I seem to remember him explicitly stating many years ago that he was writing because he hated Tolkien - and that he felt that there were not good and evil, just morally gray. And he hated religion.

That's . . . not how the Christian faith works! That's not how it works AT ALL!!!

@alexianafry.bsky.social This book is one I found very topical, and I thought you might be interested!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

I believe I was Inara . . . 😉 🗻🗻

UMC #clergy folk..this is an easy and very timely read. It would be great for purple congregations.

I personally find you to be pretty smart!

I would pay for this!

And of course the history of English but also German

I should clarify that I am a seminary student so language development/change over time/families/history/descent from PIE etc fascinates me

I would very much appreciate that! I'm an amateur so anything you could recommend would be welcome!

It was his linguistics stuff, and I don't like Pinker either, and McWhorter is a conservative, and it's seriously reducing the number of authors in that field that I feel are worth reading. Sigh.

I'm sure they'll be held to the same standards as regular schools . . . oh, that's right, we don't have a Department of Education anymore. They'll be taught junk science and history that's been filtered.

Well then . . . he's been on my to-read list for a while. I, um, will be removing him from said list.