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[sigerson]

Random bits...

--On Wednesday, I came home late. DaMan was out, and so the Oob greeted me at the top of the stairs, purring and meeping. Then she threw up. As I'm getting paper towels, she throws up again. As I'm cleaning it up, I notice something green in the mix. Leafy, even. We don't have houseplants; I finally put down my backpack and take off my jacket, wondering if I left out some parsley or something. I ask Oob what she's been eating. She meeps. I resolve to ask DaMan. When I finally walked into my study, I saw the cause: a great big beautiful vase of red tulips. He'd brought me flowers. Which had developed tiny bite marks.

--I have, at last count, 17 emails or contacts from friends that need to be replied to. Not just the two-line email reply, but a real in-depth "missed you, what have you been up to, here's what my month has been like." At some point the guilt will build up enough that I'll either respond to them or move them out of my inbox in shame. The oldest one is from Nate, in March.

--Got challenged in class, and thought I'd spread the challenge. Those of you who hold liberal religious beliefs, who are pretty laid-back and relaxed about it, who rarely bring up religion as a motivating factor or as a part of your life: By *not* talking about your religion, have you ceded the field to the right-wing?

--Also got whacked on the head with the Clue Stick of the Goddess. My past doesn't need redeeming. Love, forgiveness, understanding, acceptance, perhaps--but redemption?

--Does grad school increase cramps? I swear it's been worse this week than for the last two years.

--LJ is providing a nice phantom connection, but I think it's time I switch most of half-hour or so that I use to get back in touch into time spent answering the aforementioned 17 emails.


Back to work; there's a presentation for Monday on "Cosmopolitanisms". mmm...cosmos...

Comments

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I think this is the example: One religious conservative says, "As a believer in Z, I say that X is wrong." A more liberal member of the same religion says, "I say that X is not wrong", without stating how/why their beliefs affect their approach to X. From the outside observer, religion Z now seems to endorse only the opinion that X is wrong.

Kind of fuzzy, but does that help? The idea that only the right-wing people get to cite religious beliefs in support of their actions--that's part of the concept, I think.