Little Bit of a Link Dump

[melayneseahawk]

why Amazon.Fail might not have been a glitch

same-sex marriage in the early Christian church (from triannamaxwell)

Have been catching up on my TV, and is it just me, or was it really creepy when Sylar shape-changed into his own mother so she could tell him the things he wanted to hear from her (esp. forgiveness for killing her)? And not in a spine-chilling way, more in a "this should be creepy but it's just off-putting" kind of way. I don't know why I still bother with this show, I really don't. It's so bad.

Comments

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Urgh. I wish I had known about link #1 before ordering 2 books from Amazon this week; OTOH, I need them rather urgently, and they're kinda hard to find. Gah.

Re: link 2 - I'm skeptical, honestly. A bit of wikiing shows that this article seems to be largely based off of John Boswell's work, which does not seem to be unilaterally accepted. I'm not saying it's wrong, but that I'd want to see citations, because the article's argument is just so at variance with the church's current stance.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

1: Honestly, I don't know what to think. I doubt we'll ever really know what happened.

2: I'd be curious to do more research into it. I do know that homosexuality wasn't always as actively reviled as it is now (and I don't just mean the Greeks). Unfortunately, queer history has a habit of being rewritten or "straight-washed" by later generations. There's actually going to be a guy talking about that at NLM's Queer History Month events.

[sid]

Ah, I was skeptical about link 2 as well. I just found it hard to believe that I was hearing about it now for the first time if it was, er, canon, so to speak!

It's a beautiful story, if nothing more. :-(

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

"...if it was, er, canon, so to speak!"

That was abbot much, I think.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Urgh, the puns! Make them stop!

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Puns? Nun-sense.

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

You're going to the special hell, my friend.

And anyway, what are you still doing up?

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

Thesis work! Trying to get the rough draft done before I have to go to class...today. What about yourself?

"You're going to the special hell, my friend."

Abbot this is so fun! But it's true, that last one probably s'ain't fair play.