What’s your favorite TV show? The reason I ask is that I’ve never seen statistics relating Atheists to TV shows, And I’m curious — how many of you know a Cylon from a Vorlon? DOOL from OLTL? SVU vs CSI? Lost vs Survivor?For me, I’m a sci-fi guy, and can be seen and heard on the Trekkies movie that came out a few years back (my first public appearance). The funny thing is I’m more of a B5 person, and I’m hopelessly addicted to Lost.Sure, it’s a fluff topic. I’ve had a rough day. Work with me!!!
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Most new borns do look a bit like Buddha.
karen:
You can’t see it, but I’m turning a tad red.
Hey, can you hook me up? (kidding, kidding!)
I do look better now that I’ve had the goiter & hunchback removed (again, joking. Borrowed that 1 from Harlan Ellison. Yeesh, better stop doing that, he’ll have his lawyers on me toot sweet!)
It would be nice, but we’re in the 21st century, & the standard pick-up line is “Let’s merge our corporate assets” (or is it? What’s current these days?).
But hey, ’nuff about me.
RA,
Apology unnecessary – I know what you meant.
Dvan:
Yep. Think ole JC went up on the right hand. 3 guesses who’s on the left.
Hmmm…I wonder if the old hangup about southpaws stems from that?
HZ:
Yeah, kinda thought you’d know already.
Occasionally I forget to cross a T or dot an I here and there.
reluctant
Good points to your sis about the bible and internet comparisons.
No one even mentioned prayer at our house for turkey day, so we didn’t have to cross that bridge. I admire you for speaking up.
As for your nephew, even tho he is family, I’d say techncally it’s NOYB, so better to stay out of it.
Silly sister, tattling to Mama, instead of talking to you. *sigh*
reluctant and DvanW
I thought the Holy Ghost was at the left hand of God? Not ole Horny head.
Re: Southpaws….I’m one. Interesting lefties come up again…didn’t sword_strike tease Karen in another thread about saying “left-handed compliment”?
I think it’s long been thought that “left” was evil, or bad luck, and the Bible probably did have a lot to do with it, although I think some of it also came from pre-Christian mythology and superstitions.
I remember when I was a child, a friend of my dad’s who noticed I was left-handed told my dad he should tie my left hand behind my back and force me to use my right hand! That actually did happen to my ex-mother-in-law and consequently she could write equally well with either hand. But anyway, my dad told the guy he was nuts.
karen:
Actually, my niece did interject w/”What about people who don’t believe in God?”, which is when I put up my hands & said, “Wait,..etc.”
I was pretty much zombified at the time, truth be told. Worked a grave nite before. 3-4 hours sleep, rushed out of the house.
Tryptophan kicked in afterwards, & I was literally falling asleep on my feet.
I think you’re right, BTW. Holy Ghost is on the left side. Stand corrected.
Peach:
My BAX buddy sometimes mentions that his older brother USED to be left-handed. Going to have to dig deeper into that.
Wonder if that’s a biblical thing at all?
Lequin’s Left Hand of Darkness. (Great novel. Strange. But great nonetheless.)
Evil eye’s cast w/the left hand, ain’t it?
Bears looking into…
reluctant,
I used to know a lot about leftie superstitions, but, alas, as I tell my kids, when your brain reaches a certain age, it apparently has to let old stuff out to make room for the new! I’ll have to freshen up on it.
Your born-again friend’s brother may have a hang-up thinking left is evil…people still do. As recently as five or six years ago, I chastised a mother on my daughter’s softball team for trying to force her daughter to throw right-handed. (I was an assistant coach.) She was the epitome of ignorance and insisted that she had always heard it was bad luck, and some ridiculous thing about it could make you become cross-eyed or something. I’m totally serious.
Peach:
The inference I got was that he was trained to be a right-hander. Don’t know enough of the details yet.
answers.com – left-handed:
“1.
1. Using the left hand more skillfully or easily than the right.
2. Sports. Swinging from left to right: a left-handed batter; a left-handed golfer.
2.
1. Done with the left hand.
2. Intended for wear on or use by the left hand: left-handed scissors.
3. Awkward; maladroit.
4. Of doubtful sincerity; dubious: left-handed flattery; a left-handed compliment.
5. Of, relating to, or born of a morganatic marriage.
6.
1. Turning or spiraling from right to left; counterclockwise.
2. Rotating counterclockwise; levorotatory.”
Something about counter-clockwise (widdershins) springs to mind. Dunno know why.
My BAX buddy is a southie, BTW. I doubt this applies to all southpaws, but he is definitely the clumsiest person alive (I once saw him trip over a sidewalk curb).
Then again, I think Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson was/were lefties. Unsure if I’m off here.
When I was in grade school in the early 60s, there was still a stigma attached to being left-handed. Lefties weren’t being physically forced to use their right hands, but were being emotionally coerced into doing so. Outside of school, I did know and/or hear of a couple of examples of kids treated as Peach mentioned, either lleft arm tied behind the back or put in a sling. The catholic kids I knew said the nuns would smack the lefties with rulers if they used their left hands.
Made me want to try using my left to see what was so evil about it!
r4d –interesting article you provided. Will have to finish reading it later; have to get going now. I also wonder what jccc thinks.
mxracer–PA is really no different than any other place. They just happened to have snow covering part of the body.(It’s my birthplace and I still have a soft spot for it.) I know what you mean about the easy venison though. I’m glad you have the heart to finish off a struggling animal. I’m not into hunting at all, but I don’t like the idea of an animal suffering like that.
Peach:
http://www.answers.com/left-handed
has a lot of interesting info on it – check it out.
I know a lot of the really good athletes are lefties. I think Babe Ruth batted lefty but not sure if he was actually left-handed. Correct me on that if I’m wrong.
Maybe your BAX friend’s parents had wised up slightly by the time he came along, and didn’t “convert” him like they did his brother.
But like your friend, I have to admit I can be quite clumsy at times…tripping, running into things. My husband thinks it’s a riot. But my daughter is also slightly clumsy, and she’s right-handed, so maybe it’s just genetic. Who knows? Sometimes we’ll even be walking together and trip over the same thing. Now THAT’S weird.
)
Karen, RA,
Maybe if the stigma that was once attached to being a southpaw can eventually fade away, so can the one attached to being an atheist?
We can always hope……
I’m ampidextrous, but I write with my left. (I’m also incredibly handsome, unfathomably intelligent, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.)
I’m lefty, but my only ability is to wear my underwear on the outside of my tights and still look good
I saw a Gun of Sod post on a liberal blog recently…maybe last week.
My favorite shows are the same as many of yours: Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, South Park. I also like to watch Jeopardy! and see how many questions I can answer. I love the British comedies on PBS! That Mr. Humphries on _Are You Being Served?_ is a riot! Sometimes I watch TBN (“the church channel”) just to keep up with what the Xians are doing nowadays, and for a good laugh
I’m still waiting for the day when we get our own channel on cable.
I can’t believe I forgot to mention _Smallville_. Despite the fact that it’s obviously meant for teenagers, it’s still a good drama, telling the Superman story from a unique perspective that hasn’t already been done before.
When I was a kid (like, 6 perhaps)and on visit at my grandparents my grandma tried to make me eat with my right hand but I kept switching the fork back to my left hand.
Comment from: karen [Member]
“The catholic kids I knew said the nuns would smack the lefties with rulers if they used their left hands.”
A deaf/mute coworker that went to school when nuns were running them here in the 60’s told me (the guy sitting next to me learned sign language) that the nuns would tie deaf/mute kid’s hands behind their back so they could not communicate. The nuns said that the devil was speaking through them…
SS, that’s so terrible.
And another thing about lefties…..
In ice hockey, in the US, right handed people are taught to play hockey “right handed” (left hand on the end of the stick, right hand in middle). Everywhere else (Canada, Europe, Russia) teaches the youth the opposite (right hand on the end, left hand in middle), so in effect, righties outside of the US play hockey “left handed”.
Reason being is your dominant side is stronger/more developed, and in hockey, two hands are rarely on the stick at the same time (top hand only for single handed action), so it makes sense for your stronger hand to be in control!
And I return you to your regularly scheduled program…….
spanders
Is that because they’re superhero print undies?
r4d
“and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.)”
Do you push off left-footed, right-footed, or with both feet at once? Are you also amphibious?
As for being clumsy, I’m a righty, but I have been known to trip over cracks in linoleum. Sober. I was really clumsy during my first pregnancy, and am again very clumsy during menopause. Hmmmmm……????
I don’t think DAVID yells at his guests and I think he DOES know what he’s talking about.. most of the time.
Comment from: karen [Member]
“Are you also amphibious?”
I am!
I’m just about to bury in the mud at the bottom of my pond and sleep the winter away! ;p
I watch all the CSIs, Lost although I didn’t watch it last season, I rented it when it came out and loved it so now I watch it. Also, Entourage is a great show. And Bill Maher of course. His show is so much better on HBO, not that it wasn’t good before, but now he can say whatever and it’s fantastic! Grey’s Anatomy is a good show, it’s not rip-off of E.R. or Scrubs like some people think. Watch an episode!
I haven’t been able to keep up with this blog as much as I’d like, so I just read that I have an evil twin out there!
Thanks to all of you for realizing that someone absconded with my name!
The thing that bothers me the most, is that it’s my cat’s name – I feel like her name was being dragged through the mud!
Nice to see a post from Dagny again!
Thanks, pixel
Speaking of cats, I have a solid black one named Daylight. Do I enjoy irony or what? 
My favorite shows are South Park and Family Guy, but I also watch American Dad, Charmed, Law and order, and Nip Tuck when I get a chance. I’ve missed the last year and half of Nip Tuck since I’ve been in the military. It seems like the only way I can keep up with shows these days is to get them on DVD. At least I don’t have to sit through the commericials.
Pixel,
Did you name your feline after the one in Heinlen’s book ‘The Cat Who Walks Through Walls’ ?
chaos–
Yes!! Heinlein is my ALL TIME favorite author.
Favorite TV show? What else – Doctor Who. Also The Avengers, The Prisoner, Monty Python. Curently, I’d say The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Iron Chef, Good Eats.
Blueflame – I know folks at lawschools in FL better than GA.
Give me an off-list contact and I’ll fill you in.
The question about Court TV repeats – try their website and http://tvlistings.zap2it.com – look for Title VII race cases in the midwest – Chicago, St. Louis & Kansas City.
Spanders: I read the electronic versions of WaPo, Nature, The Times of London, FT & NELA (National Employment Lawyers Assn.) daily. Also, http://www.buzzflash.com
My favorite shows are family guy,south park,american dad,futurama,oriely(for smut laughs),daily show,all the shows on the sunday night line up on [adult swim],and csi.
and colber report
I believe it is called Purgatory, not Limbo, and it was inveted by the Cathoilics during the early Middle Ages as a way to keep control. If someone thinks they have 2 choices, heaven or hell, and you can never get out of hell if you have less than a stellar life then you have lost control of that person as they will do what they want as they have nothing to loose. That is the same reason wardens don’t like life without parole in jail. Not much you can do to a misbehaving convict who can’t be tossed out. It seems to have worked for the Catholics as prayers and money were the way to get someone out of Purgatory. I think they just use prays now.
HMM, think I have screwed up and put this in the wrong place. My apologizes.
Hmmm…
I like CSI and CSI:NY, along with NCIS. I like West Wing, but since it went up against Cold Case and Nature, I don’t watch it much anymore. I like Boston Legal, Numbers, and Criminal Minds. When JAG was on, I watched that religiously (pun intended). I also liked Judging Amy, Nash Bridges, Walker Texas Ranger, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman… Those are the ones that stick out in my mind that are on regular network TV. I grew up without cable, and most of my viewing habits are based on that fact.
Mostly I watch PBS. I like the flavor of national news they have on there along with the business news. I like Scientific American Frontiers, Nova, Frontline, This Old House Hour, America’s Test Kitchen, Fork in the Road, and the other Michigan-related shows. And we can’t forget about the musical shows they have one there, like Great Performances.
My gosh… Looking over this list, it looks like I spend all my time in front of the TV! I don’t, it’s just that there are many shows I’ve grown up watching.
What I don’t like are the (network) reality shows. I’ve hated Survivor and all it’s incantations. I don’t like American Idol, the house reconstruction one on ABC, or Fear Factor. Yuck. I’d rather watch the real reality shows on PBS.
A HEAVENLY HYPOTHESIS
God was bored four thousand years ago.
He was tired of the angels worshipping him, and he wanted a challenge.
He said to himself “I will build a universe in 7 days” thinking surely that will be challenging.
When he was finished he said “Not too bad, but not challenging enough”.
I am looking for a workout. Maybe I am not who the angels say I am.
I want to test myself. I will go into the world in the form of man.
But first, I will give myself a holy amnesia.
I will live in the form of man, and I will not reveal even to
myself who “I AM”.
I will reveal myself slowly to myself.
I will send myself prophets to reveal in riddles
who “I AM”.
Slowly I will bring myself back to the realization of who we I mean “I AM”.
When I realize who “I AM”.
I will go back to heaven, and let the angels worship me again.
I hypothesize, that the end of the world will not occur until all people are Christian. You will probably start citing versus contradicting me. I challenge you to seriously consider more evangelism unless you plan on staying on Earth for a long time. Please send this to all people that you know.
HEY JIMMERONE!!!!!
GO STEELERS!!!
GO STEELERS!!!
GO ST♦♦L♦RS!!!
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