I chose sauteed onions for my burger, but I really prefer grilled onions, cooked on the flattop in burger grease.
“Vicar of Dibley?” “Ballykissangel?” “Cadfael?”
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I defend my choices. All of the characters in those shows are ardent (and not so-) Catholics.
I’m an atheist who is really drawn toward different ideas of spirituality. I have a minister friend who concedes that most Christian content is crap, and he makes this distinction between Christian art and art with a Christian worldview. I am absolutely not interested in the former and fascinated by the latter. There is some fantastic art with a Christian worldview. I particularly like stories where people grapple with their faith, and there are no easy answers, and the priest is hot (thank you, Fleabag.) When a Christian artist is just expressing the way they see things through their work, because that’s who they are and that’s what’s on their mind, rather than intentionally trying to manipulate an audience into believing what they believe, I am there for it.
I have no problem with things that show religious mythology as real. If you mean things like Supernatural. I was a big fan. If something shows angels, demons, God etc as real I don’t mind as long as it’s not preachy. It doesn’t have to be negative.
A question though about the Christian Mythology Poll for @DCnDC - the way I read it, was that Christian Mythology was real, which would, by nature, tend to exclude other mythologies being real. But that’s not explicitly stated, just the way I read it.
A fictional universe in which multiple competing mythologies are real is (to me) substantially less irritating than one in which only one exists, for some of the reasons in my prior post. But it does have the problem that if Christian mythology is real, how to explain all other Creation Gods and myths. Thus my request for your intent!
Just so I know if I need to revise my vote.
What if the neighbor’s trying to grow a wildflower strip?
If you discuss it with the neighbor, you’ll find out.
My sister’s house shares a long narrow strip with the neighbor, and the neighbor has been cultivating bittersweet on their side. Drives my sister nuts, but she leaves it, of course, because it’s the neighbor’s property and they want the vile stuff.
I just mowed the edge of my neighbor’s yard today, because i know they want lawn there, and they are getting old and have hired landscapers, and the landscapers missed that part. But i asked for permission before cutting back some weedy shrubs that were encroaching my garden patch. Because i didn’t know what they wanted there.
Exactly. A fictional work can depict fictional things like god and angels.
It’s my experience that with few exceptions works that depict Christian mythology as real tend to simply not bother addressing other belief systems, or even if they do it’s more or less hand waved away, and they go on adhering primarily to the Christian mythology they started with. Often names and likenesses from other cultures are borrowed and inserted into the story as lip service, but I don’t really consider that as inclusion.
From what I’ve seen, most shows that depict Christian faith do it inaccurately at best. There’s usually a mashup of vaguely Protestant beliefs with some Catholic window-dressing sprinkled willy-nilly throughout, and it’s obvious that none of the writers were dragged to church much past baptism.
Yeah, that too, it’s generally not even consistent within itself. As with most things Hollywood, it’s all twisted in however manner is plot convenient.
I’ve never been afraid to open up my machine and tinker with the guts. It’s both one of my best and worst qualities. I have a curiosity about technology. Honestly most of the time I have little to no clue what I’m doing, but I fearlessly tread forward. YouTube is an extremely valuable resource, you just need to watch a lot of videos about a very narrow subject and extrapolate the mean value from all of them.
You know, just SOP for the University of YouTube.
As with a lot of polls, my choice in the computer guts tinkering poll
falls somewhere in between…
I recall a cartoon of a wife watching her husband tinkering with a car.
Wife: “Do you know how to do it or do you YouTube know how to do it?”
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Yeah. If i can unscrew it, I’m okay trying to fix it. I might bail and bring it to a shop. If it’s glued shut I’m more likely to hire a pro. If it’s a repair that’s standard and easy to hire out I’m not likely to do so. If it’s something hard to hire but i can buy the part, I’ll give it a go…
We each mow our own. Our one neighbor is a couple in their late 70s. They mow daily during spring/summer. When they saw one corner of our yard where we intentionally seeded broad leaf plantain and dandelion they nearly had strokes.
What. Why would anyone do this?