September 2011
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Imperfect Letter: So You Want to be a Wizard →
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So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
Nita Callahan, perennial geek on the bad side of the school bully, runs across an unusual book while hiding in the children’s section of the town library: So You Want to be a Wizard. She thinks it’s a joke until she starts learning real magic (or rather, wizardry) from it. But it’s not all fun and games when Nita and fellow wizard Kit...
August 2011
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“Do we think that people watch Mad Men because they would prefer to live in a...”
– Feminist Media Criticism, George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire, And That Sady Doyle Piece (via azspot)
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Reblog this if you are literally suprised when...
no-excuses-no-lies:
then I’m like:
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Reblog if Nine was your first Doctor.
gallifreyan-chardonnay:
“If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture,...”
– Laurence M. Vance (via azspot)
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“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for the day, but set fire to him and he’s warm...”
– Terry Pratchett (Jingo)
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“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And...”
– Emperor Turhan, Babylon 5
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“He’s nobody’s boy. He’s your president and he’s our president. And that’s what...”
– the Reverend Al Sharpton
On Tuesday night, during a discussion in which Buchanan and Sharpton debated whether Congress and Obama would extend the Bush tax cuts, Buchanan said: “And let me tell you, your boy, Barack Obama, caved in on it in 2010 and he’ll cave in on it again.” Sharpton,...
“…it’s generally true that we become who we’re told we are. If we’re told over...”
– Philip Gulley (via azspot)
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Rick Perry's Army of God →
This needs to be talked about, a lot. It’s not a set of views we can afford in a president.
“For too long, the church has controlled theological discourse. We encouraged...”
– Philip Gulley (via azspot)
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Reblog if Nine was your first Doctor.
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“Is faith so weak and life so afraid that those who dare to pose questions must...”
– John Shelby Spong (via theorthodoxheretic)
How many religions struggle against each other because they each believe they were anointed as a “chosen people?” What if the real message God meant to send by telling all these different factions of their love for him was that we are ALL chosen, the Children of God? And all our wars and all our struggling is simply because we got it wrong?
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“When love beckons to you follow him, though his ways are hard and steep. And...”
– Khalil Gibran (via atomos)
“Imagine a libertarian Christianity, which urged individuals to give away as much...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot)
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Hatred in the Name of God
So, I work at Barnes and Noble. This means that occasionally I get to straighten the Christian Inspiration section. This evening, I stumbled on a real gem of a book, “Satan, You Can’t Have My Children”. (Warning, not for the easily enraged.) Out of what I can only assume was purely masochistic sentiment, I flipped through it.
The raw violence of the chapter headings caught me...
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The Combination of Talent and Fear: Why Miles... →
68rooms68vacancies:
At this point, anyone who follows me knows I work in a comic shop. Or, at the very least, you know that I’m a comic fanatic. I feel like sharing this anecdote that happened today, which took a very crappy day and made it one of the best days I’ve had in weeks. And it involves a customer, his son,…
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“Learn to recognize when speed is not important. Race when being first is...”
– From the sayings of Jedi Master Wiwa
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via zweitschel)
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Uncertainty and Me
I have a semi-abusive relationship with certainty. I always get fed up and decide that I’m no longer going to care about having a set career, or “life plan,” or even a set, absolute view of faith. Then I meet someone who’s got everything lined up just so, or can recite the Nicene Creed without wincing, and I get all jealous that certainty (that bitch!) is out running...
