For Leopold's Ghost

Thank you, LG, for volunteering for Occupy.

Thank you, LG, for something that comes across, even on monitor screen as a goodness and a tender heart.

Thank you for introducing me to bronies, an entire counterculture that I somehow missed.

Thank you for your colorful images, which liven up these black and white pages.

Thank you for your wonderful talent and creativity. I hope that you someday achieve with it the success it merits.

Thank you for not being as flat-footed, er, flat hooved, as I am.

Thank you for being a very different personality from me, a difference that I very greatly enjoy.


We both want the country to go in a direction that is good for the 99%, so we are sister and brother, whether or not we agree on every small detail along the way.

I am proud to be posting with you!




We both want the country to go in a direction that is good for the 99%, so we are sister and brother, whether or not we agree on every small detail along the way.

I am proud to be posting with you!

And a bronie!

:patriot:

K/R

Thanks. Big hugs.

DU2 appreciates you!

I want that mane on the far left!




Get it here --->
http://www.zazzle.com/what_is_mitt_hiding_romney_bumper_sticker-128087600293857910?rf=238107662556833486

I missed my mane chance?

I could just kick someone!

:kick:

I'm not quite as... ostentatious as these conventioneers... although one DUer I know IRL did say I dress like
an acid dealer of some sort...!!



Surgeon General's Warning: Ponies don't do drugs, and neither do I! May cause cancer, though

Was the DUer saying your outfits are colorful?

Like Joseph's coat of many colors in the Bible? (That's odd, now that I think about it for the first time. Dying fabric any color could not have been easy in Old Testament times, let alone getting many colors into one coat.)

As an acid dealer, I mean.

Yeah, you could say that. I believed that gaudy color would come back in style years before bronies.

I used to wear an old yellow and plaid sorority sweatshirt
that a family friend / ex-girlfriend got as a second hand.

I don't know if bright colors are kosher, however. Isn't that considered mixed threads?

Whom would I see if I wanted to buy some LSD?

On the mixed threads.

God said that can't mix wool and linen or seethe a goat in its mother's milk. Man then took that to extremes, in order to be piouser and even obedienter than thou. Jesus was not happy about that stuff and told pious folks to get in the closet about their piety.

I once stayed at a place that took obedience to that to an extreme, too, losing the entire point in the process, as always happens.

In one of the bedrooms, they had a shallow closet with two doors, with a small altar and a kneeler. But all that could not fit into the closet, so the doors were always open and the kneeler and altar always visible as soon as you entered the bedroom.

I once did have a pair of trousers--in themselves not kosher for us vimmins--that mixed silk with a little wool and I quite liked them.

Shikses!

I'm religious but I haven't been going to church much recently due to personal "life stuff" such as lack of IRL social contacts and that sort of thing and unhappiness with what's become of the neighborhood around my church, which was always a poverty church, i.e. they tried to help the poor (when the MLK riots came to my city, the Black Panthers guarded the doors. The pastor at the time was the one I grew up with) now that neighborhood and most of the parishioners are very affluent and very casually liberal.

services at a few different churches from time to time.

I have a pretty good grounding in the Bible, though, which I got from the church in which I grew up, which just very fundamentalist, and from having read the Bible cover to cover a few times. (I specify "cover to cover" because not many people read the Bible that way, but rather study particular passages.)

I love the King James version (the original, not the newer one) because it reads like Shakespeare. However, it can be really difficult sometimes, for that same reason. Luckily, someone left me a PTL Bible, which has the King James and a modern translation side by side. So, when I get stuck, I can quickly glance at the other column on the page.

I don't know a lot about different translations, though. I have a somewhat superstitous fear of the newer translations because I think translators can have an agenda, too, just like most other people.

For example, Muslims say that Jesus never said that he was the Son of God. Well, if you look closely at the original King James, he implies that a couple of times, but never expressly says it. He mostly refers to himself as the Son of Man.

However, if you look at some more modern translation, the wording is different from the King James and Jesus does expressly say he is the Son of God. Are the modern translations more accurate, or are they merely different, perhaps in response to people who have pointed out that Jesus never said it? I don't know.

So, I stick to the older translation.

The King James era translators probably had an agenda, too, but it probably wasn't about things like "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," not paying taxes, etc.

I actually contacted Jesus Radicals once and asked them if they had a group in my area but I never heard back. Not a lot of social justice types in my area, sadly. Just wealthy policy wonks, and everywhere else is more conservative

:kick:

/)^3^(\

I been gone from DU (2+3) for months, and the longer I was gone
the harder I found to get back on and caught up, especially DU3
where I don't know as many people in all likelihood.

Plus, I have been meaning to do a bunch of political art, but it
all depended on me getting a new graphics setup and the terrible
delays and setbacks in the RL stuff I'm involved in (frustrating
enough in and of themselves) activism, living situation etc.

meant I haven't been able to get a new computer so I haven't been
able to produce any decent art. Now election season is almost over

(and what a miserable season it was, not that Mitt has a chance of
getting elected, but if he does then the American people deserve
what they get.)

Likewise I haven't yet been able to move on with architectural
design for the same reason... that and my friend I was working
with got married and had to move on.

> a great DUer

"He Was A Great CB-er..."

"And the father of my children."

-- Trucker's wife, on the loss of her husband to a terrible auto accident (radio interview)

I decided to post some on DU3 during the final few weeks of the election - wow... what an eye opener. After 10 months of wonderful calmness here, going over there felt kinda depressing. It is just not the same as the old DU here. And, my goodness, a ridiculous post that was titled "Obama is a LIAR!" (his argument was he hated hearing it on facebook, uh ok) was allowed to be kept up by a jury, and I think that's just BS. But, it just seems like it's a totally different group. And several of the people that were highly disruptive here are still over there. I guess we can't have everything. But, I love our few dozen of regular DU2ers, and the other hundred or so that just read and don't reply. Regardless of what happens, this is a nice little cozy hammock to come lay in, and I like that...

Before this week, I had gone to DU3 only for a specific reason. For example, if someonea DU2 post linked to a DU23 post, I would follow the link.

But this week, I went as a tourist, just to look around. You're right. It was less calm. But, maybe that is a good thing for a message board?

The message boards that seem to have the most posts are those where there is contention. Otherwise, a thread gets only a bunch of "agree" or "recommended" posts and there is not much real discussion.

Even here, the longest threads have been when some fight from DU3 or from the old days of DU2 got imported here.

Maybe that says something about human nature, or maybe just poster nature?

Bad timing of course... with the intense partisan anxiety over the election.

I myself have little of that, thank God (I simply feel that if
Mitt wins without cheating, then we deserve what we get)

Stop apologizing!

You may be the first person I've encountered who feels as guilty/responsible as I do. It's exhausting, isn't it?

You never had an obligation to post anywhere, let alone an obligation to punch an imaginary message board time clock every day or every week.

It's not your responsiblity to post anywhere. So, please give yourself a break from feeling guilty about not having posted.

Here's a radical thought: Enjoy having been missed by folks who are fond of you.

:grouphug: