May 9, 2008 - Comments Off
A: Can I be a Christian thinker after I get rid of moralization (as I’m trying to do)?
B: depends on how well you fake the latter
A: Nice.
B: I’m a pretty horrible person. If I wasn’t bound for hell, I’m sure I will be after this class
A: C. just made such a terrible move in chess that I’m worried it’s the most brilliant move ever.
Categorised in academia, chess and religion
May 8, 2008 - Comments Off
A: So it turns out that the small Belgian town my wife’s from — pop. 24,000 — has become something of a hub for Ismalic terrorists
B:Awesome.
A: they recently arrested several people in connection to the Madrid training bombing
B: I hope we don’t invade Belgium now.
Categorised in politics
May 7, 2008 - Comments Off
B: There’s this quote going around attributed to Bush, and often cited when people talk about the rise of Christian fascism in this country — which I even used in my SBL — that appears to have been invented
B: I cannot find any evidence it was ever utted
B: uttered
A: A more important truth is at stake here.
A: Don’t be a slave to mere empirical fact.
Categorised in politics
May 6, 2008 - Comments Off
A: I’m just afraid of becoming a social recluse.
B: what are you going ot do when / if C. & his wife leave? Can you afford a place on your own?
A: I feel like once I turn that corner, I’ll find there’s no one there when I’m really ready for some fellowship.
A: I can afford a studio apartment.
B: then the recluse living can really start in full
B: a studio apt. filled w/ books & a piano
B it’s the beginning of a documentary tale
B: with all these interviews of peopel talking about the last time they spoke to you …. man, that’d be awesome
B: academia needs more Thomas Pynchons
A: I’d probably end up becoming a serial killer.
Categorised in friendship and loneliness
May 5, 2008 - Comments Off
A: I dated a girl for over three years… in high school. The old “itch” is much more intense during that period.
B: I’ve decided that a fairly steady high school relationship is probably the way to go — since I’m not sure most high schoolers know how to fully enjoy a promiscuous sexual life.
B: guys get roped in by high school dramatics … things get confused … etc.
A: Yeah.
B: better just to have a few pregnancy scares
B: w/ one person
A: That was where I went wrong.
A: Didn’t go “all the way.”
A: I still believed in Jesus.
B: Oh, I didn’t either.
B: Don’t get me wrong.
B: I dry humped w/ the best of them
A: I once pulled off the “dry 69.” Pretty absurd, looking back.
B: Wow. That’s gotta be memorable
Categorised in dating, religion and sex