ritualistically slapping head on desk
No. No. Self flagellation is not acceptable in the church of Bartlism!
Draw near and be comforted, sister Sox.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beekaytee - Jan 22, 2008 9:10:26 am PST #4689 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Strega - Jan 22, 2008 9:11:41 am PST #4690 of 10001
It seems to me the biggest problem with creating a religion out of Jedi stuff would be the paucity of source material.I think that makes it easier.
I'm gonna do my best to view it as another flying spaghetti monster/invisible pink unicorn/celestial teapot. Only signficantly less entertaining.
...Actually, I could view Scientology (and, well, everything else) that way, too. Which means that Tom Cruise is some kind of Andy Kaufman-esque satirist. Hm.
beekaytee - Jan 22, 2008 9:12:35 am PST #4691 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
If I ever start my own Jedi church, services will be "come as you are."
In a way, I want to think that would be more in line with the way of the Jedi, but I think Yoda's bootcamp behavior painted a more rigorously structured doctrine.
And with that tragically geeky self-exposure, I'll withdraw to design Bartleby' vestments.
hippocampus - Jan 22, 2008 9:14:00 am PST #4692 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Draw near and be comforted, sister Sox.
do we get a place to stuff the self obsessed, obviously crazy people? Then I will truly be comforted.
Dear People:
There is, just as there was last week, no need to rebuild Flickr as an in-house app customized for our organization. Besides, your photos really aren't that good, or clear, or in focus. Calm the hell down. I will not say it again.
KTHANXBYE
Ginger - Jan 22, 2008 9:22:04 am PST #4693 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The tenants are these: Be nice, cover your mouth when you sneeze/cough, think a grateful thought several times a day and the only true evil is okra.
Don't make me nail to your door a list of 95 ways in which okra is the one true vegetable.
amych - Jan 22, 2008 9:23:53 am PST #4694 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ooh! Schism!
t makes popcorn
hippocampus - Jan 22, 2008 9:24:55 am PST #4695 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
::hides Ginger's okra in amych's popcorn. Runs away::
bon bon - Jan 22, 2008 9:28:37 am PST #4696 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
So, I'm working at another office for a little time. And I have zero to do until 4:45. And they have m'fing spider solitaire on this machine. I got a podcast and some solitaire. Hells yeah! Plus I had yesterday off!
Nutty - Jan 22, 2008 9:28:48 am PST #4697 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was going to say. Problem #1 with a True Church of Jedi is the schism over whether the Force is inborn and predestined, or born of free will. And then you have people bisecting one another with light sabers, and the Huguenot wars all over again!
Erasmus v. John Calvin deathmatch! Now with something considerably more dramatic than a well-placed translation!!
tommyrot - Jan 22, 2008 9:29:17 am PST #4698 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
See, when I think of Bartlism, I think of a religion where followers respond to requests for them to work by saying, "I would prefer not to."