Not the point of your comment but when you talk about early Appalachian Christianity are you talking about magic and mystical christian syncretism? I’m no expert but I’ve always thought Appalachian “magic” traditions were fascinating, with how they combine scotch/Irish religion with African and other influences. 

SAME

Starred because we clearly share the same obsession. I can’t figure out if I need a hobby, or if this is it?

If this is the version I think you are talking about, I saw it too, and was very confused. (the only little mermaid story I was aware of was the Disney version at that point my life.)

“I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because I managed not to singe my pinky putting lizard eggs in a campfire, they’d put me away!” 

“Queen, eh? Very nice. And how’d you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there’s ever gonna be any progress...”

And frankly, most pastors and theologians I’ve spoken to (because I have severe apocalypse/end time/armageddon/nuclear war anxiety) don’t even consider this to be the true message of the Revelation, which wasn’t originally an eschatological book.

If you really want to make yourself crazy, read the comments attached to the Daily Mail story.  All about Meghan, and the Clinton PR machine (what?) and American tramp setting out to ruin the BRF.  I’d laugh if it wasn’t so vile.

I wonder, does house fashion cycle in the same way that clothes fashion does?

yikes! glad you had friends and family around. that’s a scary experience.

Thank you for the full breakdown, and also I commend you for watching the full video. 

Xavier is not Franciscan, they are Jesuit.

You are the hero we needed.

I mean, none of the guys have ever taught a course and they rarely discuss grantwriting. I don’t think they have grad students under their supervision either. Also, they got a DOD contract that was not mediated by their school’s funding office. If they were profs, I think that’d violate the school’s IP contract. My…

Woah, all my exact thoughts came here and posted under an account autonomously ;)

A lot of it is ‘unrelated jumble of geek related words’ or racist/sexist/fat shaming statement’.

There’s a *tiny* percentage of Native American and East African in my family history and genome, and that actually makes sense considering we’re Appalachian hillbillies with a “reputation” of having “Melungeon” in the family (AKA: The Appalachian term for people of “mixed race”).

I will never understand this facet of people padding out their heritage instead of researching it. . There’s a *tiny* percentage of Native American and East African in my family history and genome, and that actually makes sense considering we’re Appalachian hillbillies with a “reputation” of having “Melungeon” in the…

the “my great great great great great grandmother was a cherokee princess” thing needs to fucking die already. Not only is it usually inaccurate, irrelevant to whether a person is actually native, and part of the “blood quantum” shit, it’s also only ever trotted out when someone is either trying to prove that they…

Women in Senegal sometimes actually do use that loophole