The crazy lady strikes again

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Monday, December 25, 2006

I had a difficult time coming up with a title for this one. I decided not even to try. People who read this blog - and some of my other ones - know that I've been undergoing some real struggles lately. What bothers me more than anything is the disconnect between what I was always taught was right and the fact that my husband would eagerly seal me off from that environment. In this and other blogs, I've described a Christian environment in which believers associate only with other believers.... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Normally, this one would go someplace else...

This, and my previous post, would normally go in Organ Donor Awareness Week, but that blog is so low-traffic that I can't justify posting these entries in there. This post is a follow-up to my last entry. Remember that in my last entry in this blog, I suggested strongly that solid investigative reporting was necessary in order to hold solid-organ transplants accountable for the way in which they used donor organs, and also the way in which these programs (and the hospitals with which they are... Sign in to see full entry.

Please pass the bucket, I think my stomach is acting up again....

Not literally, this time, thank God - instead, I'm metaphorically speaking. Call me the Grinch; call me Scrooge. But if I read one more article like this one, I think I'm going to lose breakfast. Please don't tell me that I don't know what it's like to be in this situation. I do - all too well. I've been transplanted for nearly 28 years; as a matter of fact, I will celebrate my 28th transplant anniversary in about five weeks. Those who have been transplanted, like me, decry the myth-filled... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 22, 2006

In response to at least one comment....

It isn't just the televangelists that are prone to hypocrisy. My husband has noticed that some lower-level leaders (such as assistant pastors) have trouble living up to their professed values as well. For example, one separatist Baptist of his acquaintance had a great deal of trouble finding work that paid enough to support his family, while living in a subculture that insisted that the man had to be either the primary or the sole support of the family while the woman's primary or sole task was... Sign in to see full entry.

One is not allowed to believe that something is true

I admit that I borrowed the title shamelessly from Constance Cumbey, who is on record as saying something very similar, regarding religion. She feels strongly that when the New Age movement institutes a one-world religion and forces ordinary citizens (through various means) to join that religion, people will no longer be allowed to believe that their former religion is ultimately true and that other religions are ultimately at least partially wrong. (For those who are relatively uninformed, this... Sign in to see full entry.

Back up the truck, again

A village official dropped by this morning, offering us a turkey, courtesy of UPS. (UPS has a sorting facility nearby, and according to the box, they apparently donated the turkey.) This village official implicitly told me that it was a part of the food basket we got yesterday, saying in so many words that they forgot to drop it off at that time. Of course, I'm grateful any time I get free food. That should go without saying. But I still struggle with some of the issues I've mentioned in earlier... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Please pass the Imodium!

Oh, sink, you are my only friend. I have been suffering with several forms of gastrointestinal upset today, which is why the reference to Imodium and the sink. (I leave it to your imagination what those forms of upset were. I have no desire to nauseate you with the gory details.) On the good side, it seems we had another truck back up today with Christmas presents and food items. It wasn't a truck this year, but a small car which reminded me for all the world of the late, not-so-lamented Ford... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Can you say "grumpy," boys and girls?

Today is not one of my better days. I don't mean that I have had anything bad happen to me, necessarily - just that I woke up in a generically bad mood. It didn't help that I woke up in the middle of the night in considerable stomach distress. I think part of the problem is that I've been thinking about some of the issues I've been discussing here over the past few days. I've mentioned in earlier entries that these are real sore spots with me. Some of those sore spots are reactivated whenever... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

And now for a diversion from your regularly-scheduled generalities

Occasionally, I will read a blog produced by someone named Carrie Tomko. She is a cradle Catholic who spends most of her time on that blog talking about the infiltration of various non-Catholic philosophies into the Catholic Church. However, one of the posts she put in there today (I'm writing this post on 12/19/2006) has nothing whatever to do with Catholicism. It's a - shall we say - interesting recipe involving Jose Cuervo tequila. Fellow blogger Constance Cumbey is right; whatever you do, if... Sign in to see full entry.

A blogger's continued Dazed and Confused status

I wanted to continue the thoughts I'd started a few entries ago, before I got sidetracked by what amounted to a book review profiling Fr. Leo Booth's When God Becomes a Drug. One of the things implicitly taught by many in the evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant subculture is that one should "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he shall not depart from it." For those of you concerned by the apparent sexism in the language of that sentence, it's basically a direct... Sign in to see full entry.

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