'I very much like Syriac and Manichean.  Georgian (Mxedruli) I also find very lovely.  Do you look on Omniglot much?  I love poking around there.  BTW, I appreciate your signature quote - that's one...|||Likewise: in a fictional world I've been working on for years, religion is one of the details I've been filling out and refining.  It's not only fun, it's a good way to reflect on real world...|||Here's my first offering:   https://youtu.be/SM-hYlNldow|||I started playing drums in 1994: bass drum in drumline at school, then I got a kit and started taking lessons.  I played in some rock bands through college, as well as jazz ensembles and with...|||My old journals are full of such stuff, but over the past 10 years or so I've tried to make my speech more precise.  It can take me a long time to say something since I try to measure out my words to...|||With all your self-acceptance etc. you should still make sure that you examine your actual behavior and hold it to the standards that your moral sense tells you is right.  Do this gently, but guard...|||Check out the Center for a Stateless Society, and Kevin Carson's work, particularly his Homebrew Industrial Revolution.  Surf the links you find therefrom.  And tell me about it!  I'm serious. ...|||My avatar is a symbol found on the outside of the Nauvoo Temple built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, of which I am a member.  The temple, rebuilt 10 years ago, is an important...|||Thanks for the link!  I might or might not share writing on this thread.  Freewriting is something that I still find hard to do, even though I've been doing it on and off for the last 12 years. ...|||I'm kind of surprised not to see more fellow gluttons here.|||http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg542/zombilicioius_cupcakes/cocacolasurreal.jpg[/QUOTE]  Rubens' Union of Earth and Water - one of my favorite paintings!|||I wrote a sort of anti-romance for NaNoWriMo just this past November.  I got a couple of characters together then destroyed their relationship.  The story had some promise, but since it was NaNoWriMo...|||BENJAMIN BRITTEN.  I can't go for too long without listening to Peter Grimes or the War Requiem.|||Things that saved me as a teenager:  9th grade: moving to a new high school - junior high was hellish and barely made bearable by a few friends and friendly people, whom I missed, but it was nice...|||Every so often I go through this phase where I want to severely pare down my wardrobe to mostly black, white and grey.  I have to justify every graphic t-shirt I own.  If I didn't live somewhere so...|||Dang, another religion thread.  I'm Mormon/LDS (thus the Nauvoo star/star of Bethlehem avatar), and I seem to recall finding maybe one other on here, as well as one or two ex-Mormons.  I just...|||Experiences in elementary school taught me the wisdom of keeping my feelings to myself, but early in high school I tried to squelch them.  I tested as a thinker when I was a teenager, and when I was...|||Yes, almost all of the pictures of women in magazines are total bunk.|||Hm, this is interesting.  When I was young I was troubled by my squishy girlish figure, and I still have to be careful about how I eat, because I don't gain weight only on my belly: it goes to my...|||I'm married to an ISFJ, a type which every resource I've consulted doesn't call an optimal match.  We're very happy together, even with all the differences we have had to adjust to.|||Loons?  Elegant, secretive, clumsy on land but expert divers into the mysterious depths of northern lakes.  Misunderstood: people hear their wails and think they're spooky, or hear their tremolo...|||I'm 34.  I think I do feel wiser in a way, or at least a bit more mellowed out.  Having lived through a bit more I can ride along a bit more smoothly maybe.  I didn't expect this to be so hard to...|||I just read Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality and need to read Deschooling Society next.  I've long been against compulsory attendance in public schools, though I don't plan on home-schooling my...|||From my college days - thought this was rather clever.  27595|||PSTypes Enneagram Test Results   The Distribution of Your Scores     Type One:  15  Type Two:|||Listener  It varies by area I'm sure, but I remember as a missionary (in Puerto Rico) we generally saw more women than men in the congregations.  I've heard similar reports from a lot of other...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLDqEoOFOok  I wish I could have seen the whole production, it looks like a good one, well-cast.  I have yet to watch a production of Peter Grimes but I listen to the...|||For a while I doubted if I'd get married too.  That was a painful thought.  Yes, we do encourage marriage, to the degree that we also have a residual culture of expecting marriage at a fairly young...|||I like children very much (especially ages 3-8), even though I'm not sure that they consider me much fun.  when my daughter was a baby I would tell her all sorts of things as if she were my therapist...|||There is no allowance in the Church for sexual activity outside of marriage.  Now that's not to say that teenagers who screw up (pun intended) are shunned or publicly shamed etc.  There is the...|||What kind of music do you like? Oh, I listen to all kinds of music, you know . . .  O RLY?|||Oog!  If that's the stuff they were listening to in Puerto Rico 14 years ago (Hyundai Accents buzzing as the bass rattled their ill-assembled components, you could hear the buzzing a mile away) then...|||Yay for typewriters!|||Four years ago I wrote fiction like Lewis Carroll.  My professional nonfiction is apparently all over the map: Cory Doctorow, Dan Brown, Arthur C. Clarke, H.P. Lovecraft . . . I don't think the...|||Another religion thread!  Yaaayyy!  SnowyBernard's question is one that I think about too.  I'm still active LDS.  I've had more trouble with cultural attitudes including folk doctrines than...|||I've kept dream journals on and off for the last 13 years.  Recently I'll go in phases: for a couple days I'll remember my dream pretty clearly, then for a few I won't.  A lot of this has to do with...|||A couple of days ago I talked to a man who plays Persian classical music, Jazz and other traditional musics.  His views are so radical/fanatical that it has taken me a while to stop feeling guilty...|||Cherry picker Grocery bagger Custodian in a university student union building - night shift Classroom inspector/custodian in a sort of theological seminary Dishwasher/cafeteria worker Creamery...|||Depending on which test I took, either PIFN- The angry aesthete or PNIF-Bukowski.  Yeah, kind of, but I agree: it doesn't look like something to take too seriously.|||I've identified myself as a Mutualist Anarchivst for the past four years or so, but right now have no energy for activism.  But I rejoice a little whenever I see anarchist principles practiced even...|||Because even as wonderful and brimming with potential as my psyche is, it is still limited, incomplete, and with all I understand I still don't know squat.  And I am slowly on my way to joining the...|||Some of the friendships I had in college were fairly intense: one guy I met at a bus stop and we almost immediately got into a deep conversation about spirituality.  I wasn't thinking of types and...|||Amen to that!  9 years here with an ISFJ and we're doing well, thank you very much.|||It's refreshing when you can let yourself cut loose, but it doesn't get easier the next time, at least it hasn't for me.  What made it easy for me was having an idea of where the story would go. ...|||It still happens.  Just don't expect it to be like anything you've ever seen on tv or a movie or read about.  It has its own set of skills and they do take time and talking to each other to learn. ...|||I've been married to an ISFJ woman for almost nine years and there are some very obvious differences in the way we each think and do things, but we keep learning better how to understand, accept and...|||Oh yay, NaNoWriMo!  I plan on doing it again this year as well as organizing promotional events in the community.|||[my name] is a Zen master - after I had drawn a portrait of a fellow-diner with chopstick and soy sauce on my placemat at a Japanese restaurant.  While I was a missionary, on one Sunday I acted...|||It's interesting to see all the similarities.  Maybe I need this forum as much to cure myself of thinking I'm that unique as much as any other reason.  I recommend cutting and writing with quill...|||Lt. Martin Castillo from Miami Vice.  When he says something, you'd better listen.'