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Tommathy Level: 21  Posts: 1/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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I'm so old, I've been here long enough to become a staff member and then stop being a staff member again.  <--Ish Seraph Libra |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 3/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Because, you know, homosexuality is sooooooo contagious... | ||||||||||||
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 5/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Bigoted =! Conservative, darlings. Although it might equal tennessee.... |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 6/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Seraph Libra, uber-magical transforms into Tommathy | ||||||||||||
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 7/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Because you can't marry something that isn't elligible for citizenship, obviously... Also, you can't really form a legal contract when one of the parties is unable to make legal decisions for itself. |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 8/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| A thread on the topic of the "greatest fruit ever" and no one mentions me? Anyways, I'm all about the strawberry. Not too sweet or too tart, bakes well, bite sized, attractive, easy as anything to grow, it really is the ideal fruit. |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 9/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Umm... I'm an intelligent asian with glasses. Oh, and I'm also a flaming homosexual. Yep, that's me, stereotype within a stereotype, it's like the opening of a lotus. |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 10/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Latter Days Web Site I just saw this movie yesterday and it is sooooooo good, here's someone's review of it: This is a very Protean movie with the capacity both to delight and offend (aesthetically and also logically), particularly in the case of viewers who have either a Mormon or a gay connection. I went to go see it with a couple of friends (all of us straight, one of us male, me an ex-Mormon) at the new E Street Cinema [in Washington, DC]. Our consensus at the end was that we all loved it. (LM's comment: "It's very rare that I'll think a movie is worth $9.50 to go see, but this one was totally worth it!") However, in retrospect I could see it potentially being offensive to gay people, since all the non-Mormon gay characters in the film act like commitment and meaningful sex are some sort of revolutionary radical concept that they've never heard of before. (My acquaintances may be exceptional, but I don't know even one gay person who isn't either in a serious, committed relationship or wants to be.) And as for Mormons, the scenario of a Mormon missionary saying to a prospective convert that "God HATES gay people" strikes me as unlikely - the Church's official line (back when I was growing up) was always the "God hates the sin but loves the sinner" type of rhetoric. On the other hand, truth can be more unlikely than fiction, so you never know. Also unlikely was the scene with the Church court where Aaron is excommunicated - I think that 99.99% of the people who leave the Church just stop being involved with it, rather than getting officially thrown out. Drama purists might also take offense at the cast of somewhat stereotypical characters - the huffy Mormon parents, Aaron's juvenile missionary companions, the bitter AIDS shut-in, the wannabe actor-waiters. And of course there is the de rigeur chase-one's-true-love-to-the-airport scene. But here's why it was still so delightful. It's really an unabashed, over-the-top story about True Love and Finding Oneself, and the abandon with which the themes are pursued gives it a kind of purity that shines too brightly to be obscured by any silly cliches or stock side characters. It's funny, and you like the characters, and the love scenes are hot, hot, hot. There is a scene where Christian (the gay Cassanova who is trying to win a bet that he can seduce the naive Mormon missionary Aaron) runs into a tall sprinkler and cuts himself badly on his rear end, and faints, and is helped into his apartment by Aaron. Christian pulls off his shorts to reveal backless undies along with the wound, and Aaron sponges disinfectant onto the cut and starts to talk about how he isn't squeamish, and goes into a monologue where he says all these unexpected and interesting things, and it rang very true to me in the sense that people are surprising, they have all these unexpected thoughts in them that are creative and astounding, that just come up out of nowhere. The movie is a lot about faith, too, and how the object of faith and love comes back for you to find you, even when you've given up on it entirely, or think you have - it's a wide-eyed, if borderline schlocky, vision of the miraculousness of everyday love and redemption. For the sake of truth and being who you are, you lose the things most precious to you, and then find that you've gained your own soul. E.g., Aaron thinks he's lost everything, his Church, his parents, his love interest - all just for being truthful about who he is - and he goes through hell, and comes out the other end to find that he's gained this realization of who he is, and he's surrounded by a "family" of friends, AND he gets his true love back. Again, in spite of any cliches, it's a satisfying ending, and not an untrue or impossible (albeit miraculous) one. And here are some of the things that rang true from my Mormon past: I did actually know a Mormon kid who was put into a mental institution by his neurotic parents back when we were in junior high - I don't think he ever actually got shock therapy (was that metaphorical in the film??), but he did write terrible-sounding things about it ... he wasn't put in for being gay, but for doing drugs and being generally rebellious ... but that really is the sort of thing Mormons might do! And yet there is also the way that Aaron and others in the movie are drawn to the idealism and beauty of the religion, the sense of reverence and purity. There's a part in the movie where the soundtrack has a Mormon hymn - I still remember all the words, although I haven't set foot in a church in ages: Abide with me, fast Falls the eventide, The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abide. When other sources Fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh, Abide with me. It called up a certain nostalgia. OK, just between us, it totally had me bawling ... not that I want to go backwards, but I can see how anyone would be susceptible to falling in love with it, and it's no wonder people have a hard time leaving it, even if it's full of lies and provokes all this repression. So, yeah, if it's playing in your area, go and see it! |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 11/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| French, English, and a little Vietnamese. | ||||||||||||
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 12/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Education is what you put into it. While the American school system is somewhat flawed, I don't think it's the primary detractor here. Most "educated" people acquire their knowledge independently, using their education as a base from which to spring. The major hurdle to rise of an American Intelligensia is cultural. To be blunt, America distrusts intellectuals. Even looking at the line of U.S. Presidents, although many have been absolutely brilliant men with high academic credentials, for the most part they've all projected a sort of folksy, "dumbed down" version of themselves. On TV, we're all shown that it's "cool" to be stupid, that smart people are weak, non-social, and don't get laid. Even in the work place, employers want to train their employees as little as possible. They make the machinery do simple that a monkey could use it, and try to avoid, at all costs, inadvertently teaching you skills that could be used at another job or lead to promotion. --- Oh, and without Literature and Art, the life would be a barren a sterile thing, I think. |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 13/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| *ahem* Of the board's resident Big Gays, Al is not one of them. Thusly, all votes for this "supposed" Al are really votes for me. Thank you. |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 14/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Originally posted by Yiffy Kitten Actually, Shakespeare is merely out-moded Modern English, the major differences being not the language itself but the culture therein (for example, no one nowadays hangs out in bowders). You would have to go back a couple hundred more years to find Middle English writers, such as Chaucer. Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, Translated: When April with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower; When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath, Quickened again, in every holt and heath, The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun Into the Ram one half his course has run, And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)- Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage, And palmers to go seeking out strange strands, To distant shrines well known in sundry lands. And specially from every shire's end Of England they to Canterbury wend, The holy blessed martyr there to seek |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 15/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| *cough* Hmm, we seem to have gone off on a tangent... So, how about them schools? |
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 16/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| I don't smoke, primarily because I think it's a little de-humanizing that one's personality and mood can be altered by oxidized plant matter... | ||||||||||||
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Tommathy Level: 21 Posts: 17/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| Didn't you call me a big dork when I got a livejournal, ya big dork? =P And you can probably figure out my user ID. |
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Level: 21 Posts: 20/145 EXP: 42543 For next: 7400 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cloud Nine, Turn Left and I'm There~ Since last post: 25 days Last activity: 1 day
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Honestly, I'm such a hottie. C'mon, you would all do my clone too j/k~ (restricted) | (restricted) | | ||||||
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