tinpra

finally posted the homosexuality thread response. yes i know I'd said i was done or should be done last week. and i should have been. but i am a lazy slacker, one of my big failings amongst the many i won't name in public. but it is done now. completely done. and posted. and in less than 24 hrs i am sure the faithful posters to the thread will be tearing it to shreds. but i'm happy it's done. and i pray (I mean it, Sir) that i actually respond in a reasonable time next time: i.e. take as much time needed to compose the reply that does not include slackerness. just like my cussing problem...it's an ongoing battle.

did i mention before that one of the main things i got out of doing this particular reply, and while skimming the replies that came while poor www was waiting for me to get back to her, is that people don't actually read the Bible to see what it says about...whatever. ppl know what other people say the Bible says, they half-remember something the read/heard when they were kids, but most ppl don't seem to go back and check the source-doc for themselves. in any other context that would be shoddy research, but when it comes to biblical stuff it's apparently okay.

i'm just sayin'.

After being distracted from working on it for so long, I'm finding myself highly reluctant to work on my reply to www for the homosexuality reply on HC. The thing is, it's done! I believe I finished it the same week the internet died on my old lappy. But getting a new laptop, one that was internet ready and unlikely to crash out of the blue, became my driving...drive. Clearly my lack of motivation is evidenced by this post. And me checking email, surfing ff.net, and not looking up the reference for Paul's apostolic the Apostles' and Church elders' decision re non-Jewish converts. Have finally fixed the mouse pad on this durn thing, though. I may keep it after all. She'll need a name...

In my, rather limited, defense, I haven't really felt like writing much of anything. Not on the computer at least. I don't know if that's because I've spent the last week or so getting my setting straight and trying to figure out the things I've lost/have to recreate in the move (my desktop is still painfully bare), or if I'm reacting to being away from working for so long. I'm sure both are true in part, the larger part, though unspoken, always being pure laziness. Hello Sloth. Thy name is me. And I'm a wee distracted by a sudden Pitch Black story idea. But we won't get into that.

What else what else what else? Dunno. I have copied www's post so that I can copy and paste them into my reply instead of relying on the descriptive titles I gave the points that I thought needed to be answered (15 some-odd, in case you were wondering (which you weren't), not including sub-sections. This is what happens when you're handwriting while you commute. You develop a system o_O).

On the flip side, doing these replies, painful though they can be--as Katya will attest--has made me (a) study my Bible in a more orderly way than I ever have, (b) understand God's Word if only because in reviewing it for myself I can study the entire passages that are necessarily not address b/c of the nature of preaching, and discovered that (c) Mom gave me a really faboo study Bible all those years ago, and that I (d) really enjoy studying it when I'm not being a lazy idiot. Bible? Boring? My pertu-- Okay sometimes it is. And sometimes it's tough, yes. But so interesting. Dare I say...fascinating. :D

So one of the boards I'm on has been officially taken off life support (or maybe put on life support) and ppl are in the midst of closing off story lines, promoing other boards they're on, etc and so forth. One person whom I enjoyed reading and, very briefly, playing with lightly shopped her board to the lot of us. They're missing a Kitty. Not that they're looking for one, but my X-knowledge (these are all X-Men boards, btw) is severely limited and my preference is always for my OCs which tend not to be the preference of boards in general. So! that leaves me with only three choices and I've been told that Kitty's my best. Looking at the board I all but dismissed it out of hand, but the moment I left to go to bed I was already reworking what I know of Kitty to fit their world.

So, yeah, I'm thinking of doing it...until I see that I've got to put my age down on the bio. Gack! For those of you who know me, you know that I'm a fairly private person. If I haven't personally told you my personal information, then I don't feel like I know you well enough to share that with you. This is what happens when you're nearly kidnapped twice as a wee one. Okay, not really (we're only positive about one). I did however take all those internet safety reports that they do on television to heart. Besides, why would I tell someone online things I wouldn't tell someone I'd met on the street? I think it took me a year to divulge certain plot points about myself to one of my coworkers. Anywho, the point is these ppl are really poking at the gates of my paranoia.

And I still wanna do it. *falls over*

Oh, and some time this October it's 2 years at HC.

But at the rate of my editing, it may be.