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[Gunner-Chan]

This is the post from toady in question. To be fair, it describes what happened pretty well.

[Johuotar]

Just noticed the update to the mod log... I see you are all a step ahead of me. Sad to loose another.

Moderator log, whats that?
I'm a bit saddened about these bans and mutes lately, though they were probably given for good reasons. They should just have thinked more before posting something unacceptable. Or they just didn't care.
Edit: The loss of interesting posts is the problem sad thing, but if they break rules then theres no option. Probably. So tired, off to sleep ->

[Urist Imiknorris]

Just noticed the update to the mod log... I see you are all a step ahead of me. Sad to loose another.

Moderator log, whats that?

It's stickied here in GD.

[Vector]

Sleepy, mildly nauseated, tired, lonely, head full of theology.

Bad combination.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Oh hey, sleep, I guess I'm happy you come over from time to time, but you really need to pick more unreasonable hours to visit.

[Euld]

So I asked my contact at my college about the drawing portfolio I need to make.  And when it will be due.  He doesn't give a deadline, and pretty much says don't worry about it.  Flash forward to today, when I get a call from someone who will be directing the open house this weekend for my degree.  He's asking for my progress on my portfolio >_<  *sigh*

[Nadaka]

I was supposed to go get a few beers after work with my coworkers. I had a headache so I skipped it.

[Dsarker]

Sleepy, mildly nauseated, tired, lonely, head full of theology.

Bad combination.

Are you doing a degree in it, or just reading up on it?

I'm doing a degree, and I'm loving it. Learning Latin and Greek for doubleplusgood!

[Vector]

I'm edifying myself.  I'm a math and rhetoric student, but I think the link between religion and social contract theory (by extension, game theory) is fascinating.  At the moment I'm polishing off The Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Unfortunately, no one else I know personally who's read it seemed to get anything out of it, though I consider it pretty cool.  One of my personal rules for reading texts is that you try to get the most out of it, and ignore everything unsavory unless it actively teaches you something new in its errors... their point of view seems to be that because he spent a little bit too long making a parable of his pear-stealing, the entire thing is just a round of self-flagellating muck.  Forget the theories on time and memory, of course, and their relationship to the creation myth!  No, we're just going to make him into a preppy private university inside joke, to be laughed at by the materialistic atheists in all their wisdom and distaste for ascetic monasticism.

Lucky for me that I follow Tarski's Litany:

If it is true, let me believe it to be true.  If it is false, let me believe it to be false.

So, er, anyway, rants aside, I'm learning a lot.

[Nadaka]

More crap to deal with...

My sister has 1 hand covered in 2nd degree burns now, so she may not be able to start that job.

My uncle had a heart attack and will die soon.

So yea, 2 unhorrible days is all I will get for a while.

[Dsarker]

I'm edifying myself.  I'm a math and rhetoric student, but I think the link between religion and social contract theory (by extension, game theory) is fascinating.  At the moment I'm polishing off The Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Unfortunately, no one else I know personally who's read it seemed to get anything out of it, though I consider it pretty cool.  One of my personal rules for reading texts is that you try to get the most out of it, and ignore everything unsavory unless it actively teaches you something new in its errors... their point of view seems to be that because he spent a little bit too long making a parable of his pear-stealing, the entire thing is just a round of self-flagellating muck.  Forget the theories on time and memory, of course, and their relationship to the creation myth!  No, we're just going to make him into a preppy private university inside joke, to be laughed at by the materialistic atheists in all their wisdom and distaste for ascetic monasticism.

Lucky for me that I follow Tarski's Litany:

If it is true, let me believe it to be true.  If it is false, let me believe it to be false.

So, er, anyway, rants aside, I'm learning a lot.

That's good to know. I haven't had a chance to properly read it, but I'm looking forward to it. What else are you reading?

[JoshuaFH]

My physique bothers me.

Well, I've been getting progressively shorter throughout the years, I used to be 5'10, then 5'9, and now I'm 5'8. This is very concerning to me.

Also, I haven't had the chance for rigorous exercise very often, and my lifestyle has been getting more sedentary. This actually doesn't make me happy, since over the course of the last two weeks of my temp job, my diet consisted of almost nothing buy sugary coffee, cookie dough, smores, no bake cookies, pizza, and fried chicken. My waistline did not escape from that one unscathed. I might have gained 10-15 pounds from how I was before.

Really, the only exercise that I could get into was playing table tennis, but now that I'm back home, there's no one to play with, and my life has reverted back to it's lazy, former self. Atleast for another month and ten days. This makes me very sad, since I don't like letting my skills rust, and I'm concerned over how much weight I'm gaining.

[Vector]

Well, I think that may be it for strict Christianity for the next little bit--I need a break.  I think I want to read more about the Greek myths and, perhaps, the emergence of Christianity in the Roman empire.  I'm kind of fuzzy on that.

Additionally, I really do need to read the Bible entire at some point, rather than just relying on rough knowledge of its contents (my grandfather on one side was a Lutheran minister/missionary to China and Japan, and my great-grandmother on the other side was a Catholic nun, so I kind of grew up with a fair amount of faithiness going on).  The Torah... the Talmud... the Qur'an.  I also have a copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead lying around somewhere, and the analects of Confucius.  I don't really have a comprehensive list on me right now, since most of my books are in a different house. 

I guess this next semester may be the Semester of Religion, just as last semester was the Semester of Progressivism.  Or maybe the semester of Religion and Monsters, because I think their study is a crucial part of social contract theory as well.  Hurm...

Well, anyway.  I don't really know what-all I'll be reading, but I'll be sure to keep posting about it if people are interested.

[Dsarker]

Please do. I, at least, would be interested.

[Angel Of Death]

Happy Wheels messed up again.

NOOOOOOO.