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[Pnx]

If I ever do fulfill that dream of eventually getting off my arse and writing a book, remind me to consult with you on the publishing contract.

I overwhelmingly don't take cases off the net for numerous reasons. Stranger things have happened though. I appreciate the thought all the same.

For context, I don't actually think it's actually going to happen, I was just saying it to say, "You sound like a kickass lawyer/agent."

[Truean]

If I ever do fulfill that dream of eventually getting off my arse and writing a book, remind me to consult with you on the publishing contract.

I overwhelmingly don't take cases off the net for numerous reasons. Stranger things have happened though. I appreciate the thought all the same.

For context, I don't actually think it's actually going to happen, I was just saying it to say, "You sound like a kickass lawyer/agent."

Awww, thank you, I appreciate that.

[scriver]

"The Evil Mafia Publisher Rossetti is going to cheat Pnx out of his money!"
"But what can we do? He already signed the contract!"
"To the Lawbrary!"

[Darvi]

"To the Lawbrary!"

This should totally become Truean's catchphrase.

[Truean]

"To the Lawbrary!"

This should totally become Truean's catchphrase.

Except I'm already there most of the time anyhow, including now, so.... I'd be saying to go to the place I already am. Why do I bother with having an office anyhow....

[scriver]

As I imagine it, you don't have an office, Truean, you have a secret overground base.

[Vector]

That's the best kind of joke.

*stand up to pose as a team*

"To the Lawbrary, Truean!"

*sit back down, get to work.*

[Truean]

As I imagine it, you don't have an office, Truean, you have a secret overground base.

You aren't supposed to don't know that must be mistaken....

That's the best kind of joke.

*stand up to pose as a team*

"To the Lawbrary, Truean!"

*sit back down, get to work.*

[soft hugs] Thank you, that made me smile. [gets back to work like she should, ever so happy for that]

This however, does not:
http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-girls-plight-highlights-jewish-extremism-070750550.html
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-court-ends-virginity-tests-female-detainees-111611680.html
http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-uses-nasa-technology-preserve-ancient-tomes-131205544.html

[Pnx]

http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-girls-plight-highlights-jewish-extremism-070750550.html
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-court-ends-virginity-tests-female-detainees-111611680.html
http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-uses-nasa-technology-preserve-ancient-tomes-131205544.html

That last one seems a bit of a non sequitur.

[Truean]

http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-girls-plight-highlights-jewish-extremism-070750550.html
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-court-ends-virginity-tests-female-detainees-111611680.html
http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-uses-nasa-technology-preserve-ancient-tomes-131205544.html

That last one seems a bit of a non sequitur.

Oversimplified:
The theme is religious oppression. Galileo... Vatican.... Galileo --> understanding of space and sun being at the center of the solar system ---> NASA. 

The very texts that oppressed him are being saved by his intellectual offspring.... The Pope "forgave" Galileo in 1994.... The Earth is clearly at the center of the universe, so sayeth God.... [sigh]

[Frumple]

I... some of it, maybe. I sincerely doubt all of the texts in question ping the heliocentrism debate to any degree, though. Vatican, while definitely doing a lot of th'religious repression stuff, also has texts involving folks like St. Augustine, I imagine, which involve a lot more than the Galileo thing. The texts in question (1800 year old, not, uh. A few hundred. Blazes if I can remember which century the Galileo fiasco went down.) probably didn't have much influence to the debate at all. Maybe-hypocrisy of the church aside, that what they're saving is being saved is unquestionably a good thing.

I mean, if anything, it's maybe a sign the Vatican is modernizing a bit. Which might be good! Or at least less-bad than current? Anyway, not all of the stuff that's in there is going to be from sources-worthy-of-being-reviled. There's some nice bits of theology and natural philosophy in the church archives.

[G-Flex]

The Catholic Church is still weird as hell about anything sex-related, but as far as science goes, they're hardly the worst offender when it comes to popular Christian denominations. They're basically fine with evolutionary theory, abiogenesis, and environmentalism. I'm not a fan of the catholic church, but sometimes people conflate their beliefs way too much with those of fundamentalist protestant groups.

[Willfor]

Honestly, I wouldn't be bothered so much by this if the people in the comments in that article had even bothered to google "evolution according to catholicism" or anything similar. I checked, and all the information to correct misconceptions is there.

[Truean]

O I'm aware of the "it's not perfect thing" with the church documents and Galileo, but isn't it funny how that works out all the same...? And, yeah, the church mythology pretty much always aid the sun was the center so.... Meh? O well.

http://music.yahoo.com/news/sinead-oconnor-ends-18-day-marriage-161032236.html

More sanctity of marriage.... It's ok, we're talking about a man and a woman so.... Um, smoke break and ignore the wider implications?

[JoshuaFH]

http://music.yahoo.com/news/sinead-oconnor-ends-18-day-marriage-161032236.html

More sanctity of marriage.... It's ok, we're talking about a man and a woman so.... Um, smoke break and ignore the wider implications?

I'm not quite sure what you're stabbing at. The length of the marriage? Who was married? Wider Implications?