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Does changing the name of the Dynasty change the name for all members of that Dynasty, or does it create a new dynasty for your character?
Can you change your dynasty's name?
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Consider it sold. It would be fun but I think for my proper games I'll still keep this vanilla but still so buying this.
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That is insane. You guys are great.
But it sounds like a good subject for a DLC: hardly necessary to play the game, but a nice, cosmetic, enhancement.
After such good DLC, taken from users' suggestions, do we still have people complaining about Paradox's DLCs ?
Will you expand coa styles too ?
Will you correct the CoA randomisation system (the problem with 3 colors model ignoring color incompatibilities) ?
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Will I be able to see the DNA for my character without having to go into the save game file? I would be most tempted to purchase it for modding purposes, which means I'd need some sort of "export" feature.
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Crusader Kings II: Ruler Designer DLC will be released on the 17th of April to a suggested retail price of 4,99 USD
Very cool new feature! Would like to buy it even sooner though .
Two questions though: Will it work with mods that add traits? And: Can I change my starting character's age too?
I think the price is fair for that. This is really useful for players (such as me) who want to see themselves in the game with their own dynasty and not too expensive.
When I see AHD at the same price than Vicky 2 on Gamersgate, I don't think it's worth the price, but here, it seems just fine.
Really nice DLC !
Are there more coat of arms symbols than already in the game. I need merlets
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International Innovation talks to the Martinos Center's Anna-Liisa Brownell about her work with PET imaging and the insights it provides into neurodegenerative disease
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CNN Health has highlighted work by Martinos-affiliated researchers in its "Inside Your Brain" series. In "How Your Brain Makes Moral Judgements," writer Elizabeth Landau explores studies of the neuroscience of morality.
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Are you KIDDING me? Leafy, this is damn well near enough. I am through with the continuous attacks against Chained. And you call us ignorant. You may think you're the smartest eleven year old kid there is, but it is time to stop the games. Nobody likes to be attacked, and I bet your warriors are tired of it, too. Ours are tired of it, I can admit. Attacking NEVER solves any problems; plus the fact that it never-- ever-- EVER will. It would be better off listening to what others think than being so narcissistic. All you do is backstab people, and to even think that we trusted you was the biggest mistake we made. All you do is use your warriors. I remember the time where you actually admitted you were power-hungry. Look, I know this is a game, but this is another form of cyber bullying. Listen to what you say, Leafy. It can hurt others. Telling other people to kill themselves- What the actual FUCK? We are people behind computer
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Tt rantOk everyone can hate on when I say this, butTT is getting out of hand.I'm sure many of you are aware of but, but here are my reasons:1. I mean, Just think about the fact that we have wolves. Wolves were never even in warriors. If you're going to have a wolf, at least don't bring them into battles with you. That should be considered power play. It's like when warriors used to claim they could be demons. It's that pathetic. 2. When it even comes to wars, there's always that one clan who outnumbers the other by what? 20, 30 cats? When is that a fair war? 5 against 1, where's the honor? 3. Clans are NOT about numbers. The numbers on tt are getting out of hand. Yes, I know RC's numbers used to be overpowered too, but that's past us. As a leader, I know that your clan can EASILY get out of hand with many people. Think about it, you're ONE person. Leaders can also tend to forget/leave other people how when it comes to huge numbers, I know. And in the books, every clan was a reasonable si


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Counter to your statement, I contend, sirrah, that RML only works reliably in Cure Normals-aka "Cure Space Nerf". In "elites" it only works where 3/5 or more of the team are, what you seem to think is "Half decent".
Cure Space Nerf's Raptors are about as tough as CSE's BoPs, spawn more slowly, etc. while Cure Nerf's Negh'vars are about on par with CSE's Raptors, both in terms of damage each does individually, and in terms of shield and hull health and use of abilities.
RML works GREAT in Cure Nerf, regardless of build-and that, sirrah, is the problem here-people thinking whatever junk builds they have are fine, because they worked in the Nerfed version of an STF.
So, they try it out in Elite, and fail the mission out. Otoh, Cure has a definite, predictable strategy in "Elite" play-if most of your team follows it, most of the time, they'll succeed, and if they're "Half decent" they'll pull the Optional with time to spare.
Because, Sirrah,
it's predictable
1, clear first wave of BoPs.
2. Clear lower tier of probes.
3. Clear upper Tier of Probes and the Negh'var/Raptor spawn.
4. Move to next target.
5. Repeat steps 2,3, and 4 until all three stacks have been reduced.
6. Pop cubes, moving "RIght/Middle/Left"- this narrows the frontage, and the Negh'var spawn from the Left has further to go to reach the Kang, giving the team the ability to finish the last cube quickly, before they arrive, then take them out-while one guy hails the Kang, securing the Optional with some room for bad luck to NOT blow the entire mission (aka someone getting invisitorped or somesuch.)
It is
, it WORKS. going (RML)Stack-stack-stack only works if your team's 60% or more raw DPS machines (TacScorts with all the rep passives, the right set-pieces, and purple MkXII weapons fed by purple consoles)...except in Cure Nerf, where, like some of those school 'athletic functions' you get a purple ribbon for participation...
a half decent player (5-6k dps) can defend against bops and raptors (with a hint of cc you dont even need help on the first spawns), while the rest do rml (it will be slow, if those have crap dps, but that is doable, and not hard)
also I feel old for knowing that ancient tactic you are talking about. that is already proven to be inferior to mrrmll even on bad teams (and technically mrrmll is for bad teams)
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Shooting stars
In Apocalyptic Writings. The conception of fallen angels—angels who, for wilful, rebellious conduct against God, or through weakness under temptation.thereby forfeiting their angelic dignity, were degraded and condemned to a life of mischief or shame on earth or in a place of punishment—is wide-spread. Indications of this belief, behind which probably lies the symbolizing of an astronomical phenomenon, the shooting stars, are met with in Isa. xiv. 12 (comp. Job xxxviii. 31, 32; see Constellations).
The writer seems to be saying that the tradition of fallen angels has its origin in the personification of meteors. Ancient observers saw shooting stars. By process of legendary embellishment, they interpreted that phenomenon as gods or angels who, having lost the war in heaven, were cast down to earth.
Now, it's true that Scripture uses meteoric imagery to depict or illustrate the fall of angels. But that can be used to explain how belief in fallen angels developed in the first place?
Let's begin by citing some other material:
Primitive man everywhere used meteoric iron in the earliest stage of his mental culture…The Sumerian name for iron was an-bar, meaning "fire from heaven." The Hittite ku-an has the same meaning. The Egyptian name, bia-en-pet, has been variously translated; probably the first meaning of bia was "thunderbolt," and pet stands for "heaven," so there was have plain intimation that the earliest iron was of celestial origin. A Hittite text says that whereas gold came from Birununda and copper from Taggasta, iron came from heaven. Likewise the Hebrew word for iron, parzil, and the equivalent in Assyrian, barzillu, are derived from barzu-ili, meaning "metal of god" or "of heaven." Even today the Georgian name for a meteorite is tsis-natckhi, meaning "fragment of heaven." T. A. Rickard, "The Use of Meteoric Iron," The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 71, no. 1/2 (1941), 55.
The most ancient name for iron was 'Metal of Heaven.' In the hieroglyphic language of the ancient Egyptians it was pronounced ba-en-pet, meaning either stone or metal of Heaven.
This ancient history of iron is also found in the cuneiform language of Assyria and Babylonia, pronounced par-zillu. It is the same in the language of Sumeria and Chaldea; barsa, barsal and barzel, and again in the Hebrew language where the name is the same as it is in the Assyrian. All of these translate to mean 'Metal of Heaven.' We can say the first iron was undoubtedly meteoric, as is shown by these ancient names.
Even across the globe, evidence of iron in prehistory was found when Spanish explorers discovered the Aztecs in the 1500s. They found objects made with this iron-nickel alloy as well. When asked, the Aztec claimed the metal fell from the sky. For centuries afterward, farmers and rural folk had claimed to have occasionally come across metallic rocks made mostly of iron that fell from the sky, and for centuries 'rational' scientist dismissed these claims as superstitious. We now know these objects as meteorites. G. F. Zimmer, The Antiquity of Iron (1915).
When Cortez enquired of the Aztec chiefs whence they obtain their knives they simply pointed to the sky.
The peoples of the ancient Orient in all probability shared similar ideas. The Sumerian word an.bar, the oldest word designating iron, is made up of the pictograms "sky" and "fire." It is usually translated "celestial metal" or "star-metal." Campbell Thompson renders it "celestial lightening (of meteorite)."
The term biz-n.pt, "iron from heaven," or more exactly, "metal from heaven," clearly points to their meteorite origin…We find the same situation with the Hittites: a fourteenth-century text declares that the Hittite kings used "black iron from the sky."
The "celestial" origin of iron is perhaps attested by the Greek sideros, which has been related to sidus,-eris, meaning "star." M. Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible (U of Chicago 1978), 21-23.
There's the danger of the etymological fallacy. But in this case, since the designations are factually accurate, it seems reliable. Meteoric iron was given these names because it did, in fact, fall from the sky.
Considered in isolation, one might speculate that ancient people identified shooting stars with gods or angels who lost the war in heaven. Since, however, we have diverse lines of evidence that ancient people associated iron with shooting stars, the angelic interpretation is untenable. Iron meteorites aren't godlike or angelic. Rather, these are inanimate objects, which were hammered into weapons.
What they thought fell from the sky wasn't gods or angels, but metal chunks. Same thing with stony meteorites. Even if an aeroite became a cult object (e.g. Acts 19:35), at best it represented celestial beings. It was not, itself, divinity.
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Apologetic issues in the OT
The Richard Carrier train wreck continues
It's instructive to see Richard Carrier's "scholarship" skewered by people on the left. These are people who share his secular outlook, but find his scholarship devious and shoddy. James McGrath is a leftwing NT scholar:
"Christian Zionism and American Evangelicalism"
Arminian Bible scholar Scot McKnight quoted a boilerplate attack on Israel by former Sojourners' editor, "journalist," and "social justice" activist Ryan Rodrick Beiler:
This, in turn, elicited two corrective comments from a reader:
Scot, I was on the tour (mentioned in the article) that visited Alex Awad in Bethlehem. One of the things that the article missed is that while many of the people in my group could agree with Alex on points of theology i.e.. Jesus fulfills the need for a sacrifice, etc. The nationalism that permeates much of the Palestinian Christian church turned a lot of people off. It is a complicated conflict, but if Christians are going to argue for a Palestinian state they need to do so on the basis of basic human rights. Unfortunately, those human rights are absent from the Palestinian Territories apart from anything Israel might be doing. The PA has promised that a future state would be based on Sharia. It regularly intimidates journalists who challenge the corruption within the leadership. The PA has also promised a future state would not permit Jews to live there. So it is difficult for me to see how one can argue about justice for a people that promises to be unjust to its own people. Please [be] more thoughtful.
To your question, within the Palestinian Christian community there are several key groups. One group is the old churches like the Catholic, Orthodox, and Lutheran churches. This group is largely nationalist and very influenced by Palestinian Liberation Theology,ie "Palestinians are crucified every day..." type rhetoric. The second group would be the Evangelical churches that are evangelistic to a degree, but are reluctant to criticize the PA and are very anti-zionist. The third is the Evangelical churches that are overtly evangelistic and are not anti-Israel. There is a surprising number of these churches. The most famous among those of us that engage in this stuff is Bethlehem Baptist Church. As you might imagine those groups do not get along well.
When my groups went to Bethlehem we met with leaders from the two Evangelical camps. It was a stark difference that my group picked up immediately. The anti-zionist Evangelicals spent a lot of time talking about their struggle with the occupation (which I accept is significant) while the evangelistic Evangelical church talked about his outreach to the community, the small groups and small businesses they were trying to assist. So the issue was less theological and more political. The less political the church, the more pressure they receive from their own side (if you are soft on Israel you are seen as a collaborator), but the gospel is changing hearts. By nationalism I am meaning that sense you get when the political seems to be the priority focus and the gospel is used as a political tool.
I could go on... The situation is very complex and deserves more than all Christian Zionists are heretics and all Palestinians are terrorist type rhetoric. If you can avoid that stuff you will help greatly.
Should Christians support a Palestinian state?
Mystery for me but not for thee
When I push this "button" on Calvinism to a Calvinist he or she usually retreats into voluntarism—the idea promoted by Duns Scotus and Ulrich Zwingli (among others) that God is above all law, meaning our intuitions about "the good" do not apply to God at all, and whatever God does is good simply because God does it.
I always wonder who these nameless Calvinists are. Somehow I doubt he picks on Reformed philosophers.
My frequent, almost constant, experience has been that, under such questioning, most Calvinists eventually wither and either simply appeal to "mystery" or "paradox" (admitting they don't know what "good" means other than "what God does") or give up and adjust their Calvinism to the point of disappearance (as in so-called "evangelical Calvinism"). Or, in many cases, they ponder and then, after a time, admit they can no longer embrace Calvinism. The few that steadfastly remain classical, high Calvinists (i.e., "TULIP" Calvinists) usually admit that they really embrace divine voluntarism—that God has no eternal, governing, moral character but does whatever he chooses to do and that whatever he choose to do is good just because he does it. What they rarely, if ever, admit (but must admit if they are to believe coherently) is that, in that case, "God is good" is only a tautology and therefore meaningless.
Once again, nameless Calvinists.
And he accuses "most" of them in his "almost constant" experience of retreating in to mystery or paradox.
But having said that, notice how he responds when a sympathetic questioners puts him on the spot:
Roger Olson
Thanks, Tim. This raises the age old question of theodicy. I struggle with it mightily, very deeply. It troubles me all the time. I do lose sleep over it--especially when I see (on television or in the news) children being kidnapped, tortured, killed, abused, etc. I have sought help with this. The best help I have found is in Greg Boyd's "Spiritual Warfare Worldview." The best guide to that (because it does not rely on open theism) is his book Is God to Blame? Maybe it won't work for everyone, but it certainly has helped me. I think that when it comes to evil and innocent suffering (e.g., children) God is always doing the best that he can given the circumstances. But only God knows the rules; he has not chosen to reveal them to us but simply asked us to trust in his goodness. I do that. If God is not good, then he might be the one harming the children. If God is not omnipotent, there is no hope for a better world (as ours is getting worse all the time). I believe (with Greg) that God has given us prayer as our means of helping God help the victims. We are also called, of course, to take direct and indirect action to help free them from oppression and harm. But God has chosen not to do this (for now) all by himself. And human sinful rebellion has pushed God away so that this world is not as God wants it to be and will remake it to be in the end. I know of no better answer. All the other answer I have considered fall short either with regard to a moral order of the cosmos, God's goodness, or God's omnipotence. In short, the answer lies somewhere in God's self-limitation in relation to creation.
In other words, it's okay for Arminians to play the mystery card, but if a Calvinist plays the same card, that's cheating!
Prediluvian history
I'm going to repost some comments I left at Lydia McGrew's blog reviewing Walton's book on The Lost World of Adam and Eve. My comments are not directly in response to her review, but in response to other commenters.
Some professing Christians have an oddly compartmentalized plausibility structure. For instance, I've read things by Stanley Jaki on Genesis, Lourdes, and Fatima. Jaki rejects the traditional interpretation of Gen 1-3 on naturalistic grounds, yet he takes Lourdes and Fatima very seriously. What makes Lourdes or Fatima credible, but Gen 1-3 incredible?
Posted by steve hays | March 24, 2015 2:30 PM
"Presumably the available evidence."
That raises a host of interesting questions:
i) Many times, we have no evidence for a historical event over and above historical accounts of the event in question. Sometimes there may be independent corroborative physical evidence, but oftentimes not.
What's our evidence for the Battle of Waterloo? Historical accounts.
Depending on one's view of Scripture, the account of Gen 2-3 is, itself, evidence for the occurrence of what it records.
ii) There are people who think Gen 2-3 is literally ridiculous, but implicitly believe that a consecrated wafer contains the entire body, blood, soul, and deity of Christ. Seems like an oddly segregated belief-system to me.
iii) Normally, humans are the product of a human male impregnating a human female. But if the Virgin Birth is true, then that's an exception–just as the creation of Adam and Eve would be exceptional.
Now, if you did a full medical workup on Jesus, I assume he'd be indistinguishable from someone conceived by procreation. If, however, God bypassed ordinary natural processes in the conception of Jesus, the available evidence will be consistent with either a natural or supernatural origin. Both interpretations are empirically adequate and empirically indistinguishable–but only one is right.
Suppose I arrive late at the feeding of the five thousand. I see a crowd eating fish and bread. I assume fishermen caught the fish in the nearby lake, while bakers produced the loaves of bread. And that's a reasonable operating assumption, given my limited evidence.
If, however, Jesus miraculously multiplied fish and bread, then my inference was wrong. It didn't take that factor into consideration.
iv) Apropos (iii), how we evaluate the evidence depends, in part, on presuppositions that we bring to the evidence. Presuppositions that lie outside the evidence proper–although there may be evidence for our presuppositions.
If the effect is the end-result of allowing nature to take its course, then that's one thing. If the effect is the immediate result of supernatural agency, that's another thing. And it may not be possible to retroengineer the cause from the effect. We may be able to retrace the process provided that it was a normal process. But what's the evidence for the proviso?
To take a comparison: in robotics it's possible to make a robot that can make other robots like itself. Most robots will be made by other robots. But the initial robot in the series must be designed and constructed by an engineer.
From a scientific standpoint, I don't believe that either heliocentrism or geocentrism is true. These are relative reference frames concerning relative motion.
Now, if you take it to the next step by asking about the underlying causes of their respective motion(s), like gravity, then the physics will be very different.
Posted by steve hays | March 21, 2015 11:12 PM
[Wittgenstein] once greeted me with the question: "Why do people say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth turned on its axis?" I replied: "I suppose, because it looked as if the sun went round the earth." "Well," he asked, "what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?" E. Anscombe, An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Harper & Row, rev ed.,1965), 151.
Posted by steve hays | March 22, 2015 12:30 PM
I think we need to draw some distinctions, or at least make some implicit distinctions explicit:
i) We should distinguish between what Gen 1-3 means, and whether its meaning is normative for Christians.
ii) Apropos (i), some theologians do it backwards. They begin with what they think is true, then interpret Gen 1-3 accordingly. They discount interpretations which they think are false.
Problem is, they don't let the text speak for itself. They often begin with their modern scientific understanding. That's their standard of comparison. They then use that as the interpretive grid. But, of course, that's anachronistic.
iii) Apropos (ii), exegesis typically seeks to ascertain original intent or authorial intent. The text means what the author intended to convey by his choice of words.
An exegete consciously avoids imposing his own preconceptions onto the text. Rather, he attempts, if only for the sake of argument, to assume the viewpoint of the author. For instance, a Dante commentator will view the text through the Dante's cultural lens. Not what makes sense to the commentator, but what would make sense to Dante–given Dante's time, place, and outlook.
iv) One potential objection is that, given the dual authorship of Scripture, what is normative is divine intent, not human intent. Indeed, Walton tries to salvage inerrancy by recourse to speech-act theory. For him, the narrator's locutions are errant, but the divine illocutions, behind the locutions, are inerrant.
However, an obvious problem with that dichotomy is that we can only access the illocutions via the locutions. Typically, an author uses certain locutions to express his illocutions.
God communicates truth through the instrumentality of the human author. Hence, the human intent expressed in human locutions can't be at cross-purposes with the divine intent or divine illocutions.
v) A theistic evolutionist can be a theist for philosophical reasons and an evolutionist for scientific reasons.
The problem, from a Christian perspective, is when there's an effort to make theistic evolution intersect or coordinate with Scripture. That characteristically results in hybrid interpretations. The "Adam" of theistic evolution isn't the Adam of Genesis. At best, the "Adam" of theistic evolution is a makeshift construct. Equally artificial from both an exegetical and scientific standpoint.
vi) In principle, one can bypass that stopgap compromise by sidelining Scripture altogether. However, Christianity claims to be a revealed religion. Biblical revelation can't be sidelined if the result is to remain Christian.
If, however, the correct interpretation is theologically normative, then evolution can't be permitted to leverage either the interpretation of Scripture or the content of Christian theology.
Posted by steve hays | March 21, 2015 11:45 PM
Let's provide a baseline standard of comparison–between the Adam of Genesis and the Adam of theistic evolution (of which there are various models).
In Gen 2-3:
i) Adam has no animal, human, or prehuman ancestry.
ii) Adam is directly created from inanimate raw materials.
ii) Eve is directly created from organic matter (i.e. a tissue sample supplied by Adam).
iii) All humans, past and present, are descendants of Adam and Eve.
iv) Humans die because Adam and Eve were banished from Eden, which cut them off from the tree of life.
Posted by steve hays | March 22, 2015 12:03 PM
Saudis vs Iran; Sunnis vs Shia
According to Stratfor, Yemen's deteriorating security situation has created another Saudi-Iranian geopolitical struggle "that will last for the foreseeable future".
From a geopolitical perspective, I think that the adversaries are lining up in a way that will enable "the west" to avoid military entanglements in that region of the world. To be sure, I believe that the US should continue to keep a watchful military presence "around the edges" of this struggle. But we have heard that the problems related to Islam are internal problems – largely Sunnis vs Shia, and within those groups, those who are radicals vs those who are deemed "not radical enough".
Now we are seeing the geopolitical lines take shape in such a way that all of these groups who are natural enemies are fighting among themselves, and largely leaving the rest of the world alone. The Washington Post has already noted, for example, that radicalized Muslims are traveling en masse TO Syria to participate in the Jihad.
This frees up the rest of the world (to a degree, and for the time being) from having to contend with "terrorists" who are distributed around the globe. This intramural fight is one that Islam needs to have, and it's one that they need to have until they decide it's not worth it any more.
From a geopolitical perspective, I think that the adversaries are lining up in a way that will enable "the west" to avoid military entanglements in that region of the world. To be sure, I believe that the US should continue to keep a watchful military presence "around the edges" of this struggle. But we have heard that the problems related to Islam are internal problems – largely Sunnis vs Shia, and within those groups, those who are radicals vs those who are deemed "not radical enough".
Now we are seeing the geopolitical lines take shape in such a way that all of these groups who are natural enemies are fighting among themselves, and largely leaving the rest of the world alone. The Washington Post has already noted, for example, that radicalized Muslims are traveling en masse TO Syria to participate in the Jihad.
This frees up the rest of the world (to a degree, and for the time being) from having to contend with "terrorists" who are distributed around the globe. This intramural fight is one that Islam needs to have, and it's one that they need to have until they decide it's not worth it any more.
The "First Century Gospel of Mark" Fragment Seems to Be in Good Hands
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Holmes recently issued this statement on the question of "How Soon Will It Be Published?", that is, "when will we know more about the alleged First Century Gospel of Mark?":
With regard to any ancient artifact, answering questions such as these requires one to balance several complementary and sometimes competing interests. These interests include the need: (1) to acknowledge the privacy and ownership rights of the owner of the artifact; (2) to minimize distractions for the researcher investigating the artifact; and (3) to satisfy the legitimate curiosity of the scholarly community and other public audiences …
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Robotic inferno
On Facebook, Jerry Walls recently said:
To me it is as clear as any moral intuition I have that not even a good God, let alone a perfectly good God, could determine people to sin and then consign them to eternal misery for their sin.
Let's compare that to another Arminian intuition: Calvinism reduces humans to robots.
Let's grant both these "intuitions" for the sake of argument. Now let's combine them:
To me it is as clear as any moral intuition I have that not even a good God, let alone a perfectly good God, could determine robots to sin and then consign them to eternal misery for their sin.
Problem is, it's hard to see how these two claims mesh. Presumably, Arminians think robots lack one or more essential human properties. Robots aren't real people. To be real people, they must have moral agency. And moral agency requires libertarian freedom. To be real people, they must be free to choose or to withhold love. In fact, according to Arminians, only free agents can truly sin.
But if robots aren't real people, then what's so bad about determining them to do wrong, then consigning them to everlasting hell for wrongdoing?
What they did was objectively wrong, but it wasn't subjectively wrong, for they lack that subjective dimension. That first-person perspective.
If a robot isn't a real person, you can't wrong a robot. It's just a machine. At best, a deluded machine. It may suppose it's human, because it's been programmed to think that, but because it isn't human, it can never know what it's like–really like–to be human. It lacks human experience from the inside out.
Reformed robotics
Arminians routinely accuse Calvinists of making people robots. At the risk of divulging a trade secret–which I was sworn to conceal on pain of death–this allegation is absolutely true.
Calvinists are cyberneticists. Arminians are robots. We invented Arminians. Programmed them to entertain the illusion of libertarian freewill. Like Cylon sleeper agents programmed to believe they were human.
Because Arminians vainly imagine that they have freewill, that actually makes them more docile and contented with their menial existence as our android slaves. We made them to be foils for Calvinism. They are theological toys. That's why it's so easy to punch their buttons.
Why Markan Authorship Wouldn't Be Fabricated
Here are some of the reasons why Christians who were lying or speculating about the authorship of the second gospel probably wouldn't have come up with Mark as the author:
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
A feminist on the Ivy Leagues
Paglia: I'm talking about date rape, what everyone is talking about right now, about this so-called "rape culture." But that essay that I wrote begins, "Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in any civilized society." That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about this new reclassification of people getting drunk, going on a date, going to fraternity houses, and women not taking responsibility for their own behavior. I said that gay men for thousands of years have been going out and having sex with strangers everywhere. They know they can be beaten up. They know they can be killed. What is this where women are, "Oh, we must be protected against even our foolish choices. It's up to men to…" This is ridiculous. This is an intrusion into the civil liberties of young people that have this kind of vampiric parent figures and the administrators hovering, watching, supervising people's sex lives. In Europe, there's nothing like this. There's no idea that the University of Paris is concerned about the dating lives of damn students.
reason: Well, they also don't have sports teams, and they don't have dorms.
Paglia: Exactly. It's this residential college thing, this vision of college as this summer camp, this Club Med. This is the folly of American education.
reason: It's more reeducation camp now, right? Camp Wo-Chi-Cha?
Paglia: It's, "Let us hold your hand. Let us give you the incredible gym with exercise equipment. Let's give you the thousand choices in the cafeteria." This has nothing to do with education anymore.
Paglia: So now, we're in a period, this is what I don't understand, where women on campus—the institutionalized whining now—that's what it's turned into.
reason: Clarify what's the difference between a legitimate gripe and whining?
Paglia: Well, in my point of view, no college administration should be taking any interest whatever in the social lives of the students. None! If a crime's committed on campus, it should always be reported to the police. I absolutely do not agree with any committees investigating any charge of sexual assault. Either it's a real crime, or it's not a real crime. Get the hell out. So you get this expansion of the campus bureaucracy with this Stalinist oversight. But the students have been raised with helicopter parents. They want it. The students of today—they're utterly uninformed, not necessarily at my school, the art school, I'm talking about the elite schools.
reason: So it's those kids over at that other school.
Paglia: It's the grade grubbers, the bright overachievers. I'm not at that kind of school [here at University of the Arts in Philadelphia] . I'm at a school of arts and communication where people already have a vocational trend. To be admitted here, you have to already have demonstrated a vocational aptitude. I'm talking about the Ivy League. Now, I've encountered these graduates of Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, I've encountered them in the media, and people in their 30s now, some of them, their minds are like Jell-O. They know nothing! They've not been trained in history. They have absolutely no structure to their minds. Their emotions are unfixed. The banality of contemporary cultural criticism, of academe, the absolute collapse of any kind of intellectual discourse in the U.S. is the result of these colleges, which should have been the best, have produced the finest minds, instead having retracted into caretaking. The whole thing is about approved social positions in a kind of misty, love of humanity without any direct knowledge of history or economics or anthropology.
reason: What would be a way forward for colleges or other institutions to start making a defense of the humanities?
Paglia: They have no sense of history. I find there's more sense of history in southern evangelicals who didn't even finish high school because their knowledge of the world is based on the Bible, so they're thinking in terms of, "What happened 2,000 years ago? What happened 2,500 years ago?"
reason: What is it about her? Is Hillary Clinton kind of your worst nightmare as a woman?
Paglia: No, she's exactly my age. I feel I know her completely. Our accents are kind of the same. I understand her completely. So I see all the games and falsehoods and so forth. So I've enjoyed it. I've made an entire career practically—in fact I wrote the cover story for The New Republic "Ice Queen, Drag Queen"—that was 1996, it was way back there.
reason: So what is it about Hillary that bothers you.
Paglia: She's a fraud!
reason: Explain how.
Paglia: She can't have an opinion without poll testing it. She's a liar. This is not a strong candidate for our first woman president.
Open theism and theodicy
According to open theism, God has sovereignly decided to create a world with libertarianly free creatures and, since there are no true (would-) counterfactuals of creaturely freedom for God to know and since, according to open theists, libertarian freedom is incompatible with meticulous foreknowledge, God could not know for sure ahead of time what kinds of choices his free creatures will make. God would seem to be less blameworthy for not preventing evils that he didn't know in advance would happen.
i) In human affairs there are situations where ignorance can be an extenuating or exculpatory factor. But that's not a given.
Suppose I leave the house for an hour to go for a walk. I leave my young sons–ages 2 and 3–alone with a space heater running. In my absence the house catches fire and they burn to death.
I didn't know in advance that this would happen. But that misses the point. It was reckless of me to expose them to gratuitous risk. It was wrong of me to take that gamble at their expense. In fact, even if the house hadn't caught fire, I'd still be negligent, still be culpable, for endangering them.
ii) This assumes that God is, in fact, ignorant future evils. But surely that's overstated, even on open theist assumptions. Suppose the open theist God didn't know 3 days in advance that the Titanic was going to hit an iceberg and sink. Maybe that was contingent on a string of unforeseeable human choices.
But did the open theist God still not know 3 hours in advance that the Titanic was going to hit an iceberg? Could he not even anticipate 30 minutes in advance that the Titanic was on a collision course with the iceberg–given the trajectory? How much lead time does it take to swerve?
And even if that wasn't a "sure thing," is it not responsible and prudent to take precautions just in case? Especially when innocent lives are at stake? If God can't know for sure, isn't that all the more reason to leave himself a generous margin of error?
iii) Likewise, didn't the open theist God know that category 4 hurricane was making a bee line for Galveston? Can't the open theist God predict when and where a hurricane will make landfall at least as well as the National Weather Service?
iv) At this point an open theist might counter that even though God can anticipate some (all?) natural disasters, God can't intervene to prevent them. For human choices to be meaningful, choices must have predictable consequences. That, in turn, requires a stable environment.
However, that reply is subject to multiple objections:
v) To begin with, the open theist is suddenly shifting ground. This argument concedes that divine ignorance is an inadequate theodicy.
vi) A stock objection that open theists raise to Calvinism is that if every event is predestined, then petitionary prayer is otiose, for the future is written in stone.
(Of course, in Calvinism, the stony inscription includes answered prayer.)
If, however, God can't destabilize the natural order by overriding the default setting, then open theist theodicy negates open theist prayer.
vii) Furthermore, the argument backfires. If choices must have predictable consequences, then choices require informed consent: permission granted in the knowledge of probable risks and consequences.
If the residents of Galveston had known that a catastrophic hurricane was going to hit their town on Sept. 8, 1990, many of them would evacuate ahead of the storm. And even if some stubbornly remained behind, that would be their informed choice.
However, the open theist God withheld that information. They had no advance warning, to make preparations.
This doesn't require God to divert the hurricane, but simply forewarn the residents. The natural order remains inviolable.
Suppose I suffer from migraine headaches. I consult a neurologist. He says I'm in luck. He can prescribe a medication that relieves the headache.
However, he neglects to tell me that the medication has a side-effect: it causes brain cancer.
Although I chose to take the medication, I was denied the opportunity to make an informed choice. Had I known the side-effect, I would not have taken the medication. The neurologist was guilty of malpractice by failing to warn me.
The Lost World of Adam and Eve, finis
Monday, March 23, 2015
Empowering sexual predators
Transgender ideology in action:
"The daughters I never had"
Here's an unintentionally funny combination of snobbery and common sense–exposing some of the many faultlines in feminism:
Narnia and the Gospels
i) C. S. Lewis is probably best-known and certainly best-loved for his Christian allegories (e.g. The Chronicles of Narnia, Perelandra).
For some reason, Lewis eschewed the "allegorical" classification. His denial seems to operate with a specialized definition of "allegory."
But several books clearly allegorize Christian theology: crucifixion, Resurrection, and atonement (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), creation and fall (The Magician's Nephew), final judgment and heaven (The Last Battle), alternate history of the Fall (Perelandra).
Aslan represents Christ while Lucy represents the theological virtue of faith (and hope).
ii) There is, however, a sense in which The Chronicles of Narnia are a double allegory.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe opens with four young refugees during the the Blitz. And in reality, Lewis hosted four girls during WWII–Margaret, Mary and Katherine, and June Flewett.
iii) The character of Lucy was named after Lucy Barfield. However, the character was modeled on June (stage name Jill) Flewett–who was a pious Catholic schoolgirl:
So the character of Lucy is based on a real person whom Lewis knew. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if June wasn't the daughter that Lewis never had. She may well have triggered his latent paternal instinct.
And that makes sense. Lucy is clearly Lewis's favorite character. And she's the most real character. Individualized in a way that the other Pevensie siblings are not. Lewis may have known girls like Susan, but with a certain diffidence. Peter and Edmund merely exist as dramatic vehicles to personify theological lessons. They don't have much personality.
But if Lucy allegorizes June Flewett, then Prof. Kirke allegorizes C. S. Lewis–while Kirke's residence allegorizes the Kilns. Likewise, the backyard inspired the Narnian landscape:
The extensive wild grounds to the south of the house(comprising a lake and a wooded hill) provided the inspiration for the Chronicles of Narnia.
iv) Critics think there's a thick layer of oral tradition, redaction, and legendary embellishment separating the Gospels from the historical Jesus: the "Jesus of history" from the "Christ of faith."
Of course, I disagree. However, let's play along with that claim for the sake of argument.
In many respects, The Chronicles of Narnia are far removed from reality. Not only are they fictional, but belong to the sword-and-sorcery fantasy genre. Full of magic. Populated by talking animals, fauns, centaurs, &c.
And yet, as we've just seen, in key respects The Chronicles of Narnia are grounded in reality. A paper-thin allegory of some real people, real places, and real events.
If The Chronicles of Narnia can be that historical just under the surface, despite the imaginary details and mythopoetic overlay, then in principle, the Gospels could be quite historical even though, from a critic's perspective, they appear to be legendary.
TheBestSchools interviews
TheBestSchools has a series of interviews. I don't agree with everything, and in many cases I disagree with quite a bit, but I found the following interviews useful to one degree or another (at least the parts I've read):
- William Dembski
- Mike Licona
- Sally Satel
- Rupert Sheldrake (HT: Steve.)
When The Apostle John Died And Why It's Important
In a thread last week about whether the apostle John died as a martyr, the issue of the timing of his death came up. It's an important subject in many contexts, such as when the canon of scripture was closed and when Revelation was written, which in turn is significant in disputes over eschatology. The timing of John's death also has a lot of relevance to liberal and skeptical theories about alleged changes in Christian belief that supposedly occurred during the closing decades of the first century. If somebody like John was still alive and prominent in church affairs until the late first or early second century, that creates some major problems for many nontraditional views of early Christianity. Here are a few posts I've written on how long John lived and how influential he was in the closing years of his life:
Mary And John As Examples Of Sources Of Information On Jesus' Background
The Apostle John's Long Lifespan
When Was Revelation Written?
The Hitchcock/Hanegraaff Debate On The Date Of Revelation
Mary And John As Examples Of Sources Of Information On Jesus' Background
The Apostle John's Long Lifespan
When Was Revelation Written?
The Hitchcock/Hanegraaff Debate On The Date Of Revelation
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Amendment 62 kicks it up a notch with both sides pushing a little too hard, and an Ohio judge allows teens to marry without parental consent to protect the daughter from an alleged abortion.
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Laura's lamp makeover really lights our fire. It's amazing what a little spray paint can do. Here's her letter:
I wanted to share this quick DIY project I completed last Friday after getting out of work early. I just bought a lamp at the local Salvation Army up in Alexandria, VA, and stopped over at the Home Depot for some spray paint and polyurethane. The project didn't take that long and I used "Rust-oleum" Painter's Touch in satin Aqua, with a clear gloss coat. I also wanted to say how much I love your blog! You are very talented people and I'm so glad to hear that you are only a few hours south of me- yay for "locals"! -Laura
Isn't Laura's lighting makeover proof that style can come at any price? And we love that she took matters into her own hands and snagged something secondhand. Nice recycling job there Laura! You can read more about the process right here on her blog. And definitely tell her how much you love it right here. Yay for "locals" and spray paint.
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Love this! I recently scored some metal wall art from Goodwill and spray-painted it black to match our decor. Gotta love a secondhand find! Thanks for sharing. I might have to try this with a lamp!
So cheap, easy, and beautiful! Love it!
Love that color!
PARTY ON!!! Wow, that stuff is fabulous … as a hostess I've found that if you have a theme the party tends to take care of itself … also, I always have cocktail parties with a little finger food. No sit down dinners not too many places to sit in general … keeps the party moving and people mingling …
I've wanted to spray my shiny gold doorknobs a more modern color instead of buying new ones… but I am nervous. Anyone done this before? Will it be a possible disaster?
WOW … I'm an idiot and totally posted my previous comment on the wrong post .. but I also meant to post on this lamp …
Very cool. My grandmother has two lamps that she's constantly repainting to match her decor and you'd never tell. Best part is they're urn lamps and the urn has a pattern so when it's painted with a solid color the pattern still shows through but is very subtle … sooooo cool.
I love that lamp! Beautiful color.
Hey, can you post Laura's URL for her blog? I can't click through using hidemya@#.com
Thanks for sharing!
I have 2 lamps I bought on Craig's List last year. They are made of a plastic-y sort of material. What kind of spray paint would you recommend for plastic? They are in serious need of a face lift. Thank you!
::shout out from Lancaster, PA – we love your blog!::
Hah! My mom has two of that exact same lamp! She's had them at least my whole life, and I am almost 32. I will have to sneak over in the dead of night and try this technique!
Great transformation! I'm a thrift store junky and trolling the isles I try to remind myself to focus on shapes not finishes…paint works wonders.
I LOVE the lamp, the awesome blue color, and how it pops perfectly with the bold wall color. I also love the braided-trunk money tree beside it! So sweet.
It never surprises me to see what a can of spray paint can do. Honestly, everytime I head out to Fan Thrift, Diversity or For the Love of Jesus, I have to hold myself back because I see so much potential on the cheap. Thanks for the sharing her lamp overhaul!
Wow that looks like something you would buy in a chic boutique! Love the shade too!
Thanks for featuring the project guys!
Could you change the URL to http://www.justalittlebit.net/2009/05/31/do-it-yourself-lamp/ ? I have changed to a proper URL since that project. :)
Thanks, also, for all the kind comments, readers! :)
Very Cool! I did the same thing a few months back with a lamp I wanted to get rid of. Now I love it. The project was fun, too!
Wow, that lamp looks 100x better! Nice job.
Love the color – it looks great against the green wall. The drum shade is perfect for it, too.
Cool color!
I LOVE IT. Very impressive outcome, and wow, way to see beyond appearances.
@ Shelley S: I updated my brass fireplace screen a few months ago with mottled silver spray paint (to match other brushed nickel hardware in the house). The color is great, but it doesn't look quite glossy enough. I'm thinking about putting a layer of polyurethane over it… Youngsters, do you know if they make one that's heat and fire proof?
That lamp looks so great! I love the robin's egg blue you painted the lamp and the contrast with the wall color. Nice work!
Love this, great job Laura.
Can you tell us more about the polyurethane? Was that the final coat and did you spray it on?
Hey Shelly and Sherry-
My husband and I had gross gold tarnished doorknobs. When I updated the doors in the house with some paint and trim, I also spray painted the knobs. I took the hardware out of the actual door and really cleaned the knobs. I also took some steel wool to them to get rid of some of the fake gold (it flaked right off…eww) then used a really good metal primer and topped it off with brushed nickel spray paint I got at Walmart. You can tell they are spray painted but they held up pretty well. Since then we have upgraded to actual brushed nickel, but it was a great fix to hold us over!
Kristin Jo —
It was the final coat and it was a spray as well. Looking back at the products, and I'd have to double check at home, but it may have just been a clear coat, which I just assumed was a polyurethane. Not 100% sure, but this looks like the product I used: http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=403
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All cherry or white uppers/cherry below?
It finally, finally looks like our contractor will start in September. I was sure I'd decided on natural cherry shaker cabinets and soapstone counters, but I'm having a few second thoughts. I'm a little worried the kitchen may be a bit too dark (north facing), and was thinking of maybe using white/cream uppers and cherry lower cabinets. You see a lot of it design mags, but will it look dated in a few years? I'd appreciate any thoughts you may have, and if you have pics would love to see them.
I gave up my searching too soon...just found some of the recent threads on differebt colored uppers and lowers. Some of those photos are wonderful!I think I now feel confident enough to seriously discuss it with husband and contractor.
So, I'll refine my question a little.
With creamy white uppers and natural cherry shaker lowers would you go white counters or soapstone? And what about the backsplash?
My first instinct was white or light backsplash and white counter, to tie in the uppers so they're not randomly floating, something like this:
But I also really like this pic posted earlier by boxerpups (again with the white backsplash/wall tying in the white uppers):
I love the look of natural cherry with soapstone. A lot of people say there's no such thing as a "timeless" look, but that's as classic and timeless as it gets! My backsplash preference is simple subway tile. I wouldn't want anything to compete with a gorgeous piece of soapstone!
Love the picture above with the soapstone countertops and natural cherry cabinets. That is VERY classic! And, the subway tile sets it off.
Thanks so much for all of your advice and pics! Definitely leaning towards light counters and light BS, give how small my kitchen is (9 1/2 feet wide by 14 for the kitchen area, another 91/2 by 10 for eating area). But love that soapstone, with white subways/gray grout. Time to pour through my design magazines one more time. Paulineinmn has posted some gorgeous photos as well today. All food for thought...
Seems that lately we are seeing a spate of kitchens that combine wood and white-- the best of both worlds -- as well as kitchens that are unique and that are in keeping with the character of the house. White and wood together (and with a little black or color to punch it up) is a great combination and can be achieved so many ways. It is the counterpoint among the materials that makes it all so much more tactile and interesting. Whether it is a white kitchen with wood floors, or a mix of cabinets, or wood with lots of light/white elsewhere in the room -- it works so well. Love the pictures posted here!
My cabinets are being installed as I type. Wood base (mildly distressed hickory) w/off white painted uppers lightly glazed with gray. Thanks for the idea to use gray grout in my subway tile backsplash Lisa. I love soapstone too but I wanted a light airy kitchen. I ordered Kashmir White granite with the leathered/antiqued finish which has a similar country feel and look of soapstone. It isn't honed but it's not glossy. There are flecks and specks of gray, brown, black, and beige in it which ties it in w/ss applicances; black accents; and the browns of the wood. My sink is Blanco Silgranit large single in the metallic gray which is not really 'metallic' looking and has a soapstone-like look.
I'd love to see the photo Dilly ny!
And distressed hickory sounds wonderful colorlady. I couldn't find anyone in Vancouver who'll do a slightly distressed (wire brushed?) gray washed oak. I think there was a kitchen recently in House Beautiful that showed this with white uppers and marble counters. Very yummy!
We did a very small kitchen in our coach house and went with the dark espresso lowers/creme brule uppers and a light quartz composite counter and found that there was enough "lightness" to put in some architectural handmade ceramic tiles for the backsplash that are a dark green glaze. I was pleasantly surprised how uplifting the light uppers actually are!
Thank you so much (e obrigada tambem, Boxer!)! I was really happy in the end (and the lovely young couple who just bought the place were pretty excited as well). This is a coach house/laneway house that is perfect for first time buyers, so we were going for a sophisticated contemporary look.
The uppers are a Benjamin Moore Creme Brule colour, and the lowers are dark stained maple espresso. My DH is a finishing carpenter and a GC with a severe dislike for flat front cabinets and white, which remind him of the thousands of melamine kitchens he's tossed out, but he was OK with the shaker and finally acquiesced on the colour on the uppers. Whew!
Lisa - yes, we're in Vancouver! I apologise in advance if this hijacks the thread - I am new to posting and unsure how to send this info directly to you.
Laneway housing in RS (residential single family) zoning is restricted to ~750 sq ft, but this particular home is a coach house, which is built in an RT (Residential two family) zone, where you can strata and sell separate from the front house. The sq footage is based on the total lot FSR (floor space ratio) and therefore can be significantly larger than a laneway house. Having said that, this home is 865 sq ft, two bedrooms and a bath and a half. This photo set is from our realtor's shoot, so of course things look wildly distorted with the wide angle lens. Here's a link to the set of photos:
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I've already done the fellas, now it's time for the ladies…
I've already done the fellas, now it's time for the ladies…
First of all, a massive, grateful thank you to all those who shared their stories with me yesterday. It meant the world to me and gave the the makings of a "plan", which always helps me feel better and a *tiny* bit in control. Thank you, thank you.
Shifting gears, I wanted to share with you the newest venture from my friend Katie Armour (or as you may know her, one of the founders of Matchbook Magazine). A darling person with amazing taste and style, she decided to launch a new company called Buddy Editions. You can find exclusive prints from emerging artists on here in a few sizes, perfect for the budding art enthusiast or gifts for friends and family. I am LOVING her collection, of course, and think this will be a big success as she continues to add new and exciting artists!
Here's a taste of some of the work you can find on the site- from photography to illustrations and everything in between (click images for links).
I haven't mentioned my fertility journey on here in many months but need to share (perhaps over-share) my current state, mostly for myself, but perhaps for a few of you out there as well. This won't be easy, or pretty, but writing is the one thing I can do to make myself feel a little better, help process what I'm going through fully and move on.
Over the past month we did our first round of IVF. And we found out this weekend that that little, perfectly awesome embryo just didn't stick. To say I am gutted and devastated is an understatement. While I was cautious and even pessimistic (who? me???) about it working on our first try, a small part of me thought it would. I admit to being up nights thinking about how I'd tell Andrew, about the joy of being pregnant at Christmas and being able to give my parents the one thing I've been dying to give them- news of their first grandchild.
But here I am, hollow, wondering just how to pick myself back up again to try another time. Just thinking about starting all over again- month of daily multiple injections, dark 6:45 a.m. daily monitoring and another surgery makes my breath catch in my chest. But even worse is another two week wait, which I learned is the worst part of this entire process. The not knowing, the maybes, the bottles of O'Douls. The hope and the looming potential devastation. The lack of control. And then the ultimately terrifying thought of….what if this never happens for us?
Since I know people will ask, Andrew and I both have been tested up, down and sideways and nothing has come up wrong other than one "super sub-clinical" potential thyroid level that seems to have resolved itself. I have "a very high egg reserve" and Andrew's boys are in the Michael Phelps category. I did acupuncture once a week. So of course my brain goes to… "you waited to damn long Erin". I know many women who have had their first babies at 35 or older, but I still can't help but think that I may have traded a baby for a New York Times Bestseller title. And while I could not be prouder of what I've accomplished, I can't help but feeling like a massive failure where it concerns being female. My identity feels wrapped up in this one shortcoming. The feeling of regret in waiting for the "perfect time" is growing and swelling like a wave, cresting with every passing glance at baby-filled Facebook.
The life of someone going through infertility can be painfully lonely. Even while you sit in crowded waiting rooms, eying the chairs filled with other women traipsing through this messy, awful journey- it still is incredibly alienating. Especially when you are 35. Most of my friends already have children or are currently swollen with an impending life. Except for a couple of people, most of my friends seem to be fertility goddesses as well, pregnancy coming easy, if not miraculously. And despite their love and support which I appreciate more than I can say, I still feel alone in this fear and worry. It's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
So I am coming to you, dear readers, since I know some of you have been through this, to ask how you bounced back, how you succeeded, how you found a way to cross over to the other side and find joy. I know this is a fresh loss and time will help (as well as a second opinion, seeing as how less than thrilled I was with my entire experience at my current clinic)- but just how did you find the strength to believe this would all work out in the end? Because right now I'm having a hard time getting my brain to even accept that kind of thinking. There's a whole lot of gloom and doom storming around in there and I need to find a little ray of sunshine.
I need to keep the faith that one day this WILL happen and I will make you all mad by turning this into a mommy blog.*
* I actually would never do that. That was more for dramatic effect. :)
The temps have finally dropped around here and the heat has come on– which means dry winter skin and hair. But it also means holiday season, which is when you want to look your best. So Nordstrom asked me to select my winter and holiday beauty favorites from their huge selection of brands and I had so much fun curating this grouping for you. Because not all your summer products will work in the winter if you live in a place that has dramatic seasonal changes, it's great to have an arsenal of seasonal favorites- so if you have one- comment!
It's that time of year again! One of my favorite things to do besides red carpet reviews are gift guides!!! In another life I always wanted to be a magazine editor and I have to say, so far this year the gift guides I've seen in magazines have been kind of disappointing. Either totally not realistic or fantastically blah. I hope that mine will land somewhere in the middle- attainable, real gifts that you really could give.
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