Genties & ladlemen,

Remember this moment?  Speaking without institutionalized Christian guilt & shame & nihilism, being proud of the human experience, at taking a hold of our imperfect knowledge and going "YES WE CAN!"

"I and my Father are one.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; Lev. 24.16 and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods Ps. 82.6 ?
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken;

I GOT THE JOB!!!

Some backstory.

I grew up in a rather communal setting.  The type where I didn't find out aboot things like 'religion' or 'philosophy' or 'race' until I was an adult.  That didn't mean we didn't have hangups -- to this day, I still feel uncomfortable aboot MONEY.  The root of and all that jazz.

So, I've been living comfortably at the Canadian poverty line.

Then I got married.  And that...(understatement alert) changed things.

This is for discussion of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" as sung in the 2010 Olympics as a thread-spawn from the Olympic Fever thread in Social.

I will note that there are more than one version of the song (with different lyrics).  So it may behoove one of you to state which lyrics were used.  And then on with the discussion! :3

Let me tell you my Haiti story.
 

My teacher is a beautiful man originally from Trinidad.  He's the type of teacher that not just imparts information, but one of those who is on your side, who enjoys teaching and who inspires.  He speaks in such precise tones, necessary because we are transcribing dictation.
 

Sometime during the week after the Haiti earthquake he tells us a story.
 

Ok.  Some of you might have heard that Vancouver, BC, is hosting some event.
 

Where ordinary people come from all over the world in order to compete in various events.
 

So I'm here and have known aboot it for quite some time now.  The local media reports run the gamut from cost overruns and 'Free Speech Areas' to the Olympic Torch's travel and the new streetlamps that have been put up in some places.
 

Here are some of the players, which one do YOU belong to:
 

Doomers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomer
 

Peakist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peakist
 

Cornucopian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopian
 

Survialist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalist

I'm leaving this open so if any of you can figure out other additons to put into this Taxonomy, or, of course, discussions on it...:3

Have you heard the cheering?

This is another fine example of what happens when a BS doesn't fit in with the surrounding reality.  Reality always eventually wins:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-waves-white-flag-in-...

I dearly hope they now adopt BSesses that fit in with reality.

(in other news, keep your eyes peeled for 'new' developments UKward:  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/global_warming_science_implo...)

This is inspired by SG's fine thread "Relating". Go check it out. It has spawned various sub-threads.

And it was inspired by one of boltupright's responses. This one:

I just came across this little gem.  Someone has created an interactive flash where you can slide between size scales, all the way from the very smallest (Planck Length) all the way to the very largest (size of universe).

And it has wonderful music to boot!  So put on your headphones and

mainline the wonder:  http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347