This is my brain on theology.

[kiya]

A couple of quotes pulled out of context:

"My backbrain just said 'It is bad spiritual engineering for your landwight agreements to have single fail points on loadbearing royalty.'  This is why I'm not allowed to talk to normal people."

"... Tain Bo Kachina...."

I think 'Loadbearing Royalty' is probably my favorite phrase for this week, by the way. It's hard to work it into a conversation, though.

In other news, I just wrote a serious theology essay about American Idol. (Well, using bits of this past season of American Idol as prime illustrative example, to be fair.)

Comments

Idol hands.....

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm interested in what you made of AI Season 8.....being quite aware of the wealth of material involved there.


Loadbearing royalty...? -- this sounds intriguing.

Re: Idol hands.....

[kiya]

'Loadbearing royalty' is from a context of one of the cultural systems where the king is identified with the land, its health, the bonds between the people and the spirit world, etc.

Re: Idol hands.....

[aureantes.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha....have some experience in/around those areas.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Hee, "loadbearing royalty" is an awesome phrase. Noble architecture? ;)

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

"... Tain Bo Kachina...."

...Ow. :)

[ivy]

[cracking up] How could one not appreciate engineering brain?

[kiya]

There are reasons that I say that I'm pretty much exclusively sexually attracted to engineers. ;) (Aside from, uh, historical evidence.)

I once made a whimsical hands-thrown-up exasperated comment about the romantic alertness of engineers and got a "Hey!" from someone in the room. I replied, "Everyone I've been involved with since I was sixteen has either been an engineer, an engineering student, or a student at MIT." The affronted engineer blinked, considered a moment, and said, "Never mind then." (I have since learned that my brief boyfriend from when I was fifteen is/was ... Army Corps of Engineers. The intervening boyfriend probably counts as an exception, being something of the quintessential mathemetician-type from Arcata - yes, that's as trippy as it sounds like it ought to be.)

Current partners are actually the least technically engineery ever, as primary partner 1 is an aerospace/systems engineer, number 2 is a magical theorist with a background in chemistry currently in grad school to study Chinese medicine, and secondary partner is a steampunk linguistics geek writer who has been known to say things like, "So, I'm engineery enough for you, and you're gay enough for me."