Un-spoilers, ljdq, Metropolis, chapstick, etc

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First: I am not going to watch Continuum before it arrives at my door. I don't care how old-school this makes me--I love the suspense and impatience of waiting, and I'm not giving that up.

Second, A Christian response to the Gloucester pregnancy pact. I know it's not indicative of all Christian thought on the subject, but it is an interesting read, and there are a couple of things I thought were worth thinking about.



Tell a selfish, directionless sixteen-year-old girl that a child will radically change her life, and you might find her saying, “Yeah, that’s what I want.”

Which is a point I've seen elsewhere, but it bears repeating. If a girl sees no other good options, she might think having a child is a way into a different life, to a life where she's loved, even if it's just by one other person.

I also found a couple of things to critique:

the single greatest disaster for any woman in the Bible is barrenness, not the failure of a son or daughter to get into a good college or become a high-income professional.

Um, yeah. Because women were valuable only for bearing children. That's not necessarily the social structure I want to live in. Also, I'm glad that we can worry about other things, like our kids getting into college, now. To me, that suggests progress over mere survival as our priority.

But one important caveat: At Gloucester High, I’d like to see the “marriage pact” as part of the mix.

OH, boy. Yes, becuase teenagers who get married to have sex are definitely going to be happier than teenagers who don't. Personally, I'm glad I didn't have to get married before age 20--I even have Biblical advice in my favor, should I not want to get married at all: I Corinthians 7: 32-34:

I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs—how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. (NIV)

Bother.




I definitely intend to play this week's ljdq. The only problem is that I don't feel particularly witty this week. *sighs*

My Grand Chapstick Experiment, wherein I attempt to discover if I am, indeed, addicted to chapstick, is going rather well. I'm allowing myself lotion instead of any straight lip product, which is at least SOMETHING, and I can feel my lips again, which is...kinda awkward. *g* I did give in the night before last when I was going to bed, and OMG, the BLISS. But since then, I haven't really felt like I needed it. I have a little bit of a rough patch on the top of my top lip, but I think that's because I've had an uber-runny nose the past three days and have used copious amounts of kleenex.

Finally, via rm, Metropolis has been found! For those of you not up on your silent films, Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, is The Iconic Speculative Sci Fi Movie. It's really cool to watch it, because so many later sci-fi movies completely ripped it off paid homage to it. Anyway, after 1927, several scenes of the movie were reported completely lost, but they finally resurfaced. So cool! I shall have to make KR watch it with me again when the new scenes are released...bwa ha ha!