The omens are ... not clear.

[dira]

Because I saw this somewhere, looked it up, and was too entertained by the results not to recycle this meme: Pick up the book nearest to you and turn to page 45. The first sentence expains your love life.

"In the early 19th century an English convict named William Buckley escaped from a penal colony in Australia and for three decades lived happily with the Wathaurung aborigines."


(From Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, which I find fascinating even though I can only read it for about twenty minutes at a time before I get distracted or fall asleep. I'm really curious about what Steve Rogers would make of The Long Peace, and my opinion of Hydra's organizational efficacy is going down with every page I read--I mean, seriously, they've supposedly been agitating for all this time and we never had a World War III?)

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[kinetikatrue]

And because I looked but forgot to post last night, you get two, because I couldn't decide which counted as closest:

'By their disobedience to God's commands, not least in their syncretism and sexual licence, they have forfeited his blessings and incurred his curse.' (Christian Attitudes to Marriage/Peter Coleman)

'The Muslim view of Jesus as a great and privileged prophet made far more sense, as did their policy of toleration to these long-suffering and puzzled Christians.' (Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World/ Karen Armstrong)

I rather prefer the second one, while thinking of the first as showing how 'normal' society might view things.

[dira]

Yeah, you get to choose how you read them!