tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post95137603267016778..comments2023-09-02T14:13:10.364-07:00Comments on Mouse's Musings: The Big NothingMousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-39679530689035352192016-02-27T13:36:42.120-08:002016-02-27T13:36:42.120-08:00As distinct from the parachute-droppable Russian O...As distinct from the parachute-droppable Russian Orthodox field chapel:<br />https://static-secure.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/3/31/1364766003736/Untitled-1.jpgFiredrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-37245290791546122132016-02-27T10:06:26.459-08:002016-02-27T10:06:26.459-08:00https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fw...https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strangevehicles.com%2Fimages%2Fcontent%2F155178.jpg&f=1 It's an altar car.spiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-71092729370972401492016-02-26T20:57:16.933-08:002016-02-26T20:57:16.933-08:00"Then Chaim does an altar car."
...is t..."Then Chaim does an altar car."<br /><br />...is that an altar that looks like a car? Or a car that looks like an altar? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-87822163940787220362016-02-23T10:20:02.521-08:002016-02-23T10:20:02.521-08:00Go right ahead! You are entitled to write your fan...Go right ahead! You are entitled to write your fanfiction and come up with your own head canon all you like. That's the beauty of both fanfiction and discontinuity. If something in canon doesn't work, discard what doesn't and use what does. Though in Ellanjay's case...I'm reminded of a Simpsons quote where Moe Syzlak goes in for plastic surgery and the surgeon's like "Some just need a little remodeling; this is a total tear-down." That's really how it is with Ellanjay in that nothing works in these stories, so you're pretty much left with no choice but to tear the whole thing down, not just to the foundation, but the ground underneath as well, and start over. Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-35026138169394948552016-02-23T07:56:14.704-08:002016-02-23T07:56:14.704-08:00I'm trying to think what to add here... I can&...I'm trying to think what to add here... I can't really fit Taylor into what's going on currently, mind if I write a little flashback instead?spiritplumberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11103152769766633350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-1229521246574361042016-02-22T08:08:18.277-08:002016-02-22T08:08:18.277-08:00Given that I tracked down the verses via copy and ...Given that I tracked down the verses via copy and paste and running through Google, I do wonder if proves my assertion that when RTCs say "Read the Bible," they don't really mean it. Because how many of the teenaged readers of this series would be willing to put in that much work on what's supposed to be leisure activity? I freely admit that I'm outside their target audience, so I probably can't be used as an example and all this. Plus, I freely admit to being all obsessive and weird. Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-6617283982222444072016-02-22T04:36:27.440-08:002016-02-22T04:36:27.440-08:00"I will say that while Ellanjay have Chaim qu..."I will say that while Ellanjay have Chaim quote a lot of Bible verses, for the most part they leave out chapter and verse numbers, as well as the names of the books."<br /><br />I noticed that too when I read the first "Left Behind" book, and it jumped out at me, as did the fact that "he" and "him" weren't capitalised when they were referring to Jesus or God. Right there and then I smelt two very big rats.<br /><br />I seem to remember "God" not being capitalised, too, but my copy has long since been lost, so I can't verify this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-41605461858594439262016-02-21T07:12:00.286-08:002016-02-21T07:12:00.286-08:00Firedrake, I freely admit that I do not possess au...Firedrake, I freely admit that I do not possess aunursa's encyclopedic knowledge of this series, but off the top of my head, I can't think of a single instance of someone higher up on the hierarchy, praying for someone further down. It's one of the things I keep running into how all characters in this series seem to instinctively recognize the existence of the hierarchy without it being told to them, and know their place and accept it without complaint. <br /><br />Rayford and Buck outrank everybody, including God and TurboJesus, and as for everybody else...If a character's white, they outrank any character with a brown hue to their skin. If they are male, they outrank female (Chloe probably is only higher up on the chain because of her relations to Rayford and Buck who, like I said, outrank everybody in this universe). Americans outrank foreigners of any background and of course, with a few exceptions thrown in so Ellanjay may desperately assert that they are totally not anti-Semitic, RTC outranks a converted Jew. Jewish characters, in this series, are generally screwed. Hold onto the faith of your fathers and you're damned. Accept the patronizing logic of RTCs (that you're cute but wrong) and convert, and unless you're Token Jew or Chaim, you'll still occupy a fairly low rank on the hierarchy. Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-7219919717817360482016-02-21T02:40:47.715-08:002016-02-21T02:40:47.715-08:00But… but… men and women can't be friends! That...But… but… men and women <i>can't</i> be friends! That's one of the messages these books have drummed into us from day one! Either you're on the road to marriage or you're on the road to Sin!<br /><br />"I'm constantly haunted by the memory of my brother Tyler."<br />"Taylor."<br />"Taylor. And all those oddly nonspecific good times we had together."<br /><br />Mouse, do you recall <i>any</i> instance in these books of a character praying for someone who's further down the authority ladder than they are?<br /><br />To be reluctantly fair, lots of RTCs do read their bibles in great detail; it's just that they've been told how to "literally" interpret each verse, and they're all about taking things out of context (this is one of the things that <a href="http://www.wbec.wemyssbay.net/sdinstructions.html" rel="nofollow">sword drills</a> will teach you). And it would seem even clumsier than usual to say "he cited Matthew 24:29-41".<br /><br />The freezing would take a while – intuition says days to weeks.<br /><br />Yeah, with the level of technical competence we've seen here, Nicky's answer would be to blow up the TV relay satellites.<br /><br />aunursa, we've seen before that RTCianity works a lot like a mind-overwriting virus. (There's even precedent. I've seen thorough personality reversals in people who've had children, and they don't even seem to be aware that anything's changed.)Firedrakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-17648782127172883992016-02-20T19:39:25.639-08:002016-02-20T19:39:25.639-08:00Well, we all know that Jews share a hive mind, aki...Well, we all know that Jews share a hive mind, akin to the Borg from Star Trek, except with more beards and more instances of shouting "Oy Vey!" Like "Oy Vey! Resistance is futile. You want to stop making with the meshuggah Jesus talk already!" <br /><br />Can you honestly say I'm being too over-the-top in my exaggeration? Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936002393931074811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882696241406815138.post-17479918555349961532016-02-20T18:09:56.065-08:002016-02-20T18:09:56.065-08:00I'm wondering how Lionel Washington managed to...<i>I'm wondering how Lionel Washington managed to luck out and wind up with a normal name, despite being Black. I mean, we've seen that Ellanjay believe that all ethnic (defined as someone who isn't White, American, and RTC) characters have obviously ethnic names...</i><br /><br />Lionel's mother, Lucinda Washington, was introduced early in Book #1, before Jerry Jenkins decided that EVERY SINGLE ETHNIC CHARACTER must have an ethnically ethnic name.<br /><br />* * * * *<br /><br />For most of the series Chaim Rosenzweig is described as a secular Jew who didn't spend much time studying the Bible. All of a sudden he has inherited Tsion's vast knowledge of the Jewish Bible, as well as the New Testament, including the Evangelical Christian interpretations of both. It's almost as if Tsion's mind has been transferred into Chaim.aunursanoreply@blogger.com