Brief Responses

auntie k: what is your secret?

Lots of conditioner.

llgp: Certainly seems consistent with bearing one another's burdens.

Yes.

L-Po: Have you ever sent a card to Post Secret?

No.

D.Lo Responds to Responses to Responses to Post Comments

So here's a treat. Responses to post comments on a post where the main focus was a response to post comments. Cue the endless cycle. Also, new cards! You can see those on the left and read responses to responses to responses to post comments on the right, or in some cases see the cards on the right and read responses to responses to responses to post comments on the left. If that made no sense, ignore it and just keep reading.

L-Po: Please edit your blog to change "complements" to "compliments." We sent you to that big ol' University up there on that there bluff to get an edumacation ... now show us that you got some.
In other news, I think your family would love to test your game.

Changed the word spelling, and yeah, I think they would, too. As for showing you I've gotten some education, well, my plan for today is to go to breakfast in about twenty minutes, then do schoolwork (with general cleanliness stuck somewhere in) and mass at night. But aside from that I think I'm going to have to make schoolwork my only plan today. I got all my playing done earlier this weekend, so I don't have much choice.

L-Po: P.S. Note the time stamp on my post. I feel so cool ... like a college student.

Holy snap, you're up late! Doing work mostly, I'm guessing? If not I guess your college student just rubbed off on you or something.

nana: somewhere in my family history there were some Hugenots (okay, so I can't spell) but i can't remember where. I think your Mom found them, okay found out about them.
i think you are wonderful.

Hey, cool beans. I'd be interested to see this...(Mom, do you know which Huguenots she'd be thinking of?) Huguenots would've been pretty far back in the history, it seems. Also, you're wonderful, too.

br>nana: i forgot to say i would love to play the game, but only if you want to test it out on an over the hill, not very bright about Church history, "older" (REALLY older) person.

Oh, that'd be just great, actually. Thing is the game's intended to be quasi-educational so if people can learn stuff about other denominations from it then I'm all for that. If it starts discussions about differences with other Christians that's also good.

An explanation about the new card element. How does this card fit in with a Lutheran set? It doesn't, officially. But Pietism began under Lutheranism. So, if you get the full Lutheran set, plus Pietism, it will be treated in scoring as if Lutheranism was a four-card set instead of a three-card set. At any rate I have only a few minutes left before I must depart for lunch and then back here to do some massive amounts of homework of the everything variety. First up I believe is an essay for History regarding the scientific revolution and my primary sources, although I don't at all expect that to be the first thing done; the first thing done is definitely going to be some sort of reading. Maybe even my history reading, but let's not get too optimistic. (Not that none of it's interesting; rather that it's so agonizingly long and drawn-out.)

Good day and God bless!

D.Lo Responds to Post Comments

L-Po: Well, get better soon! Call your mother if you want help with your laundry. Cards are cool. However, do you really want to reinforce the stereotype of religion being the source of all violence?

I intend to include a disclaimer that in all the religious wars in Europe or otherwise there are always elements of politics. Some people, for instance the man who assasinates Henry Navarre after he becomes King Henry IV, may be said to be more religiously motivated in their violence. Worth noting is the fact that we often tend to place them among the less theologically correct historical figures and often even among the less sane. So yes, there'll be a disclaimer to counteract whatever effects there might be of that. Maybe I'll even include a "religious repression under Communist Russia or Communist China" sort of card. I don't anticipate needing help with laundry much, and I appreciate your compliments (edited from "complements") on the cards.

llgp: Cool cards! I especially like the first one because I like to say (or even hear in my head while reading) the word "deuterocanonical." The event card is great, too, because so few people are aware of that event and, of course, there's another fine word: "Huguenot."

I should've expected you to latch onto the word Huguenot. It is a rather fun word to say. Thanks for the complements on the cards.

nana: hope you are feeling better. take your vitamins. love your cards. really looking forward to the complete game.

I am indeed starting to feel better and am taking the vitamins, more accurately the medication my parents got me (thanks, guys!) As for the complete game I am thinking of trying to organize a family test as well as the University campus test, each of which hopefully will happen sometime this semester, so if you are interested please tell me.

Now for some Linear Algebra! As always suggestions for cards are welcome. Also I am trying to figure out how to define the Wesleyan-Holiness Methodism in two or three cards and I am trying to do so somewhat systematically and objectively, which could be difficult given the nature of Wesleyan thought as being less "systematic." There'll probably be a Pietism card in there somewhere, so I suppose that's a good place to start. At any rate I should probably finish the Catholic set before I start on new sets.

Goodnight and God bless.