Alia

@rochellaine @seekjustice @dekreel @dragon-snapper @catwing @alia @ariel-ashira

Hi, all! Just letting you know that I will be going out of town, so I won’t be on here until probably Tuesday. I hope you all will have a nice Labor Day weekend. See you next week! 🙂

@seekjustice Ah, sorry. 🙁  Hope you can get some rest later.

College textbooks – no, ALL textbooks – with a few (very few) exceptions, are horrible, boring, uninteresting, nasty, unappealing, confusing, useless, depressing things.

😀

Do you get a clear enough picture of my feelings toward textbooks?

Well, it’s almost two o’clock, so…have…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I’m not really but I have to finish a math test and get dressed for Girls brigade. And time has elapsed so that I only have half an hour.

I did attempt to learn Greek once but it was from a college textbook. And I was twelve. I’ll look into that book though. It sounds good. It would just be really interesting to read the Bible…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, you could fall asleep for an hour, couldn’t you?  Doesn’t seem like you’re the kind of girl who needs half an hour to get ready, like me. 😛

There’s a really easy and fun Greek language study guide that I used once.  I was too easily distracted to get all the way through it, but it was so simple and well written that I very m…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I’m literally falling asleep, but I can’t because I have to go out in an hour 🙁

I really wish I could read Greek. I mean, I have somewhere around five different translations of the Bible and they all say different things, which, in turn, can be interpreted different ways. Which is mostly what all these different people are arguing…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, I’m not actually falling asleep yet.  I’m just a bit sleepy.  But, as always, I might randomly disappear on you. 😀

Ah! 😀 😀 😛  Why in the world would you think that?  Think of all the jokes about putting ministers of different denominations in the room together.

Personally, I would rather not look at what people have to say…[Read more]

@Rochellaine

😀 you’re welcome to go to  bed if you so desire (however I am half asleep as well and its  only mid afternoon)

Researching gender roles. Out of all the groups in the world, you’d think that Christians would be the best at agreeing. *sigh*

@seekjustice Hey, I’m awake…barely. 😛

Whatcha doin’? (Proof that I am half asleep: I am using improper English) (proof that I am half awake: I am using the correct spelling and punctuation for the incorrect English) (proof that I am a writer: I am giving a long explanation of what types of words I use).

@rochellaine

Are you around today?

I’m assuming no one else will be, but if any of you are still awake, feel free to join me.

@seekjustice I know that’s tough. Praying for all of you.

@ariel-ashira

Ah, no my dear Ariel. I only read the blurbs 😛

@rochellaine @seekjustice

Christian Amish romance novels? *gags* Please tell me you don’t read that stuff!

This conversation is great, BTW.  Both of your views are interesting.  In Missouri we lived near many menonite communities, so this came up sometimes with friends we had.

@skredder Awesome, thanks so much! 🙂

(and if a lot of time passes and I haven’t started reading your book, feel free to remind me 😉 )

@rochellaine

A doctorate? Well… 😀 I truly do go along and read the blurbs of Christian romance novels. 😛 Its a fascinating and utterly useless hobby.

Sure! I’d be happy to pick this up again whenever you see fit. Goodnight!

@seekjustice

I read the blurbs

Haha!  That reminds me of a quiz I took a few days ago.  It was one of those things that says “we’ll guess your education level by which books you’ve read.”  You know what I mean?  Well, anyway, I had possibly read two or three of the fifty or so books on the list, but I was able to answer something like 95 per…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I read the blurbs 😛 I actually have read a few, never on purpose but usually because I’m promised an awesome retelling or medieval book…and it turns out to be a romance. and I’m too stubborn to stop reading half way through it (the only reason I ever stop reading a book is if I have moral problems with it. I just hate half…[Read more]

@seekjustice All the Christian Amish fiction?  I thought you didn’t read romance. 😛

Ah, I see.

Actually, most of the people I know who wear head coverings aren’t Amish or Mennonite, though.  Usually they wear them I think because they read the head covering passage and decided that was what they should do, just like my mom.  So it’s not just fo…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I did know that most of the Amish/Mennonite population was around there, because all the Christian Amish fiction takes place, predominantly, in Pennsylvania. Also, ages ago I guessed that you lived in Pennsylvania, and I wasn’t that far wrong.

I’m not even sure if Australia has an Amish community. It certainly isn’t as public as America’s.

@seekjustice 😀

Even though we go to a Baptist church most of the circles we move in include very traditional reformed Calvanist(ic) type churches, so that might explain some of it.  Another explanation could be that we live very near “Amish Country” which is what we call Lancaster Pennsylvania and areas surrounding it.  Did you know of the l…[Read more]