Taking a break from editing seemingly endless html files

[hel_ana]

I think I may hate Dell. Not that I've ever had one of their machines, but I just saw a new ad for them in front of a CNN video. It compared one of their new machines to a diamond, calling diamonds "perfect in form and function".

Now.. maybe it's just that I've never really taken the diamond thing too seriously, but, really, the most perfectly formed diamonds don't have a lot of function, and the most functional diamonds aren't something you'd look twice at.

Stupid advertisers.

Of course, my annoyance at Dell was swept away in the white heat of my feelings about the video that followed, all about the Prosperity Heresy.

Comments

[spuriusfurius.livejournal.com]

What's a prosperity heresy?

[hel_ana]

Its adherants call it the "Prosperity Gospel".

basically, it boils down to "god wants you to be rich, and if you believe in Christ (usually "as your personal saviour), you will be rich."

[spuriusfurius.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, the "name it and claim it" crowd. Yeah. Had run ins with them back in my fundie days. I'll say this much for them: they're part of the reason I was able to break away from fundamentalism.

[hel_ana]

::nods:: exactly

I refer to it as the prosperity heresy, because IMO, that's what it is.

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

You seriously need to take a longer break. Relax, have a glass of wine, think happy thoughts of PK.

[hel_ana]

Oh.. wine. that's a fantastic idea.

Emacs and alcohol, ho!

[hel_ana]

::remembers the adventure with the champagne a few weeks ago::

are you sure this is a good idea?

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with that adventure, so I say, "Go for it!"

[hel_ana]

Except that you'd say "Go for it!" even if you were familiar with that adventure, and that adventure involved 3 fire departments, a squad of Oompa Loompas, and a marmoset.

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Well, especially if it involved a marmoset. You know how I love monkeys

[hel_ana]

Not wisely, but too well?

Of course, that implies that it's possible to love monkeys too well, and we all know what silliness that is.

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

It actually veers off silliness into true madness.

Dangerous Madness!

[hel_ana]

Is it a different madness than the "not related to Holbein" madness we were discussing a few days ago?

[cous-cous.livejournal.com]

Worse, even