I said some time with tears, "Ah me, I'm loath to die!"
Lord, silence thou these fears. My life's with thee on high.
Sweet truth to me: I shall arise, and with these eyes my savior see.
I enjoy this because it alternates between being gleefully offensive & head-scratching.
The tangent point of Adventists.
The apparent claim that zero Anglo-Catholics are real Christians.
The inexplicable spikiness of the Mormon blob.
The fundamental Baptists being in rainbow.
@AlexanderBrunk@lymanstoneky That moral landscape was very intentional (and stated explicitly in the last book by Merriman): you'd better win, because no one is ever coming from outside of history to save you.
@AlexanderBrunk@lymanstoneky Okay, but The Dark is Rising are kind of terrible. A++ for atmosphere (who can forget Will and Merriman singing Good King Winceslas as they uhhh enter the pensieve?). But the characters have almost no interesting decision points and the ethics are basically consequentialist.
@justkatebp Screaming, kicking, crying (that's us, the parents) rather than agreeing to a fourth P&tW play-through.
Our 3yo discovered Prokofiev's Cinderella ballet (way more 20th-century of a thing than our ears normally love) and has caused us to actually like it by dint of repetition.
One month until America’s 250th.
Here’s my closing script for our American Revolution unit, for 5- to 12-year-olds at Montessorium.
This is as morally didactic as I will ever be in a classroom.
Sending muh kids to [public | fancy experimental private] school, but also blocking off time to teach them the actual complicated story in addition to the [anti-government | pro-government] civics preaching they get in class. 😄