{"id":3091,"date":"2012-05-18T01:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T05:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2013-01-09T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:34:04","slug":"7-quick-takes-51812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/05\/7-quick-takes-51812.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes (5\/18\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/7_quick_takes_sm1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1387\" title=\"7_quick_takes_sm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/7_quick_takes_sm1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"195\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 1 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/05\/sign-up-to-play-in-the-ideological-turing-test.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Sign-ups for the Ideological Turing Test<\/a> are now closed. \u00a0I\u2019ve emailed all the participants and they\u2019re hard at work on their entries. \u00a0Because of the number of submissions, I couldn\u2019t contact everyone who signed up to confirm they were not participating.<\/p>\n<p>Later today, I\u2019ll have a link to a sample ballot, and I\u2019d appreciate your feedback on any demographic questions you want me to ask.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 2 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remember last weekend, when I mentioned that JT Eberhard was asking people to <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/wwjtd\/2012\/05\/11\/what-arguments-for-god-would-you-like-to-see-rebutted\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">list the apologetic arguments that really needed answers<\/a>? \u00a0(And then remember that an error prevented you guys from commenting on that post?) \u00a0Well, JT has revealed why he was asking: <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/wwjtd\/2012\/05\/17\/so-im-writing-a-book\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he\u2019s writing an atheist handbook<\/a> that will address a lot of the questions you guys and others want answered.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are working again over here, so I\u2019m still interested in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2012\/05\/which-apologetics-need-answers.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">what Christian arguments deserve better answers from atheists<\/a>. \u00a0And if you want to help out JT, he\u2019s taking title suggestions. \u00a0His commenters have ended up in <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/wwjtd\/2012\/05\/17\/so-im-writing-a-book\/#comment-58456\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a very nerdy argument on this topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 3 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lego artist has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturepicturegalleries\/9267162\/The-nine-circles-of-hell-from-Dantes-Inferno-recreated-in-Lego-by-Mihai-Mihu.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">put together Dante\u2019s nine circles of Hell<\/a>. \u00a0My favorite is definitely Circle Three:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturepicturegalleries\/9267162\/The-nine-circles-of-hell-from-Dantes-Inferno-recreated-in-Lego-by-Mihai-Mihu.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"lego dante gluttony\" src=\"https:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02219\/3-gluttony_2219918k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"322\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLUTTONY: The circle itself is a living abomination, a hellish digestive system revealing horrific faces with mouths ready to devour the gluttons over and over for eternity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 4 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at my alma mater, some of my classmates and a couple staff have filmed a moving It Gets Better video:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It Gets Better - Yale College\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJa3GVzdZyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Though after the admissions department pitch (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tGn3-RW8Ajk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">That\u2019s Why I Chose Yale<\/a>\u201c), I was really hoping that this, too, would be presented in the form of a musical. \u00a0(Or at least would also\u00a0incorporate\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/freeduel\/public_html\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Freestyle Dueling Association<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 5 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cowbirds in Love has <a href=\"http:\/\/cowbirdsinlove.com\/1264\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an amusing transhumanist-related cartoon<\/a>. \u00a0Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cowbirdsinlove.com\/1264\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3096\" title=\"glasses cyborg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/84\/2012\/05\/glasses-cyborg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"546\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(click the image to see how it ends).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 6 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really have any strong opinions about this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/mens-lives\/201205\/cooler-me-eric-puchner-gq-may-2012-doppelganger?printable=true\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">from <em>GQ <\/em>where Eric Puchner seeks out a cooler version of himself<\/a>. \u00a0I just really liked this anecdote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For some reason, I told Kyle about how I\u2019d asked my daughter recently what she wanted to be for Halloween, and she\u2019d said \u201ca confused chicken.\u201d This apparently meant dressing up like a chicken but pretending not to know what she was. I couldn\u2019t help thinking she\u2019d hit upon a deep ontological truth: the idea that who you were would be obvious to everyone else but yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><strong>\u2014 7 \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was skeptical about the appeal of this video of Alan Rickman making tea in super slow motion, but it does turn out to be pretty entrancing. \u00a0If you find your interest waning, you <em>may<\/em> want to skip to 4:10.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portraits in Dramatic Time (Alan Rickman)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27337356?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5910385\/the-epic-drama-of-alan-rickman-making-tea-in-super-slow+mo\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gizmodo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more Quick Takes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conversion Diary!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 1 \u2014 Sign-ups for the Ideological Turing Test are now closed. \u00a0I\u2019ve emailed all the participants and they\u2019re hard at work on their entries. \u00a0Because of the number of submissions, I couldn\u2019t contact everyone who signed up to confirm they were not participating. 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