Round 64, Hour 18

[lolmac]

Greeeeeetings Rushers!  I am your regularly scheduled Evil Overlord for quite a few of the next hours.  Since this is Round 64, and I am an Evil Overlord and also an Old Fart, I shall amuse myself by throwing random Beatles lyrics at you.  You may use them as prompts, lines, cues, or doorstops, or ignore them altogether.  Your choice!

The random lyrics for this hour are:

you'll be older too

two cats in the yard

I am the Egg-man

Comments

[gloria-scott.livejournal.com]

Koo-koo-ka-tchoo!

Another 1.5 scenes written, and now to lunch.

[lolmac]

Great work! Enjoy your lunch!

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure the Doctor loves the Beatles, so that works out nicely.

I might have, um, spent 30 minutes doing nothing but playing with mynoise.net.

Do either of you happen to remember if Martha Jones ever expressed an opinion on religion? Or related topics like souls or free will? The closest thing I can think of is that she's comfortable with saying "oh my God," which doesn't narrow things down much. There was that time she reacted to an old hymn, but that was really more about the situation than the religious content of the lyrics. I don't remember anything else.

[lolmac]

Hmmm. I'd assume that Martha is a casual humanist, or an unexamined agnostic, but definitely not actively religious in any way. Particularly not after having traveled with the Doctor!

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Hm, thanks. Now that I think about it, I can come up with all sorts of things about her that mean you're probably right. I still hope I come across some scene I'd forgotten where she actually states a belief, but for now, I will assume she doesn't really know or care that much about religion.

Is a casual humanist just someone who seems kind of humanist probably, but hasn't actually read the manifestos? Because I might be a casual humanist.

[lolmac]

I'm not sure most humanists read the manifestos, or attend the meetings, or salute the flag or whatever. Or wear black tie. :P

By "casual humanist" I more or less mean someone whose belief system is best described as humanist, but who doesn't faff around trying to define their belief system, because hey, they've got better things to do and nothing to prove to anyone. I think a person can be a humanist while also being something else/in addition, and that many people are just that. FWIW.

I can easily believe that Martha knows plenty about religion, but not as an active participant. Speaking as someone who was raised apathetic Unitarian and went on to lots of self-examination later: there's so damned much of the stuff (religion, that is) in culture and history, that you can't be a well-educated person without learning a lot of it. But learning it as an outsider is a very different experience.

So I figure that Martha can know pretty much whatever you need her to know, but can also have knowledge gaps. (As an example, I didn't learn the sequence of events in the Mass until I was in college, and I'm still mystified by a lot of the more obscure Old Testament names.)

[thisbluespirit]

Earlier today I finally got a long(ish) fic posted, so that was something! Hopefully today will involve some more typing before bedtime, but what I see in my immediate future is dinner, basically.

:-)

[lolmac]

Dinner is good!

[thisbluespirit]

It wasn't bad, no. ;-)

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[thisbluespirit]

Thanks!