One final thought on the LJ Crush Meme thing:

[xiphias]

If you pay $4 to find out who's got Secret Crushes on you, and you find out that I've got either a secret or public crush on you, and I find out that you paid four bucks to discover someone else's secrets, you can just go ahead and switch me into the ex-crush column. I don't do dishonorable.

Comments

[cellio]

I didn't do this meme. I take it there was no disclosure at the time that the "secrets" might be revealed later? Hmpf.

[bluepapercup]

I don't do dishonorable.

It's sentences like that which made me put you in the "secret crush" column. I mean, really.

*grin*

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Statements like this are why I openly adore you. :)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

If it's really secret, would you put it into a random web page?

[marquisedea.livejournal.com]

I just never took that thing seriously.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Daedra Migighwatsit the alt.poly troll already outed us as gay lovers, so my secret lust for you was public from the get-go.

Or something.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. So there was ONE good result from that troll.

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

I'm not giving them a cent, but there's a reason I never filled out the first LJ crush thingy, and thats because nothing is secret on-line. I'm still damn curious though. Good thing I don't have a paypal account.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

I filled it out "serious" once (after seeing everybody complaining about the giving out names thing, so I knew what I was getting into) and then changed my mind and decided to subvert it by marking everybody as a "secret crush." Not that it matters, but it made me giggle, so it's all good. :]

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Does that mean that, if someone who is on your friends list does NOT have a ".5 secret crush", that you marked them as a secret crush the first time?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Um... my l33t math sk1llz are not that l33t. :) Also, I'm not sure if quizzes filled out now are counted anyway, since the person who made 'em implied (to my understanding) that they weren't being counted after 10/9.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

A friend pointed out that there is at least one good reason to want to know your secret crushes. She has a history of stalkers, and wants to check that it's not that person again.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Okay, yeah. THAT I can see.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I guess my only disagreement would be with the word "dishonorable." I think that the whole thing was reprehensible, and I would be concerned about anyone who paid to see the results, but "dishonor" applies for me to cases where I have some prior expectation of honorable behavior -- friends and family, and people like public officials who have taken oaths to act honorably and have violated their oaths. YMMV.

And I do confess to a certain curiosity about who listed me as an "Ex-Crush"...

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

ROFL! I totally agree.. I'm very displeased with the whole thing.

Re: eeek! questions unrelated to secret crush

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Most of the decorations aren't particularly symbolic of anything -- they're just decorations. Birds are sometimes traditional, because of the image of G-d spreading a "sukkat shalom" over Jerusalem -- a "shelter of peace". The image is similar to how mother ducks tuck all the baby ducks under their wings when they sleep.

Can I explain the shaking of the bush? Not particularly. It's just that, in Leviticus 23:33-44, we're told to.

(King James Version translation follows:)

23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.

23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

It's Verse 40 that deals with the lulav:

23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

Actually, that translation's not so good: let me see if I can find another one:

Yeah, the New King James is better:

40: And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

The "fruit of beautiful trees" is the etrog. The branches of palm trees, boughs of myrtle, and willows is the lulav. We take them, and we rejoice.

That's why Sukkot is such a great holiday. It's a holiday of rejoicing.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

I have a crush on you. Gimme four dollars.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Um. . . *blush*. And, um. . . that's not quite how it works. . . :)

Yay! A cute sexy person with a crush on me! Woohoo!