What is your primary source of income?

My job and a small child support payment.

Primary and pretty much only, salary.

I guess I'd call what I have a fellowship, but I checked stipend. It's not quite a grant. And part of it is contingent on being a TA or RA.

I used to make 80k/yr ($US) as a programmer. Now I live on 715/mo on disability. I hope to be doing tarot readings over the web soon instead.

EnHed: I'd love to know more on that.

The sweat of my forehead...

K_R: I'm not sure what else there is to know. It's funding for grad school.

Right now I'm living off of savings and prior gifts from my paternal grandparents.

salary, and I can also earn over time

the proceeds from stock options from my previous job.

EH: Wanted to know if the pope, jpl, or pierpont-morgan were taking an avid interest in supporting the 'Arts'. I was once hoping to create an artificially intelligent spiritual website familiar with all the spiritual teachings that monitors several levels of peoples karma, etc. Wanted to know who funds such projects.
I'm usually a TA when I attend. If you couldn't guess that already.

Yup, I'm personally funded by the Pope.
No, as far as I know, none of those people fund the humanities. My funding comes from my university; part of it I know is specifically given by some rich old lady, and I'm not sure where the rest comes from--i.e., from which specific fund.
There is a foundation that funds research and courses in religion and science (i.e. in both simultaneously), called the Templeton Foundation. But I'm sure the Pope would think what I do is heresy, while JPL would think it was baseless speculation.

I like JP, though I know little about him. He likes wilderness hikes & see's things like working checks & balances within godless capitalism. I've met his spirit through a tarot reading; I don't think he's totally self-realized, but I could be mistaken.

Incentive Stock Options (but, I just quit [so much for incentive...]. So, I just ran out [but in a big way] - they will still be the major source of income for us this year)

E: What do you do that's heretical? I am a papal apologist so I like to imagine him as being a lot more accepting and benevolent than he probably is in real life. If your work is biblical research of some sort, JPL would probably think it irrelevant but personally I find what I've seen in that area to be neither baseless nor uninteresting. If you're trying to prove that the sun stopped for a day, they'd probably consider you a member of the violent anti-plutonium luddite lobby.

joachim: I study the Bible from a historical, linguistic, and sometimes literary perspective. It's heretical because I don't believe the Bible was divinely inspired, I don't believe the first five books were written by Moses, and I don't believe that a lot of what it says happened actually happened. On the other hand, the fact that I spend my time studying what is considered by some to be a purely fictive work of delusional religious belief has caused some scientific types that I know to think that I am a crackpot, to say the least. In this case, though, it's mostly before they really understand what it is that I do.

Enh: And you've made the connection that the hebrews had only three elements: air, water, & fire from which earth is made? [meanwhile the anti-crackpots ask 'what the flux is she talking about?'] Einstein was a crackpot; we are potters.

salary

perdium

Zang: do you mean, per diem?

i thought it was an experimental drug, and he/she got paid to ingest it

I am an adult going back to school, my spouse supports me for now.

I'm a hooker

Enh - I don't know if I'd want to study the bible or archaea in general for a living, but I think it's fabulously neat stuff anyway. The divine inspiration thing is certainly an important religious matter. Does the Catholic church still maintain that the pentateuch was written by Moses, or did they get over that in Vatican 2? I thought a lot of biblical scholars were Jesuits. What about Judaism? I assume the more orthodox branches of all the three religions all claim literal authorship etc, but what about the run of the mill people (conservative and... liberal? jews, and whichever muslim branch is currently more down to earth)?

The bible may well be a work of fiction written by madmen (and women?) but there is a reasonable argument that parts of it are really well written, and that the whole thing is a fascinating artifact. Pooh to those scientists who would say you nay.

joachim: I think I just found my new favorite phrase! "Pooh to those fill in the blank who would say you nay." I love it!

anon#2: Good thing; you wouldn't have lasted long in advertising.

joachim: thank you for that second paragraph! That's what I'm always trying to tell anyone who will listen!
I'm not sure what the current Vatican stance on Mosaic authorship is, but I am sure there are plenty of Catholics who don't think Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Most of the orthodox members of the various faiths tend to take what the Bible says about itself literally, but there are plenty of more "liberal" or at least less fundamentalist people who question it and look at it more critically--a "politics of suspicion," if you will. I also know a number of fairly religious (conservative) Christians and Jews who look at the Bible both as an inspired text and as a historical artifact, and are able (somehow) to reconcile the critical theories with the theological ones.

Huh? Does that mean how u get money? Mommy and Daddy but I'm gettin a job soon

Enh: have you heard about the recent attempts to deconstruct the Koran like they've done to the Bible? I guess researchers are getting killed over it. Thou Shalt Not Question.

joachim: I haven't heard about it, but I'm not surprised. I have a professor who was excommunicated from the Mormon church for trying to do it to the Book of Mormon.

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Wages

I'm a hooka.

My parents or the people I babysit for.