One of my biggest concerns re: coming back online has to do with all of the aforementioned aspects to online interaction. I know that Tone, Topics, Role-Playing, & Activism all may seem pretty broad, but bear with me ( Read more... )

Sharia Law--it's not just for Muslims, anymore!

As a long-time student of Comparative World Religions, I have made every attempt I can to be open-minded about people's beLIEfs and cultures. I've embraced (and often, practiced and/or tried) a great many Paths that most Humies would find utterly repugnant, disgusting, &/or perverse. But I have ( Read more... )

There's been lots of talk of these topics lately. I even saw a recent National Geographic Channel show on it in their excellent series Taboo. FTR, I've long felt like a lesbian trapped in a man's body, but I won't be going "trans" anytime soon. I must confess that whilst I like to think that I do understand and empathize with gays and lesbians-- ( Read more... )

It should come as no surprise that I have given the topic of fertility quite a bit of thought recently. I was going to post most of these links before my recent Vasectomy, but I didn't get a chance to. As I've mentioned many times before, I strongly believe in the ideas put forth by the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement*. Specifically, I ( Read more... )

I'm just catching up on all the insanity re: the fears that LJ may be going down. Question for ya'll:

Where else do you frequent online???

If you--like me--are primarily found here, where else would you go online?I honestly can't stand MySpace*, and I don't know the first thing about Facebook, which seem to be the other 2 big places. I really ( Read more... )

I'm just finishing an excellently thorough (and thus, long) article on InterPersonal Commune-I-cation. Although it's officially called a Guide to Flirting, it's really much more about being able to commune with others (or sever such) and being able to read them. It could just as easily be called "Social Skills 101," something that I sorely lacked ( Read more... )

If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.Oh dear. I could spend all day on this, which I can't do. So I'll narrow it down to 3 (sorta), even though--truth ( Read more... )

Since being laid off, I have felt more happy, more confident, more grateful, more whole, more appreciative, more healthy, and generally overall mo' bettah than I have in quite a while. This still continues to pleasantly surprise me (better than being Depressed, by FAR), not that I'm complaining at all, at all ( Read more... )

Last night I had an absolutely fabulous dinner* with both teriel & lupabitch, who were passing through Eugene on the way back from presenting a workshop at FaerieWorlds. In addition to being able to show off the hard-won Results of my Othala Working--not to mention my signature "chicken soft taco" recipe--we had a great couple hours of conversation. It's always ( Read more... )

For those of you who missed the memo, lupabitch has started a community: totemists. It's specifically for the discussion of advanced animal totem information and practice, rather than "What's my totem?" and "What does this totem means?" Lupa describes "a totemist is someone for whom totemism is a major part of their spiritual/magical practice, beyond 'I know what my ( Read more... )