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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Religious Freedom

How not to deal with direction confrontation about religion in this country.

John Robb has the following to say:


Google forced to remove anti-Scientology links. I don’t agreee with the Germans on many things (although I lived there). But, I agree with the Germans when it comes to Scientology (by saying this I am being listed in some Scientology database in the sky). Germany treats Scientology like a cult and they outlaw it under the same laws that prevent distribution of Neo-Nazi propoganda. Scientology is a cult of the worst sort: one that can afford to hire lawyers, manage propoganda, intimidate opposition, and train absolute leaders. They work within the system. Very Nazi. Avoid it. Outlaw it. Denounce it. Besides, anyone who starts a cult based on the thinking of a writer of bad science fiction, should get a life.

I don’t have to tell you the flaws in this, do I? I don’t have to tell you the danger of this, do I?

Outlawing a religion (it’s still classified as a religion in this country, and there has been no successful legal charges against Scientology that would refute this claim) or any other personal belief other than those that advocate violence is against the Constitution on the United States. I know this document has been bashed and battered lately, but I still support it.

I hope you do, too.

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Weblogging

Pulling posts

In the last few days, I keep pulling weblog postings. I write something, and then don’t like it and pull it. I write something else, don’t like it and then pull it.

Apologies to readers for this dizzying round of weblog posting/weblog pulling/weblog posting and so on.

I’ll try to leave this one up.

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Writing

Happy Tutor fangirl

I am becoming such a fan of Happy Tutor. In particular, today’s (and yesterday’s) posting on Writing of Injustice grabbed my attention and my thoughts.

It takes a rare talent to put forth such thoughtful prose wrapped, but not obscured, in a cloak of humor.

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Just Shelley

Mellow out, or burn out

No matter how strongly you feel on a subject, at a certain point you either mellow out, or burn out.

Moth to a flame. We circle our inner passions, beating at the fire with our wings, driving in air to make the flames leap higher. At some point, if we continue this feeding of the fire, our wings will catch in the flame.

Jonathon writes of a meeting between an old friend and himself, and the differences between the person who was John Anthony, intense participant of seventies demonstrations, and the more mellow Jonathon of today.

I also attended demonstrations in the seventies. I yelled and yelled and yelled, through cupped hands and microphone. During one march down the middle of I5 in Seattle, I pounded one of the lights along the side of the road with a stick, jumped up on the cement border, and yelled and yelled with all my might into the crowd. When I stopped to draw in breath, hoarse from the effort, one of the guys in the crowd yells back, “I can’t hear you — there’s too much noise!”

Like Jonathon, I too changed my name during this time, from Michelle Rae to Shelley. Unlike Jonathon, though, I am still as intense now as I was then and find myself living in a state of alt from day to day.

However, I also wouldn’t mind being thinner. If one is going to go up in a puff of smoke, one can at least look good while doing it.

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Weblogging

Daypop disappears

I’m sure that it’s only a coincidence that Daypop disappears from the Web the same day that Blogtank makes its first full day appearance. Really. I’m sure that the ‘Tankers had nothing to do with it.

(Note to self — make sure to pay my Blogtank dues…quickly)

And did you all hear the news? Movable Type version 2.0 was released today. Another fine tool for the webloggers toolkit.