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Issue 60

Excellent Issue. The “D&D Therapy” is a killer read and mirrors alot of my experiences in the early years of my youth with D&D, “It’s satanic” speil and such. I mean I played D&D and I turned out fine… right? Hey… guys? Right? Hello? Okay, okay, there were the few people who I had to kill but it was a necessity! I didn’t have a choice, thats prefectly normal right?! hehe

I merged some old live journal and other blog information into the blog here.  it’s all in one place now.  More or a less.  Although, I still have to merge in alot of stuff from the drupal site.  Enjoy, some of it spans back to 2002, I did remove some of it that I felt was no longer applicable or was just something I felt was a bit too private to have on a public site.

… been a long night. A very long night.

Yesterday the baby got his booster shots… chickenpox & a few others… 5 of them in-fact. Needless to say, the baby isn’t feeling the best… and isn’t sleeping well. Philodoxdreams is working midnights so it’s just me and the boys all night… he was up about every 20 minutes till about 3am, from oh… about 11:00pm. So I sneak his next dose of fever control (blueberry, it smells good, he likes it too) into his bottle thinking i was being real smart… well turns out he didnt feel well enough to drink the bottle so he didn’t get any of the meds… I got about an hour of sleep and then got woke up to a baby with a 100+ temp, of course there isn’t any sleeping happening with that high of a temp, so I dose him up on the missed medication and turn about 5am hit him with the other one (you can alternate ibuprofen and acetaminophen every couple hours if they have a high fevor… basically ends up being they’re always about half way through one dose and just starting another… works well.) Finally he cools off enough that he can sleep at about 6:50am… and I start to relax a bit… then the alarm goes off that I set so I wouldn’t forget to wake the kidlet. Arrrgg… up again… so… very… sleepy. I feel bad for him, he’s gotta be miserable his nose is already snotty even :( Poor little guy… he’s gotta be tired too as long as he’s been up and how poorly he slept.

I just read a post on the NYT site that I felt I had to comment a bit on. Basically a palestinian contemporary art museum in Tehran opened a “holocust” (their pun not mine) exhibit, lampooning the holocaust (and most western culture too.) The basic premise behind the exhibit is the intent to expose western hypocrisy for invoking freedom of religious expression about the cartoons of muhammad while they condemmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying the holocaust was a myth (Interestingly enough in some parts of europe that is highly illegal, but that’s beside the point.) The general feel I get reading the article and looking around on the net is that the curators feel that they are going to get some massive reaction to this, much like happened in the muslim world when the cartoons of the prophet came out.

Probally not.

Let me give you an example… You could make an animated movie of all the major religious figures from history (Jesus, Muhammad, God, Buddah, Kali, etc…) involved in one big ass orgy and 90% of the world would go “mm…kay, that’s tasteless and whoever thought that gem up is a sick bastage.” and in the “western world” at least you’d largely see nothing at all happen… a few of the big religious organisations would make a stink in the news, you’d get a few people walking around the creators house protesting for a few weeks, and the polticans of course would eat it up like candy and try to make some pr spin out of it to benefit their campaign for the next election. In a few days/weeks/months, it’d be history and no one would much think anything of it anymore. Even in the far east you wouldn’t see a tremendous response from the opinions of the few japanese and korean people i’ve mentioned it to. In the middle east I’d be willing to wager the response would be far worse than the Muhammad cartoons.

Why? I really just don’t get it. Blood begats more blood, this is a lesson burnt into history and fueled by the blood of hundreds of millions.

This kinda crap just annoys me… it doesn’t matter if you’re christian, pagan, jewish, amish, islamic, buddhist, or a member of the church of the sub-genius… if you are truely strong in your faith, why try to force it on the rest of the world? Live your life as your beliefs (be they personal or religious) dictate and if they’re of high quality people will recognise that and become greater for it.

Maybe I’m just intolerant of people who are intolerant of others religious/personal/political/etc beliefs. Oh the irony.

So… I was a bit lazy and didn’t get the old content up as fast as I had anticipated… it’s getting there now slowly but surely.  I put up three of the more popular articles and I’m slowing getting the less popular ones up.