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Monday Misc.
Mar. 6th, 2006 09:04 amNo large Bast statues at the Shakespeare selloff. This time, they had several disturbing naked fatsuits with demon masks. I have no idea what production that was from, but I'm glad I missed it. I picked up the spine to a fan, some muslin skirts (mostly for the muslin itself), bodice-worthy fabric scraps and trim, and some cotton gloves. After lunch with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shawan_7 at Bread and Chocolate, I went down to the yarn store and bought needles and yarn, meeting up with twistedchick and neotoma. I remember the area as being seedy and scary; now it's gone into upscale little shops and turned into a nice place to wander.
Spent the rest of the weekend pottering around my place. It's not utterly clean yet, but the bathroom and the main rooms have been redd up, and the pile in my bedroom is MUCH smaller.
No particular opinions on the Oscars, which I watched part of, except to say that Narnia didn't get the recognition it deserved artistically and I'm very glad Wallace and Grommit won. And the bow ties and stuffed penguins were cute. Oh, and John Stewart does *much* better when he's dealing with politics.
Speaking of which, politics is biting back in South Dakota, and I'm watching this one with great interest. Pastafarianism is obviously a joke religion; while people can write to the newspapers to protest that creationists will be touched by his noodly appendage before it is too late, it really has no political or social force, just farce.
The Church of Reality, though, is dead serious. If it's real - we believe in it. The Church of Reality is a Personal Commitment to the Truth. We believe in real reality, not the way we want reality to be, not our personal reality, but real objective reality the way it really is... Our mission is to spread the importance of reality everywhere. We raise the awareness of reality and we make reality important. Every time we mention Reality we spread the Sacred Message. We are here to ask the Sacred Question - "What is Real?" We want people to consider reality when making important decisions.
Accepted as a religion by the IRS (which is all it really takes in this country), the Church of Reality has stepped up to the plate and claimed its turn at bat in the modern social contract, colloquially titled "You can't make me do anything that's against my religion." They've done it by claiming that the South Dakota abortion ban is against the CoR religion and therefore CoR members must be allowed a religious exemption from the ban. The Church of Reality's press release is on their website.
There is little news of this elsewhere; the CoR is too small and too fringe to be taken seriously quite yet, particularly in a country where the government has already made decisions as to which faiths are "real" enough to be worthy of "faith-based charity" federal money. (Hint: If it isn't a group headed by rich, preferably white, men, it somehow hasn't made the cut.) But it is the first shot across the bow of the juggernaut, and it has legitimate legal standing and even (as the Church of Reality points out) legal precedent. Hopefully it will be joined soon by the bigger boys from temple row - isn't it a Jewish tradition to put the life of the mother ahead of the fetus? - and an even bigger legal stink can be made.
And in the meantime - if the rules of the game are "You can't make me learn/teach/think/act in a manner contrary to my religion"... well, there's a church out there that's about to have a quantum leap in membership.
shawan_7 at Bread and Chocolate, I went down to the yarn store and bought needles and yarn, meeting up with twistedchick and neotoma. I remember the area as being seedy and scary; now it's gone into upscale little shops and turned into a nice place to wander.Spent the rest of the weekend pottering around my place. It's not utterly clean yet, but the bathroom and the main rooms have been redd up, and the pile in my bedroom is MUCH smaller.
No particular opinions on the Oscars, which I watched part of, except to say that Narnia didn't get the recognition it deserved artistically and I'm very glad Wallace and Grommit won. And the bow ties and stuffed penguins were cute. Oh, and John Stewart does *much* better when he's dealing with politics.
Speaking of which, politics is biting back in South Dakota, and I'm watching this one with great interest. Pastafarianism is obviously a joke religion; while people can write to the newspapers to protest that creationists will be touched by his noodly appendage before it is too late, it really has no political or social force, just farce.
The Church of Reality, though, is dead serious. If it's real - we believe in it. The Church of Reality is a Personal Commitment to the Truth. We believe in real reality, not the way we want reality to be, not our personal reality, but real objective reality the way it really is... Our mission is to spread the importance of reality everywhere. We raise the awareness of reality and we make reality important. Every time we mention Reality we spread the Sacred Message. We are here to ask the Sacred Question - "What is Real?" We want people to consider reality when making important decisions.
Accepted as a religion by the IRS (which is all it really takes in this country), the Church of Reality has stepped up to the plate and claimed its turn at bat in the modern social contract, colloquially titled "You can't make me do anything that's against my religion." They've done it by claiming that the South Dakota abortion ban is against the CoR religion and therefore CoR members must be allowed a religious exemption from the ban. The Church of Reality's press release is on their website.
There is little news of this elsewhere; the CoR is too small and too fringe to be taken seriously quite yet, particularly in a country where the government has already made decisions as to which faiths are "real" enough to be worthy of "faith-based charity" federal money. (Hint: If it isn't a group headed by rich, preferably white, men, it somehow hasn't made the cut.) But it is the first shot across the bow of the juggernaut, and it has legitimate legal standing and even (as the Church of Reality points out) legal precedent. Hopefully it will be joined soon by the bigger boys from temple row - isn't it a Jewish tradition to put the life of the mother ahead of the fetus? - and an even bigger legal stink can be made.
And in the meantime - if the rules of the game are "You can't make me learn/teach/think/act in a manner contrary to my religion"... well, there's a church out there that's about to have a quantum leap in membership.
