Kew Events, Unitarian Sunday

[tcpip]

There was a shooting a few hundred metres down the road last night, which is quite unusual for this leafy middle-class inner suburb. To say the least it seems rather targetted, but it does make me give second-thoughts to my late night Ingress walks. I was pulled up by the police the other night who were wondering what I was doing in the wandering around the Yarra Bend Bat Colony in the middle of the night. When I rather sheepishly explained that I was playing a game, they knew exactly what it was all about.

Sunday consisted of visiting the Unitarians to hear Hans Baer speak on "democratic eco-socialism". I am not particularly convinced of the latching of environmentalism to a fairly orthodox Marxism. A richer tradition could be found in the romantic socialism (e.g., William Morris), or anarchism (e.g., Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy). After the service, a well-attended meeting of the Philosophy Forum witnessed Rohan McLeod give a presentation on Radical Self-Responsibility followed by good discussion. On topic, the ANZUUA newsletter Quest was released which included letters by myself and Nigel Sinnott in response to a pro-astrology address by Rev. Darlison, who gave the keynote address to the ANZUUA 2013 conference.

Comments

[iris]

I've been nearly stopped over my police while running up hills. I guess since I do power jogging up the hills and I move slow, they think I'm drunk or something since it's 4 am. Haha.

[tcpip]

I think it may have something to do with it being 4am!

BTW, I was thinking the other day about how combining jogging with Ingress would be remarkable successful - particularly if one takes a breather to take down a portal :)

[elven-ranger.livejournal.com]

I confuse the elderly people on this road, - go out wearing a variety of costumes, often with huge bags and crates of theatre stuff, then come home in the middle of the night, and sit in my friends car chatting about theatre for another 2 hours...

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

eep! I've recently started playing Ingress :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ha! I hope you've joined the pro-alien faction. Also, you'd better make a decision how you want to play it.

There are those who are very keen and go from lvl1 to 8 in a week (it takes about 35-40 hours of active play).

Then there are those who play a bit more casually, just integrating the game with their journeys with the occasional detour and discovery of an interesting site.

If you're the type that likes exercise it can be combined quite well with a stop-start morning run :)

But don't get attached to your portals - they will be taken down, just as easily as you take down others.

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

Go greeeeeen! :)

Yeah - probably a casual player tbh. And yes I have already discovered the peril of getting attached to my local portal ... /grrhiss/ :)

[(Anonymous)]

Please is Australia in the far east or the far west?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Geographically, far east. Politically far west :)