Tutoring?, A Political Statement, RPGs and Religion, Remember the Tampa, Relations, Honesty.

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Just returned from a Swinburne University class on media and social action where I'd been invited to give a guest presentation on how to use the media and new technologies effectively. Apparently I did well because after the class the tutor whisked me up to the office to sign me up as a teacher.

A month or so ago I have a presentation to the 11th Shed A Tier conference and gave the incorrect link to that presentation. Seeming that the presentation included the abolition of the unitary state, the abolition of specialist police and armed forces and a voluntary form of taxation, along with universal rights and social welfare, I thought I'd better post it with the correct url: Universal Rights, Common Wealth and Confederacy.

Sunday's presentation on role playing and religion went quite well. Turnout could have been better, but people were genuinely interested in the topic. Subsequent to that we played our "Outbreak of Heresy" game, where the foolish young men in their bravado attempted to storm a Hapsburg keep to drag out the lord and accuse him of heresy. The accusation held, but not after the loss of life and limb. On a related note, and through minatures gaming no less dukeofmelbourne conclusively proved to me the use and power of Hussite war wagons.

This Friday, Melbourne State Library, 5pm. Remember The Tampa. Remember SIEV X. Support human rights for asylum seekers. Yes, another action initiated by Labor for Refugees

Helped severina_242 move last week to her new home with her other partner. Obviously it means that we will see somewhat less of each other, but such is the nature of polyamorous relationships; you must always love the other person's choices and their freedom, otherwise it is rather hard to justly describe it as "free love". Just a thought on that; polyamory theory has a steeper learning curve, but once they're grounded, it's actually a lot easier to deal with relationship changes. After three years, I reckon severina_242 and I have a bit of clue about each other ;-)

Brain breaker of the week is actually two comments of extreme honesty. The first; "Normally we would storm a house killing everyone inside, whereas here we have to storm the house and keep everyone alive," said one commander. "It's not an easy job.", and the second: "If the U.S. continues to lose ground in Iraq, maybe we will be forced to pull out of the West Bank as well."

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

"Steep learning curve" is an apt description; kudos on taking the time to learn it

As my "teacher" in such affairs described me as being naturally inclined in such a way - and then proceeded to give me a great theoretical grounding. So much of it of course depends on respecting the independence of others - and loving the expression of their will and desire.

[blot.livejournal.com]

wow. everytime I look for intelligent conversations about polyamory, I never find people having them and now you guys are having one. and I watch this space for my other interests. I wish there was a good manual for this stuff. I just got out of a failing polyamorous relationship with a bipolar person. sigh. So do you guys have any recommendations for where I can find more intelligent discussions about this? yes I have been looking through the usual live journal sludge... and haven't found anything worth watching.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I wish there was a good manual for this stuff.

There is a wealth of information here.

http://www.polyamory.org/

[antayla.livejournal.com]

This was a pretty good site also, although I don't spend much time there anymore:

http://www.polymatchmaker.com/