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Unicon, Work, Elections and Racial and Religious Madness, Banned Rats!
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dukeofmelbourne and caseopaya. Not a bad event, first gaming con I've been too in several years. Played "Parallel Flight" (Fireborn, not so good), Restoration (Urban Arcana, very good), Get Who (based on Get Smart, death coincidental, fun but severly limited for characters other than agents 99 and 86), Schools Out (Mutants and Masterminds, a d20 superhero game; OK, but combat orientated) and at the top of my enjoyment list "Four Fists of Righteous Fury" (where we had narrative and character development, deadly seriousness and comic relief!). Surprised to see that there were no D&D sessions. Sessions were far too short. Will give a full write-up on experiences on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
aus_gamers in the near future. Afterwards went to Mind Games to spend money ;-)
I have been working. Borderlands has shifted offices and their network and all it's wiring needs to be reassembled. This week I start training Prosper Australia on marketing and getting media coverage. I've also picked up a translation job for a set of health clinics in Northern Ireland who apparently need documentation ... in Tetum. Strange but true. CCNA Semester 2 starts on Tuesday. Feeling confident about it.
Schroeder grasps defeat from the jaws of victory and is about to destroy the SPD in the process. Meanwhile, in New Zealand Helen Clark's victory seems assured following the counting of special votes. I will be living in New Zealand by the end of 2006, I swear.
More bombings in Bali. Further evidence to recent suggestions that too much religion is bad for your society. From religious to racial fundamentalism; former US Secretary of Education thinks the way to solve crime is to abort "blacks".
I've banned my rats from the desk drawer and the office. Two keyboard cables and three speakers is too much. They're coping ;-)
dukeofmelbourne and caseopaya. Not a bad event, first gaming con I've been too in several years. Played "Parallel Flight" (Fireborn, not so good), Restoration (Urban Arcana, very good), Get Who (based on Get Smart, death coincidental, fun but severly limited for characters other than agents 99 and 86), Schools Out (Mutants and Masterminds, a d20 superhero game; OK, but combat orientated) and at the top of my enjoyment list "Four Fists of Righteous Fury" (where we had narrative and character development, deadly seriousness and comic relief!). Surprised to see that there were no D&D sessions. Sessions were far too short. Will give a full write-up on experiences on aus_gamers in the near future. Afterwards went to Mind Games to spend money ;-)I have been working. Borderlands has shifted offices and their network and all it's wiring needs to be reassembled. This week I start training Prosper Australia on marketing and getting media coverage. I've also picked up a translation job for a set of health clinics in Northern Ireland who apparently need documentation ... in Tetum. Strange but true. CCNA Semester 2 starts on Tuesday. Feeling confident about it.
Schroeder grasps defeat from the jaws of victory and is about to destroy the SPD in the process. Meanwhile, in New Zealand Helen Clark's victory seems assured following the counting of special votes. I will be living in New Zealand by the end of 2006, I swear.
More bombings in Bali. Further evidence to recent suggestions that too much religion is bad for your society. From religious to racial fundamentalism; former US Secretary of Education thinks the way to solve crime is to abort "blacks".
I've banned my rats from the desk drawer and the office. Two keyboard cables and three speakers is too much. They're coping ;-)
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Re 3). Oh, I agree. I find that fundamentalist atheism is as abhorrent as any other form of religious fundamentalism. And fundamentalist Buddhism is just weird as well as dangerous.
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Its the relationship between church and state that is the worry, not the metaphysics. Islam used to be tolerant in the middle ages, because they believed in a (somewhat) pluralist state (at least by the standards of the time), now the Islamist concept of the relationship between church and state is all screwed up.
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Except for the ones in the former Soviet Union, contemporary China and sometimes France. ;-)
because they believed in a (somewhat) pluralist state (at least by the standards of the time)
Well, it was more of a case that their religion was more pluralist. Even the most radical secular rationalists, the Mutazilite, still completely tied Church and State together.