Climate Change, Farewell Fawell, Gaming News

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Unitarian Extension Movement's forum on climate change, species deaths and alternative technology last Sunday was excellent. Most appropriately the following day had a wonderful opportunity to slap-down some serious idiocy courtesy of the von Mises Institute. It really was like shooting fish in a barrel. Climate change was also a media feature this week with recognition that extremes will affect Australia, and especially Victoria.

A couple of days ago my flist seemed to in celebration over the demise of Jerry Fawell. His apocalyptic beliefs, and hatred of secular liberalism and abhorrent theology certainly generates little sympathy from this corner of livejournal. Rather appropriately, nom_de_grr plays Godwin's and challenges us to find the differences (in speech) between Fawell and Hitler. The key point: both are people who sought not to keep their theological beliefs to their own lives, but rather to impose them on others. Appropriately angel80 links to North Korea's Juche as a religion.

Monte Cook makes some very good comments about Dragon and the state of D&D. On Sunday ran the first session of Stormbringer's Rogue Mistress which is just great. Also have completed a further two scenes for the HeroQuest Glorantha epic.

Best title goes to reddragdiva. Science proves that trolls really are a bunch of dicks. Mightily impressed by beagl linking the free LP for a compilation of New Zealand undergound music (yes, I've been looking at properties in Dunedin again). Do you have ten favourite movies? List them on slipjig's survey.

Comments

[madame-mage.livejournal.com]

ah make no mistake, I do get somewhat upset...and I realise it is someone's sick idea that they can get a rise out of an individual if they push hard enough. I try to defuse with humour because if I didn't...I would be no better than they who poke at me in the first place.

I used to have a terrible temper, logic and time mellowed me out considerably..you strike me as a fairly mellow guy that most things/people/situations do not bother you because you see the entire picture at a first glance..just a passing thought I had..

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

In my day-to-day life I'm very concilatory. One of my friends nick-namesd me "a spirit level" on that basis..

Internally however over the "big issues" I have a furnace burning away...

Still waters run deep and all that...

[madame-mage.livejournal.com]

the "still waters run deep" is a strong part of your appeal. I like your observations about your corner of the world, altho I don't always have a frame of reference to access from, your entries are still fun to read!