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Eight of Cups

Quoted from the post "A Beginning":

Welcome one and all to a year long experiment I am attempting for 2010. I decided that for the entire year, I will be celebrating as many of the major religious holidays for as many major religions as I possibly can.

A bit of background is in order to explain this. You see, i am by nature not a religious person. I was once Christian, in the sense that I occasionally went to church (Episcopal, if you care to know) and believed in God. When I hit my teen years, I began to question my beliefs (as many teenagers do). I just never really came back to a belief in God. For a long time, I considered myself an atheist, but as I have grown older this has shifted more to agnostic. In recent years this shift in belief has once more eased up to become a belief in some higher power, but not in any single religious faith.

Despite this lack of "faith," I have had a deep fascination of religion for a long time. I have done a little bit of comparing of different faiths. Nothing deeper than a surface glance. Along the lines of a Complete Idiot's Guide to Religion. A quick glance at everything, without a deeper understanding.

Here's the link to "The Piety Project".

On Drinking Urine

I don't value blanket, unthinking "tolerance". As Marilyn Manson once sung "Love everybody is destroying the value of 'All hate has got me is nowhere.'"

"Tolerance" is often a mask for the game of social approval.

 If someone drinks their own piss, so what? It may not be my cup of tea, but it's their prerogative. I might be curious to learn something about the practice to increase my understanding about acquired tastes, biochemistry, and even the imbiber's state of mind and  reasons for doing it, but I have absolutely no need to give approval of it or validate it in any way.

Lessons Learned From Hoaxing: Man of Steel

I thought that the 'deeper meaning' of the most recent Superman movie couldn't be more clear. With the filmmakers being so obvious about it, it really surprised me that anyone could miss it.  The filmmakers were so obvious about what they wanted to say that I regard Man of Steel as the most "preachy" movie of all time. (Finally surpassing the all time winner of movie preachydom, Return of the Living Dead part III). [1]

Alas, despite having their noses rubbed in the point of the movie repeatedly, nearly everyone missed it. By miles. Only one of small sub-culture actually understood what The Man of Steel was all about -- self-proclaimed individualists. This wasn't so much a surprise because the movie is about individualism.

But this post isn't about the hits. It's about the misses, and this brings me to my time as a hoaxer. [2]