When tautologies are outlawed

Don't forget: after your import is done, go and claim your LJ ID before you delete your account. After your account is gone you can't do it.

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I made a post on Dreamwidth. Not even going to crosspost links any more.

...So come over to Dreamwidth. Let me know who you are there.

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I posted a video on dreamwidth.

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So after years of benign neglect, SUP (who owns LJ) has started behaving badly again. Last time I kept cross-posting back here from Dreamwidth because I was not getting any comments over there.

Now I'm hardly getting any comments here anyway, so I'm going back to posting just notices that I made a post that you have to go to DW to see.

Join us on Dreamwidth. It's like LJ with ethics.

Sort of where I'm going with this is the idea that your religion is your business, and not anyone else's.

If you are concerned with what religion I am or with making sure I know what religion you are, then you are in the wrong. You should not care what faith I do or do not follow at all and to whatever extent you are even curious about it or are interested in making sure I know that information about you, you are infringing on my liberty and right to be free from interference in my spiritual affairs.

Your god is not my business, and it is my right to explicitly not know about your god.

(originally posted on dreamwidth, where there are comments. I'd like to keep all my comments in one place, so I'd rather you comment there by creating an openID cross-site login.)

I've had an idea rattling around in my head for a few years now, and it's almost ready to come out. This is related to that:

Can anyone name me any situation where a public profession of one's religion actually helps anyone? That is, is there ever a time when saying "I'm Jewish and so..." or "As a Christian I feel..." is useful to anyone?

I may be willing to concede the case where we're all discussing religion. But even then I'm not sure. But setting that case aside for the time being, is you telling me what your faith is ever a worthwhile thing to do?

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I'm sure I've mentioned that Chris does period photography. He's really good at it.

Now he wants to build a replica of the Kew Photoheliograph, a camera from the 1880s that took pictures of the sun and thereby was instrumental in advancing our understanding of the sun and the solar system.

But to do that he needs more money than he has. So he's set up an indiegogo to fund his project. Please go take a look and toss him a few bucks if you can.

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I seem to have abandoned my intent to only make posts about tribulations after they are over, so this is a journal of my triumphs instead of troubles.

Sorry about that.

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Dave's Italian Kitchen closed forever Monday, with no warning to anyone including the staff.

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