misc. comments: 6

[redbird]

Yum, semicolons! With hundreds and thousands, no less! *munch*

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In response to a report of a badly organized survey:

Yes, it's off-topic.

This is polyamory, not religion_ident or ericksonians. But I'm going to yield to my baser nature and answer the content.

If you expect, while you're writing something, to offend your audience, rewrite to remove the offensive text, don't weasel-word with "If anyone is offended in any way...I am sorry."

Were I offended, it wouldn't be by the linking of certain groups--though defining Wicca and Asatru as "sects" of the same thing is about as sensible as defining Parsees and Christians as the same because they're both sects of "sky God worship"--it would be by your blithe assertion that people who share your approach to religion are more intellectually sophisticated, capable of more abstraction, and more flexible than those who follow one or fewer religions.

Also, learn to spell and type: I've never in my life met an "athiest" or a "Bubbhist"--do the latter worship Bubba or Joe-Bob Briggs?

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I seem to have lost some stuff to Semagic overwriting files when I didn't expect it to: I'm not sure whether this is me being careless, or an undesirable change in the code of the Semagic client. Thus, this abbreviated collection.

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[wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com]

people who share your approach to religion are more intellectually sophisticated, capable of more abstraction, and more flexible than those who follow one or fewer religions.

Also, learn to spell and type: I've never in my life met an "athiest" or a "Bubbhist"

Apparently their flexibility extends to creative orthography.

[kiya]

I always want to respond to people who say "athiest" with "Well, I know some folks who are athy, and some of them are athier than others, but I'd be hard pressed to sort out which of them is the athiest."

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

You are me AICMFP

[supergee.livejournal.com]

The Bubbhist texts include Zen in the Art of Pickup-Truck Maintenance, The Teachings of Don Jim Bob, and If You Meet Garth Brooks in the Road, Kill Him.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I think my spiritual search may be over ...

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

*Snerk* I always love to see bubbles of arrogance popped. Can I become your follower? :)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Thou art, therefore, a true bubbhist.

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Who or what are ericksonians? There is no LJ user or group by that name. What survey is this, anyway?

I can't imagine anyone conflating Wicca and Asatru, unless they have read very little about either.

[redbird]

Neither of the LJ communities I mentioned existed. Ericksonians are a particular group of psychologists, apparently (if I can believe the person I was responding to, which isn't certain) loosely Freudian.

[acrobatty.livejournal.com]

Yes, Erik Erikson was very in vogue several decades ago for his psychoanalytic approach to history. E.g., "Young Man Luther," which I read as a teenager, attempts to psychoanalyze Martin Luther based on historical records. Most Freudians, certainly most therapists, consider trying to analyze without meeting the subject a Bad Idea. But it did sell a lot of books.

[cheshyre]

You know, there is an dot_poly_snark, right?