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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:36 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:23 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:45 am
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This is why I enjoy this guild, or rather a part of it. The tollerance and willing to accept people based on their value as people versus their faith or membership of a certain group.
I am always quite leery of 'pride' groups, including pro-Christianity groups. I add the last because I am Christian (Lutheran).
I don't like being made to feel guilty for being Anglo-American, Christian, young, or what not. Nor do I wish to make a man feel guilty for being male or for others to feel second class because they are not these things.
I've had some irritating secondhand encounters with the 'Black Student Union' group at my university. One semester they sent a paper to each person living on campus that stated... "Did you know you are hurting your friends with racism?"
I realize it's mainly in the phrasing, but this statment sounded very accusatory and yet was sent to each student on a mainly 'white' campus. Gee, didn't know I was racist.
Okay, pardon the rant. Just one more thing: I detest the terms 'white' and 'black'. Especialy 'white' because it has become a label that, in a liberal university setting, means one must feel guilty for who one is and ones racial past. Yet, the term says nothing about my racial past. Grrr.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:47 am
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:51 am
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:56 am
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:15 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:56 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:29 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:33 am
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:09 pm
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TeaDidikai PirateEire started talking to me about crystals and would not shut up. Did he detail the light refractions within quartz? twisted Honestly? He very well may have, but I am surprisingly good at completely blocking out things directly in front of me and retreating into my own little world. <3
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:52 pm
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missmagpie TheDisreputableDog Heh, I probably would've been interested in the polyamory booth. razz I had a crazy crystal guy too, but mine just caught me at the booth selling various stones and kept telling me I looked like his sister. neutral Two years ago I worked at the closest thing we have to pagan pride here; a big fair in the summer. I was the crazy person at a crystal booth selling exorbitant amounts of white sage. We were also opposite the stand selling the candles shaped like certain portions of the male body... It was an interesting day. I wouldn't do it again.
Out of pure curiosity, may I ask 'why'?
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Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:02 am
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Sir_Catherine missmagpie TheDisreputableDog Heh, I probably would've been interested in the polyamory booth. razz I had a crazy crystal guy too, but mine just caught me at the booth selling various stones and kept telling me I looked like his sister. neutral Two years ago I worked at the closest thing we have to pagan pride here; a big fair in the summer. I was the crazy person at a crystal booth selling exorbitant amounts of white sage. We were also opposite the stand selling the candles shaped like certain portions of the male body... It was an interesting day. I wouldn't do it again. Out of pure curiosity, may I ask 'why'? Mostly because he tried to underpay me. stare
I missed all the events that were going on (which turned out to be rather unexciting anyway by all accounts) and there were some true oddballs. Some of them I didn't mind. Like the guy who rubbed sage between his hands and went about smelling them the rest of the day. I also really liked the guy from the gemstone jewellry stall next to us. He did me a huge favour the year before. Nonetheless there were some truly stupid stands. Like the person who was selling fake plastic stuff as gemstones, and the stall that was given to the daughter of the person organising the festival because she's related... Not that her artwork wasn't any good, it just seemed a little suspect. There were three good stalls: the jewellry, the "druids" selling bone knives and the bodran stand. Oh yeah and don't get me started on the "druids." These are the guys who still (even in public) go about in ceremonial white linen/flannel robes with leather bags and long beards. They're a bit... odd.
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