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Heh. Good luck with that, Ron!
'Not a religion': Florida Gov. DeSantis signs school chaplain bill, says Satanists not welcome
'That is not a religion,' the governor said. 'That is not qualifying to be able to participate in this.'
I'm not so confident in some of the courts on this, especially the Florida courts and our stacked SCOTUS right now. I worry that there may be a reassessment of what makes something a "religion" or at least one deserving of legal recognition. I think a case could be made that TST is an activist organization and not a religion- because it was founded to fight against Christian nationalism. Do I agree with that? Not necessarily. It was founded to fight Christian nationalism but that wouldn't have happened if not for sincerely held beliefs listed in TST's tenets. But I do worry that such a case could be made and argued successfully in our current atmosphere and because the definition of "religion" known and used by the average American is so narrow. So, if a court decides that TST is not deserving of IRS tax exempt status that could set other non-theistic movements to be removed too, like the UU church which similarly doesn't have set spiritual beliefs but is a gathering of people with similar values and missions. I truly hope this turns out with the Temple of Satan winning. There's 100% grounds for a case. I just worry about how it will be decided.
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« Last post by Altair on Today at 04:46:57 am »
Heh. Good luck with that, Ron! 'Not a religion': Florida Gov. DeSantis signs school chaplain bill, says Satanists not welcome'That is not a religion,' the governor said. 'That is not qualifying to be able to participate in this.'The lawsuit will be epic and, eventually, a no-brainer win for those deliciously provocative folks of the Satanic Temple. From the article (emphasis mine): "The Satanic Temple, which the IRS recognizes as a tax-exempt church, told the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida earlier in the year that it would put school chaplains in Florida if the bill became law." That, and the fact that nitwit Ron has publicly singled them out as disfavored, should make this a slam-dunk for the Satanists; this is precisely why the First Amendment exists. It may take awhile, it may go all the way to the Supreme Court (it will be fun to watch the Christianists there squirm!), but Ron is going down.
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« Last post by Sefiru on Yesterday at 08:28:55 pm »
From the youtube channel Strange Aeons comes this fascinating video about the intersections between fanfiction, lucid dreaming and sprituality: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbWp0z5p8x0[/video] The video as a whole is about reality shifting (ie the belief that one can travel to alternate dimensions in dreams), but the part I find most interesting is the last segment (starting around 33:00) in which Strange discusses how the internet has shaped new forms of spirituality. It has been demonstrated time and time again that pop culture is fertile ground for belief
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Humans are humans and will always find a way to make things sacred
I'm especially intrigued by the description of the Internet as "literally occult" in the sense that its workings are mysterious to most.
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« Last post by Altair on April 09, 2024, 09:29:08 am »
Mother Nature is a fricking tease, that's what!
Morning: mostly clear; I leave for the park, clouds roll in; eclipse just starting, a clear patch again; will-they-or-won't-they clouds leading up to totality. And just in time, clouds cleared up just enough to see the main event 
The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice.
The photos are great, but there's so much more going on that I didn't understand until experiencing it.
The way the colours change as the light shifts! The 360 degree sunset! The temperature! It's a full body sensory experience in a way the photos can't transmit at all.
These describe super-well how I felt after witnessing the 2017 eclipse. Sadly, this time Texas was clouded over during totality and much of the run-up, though we got moments where we could watch (through eclipse glasses) the sun become a slivver like a crescent moon before and after the big moment. And during totality, though we couldn't see the black hole in the sky and the corona, everything became startlingly dark. I'm very glad others got to experience the thrill!
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« Last post by Jenett on April 08, 2024, 09:09:39 pm »
The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice.
The photos are great, but there's so much more going on that I didn't understand until experiencing it. The way the colours change as the light shifts! The 360 degree sunset! The temperature! It's a full body sensory experience in a way the photos can't transmit at all. [Fixing quote code - SP]
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« Last post by Sefiru on April 08, 2024, 06:09:38 pm »
And the weather forecast is looking promising for northern New England and Canada!
Mother Nature is a fricking tease, that's what! Morning: mostly clear; I leave for the park, clouds roll in; eclipse just starting, a clear patch again; will-they-or-won't-they clouds leading up to totality. And just in time, clouds cleared up just enough to see the main event The best way to describe my own reaction is "shook" (Even though I knew, intellectually, what was going to happen). Also, photographs do not do totality justice.
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« Last post by SirPalomides on April 08, 2024, 09:49:17 am »
Seen while on the supermarket checkout line the other day:
She actually reminds me a lot of Mater Lachrymarum from Dario Argento's Inferno
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« Last post by SunflowerP on April 07, 2024, 10:36:20 pm »
After the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake in 1994, the observatory there received tons of calls about things in the sky - people legit DID NOT KNOW stars were even a thing. Sure they did. They just didn't know about the ones that live in the sky, rather than in, say, Malibu. <runs away very fast, laughing> (Alas, your corrected link, while it does work for going to the article, is paywalled.) Sunflower
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« Last post by SunflowerP on April 07, 2024, 10:28:22 pm »
Oh yeah it's pretty bad. From that thread you linked, re: not knowing about the constellation Orion -
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