Separation of church and state. It’s cool because it keeps the church out of the state. But it’s also cool because it keeps the state out of the church.
I was thinking about this because I was learning about Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868). Continue reading
I read this book called ‘The Strangler Vine’ by M.J. Carter Now, the book is whatever. Continue reading
This year, I participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Many of you already know this. Many of you were instrumental to my participation, and wrote me excellent guest posts! (Thank you!!!!)
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I hadn’t realized that my need for affirmation, the need to be respected and loved, was so strong. It’s always felt like the wishy-washy teenager-in-a-bad-movie motive. I can understand why I feel that way. There’s a lot in my culture about being independent, about not caring about what other people think about you, and about, I guess, how there is this basic arrogance that all stable people have which allows them to not need love or approval. And how that’s good. Continue reading
I make bread. Up until recently I’d been making it about once a week. Continue reading
I believe that when we fail to practice compassion on ourselves, we have a harder time showing compassion to other people, especially around those issues we get so ticked at ourselves about. After all, if I’m a stupid lazy bitch for not being able to focus, so are they. If I’m a despicable and horrible person for scaring my loved ones, well, so are they. Continue reading
Yeah, I was wondering that too.
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One of the premises of solipsism1, in many of the forms it takes, is that the only thing we can know for certain is our own minds. I don’t actually agree with this premise (I think). But one of the things that follows from the premise is that other people cannot be known, since we don’t live in their heads and the only thing we can know is our own heads. I’m not sure I agree with that, either. But it sure feels true sometimes. Continue reading
When I GM I give my players a piece of my self. Usually an important piece, an egg I’ve been nurturing for some time. Sure, I’m used to sharing. But it still matters to me.
So when I GM, I need to know my players are playing along. If they aren’t into it, there’s no point. No one is going to have any fun. And I’m certainly not going to brace myself on my knees and smoke for them if they aren’t willing to talk in character to me. Continue reading
Two weeks ago, I was telling all ya’ll (you vast and uncountable multitudes) about this game I did. Well my player for it swung by and gave me a fave, so I was thinking about it some more. Last time I wrote about the unplanned nature of the game. This time I’m writing about the setting. Continue reading
Dear Thief 