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Not really a show topic, and I have no idea if you have seen this, but … http://ohmygods.co.uk/strips/2009-01-23

I found this article online and it reminds me of that whole Audubon thing with the Plover’s where Amber lives.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090113/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_rabbit_infestation

Now I have been an environmentalist/animal lover(not a crazy one) since before it was a fad, and to be honest this whole “green movement” pisses me off because people are doing it for the wrong reasons. I’ve done my share of research on animals and the environment so I get the general idea of how the ecosystem works, unlike some of these people that are trying to “help”.

Their reasoning for this is that these animals were introduced to the island so they don’t belong. Well, shit, brown rats were introduced to North America by Europeans and roaches by Europeans and Asians and they become part of the ecosystem. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to get rid of those roaches. Anywas, if it wasn’t for the Europeans I wouldn’t have had some of the best pet rats I’ve ever had. Rats are super smart and adorables.

I would love to see how they “removed” the cats, but I can only guess when they use the term eradicate in the article. Now they are trying to kill off the other animals that “don’t belong” by poisoning them. Yeah, because that won’t effect the rest of the ecosystem. I like how during all of this they haven’t realized that there are a lot of areas humans “don’t belong” in and they manage to stay there. I don’t know how they figure eradicating 4 different species of animals will help the ecosystem. I’m sure there are other animals that stopped feeding on birds that started feeding on the rabbits and rats instead. But who am I so say anything?

I came across a news article, it takes a bit to get to the point

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/01/11/news/top/fb296762204669c98625753a00095315.txt

Its kind of odd but not surprising, that in this modern scientific age that most people jump to conclusions about paganism having something to do with a horrible incident when facts like “he was bipolar”, “Stopped taking his medication”, “Had a history of drug abuse” and was “experiencing paranoia” are completely overlooked.

I’m curious about you folk’s opinion regarding how articles such as this affect the greater pagan community.

Hey guys! I, too, am someone who listens at work. It brings me great joy as I sit between the cubicles of my fundamentalist Christian coworkers to listen as my fellow heathens entertain the masses. Dallas isn”t exactly a hotbed of paganis… yet. (Speaking of fundie coworkers, that might be a possible future topic to cover as well…how to handle them without losing your job.) I was curious to know if any of you have a particular [holy] book you follow as part of your beliefs? It doesn”t have to be as well known as the Bible, Qu”ran, Kabbalah, etc. I am sure there are those who worship Buckland”s blue bible as their holy book, or Israel Regardie”s The Golden Dawn, or D.J. Conway”s Celtic Magic.

Hey guys,
Sorry if this e-mail reads like crap, but I’m typing this on my phone.

Due to certain dramas in my life I started wondering if all the modern twists on older religions have turned people into pussies?

I remember when Buddhist monks weren’t all peace and love; when they were actual warriors and were dangerous. When Druids weren’t just educated hippies or glorified freemasons. It seems all this new peace, love and happiness bull crap has turned people into complacent drones. People don’t seem to want to stand up for themselves or others because they either, want to turn the other cheek, deal with it in a civil manner, or wait for karma.

Dammit sometimes you have to speak up to be heard, and take chances. People are getting way too comfortable.

So due to extreme boredom I was surfing the web and decided to see what was up on Paganspace. I saw a topic about Obama’s speech and how people are seeing pagans as being clumped into the ‘non-believers’group. How?! I’m sorry I don’t see it, not even when he made the speech. I just said, “Hey, what about the pagans?” I understand he didn’t have time to spout out every pagan and monotheistic religion out there, and he played it safe by mentioning the popular and more accepted ones.

Why are some pagans getting uber sensitive about this? Hell, sadly I think it would’ve been career suicide to mention pagans. I mean people already have a problem with him wanting companies to go green, legalizing abortion, being black, having the middle name Hussein. If he mentioned pagans I could see people trying to impeach him. No one tried to impeach Bush for all the crap he did because he was “a good Christian man” as I have heard one too many times. Maybe pagans were mentioned because of the simple facts that pagans as a whole aren’t so unified and they don’t speak out. On the other hand, I do understand why some pagans are afraid to speak out for themselves. We live in a country where our kids can be taken away from us because we are Pagans and people are closed minded. Maybe we’ll be lucky and he’ll change that too.

It seems like some pagans are seeing this as him treating us like crap and we don’t matter, or trying to force his beliefs on us.

I did post, I mentioned how our fore fathers were atheistic, I should’ve clearified, atheistic when it came to governing. They really didn’t want to involve religion in how the government was run, and that is a wise decision. Someone mentioned that they were mostly freemasons, I know that, but goes on to say freemasonry has deep roots in Christianity. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I was pretty sure Freemasonry has deep pagan roots.

I’m going to expect to get flamed at if this is read on the air by those same pagans since I pretty much pointed myself out for my post on Paganspace. Oh, well. I don’t think it was as big an issue as people are making it out to be.