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Searched and frisked at every airport -- darn that hip replacement!
"PREPARE OUR suite at once. We'll be in the bar," said the internationalist Hunter S. Thompson.
This is the ad for Ghurka luggage. And it's the only advertising I've liked lately.
IN THE NEWS: In regards to "stop-and-frisk," I am inclined to lean toward Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly as to whether it really works or not. I believe they are heroes!
I want to complain, though, about old age stop and frisking. I have always been able to rip through security at international airports everywhere because I am so good looking, young and innocent.
But now that I have an official ID card from Dr. Mark Figgie of the Hospital for Special Surgery, which verifies that I have an artificially authentic hip replacement, I am stopped at every entrance. Security personnel ignore the card. They ignore my cane, except to examine it for hidden sabers. They ignore a wheelchair, which may be loaded with explosives. And I am stopped for a full-body scan every time and frequently I find myself having those adorable hand-patted, total strip downs. If you have seen me nude in airports all over the world, I'm not an exhibitionist. It's not my fault. I don't really object to this, but it happens every single time, since I bought a new hip.
I realize that little children and old people carrying machinery need to be examined carefully. We can't get any special consideration, nor do we deserve any, except for, perhaps, possibly speeding us through the line after we've been certified harmless. But I'm thinking of starting The Old Age Stop and Frisk Protest because I simply can't get used to having my underwear on display everywhere I go. I am going to have to go back to Victoria's Secret.
IN THE ongoing hoo-ha over Miley Cyrus at the Video Music Awards, let's just say I wasn't shocked. Just rather sad that young women feel the need to show the world they are "all grown up" by behaving this way. Granted, it was the VMAs, and when have they not had a shocking moment or two? When Madonna humped the stage in her wedding gown back in 1985, I recall she was the Devil incarnate, Sodom and Gomorrah in the flesh, and all who watched her performance should have been turned to pillars of salt. Nobody did and the young audience, who loved that exhibition, is all grown up and a lot of them wish Madonna would dress properly and not put gold grills on her teeth. They are now parents and professional people with children of their own.
My goodness, many who loved Elvis Presley's "subversive" writhing probably grew up to be conservatives! This is far less a matter of what MTV airs than it is a troubling look at Miss Cyrus and what she believes is going to prove to the world that she is ready for ... what, exactly?
MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski has been so worked up over this she is demanding that "somebody be fired" from MTV.
That's not going to happen, and it shouldn't. I'm not a big believer in firing people willy-nilly because you don't like what they say or do (unless it's an actual crime.) But Mika, mom to several daughters, certainly has a point that we live in an increasingly sexualized culture. But that genie can't be put back in the bottle. We can't undo, for instance, the fact that Marilyn Monroe refused to lie about posing nude for calendar art in 1952 -- much to the horror of the studio grooming her for stardom. "Of course, I did it. I needed the money. I did nothing wrong." Her career was made. There were no reports of anybody taking the road to degradation because of Monroe's exposure.
Today, you can't escape the sexual landscape, but the media promotes it even more than the movie and TV studios and advertising companies. And then they pretend to be "shocked, shocked!" If you are a parent and concerned, talk to your children openly, honestly and without judgment.
Then -- make sure there's only one computer in the house, a lock on certain TV stations you deem too adult and then try not to let them run around wearing a bead and a prayer. Not that it will help much. They'll use their friends' computers, watch those "forbidden" shows somewhere else and change clothes at school. Nine times out of 10 they'll turn out fine. Just like you, Mom.
RECEIVED A lovely note from Art Greenhaw, who produces records for Ann-Margret. He thanked us for our recent column on the lady, and then went on to remind us that A-M is really a woman of many talents. Over a 10-year period she has released three gospel albums -- "God Is Love," "Ann Margaret's Christmas Carol Collection" and "God Is Love 2."
That's all a long way from her hip-swinging image, but then again, her good friend Elvis Presley was adored for his gospel work, as well.
See, you can be sexy and love Him, too. Maybe Miley Cyrus is a little too young for a foray into gospel. She's got to get this other stuff out of her system first. But she has country roots. Her dad is Billy Ray Cyrus. So maybe 10 years from now Miley will put her tongue back in her mouth and praise the Lord.
(E-mail Liz Smith at email@example.com.)Copyright © 2014, Sun Sentinel


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Secrecy and the Economics of Religious Devotion
Religious secrecy is nothing new; ancient mystery religions enjoyed a long history and vital following, and even some early Christian groups apparently did not reveal key doctrines to catechumens until after baptism. A number of instantiations of institutional secrecy in the Church can be identified, among them the veil over the handbook of instructions and the lack of public information on how tithing dollars are spent. But what interests me here is the significance to community dynamics of the conducting of secret ceremonies.
The first hurdle in examining the implications of the practice is acknowledging that there is in fact any secrecy involved. Naturally such ceremonies are sacred, and the prohibition against discussing them in profane environments is one important way of shielding their sacred character. Just as they are delimited physically by buildings deliberately setting them apart from the rest of the world (and even from other church activities), so are they delimited conceptually by the admonition that they not be discussed in profane environments: thus both physical and conceptual barriers paralleling each other serve to patrol this relationship between sacred and profane. But in effect this functions as a form of secrecy. (Furthermore, the discussion of other religious knowledge deemed "sacred" is not formally restricted to any particular physical environment–even information which such rituals treat (i.e., Adam and Eve can be discussed in one's living room during a family home evening lesson). So secrecy/restricted access is not a necessary precondition to the LDS concept of sacrality.)
Secrecy may protect the sacred nature of certain church activities, but in addition it inevitably influences community dynamics, effectively creating a distinction between insiders and outsiders. Church culture, familiarity with doctrine and practice, and idiosyncratic Mormon parlance no doubt similarly reinforce the distinction between Church members and others. But restricted access to the Church's holiest circles of ritual activity and knowledge arguably functions more to sift full members from "partial" members within the Church itself than erect a barrier between members and non-members, since at this point the information is primarily being kept secret from people in the community. (Nonmembers who are aware that Mormons engage in secret rituals and are interested have likely investigated them, since they're readily available online; it's uninitiated believers who have reason to respect the boundary that shuts them out, just as it's these same believers who are invested and involved enough to be excluded.)
This boundary between initiated and uninitiated is reinforced in a number of ways, both explicit and implicit: by hints and allusions, by deliberately coming up short in explicating a gospel principle, by invoking temple covenants or recounting who was in attendance at a particular service–undoubtedly with no malicious or exclusionary intentions but in such a way that those outside the circle are continually reminded of its existence.
Social scientists recognize that, far from being wholly irrational, religious behavior (which not infrequently involves self-abnegation) confers certain tangible rewards. Denying oneself pleasurable experiences involving promiscuos sex, alcohol, greed, and dishonesty no doubt bestows the satisfaction of participating in a moral lifestyle and brings one closer to the Spirit, effects which are not to be discounted. But in addition, it makes possible one's integration into the community of adherents, with all the social benefits that fully belonging to a community entails. It's interesting that the Church has explicitly paired its list of minimum requirements for acceptable standing with access to secret activities; effectively, participation in those activities serves as a reward for meeting the requirements. Certainly there are religious rewards for meeting these stipulations: one may be closer to God, may be specifically blessed by him, and enjoys the peace of mind of being prepared to enter heaven. But here I'm interested in examining potential social rewards: those who meet the requirements accrue a certain amount of religious capital, and one of the ways in which that capital makes itself manifest in the community is through one's access to secret knowledge.
To summarize: secrecy is a form of exclusion, exclusion creates status for those included, and status serves as a potential reward. There are social benefits to adhering to the Church's standards of behavior, one of which is a certain status in the community that is reinforced by one's access to and familiarity with the secret knowledge and activities that mark one as a full member of the community. Ironically, the temple is frequently touted as the primary mechanism whereby social hierarchies are eroded, and yet (in addition to the fact that intergender hierarchies are reinforced) it can also be used to create and reinforce distinctions in social echelons in church interactions.
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(Secrecy no doubt also produces a number of other effects: it can make information more enticing but also more anxiety-inducing. Additionally, because of the taboo on discussing it, it is difficult to hold the Church accountable to what it teaches non-publicly.
The logical theological reason for keeping certain rituals secret is that the information itself serves as a sieve in the next life enabling those who have it to enter heaven where those who don't know it are barred. This poses a number of problems, among them the lack of ultimate control on the information: the righteous and initiated may forget the necessary knowledge, whereas others have relatively easy access to it, should they choose to investigate.)
In my own experience, I haven't seen a lot of social hierarchy involved in who has attended the temple. There are certainly structural hierarchical implications (i.e. you have to have a temple recommend to hold certain callings), but I haven't seen any social ones. Maybe that's because I'm one of the "included." But I know that I automatically assume that every adult I meet in the church is also one of the "included." I don't know that they are, but that's always my assumption.
How do you see this social hierarchy influencing actual social interactions within the community? (Maybe you could try and answer this from both the perspective of the "included" and the "excluded.")
Just today, I wrote a draft article on "the secrecy of patriarchal blessings" to be published tomorrow on my own blog. (The topic just popped into my head, of a sudden.) Then, I come in here and what do you know! another article on secrecy! Mere coincidence? I'm not sure, but it certainly is interesting how things like this happen.
Great post, btw.
I have experienced this hierarchy mostly as it has effected my family. Back when all ten of us, were young enough to be included in temple ritual, it was great and I never would have imagined an exclusionary aspect. Over the years, however, spouses and now some of us siblings have found ourselves among the excluded. Not because we wanted to live a life of sin, or ceased to love God, but because we have lost our faith that the church is what it claims to be. The last time I attended a temple wedding, my sister's, it felt so hollow to me because instead of feeling the joy of being with the ones who were there, I felt the painful absence of the ones who couldn't be there. I actually felt a tinge of shame that I was part of the "righteous group".
Your observations really hit home with me, because I have been on both sides. I felt the pleasure of being part of the elite in the church, I even served as one of the only young temple workers for many years. I also know how it feels to be on the outside and realize that those I love most will be hurt and judge my life when I tell them I can't go to the next temple wedding.
Fun post, K. But I think you're selling secrecy short. Really, is this the only potential reason for secrecy?
It seems that there are a lot of potential reasons to keep some sort of information secret, right? I mean, to step back and look at different kinds of information that is typically viewed as secret, we can come up with all sorts of things.
The schematics of military bases in wartime. The recipe for making Coca Cola. My client's information if I'm her attorney. (I see the company financial records, but I don't disclose everything I see.) My journal. My knowledge that my neighbor is having an affair. The details of my sex life with my wife. My knowledge that Bro. X really hates Bro. Y. My cards in a poker game. The password to my e-mail.
In some instances, disclosure of secrets is itself viewed as a really bad thing. If I disclose privileged and confidential information that I obtain as an attorney, I'm subject to sanction and disbarment. If I disclose the recipe for Coca Cola, the company loses millions. If I share the details of my sex life in public, people yell TMI and stop reading my blog. If I give my bank account info to the Nigerian spammer, I lose the house.
Yes, secrecy may create forms of exclusion. On the other hand, sometimes we _want_ to be excluded (please, don't tell the details of your hemorrhoids in fast and testimony meeting). Sometimes society wants us to exclude others from information — my attorney information; my bank password — and we tend to think that kind of exclusion is just and proper.
What is it about temple secrecy that makes it different to you from other, more mundane forms of secrecy?
Of course, there are reasons for secrecy other than social stratification. However, an analogy between Kaimi's examples and the function of the temple ceremonies is a stretch. It certainly is not sufficient to throw out lists without as much as a hint to their relevance.
A charitable but realistic reading of Kaimis's line of argument might begin with the observation that there seems to be different reasons for the secrecy of the endowment and weddings.
Joseph Smith plagiarized the endowment from the Masons, which has always been a secret society. By contrast, he needed to marry secretly because neither Emma nor society tolerated his escapades with multiple women but temple marriage would obtain the acquiescence of his brides and followers.
In the case of temple marriage, it may be reasonable to draw an analogy between Kaimi's secrets that are about protecting an individual's interest. Although Kaimi's examples are all legitimate while marrying the wives of other men is not, I am willing to ignore that difference momentarily for argument's sake.
However, the endowment secrecy cannot possibly compare to attorney-client privilege or banking secrecy. The endowment has always been about demarcating in- and out-groups within Mormon society.
My impression is that the discriminatory function of the temple might be weakening. The McTemples and the frantic efforts to herd people into the temple at ward and stake temple nights trivializes the sacred nature of temple rituals.
To a lesser degree that is also true of mainstreaming the content of the temple ordinances.
The more trivial, cheap, and profane, the less exclusive the temple rituals become.
There are interesting parallels between Mormonism and renaissance Catholicism. As Mormons are better educated, they are less willing to swallow the hierarchy's mythology, which is a catch 22 for a temple going people.
We used to live in one of the most backward societies of the western world where people were poorly educated, infant mortality rates were through the roof, and most of the corridor economy was agrarian. Masonic rituals were meaningful when most people's education did not extend much beyond reading, just enough to give rise to a vibrant imagination but not enough to provide people with a sense of perspective, and when the memory of Nauvoo and the pioneers' suffering was within living memory.
Contemporary Mormon experience is quite different. Mormons have come from the margins of the western world to the hub of the global economy. More importantly, we are living in a post-totalitarian world where Auschwitz and the Gulag are on everybody's mind. The most admired people in western society are probably Albert Einstein and Mahatma Gandhi.
These cultural changes confront us with a catch 22 because, on one hand, suicide pacts and naked touching are just no longer compatible with people's values. On the other hand, the emasculation of the temple rituals trivializes and cheapens them.
There is no easy way out for Mormonism, especially not with a top down management model. For Mormonism to overcome its current atrophy, the leaders would have to abandon correlation and to re-negotiate the meaning of Mormon values with the membership.
The members are Mormonisms greatest asset. Any solution to these and other problems will require a better use of members' resources, which is not possible without empowering them to a much greater degree.
Fine post, Kiskilili. You could really flesh out this concept into a full article. And talk about comments that are all over the map! By the way, I nominate Kaimi's (#5) as "comment of the year" if only for the range of his particular examples.
The spread of temples and the rise of the term "temple Mormon" (referring to those with a temple recommend and who, by inference, meet the behavioral and moral requirements) suggest that the distinction between insiders and outsiders within Mormonism plays a larger role than it used to. I certainly get that impression. When was the term "temple Mormon" first used, I wonder? And when did it move from being a term of criticism to being a mainstream term?
Furthermore, consider the use of a temple recommend as a control on who can get or keep a job at BYU and within the LDS employment sector, and the equivalent of temple recommend interview requirement (the bishop's interview and endorsement) for BYU students. This development shows how the Church as an institution has appropriated the temple and now uses it as a tool for social regulation. In some ways, that is as offensive as a merchant using a temple recommend as a basis for extending credit or for being willing to take someone's check. Or a neighbor using it as the basis for who to invite to their next party.
[Note: I'm not saying that the Church has abandoned the temple as a sacred icon or as a site for sacred ordinances and reflective worship. Just that it is now also used for other more institutional and bureaucratic purposes.]
Interesting post, Kiskilli. When my father couldn't attend my temple wedding, I was devastated. I hadn't thought of it in the same way you explained it, but a temple recommend really is a greater division within the church than between members and non-members.
Your post reminds me of two recent experiences.
1. A Visiting Teaching message about temple attendance that I gave, assuming that my companion was endowed. I asked her on the way home, and found out she wasn't. Her husband isn't a member (yet, she says) and she is waiting for him to join the church before going through the temple. I felt really bad about being so insensitive during the discussion.
2. Our RS Pres was talking on Sunday about a sister who needed fellowship, and whose mother occasionally comes to the ward. She mentioned that the mother was a temple recommend holder. I just thought it was odd, a strange way to request that the daughter should be treated a certain way. But, in light of your article, a temple recommend does seem to be a line in the sand within our church.
In response to Kaimi's comment, I think Kiskilli was looking at the effects of secrecy, not the purpose. There are many opinions about why the temple ceremony is secret, but the effects exist nonetheless.
Helmut, I'm surprised that you'd see the emphasis on attending the temple as trivializing it. I think there are indisputably strong blessings and benefits to attending the temple in a prepared state. The Church is trying to make it much easier for those who didn't live near a temple to have that.
Our temple where I grew up is basically a room off the institute building. Most of it needs set up and runs one or two nights a week. But this gives the blessing to people to go to the temple. When I was young you basically had to go to Washington D.C. and that was a long and expensive trip. People saved all year to go and usually it was a ward trip. Yet that was infeasible for many due to jobs or monetary situations.
Traditionally there was a gathering and the temple was an essential part of the community. It was literally the center place of the community. But as the Church became internationalized that changed. I think the Church is trying, as best it can, to recreate the situation once held in Utah or the intermountain West or even in Nauvoo, Kirtland or ancient Jerusalem.
Certainly the is a kind of social exclusion with the temple. Yet, I think you'll find, that much of what makes Mormons unique is wrapped up in that. Polygamy in the 19th century and the Word of Wisdom in the 20th. One can look to ancient Israel or even the Nephites and see similar techniques in making a people.
Thanks for the reply, Hellmut.
You're right, that I'm not saying that temple secrecy is the same as bank secrecy. What I am doing, is asking Kiskilili to elaborate a little. She makes a few somewhat broad statements. "Secrecy is a form of exclusion," for instance.
Of course it is. But, why is that bad?
It has to be more complicated than just, "secrecy is bad." Because, as I've noted, we seem to think that a lot of _types_ of secrecy are normal and good.
And really, it has to be more than just, "exclusion is bad," doesn't it? We exclude people all the time, again, and this is viewed as normal behavior. I exclude people from my dinner table, or from my bank account. I exclude people from my blog. And so do all of you.
To use one simple example, there's an interesting tension in this post itself — it's a post about the dangers of secrecy, written and posted by a pseudonymous writer, on a blog full of pseudonymous co-bloggers.
ZDs itself, through maintenance of secret information available to a few insiders, creates an in-group (those who know K.'s secret identity) and an out-group (those who don't).
I don't mean to imply that we can't draw a difference there. In fact, I think there are a lot of potential differences between ZD secrecy/exclusion, and church secrecy/exclusion.
But it seems obvious to me that the analysis has to be more complex and nuanced than simply, "secrecy is bad" or "exclusion is bad." And I'd like to hear Kiskilili flesh that out. I'd like to see her theory of secrecy and exclusion, so to speak — her reasoning as to why some types of secrecy are fine and others are not, and why church and temple secrecy fall into the latter category.
It's a fascinating topic, and as good as this post is, I don't think she's even come close to really doing it justice.
(Another weird tension: As K. notes, temple attendance gives certain status. But in theory, one's status vis-a-vis the temple is private and personal — the only person who has to know your temple status is your bishop. How do we convey status when it's linked to a relatively non-public designation? People use informal means (thin T-shirts to show the "smile"; ostentatious mention that they went to the temple last week). This norm of informally conveying temple status can create its own weird wrinkles.)
How important do you think that the exclusion created by the secrecy of the temple is in determining the active membership of the church? Off-hand, I would guess that almost all Mormon adults who attend church regularly but don't have a recommend are on a 1-2 year track to either leave the church or else (re)obtain a recommend. To the degree that this is true, the intra-church exclusion you are describing is not an equilibrium state. What we have essentially done is make the church an uncomfortable place for casual attendees. I'm curious if people agree with this, and if so, is it a good thing?
I see more of a division/exclusion (in terms of boundaries and status) in the church between married members and unmarried members than I do between temple-members and non-temple (attending) members.
Adam: My observations lead me to disagree. In Indiana I see a lot of long-term non-temple attendees at church.
However, I would also acknowledge that the long-term non-temple attendees (and temple-mormons) are also far outnumbers by the inactive members. So I'm not sure which number to compare the long-term non-temple attendees with.
Kaimi: your questions seem very congruent with my mental image of a law professor.
Thanks for the comments.
Vada, you ask a good question regarding examples of hierarchy in the community that the temple produces; I guess I'm thinking of comments along the lines of "honey, you don't really understand Isaiah because you're not endowed," or, once, when I asked a question in Sunday School, I was informed that I wouldn't have such questions if I'd been to the temple, in which everything is made clear. Also, I think the general assumption among endowed members that everyone else is endowed contributes unwittingly (and innocently) to the exclusion: people might say "let's get together after ward temple night" without meaning to say, "except for you, since you can't come." Jessawhy's example is a good one illustrating the awkward situations that are sometimes created as a result of this assumption! But I'd be curious to hear others' experience of being a non-endowed participating adult member.
Thanks, LDS Anarchist–patriarchal blessings are another interesting instance of secrecy (and/or privacy).
Samara, I don't know what to say except that I can definitely relate to your concerns. There are obvious benefits to making the family the centerpiece of religious worship, but it does make things emotionally complicated when one member wants to extricate themself.
Hi Kaimi! I actually intended the post to be neutral and descriptive (which is why I tucked some of my concerns into the first comment). Like you, I think secrecy is extremely valuable and valid in a number of situations. And I don't think fuller social integration into the community is a reason for secrecy so much as it is an (inevitable?) effect of exclusion.
I haven't really sorted out my feelings on the issue of secrecy (regarding ritual) per se; I'm both very attracted to the idea at the same time that I'm quite suspicious of it. I find the separation of sacred and profane, both in space and in information, appealing and meaningful and potentially important to the integrity of the category of "sacred." And although secrecy and privacy don't always overlap, one intriguing explanation is that the information presented is private to God and he only wishes to share it with intimate associates? At the same time I find the theological explanations problematic, the community exclusion disconcerting, and the disconnect between Church attitudes in- and outside the temple irresponsible. My concerns aren't meant as a blanket condemnation of secrecy itself, but if it were up to me (heaven forbid!) I would probably implement things differently. I tend to think people should know what they'll be required to promise ahead of time, for example, and that single non-RM women shouldn't be asked to wait until it's clear they have few marriage prospects before being allowed to attend.
Also, comments to the effect that the opinions of the unendowed, since they lack access to full theological knowledge of their own religion, are partial and therefore necessarily invalid I find to be frankly rude and misguided. Although people occasionally tried to convince me of it before I was endowed, I fail to see how the temple serves as an ultimate hermeneutical key to all other sacred texts. Sometimes some of our condescending attitude toward other Christians who try to pray to God and try to read the Bible but don't really understand how and get it all wrong bleeds across the spectrum into condescension of unendowed members.
Adam (#11) asks a good question about who's not endowed but still participating. The standard Church position is that anyone who wants to attend the temple can, so it's not a form of exclusion except by choice. This made sense to me for a long time, and in fact at the time I was being excluded I'm not sure I ever questioned whether the exclusion was appropriate. But my experience is that there are a number of people who are neither on the way out of the Church nor attending the temple: some people have objections to the content of the rituals and go a few times but never return; some people object to secrecy or to the form of ritual itself; some people are waiting for a more certain witness from God of his involvement in the Church and thus don't feel sufficiently worthy to attend, or else withdraw because of a loss of faith; some are just single women "waiting to grow up," etc. A number of these people are not on their way out.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Dave! I agree with you completely that holding a temple recommend has become the standard threshold for measuring one's commitment and serves effectively as social regulation. For example, the Word of Wisdom as outlined in D&C 89 includes all sorts of information, but we usually extract from it exactly what's necessary to hold a temple recommend, and consider everything else sort of optional (your bishop won't deny you a recommend if you go on the Atkin's diet and grain is no longer your staff of life, for example).
I guess I'm thinking of comments along the lines of "honey, you don't really understand Isaiah because you're not endowed," or, once, when I asked a question in Sunday School, I was informed that I wouldn't have such questions if I'd been to the temple, in which everything is made clear.
This may seem problematic to you now, Kiskilili, but you'll understand it all perfectly well once you get married.
Heh–I can't wait for that magical key of clarity! I hear, though, that things become clearer the more spouses you're married to . . .
I used to get those "you'll understand once you go to the temple" comments all the time before I was endowed. I remembered every question I ever had where that was the response I was given. I cannot tell you how absolutely devastated I was after attending the temple for the first time. NONE of those questions were answered. For example, I once asked a seminary teacher whether Satan took 1/3 of ALL of God's children with him or just 1/3 of the ones that went to this planet. The teacher said, "I can't answer that now, but you'll get that answer in the temple." Um. No. You don't. I have learned that when I asked difficult questions of people (usually priesthood holders of some office) that instead of saying the didn't know, they'd lay the whole "you'll learn in the temple" line as a way to excuse their ignorance and emphasize how much more they knew than me. Yes, I knew Latin, Greek, and Hebrew but I wasn't "in the know" really because I wasn't endowed. My impression is that it is the more ignorant, self-conscious, self-doubters who use the secrecy of the endowment to create the "in" and "out" groups. It makes them feel good to exclude others. I think this comes from human weakness though, not from the structure of the church. From those who were comfortable with someone asking hard questions, I never got the condescending "you'll know when you're endowed" answer.
I can really relate to your experience, PowersThatBe. Because I was told not infrequently that my questions about doctrine and scripture would be resolved by the temple, and because I read published material to the effect that the purpose of life would be made clear in the temple, I genuinely expected there would be MUCH more information presented and was somewhat surprised that the temple ceremony is little more than a slightly fleshed out account of a story familiar to every primary child–and that far from answering questions it only presented several new doctrinal problems.
Ironically, an attitude I frequently encounter on blogs is exactly the reverse of this: that instead of clarifying our other sacred texts, the temple can only be understood in light of other sacred texts (such as statements in GC). To the degree that extra-temple texts serve to assign meaning to the temple ceremonies, the temple really isn't secret at all.
I'm a bit late chiming in on this, but I appreciated this post, Kiskilili; it's a topic I've often wondered about. Exactly who or what is being protected by the secrecy of the temple? As you say, in this internet age it seems that the ceremony is actually hidden not so much from the world at large as from unendowed members; curious non-members can simply google it. Douglas Davies observes in The Mormon Culture of Salvation that temple secrecy is not "'private-life secrecy,' a pattern of behaviour aimed at concealing immoral or illegal behaviour, but is rather a means of maintaining a boundary that ensures a privilege of access to the prime source of identity." (80) I'd agree that temple secrecy seems to serve more as an identity marker than as a means of concealing information per se.
And I've certainly seen plenty of examples of the kind of insider/outsider dynamics within the community that this creates. When I was at BYU, for example, I had religion professors who would make a comment and then add, "and to some of you, this might mean a little more" (wink wink), and I've seen that kind of thing happen in Sunday School as well. My impression is that those who haven't been to the temple are generally considered to be less spiritually mature, and therefore don't get taken quite as seriously. (For example, how many have raised feminist concerns at some point in their life only to be condescendingly informed that "once you go to the temple, you'll understand"? )
A random thought: one of the justifications we offer for keeping the ceremony secret—to preserve its sacredness and not expose it to the mockery of the world—is also a frequently cited justification for keeping Heavenly Mother in hiding. In the latter case, I have some real questions about whether we're actually protecting Heavenly Mother, or whether we're protecting something else entirely (like patriarchal sensibilities), and I wonder to what extent something similar might be true of the temple.
But I admittedly have a bit of an axe to grind on this one; the secrecy thing is something that bothers me, a lot. I remember being told in ninth grade by my seminary teacher that the scriptures didn't tell us everything we needed to know to get into the Celestial Kingdom, that we'd have to go to the temple for that. And I was horrified; it sounded like God had set up a special club of his favorite, most privileged children, to whom he communicated confidential information. I can see different points of view on this, but I still have a sort of intense visceral reaction to the whole thing. I realize that in theory, the invitation is open to all, but in practice I think it inevitably has the effect of creating a group of spiritual elites, and I find that quite troubling.
Another aspect of temple secrecy which I find particularly worrisome is that when people have negative experiences there, they're left without a place to talk about and work through those experiences—at least, assuming that they want to maintain some commitment to the Church. I also think that it is profoundly unethical to not clearly communicate to people exactly what is going to happen there, and what will be expected of them, before they go. The secrecy surrounding the temple exerts a tremendously high spiritual cost for some.
I will say, though, that I can appreciate the desire to create sacred space; I liked how Richard Bushman described it in the Pew Forum interview:
Just like time is set aside on the Sabbath devoted to God, can you have space set aside that's devoted to God? Mormons have become very good at that . . . Some people think of this as secretive in the sense of hiding things. But for Mormons, it's all part of the process of creating a sacred space. When you walk in there, life is different. You just feel things are on a different plane.
I don't know. I'm torn between respecting the value of ritual space which is clearly delineated from the rest of the world, and being sympathetic to the early Christian denunciations of gnosticism, and the argument that the ethos of Christianity is incompatible with secrecy.
Thanks, Lynnette–this is a great comment. I especially love the quote by Davies that the secrecy "ensures a privilege of access to the prime source of identity." That states it beautifully.
Like you, my experience has been that non-temple-attenders are generally regarded as spiritually less mature and that as a result they are not always taken seriously. This is one reason I find the policy of asking members to wait where possible for marriage or a mission troubling; to a large degree those who are being excluded in the community are single never-married women.
I think the Church should establish an endowment age parallel to the baptismal age, and worthy interested members of that age should be allowed to receive their endowment. The counterargument to this that I can think of would be that people at that age (19?) would be pressured into attending the temple whether ready or not. But as I see it, men are already basically in that situation, as are women who marry young: worthy members preparing for marriage are never told to hold a civil ceremony and wait until they mature a little more before they can be sealed. Effectively, a signficantly higher level of "maturity" and a higher age requirement is imposed on single non-RMs.
I also think that it is profoundly unethical to not clearly communicate to people exactly what is going to happen there, and what will be expected of them, before they go. The secrecy surrounding the temple exerts a tremendously high spiritual cost for some.
It seems the trend toward asking single women to wait until they mature before receiving their endowments is an effort to ensure that temple attendees are prepared for the experience. But I don't think the Church is doing very much to prepare them, and I personally doubt that age prepares them either. It seems possible, for example, that women who have lived on their own as full adults managing their own lives for several years before attending the temple are going to be less likely to accept the subordination the temple requires of them.


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Kids finish today, but i've got 38 LCD monitors to deploy so i'm here til Friday.
So whos finishing today then? Or are you held until Friday?
Kids finish today, but i've got 38 LCD monitors to deploy so i'm here til Friday.
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Lunch, drinks then home 'til new year!
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I'm finishing today don't know what time yet but definately today!!!
You lucky devil, we finish 2pm Friday.
Don't finish till friday, then i've got a 3 plus hour journey on the M6 to look forward to!
Was today, although school is in until Friday, but the boss has arranged an appointment for me at 11am tomorow....grrrrrr
Your boss sounds like a bit of a plonker.
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The Detroit Red Wings will have arguably one of their best players back on Friday. Pavel Datsyuk is set to return to the lineup when the Red Wings host the Sabres at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. He hasn't played since February 27 due to inflammation in his knee, but has 33 points in 39 games this season. His return to the lineup could be the spark the Red Wings need to finish their playoff push.
Although the Red Wings are currently in a playoff spot, there's no guarantee just yet. The team has six games left, including two against the Sabres. If the Red Wings do miss the playoffs, it would be the first time since 1990.
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The Red Wings are on a three-game winning streak heading into tonight's game. Their last loss came on March 27 to the Montreal Canadiens.
Wednesday, the Red Wings beat the Boston Bruins, 3-2. Tomas Tatar, Tomas Jurco and Gustav Nyquist scored for Detroit. Jimmy Howard had 33 saves in the win.
Captain Henrik Zetterberg leads the Red Wings with 48 points on the season, but there are several high-scorers on the team.
Right winger Gustav Nyquist has attracted a lot of attention – he's got 28 goals and 18 assists for 46 points in 51 games. He is currently on a three-game goal streak and has a goal in 9 of his last 10 games.
Defenseman Niklas Kronwall (46 pts) and right winger Daniel Alfredsson (45 pts) are up there as well.
Datsyuk's return to the lineup could be a good push for the Red Wings heading into the last few games. The Red Wings were was 8-6-2 without him, and every point could be crucial from here on for the Wings to clinch a playoff spot.
Alfredsson may in the lineup tonight against Buffalo, but it's uncertain right now as he's stayed off the ice the past few days. Daniel Cleary, Mikael Samuelsson, Stephen Weiss, Zetterberg and Jonathan Ericsson are all out tonight with injuries.
The Red Wings are 17-12-10 at home this season. They face a three-game road trip after tonight, then split the last two games of the season between home and away.
Detroit has never been an easy team to beat; there's a reason they've made the playoffs for 22 consecutive seasons, and they won't let that streak die easily. Look for Datsyuk and the Red Wings to come out strong tonight against the Sabres in hopes of inching closer to solidifying a playoff spot.
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Volleyball Falls to No. 25 Sailfish
MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – Barry University's volleyball team lost to No. 25 Palm Beach Atlantic, 25-15, 25-13, 25-19, Tuesday at the Health & Sports Center. The Buccaneers (8-3) were playing in their third match in five days, and suffered their first three-set loss of the season, and their first setback to a ranked opponent this year. Barry... read more
Men's Golf 4th at Saint Leo Invitational
DADE CITY, Fla. – Barry University's men's golf team shot 3-under 285 in Tuesday's final round of the Saint Leo Invitational to finish fourth. The No. 1-ranked Buccaneers moved up two spots on the final day, finishing at 8-under 568. South Carolina-Aiken won the tournament with a 14-under 562. North Alabama and Lynn tied for second at 566,... read more
Men's Golf Tied for 6th at Rain-Soaked Saint Leo Invite
DADE CITY, Fla. -- Barry University's men's golf team shot 283 in the rain-shortened Saint Leo Invitational Monday, and is tied for sixth place. The No. 1-ranked Buccaneers trail leader North Alabama by 10 strokes for the lead. The tournament will be reduced to 36 holes, with 18 to be played Tuesday on Lake Jovita Golf & Country Club's... read more
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LAKELAND, Fla.—The Barry Buccaneers struck early, but could not hold on in falling 4-1 to the Florida Southern Moccasins in Sunshine State Conference +2 action at Barnett Field on Saturday night. In the 14th minute, Barry keeper Robby Shearer unleashed a monstrous punt and Frank Lustig out-raced everyone for a breakaway against Mocs' keeper Cole... read more
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – Barry University's volleyball team let a two-set lead get away Saturday in a 26-24, 26-24, 23-25, 21-25, 18-20 loss to Rollins Saturday. It was the first five-set match of the season for the Buccaneers, who dropped their first match in two weeks. Barry (8-2, 1-1 Sunshine State Conference) will host No. 25 Palm Beach... read more
Women's Soccer Drops First Game At Florida Southern
LAKELAND, Fla.—The eighth-ranked Barry Buccaneers went into Lakeland, Fla., shorthanded after three defensive starters missed the game, and were clipped by the Florida Southern Moccasins 2-1 at Barnett Field. The Bucs missed center back Amber Smith, right back Natalie Diaz and defensive center midfielder Tamara Vuckovich in the game for various... read more
Volleyball Sweeps Eckerd in SSC Opener
MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – Barry University's volleyball team swept Eckerd, 28-26, 25-16, 26-24, Friday in the Sunshine State Conference opener at home. It was the first time since 2004 the Buccaneers beat Eckerd in three sets. The Bucs (8-1, 1-0 SSC) hit .304 in the middle set, converting 70 percent of their sideout opportunities, and never let... read more
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this is something that's always bothered me: when people are like "you're not a real programmer unless you use [insert editor, language, database, any given technology here]" i mean, you can extrapolate this phenomenon to anything like bikes/photography/music/cooking/whatever…it's all the same elitist douchebag attitude.
i don't want to single this guy out because this is something that's embedded in development culture. i've been hearing this [see also: php vs. ruby vs. python, mysql vs. nosql, blah] for years and it's getting really annoying.
granted, some tools are better suited to different tasks and workflows, but it really bothers me when developers have the attitude that unless you do things their way, you're doing it wrong. people work in different ways, and few things are more frustrating than trying to arbitrarily do something a certain way just because a group of people have decided it's the "real way to do it." the specific tools you use are irrelevant…you're arguing over preferences here, guys.
and sure, comments like the one in this picture may be made in jest, but even jokes about this kind of thing aren't nearly as amusing as they are annoying.
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The Hopkins softball team has received a big-time national academic honor. The Royals tied for first place in the nation in grade-point rankings for 2008-09, compiled by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
With a team GPA of 3.812, Hopkins tied for first place with Georgia's Madison County High School in the non-weighted category.
Minnesota Valley Lutheran of New Ulm placed third with a GPA of 3.777.
This is the third time in the past four years that Hopkins has claimed the top spot in the nation for GPA ranking. Not only have the Royals succeeded in the classroom, they have been Classic Lake champions, Class 3A Regions 6 AAA champions and state tournament participants in the last two years.
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Monday, 15 September 2014
It is the pleasure for Dr Prof. Alaa el- Din Hamed, president of the university, to congratulate the team of the project ' Port Said- Port Fouad Movable Bridge,' on the occasion of winning the best project prize on the level of the Egyptian universities in civil engineering held in the Egyptian Engineering Day. The team consisted of students of class 2014- Radwa Fathy Saleh, Dalia Abdul Salam, Mena Mohammad, Mona el- Adawy, Mohammad el- Ghatory, Dina el- Sayed, Khalid Abdul Ghany.
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Sunday, 07 September 2014
Port Said University signed collaboration protocol with the training partners "Alsun Academy" concerning providing specialized trainings and certificates. These certificates are not equal to any degree granted by any faculty according to Article No 49/72 of the university regulations.
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World | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 24, 2014
A primary school teacher was yesterday detained for allegedly raping several students in central China's Hubei Province, in the latest of a series of child molestation cases in the country.
Muzaffarnagar Teacher Allegedly Raped, Filmed by Students
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A 23-year-old teacher was allegedly kidnapped and raped in the Balwakheri village of Muzaffarnagar district in western Uttar Pradesh. The act was reportedly filmed by two friends of the accused.
Pakistan Arrests Seminary Teacher for Gang-Rape
World | Associated Press | Wednesday May 14, 2014
Pakistani police have arrested a seminary teacher and two of his friends on charges of gang-raping a college girl in a city in the northwest, a police official said on Wednesday.
Barmer: School Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Raping Student
Cities | Press Trust of India | Sunday May 4, 2014
A private school teacher was today arrested for allegedly raping his minor student in Barmer district in Rajasthan, police said today.
French priest charged with rape, torture during exorcisms
World | Agence France-Presse | Thursday April 10, 2014
A priest in an ultra-conservative Catholic sect has been charged with rape and torture for acts allegedly committed during exorcisms involving three schoolteachers.
Mumbai: Watchman arrested for raping 28-year-old woman
Cities | Press Trust of India | Saturday January 25, 2014
City police have arrested the watchman of a housing society for allegedly raping a 28-year-old dance teacher in Powai in suburban Mumbai.
Bhopal: Maharishi Vidya Mandir Chairman arrested for allegedly raping former employee for 15 years
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The Vice Chancellor of Maharishi Vedic University, Girish Chandra Verma, has been arrested in Bhopal for allegedly sexually exploiting a former woman employee since 1998. A city court sent him to three-day police custody today.
School teacher allegedly rapes student in Rajasthan, arrested
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A school teacher has been arrested for allegedly raping a Class 10 student repeatedly and forcing her to have an abortion in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan.
Teacher arrested for allegedly raping student, forcing abortion in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district
India | Press Trust of India | Thursday December 19, 2013
A private school teacher has been arrested for allegedly raping a Class 10 student repeatedly and forcing her to have abortion in Bhilwara district in Rajasthan.
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Krishna Sharma, a 36-year-old from Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in the morning at the airport as he was trying to leave.
Yoga teacher in Goa arrested for allegedly raping German student
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Krishna Sharma, a 36-year-old from Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in the morning at the airport as he was trying to leave, police inspector Tushar Vernekar said.
Teacher booked for alleged rape of minor girl student in Andhra Pradesh
Cities | Press Trust of India | Tuesday November 5, 2013
A government school teacher was booked on the charge of allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl student and forcibly getting her pregnancy terminated in Nalgonda.
US man faces life in prison for 'prank' sex attack
World | Associated Press | Friday October 4, 2013
A former Northern California high school student faces a maximum sentence of life in prison after being convicted for attempted rape and kidnapping of a teacher which he testified was a prank.
School teacher arrested for molestation bid on student
Cities | Press Trust of India | Wednesday October 2, 2013
A school teacher was arrested for allegedly trying to molest a 10-year-old girl inside the school premises in Nanpara area in Bahraich, police said today.
Three minor girls hospitalised in Coimbatore after alleged 'sexual abuse' by teacher
South | Press Trust of India | Friday September 6, 2013
Three minor girls of a primary school at Peelamedu area have been hospitalised after allegedly being sexually abused by their physical education teacher, police said.
Protest in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar after minor girl allegedly gang-raped
India | Nazir Masoodi | Saturday July 27, 2013
A 15-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by a group of four men, including her former teacher in Kuntwara, Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. A group of people have come together to protest the incident and demand stern action against the rap...
Woman teacher allegedly sexually tortured, headmaster suspended
South | Press Trust of India | Saturday July 27, 2013
The headmaster of a panchayat school in Tukkachi village has been suspended for allegedly sexually torturing a woman teacher, who later tried to commit suicide by consuming poison, police said.
Student allegedly raped by tuition teacher; consumes acid
Cities | Press Trust of India | Thursday April 4, 2013
A class X student was allegedly raped by her tuition teacher at his home, prompting her to reportedly attempt suicide by consuming acid on Thursday, police said.
Minor girl foils school teacher's molestation bid
Cities | Press Trust of India | Tuesday March 26, 2013
A government primary school teacher allegedly tried to molest a class III student of his school on its premises near Shajapur, police said on Tuesday.
French 'boat school' founder jailed for 12 years for sex abuse
World | Agence France-Presse | Saturday March 23, 2013
The founder of a French alternative school that took students on boat trips on the high seas was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for the rape and sexual abuse of five children.


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Costing You Money To Help A For Profit BusinessMarch 29th, 2014 by Alan Yu
Today I took some time to help a business with a mini project where for the most part I agreed because it seemed like they would be losing a great opportunity if they didn't get the thing done by a certain deadline. As well, I genuinely wanted to see them grow. Technically, I lost money doing this too and I know almost every business guru you can think of would probably frown on that.
I must be one the few who believes that if you do good things for others that you will in return receive the same. Ironically though, having said that I think most of these situations have usually turned out for the worst such as the person/business simply forgetting about the deeds or that they simply ask for more until they drain you.
I guess for me the important thing is not to expect anything in return. Basically, if you agree to help in this way out of the goodness of your heart then prepared to eat up the loss with no return. Of course, realistically to avoid this period you could just be consistent in always insisting where if there is no upfront compensation in exchange for your work/time then no can do. Kind of a downer in some ways as I know for myself I usually want to help as much people as possible but it's tricky trying to determine who genuinely needs/appreciate your help versus those who are strictly using you for their own gain.
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1. Consider geography. If you're renting tuxedos for a wedding, it is likely that your groomsmen live in different areas. Therefore, it's essential to rent from a shop with several outposts. With multiple locations you can inquire about picking up a tux in one city and dropping off at another. Plus, you may be able to get a discount (depending on the size of the wedding party) if you're all renting from the same store. If you're renting a single tuxedo, you also may want to consider location. Will you have the time (and money) to drive to a town that is 30 minutes away to pick up your tuxedo before the event?
2. Ask for recommendations. Like tuxedos, all tuxedo shops are not the same. Look for one with a good selection, good service, and good knowledge. Ask for recommendations from friends, especially former grooms and groomsmen, for a top-quality store.
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4. Figure out your timeline. Always reserve your tuxedo/s as early as possible. In most cases, reserving it 2-4 weeks in advance will do, but in the case of a prom or a wedding, you should reserve a tux 1-3 months in advance. Prom season is hectic and the popular styles and sizes fly off the shelves. Weddings, on the other hand, require a lot of planning: measurements for all those in the wedding party (even those who are out of town) will need to be taken before the tuxedos can be reserved, so plan ahead, especially during wedding season.
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This is part of the GOP's HR3 bill that 71% of republican voters oppose, yet the GOP and Boehner call it "the will of the people."
Yep, you got that right! The job-focused, tax-focused economy-building new Congress is getting started right away, with a bill to… deny health coverage to rape survivors.
Oh, but, you know, that only applies the rape survivors who just don't count. Meaning the majority of rape survivors. Under this new bill, the only rape survivors who would be able to receive funding would be those who were able to prove that their rapes involved "force." If your rapist drugged you, intoxicated you, or raped you while you were unconscious, you don't get coverage. If your rapist used coercion, you don't get coverage. If this is a case of statutory rape — that is, if you are a thirteen-year-old child, raped by someone outside of your family — you don't get coverage. If you're an incest survivor over the age of eighteen — if, say, years of abuse only culminated in a pregnancy after your nineteenth birthday — you just don't get coverage. And if you live in a state that doesn't distinguish "forcible rape" from "rape," you might not qualify, meaning that no matter what the circumstances of your assault were, well, sorry: You might not get coverage.
Please read Sady Brown's piece on this and how it would be restricting to rape and incest survivors. Then call your representative and tell them you do not want this. Along with every Republican, there are quite a few Democrats who are also supportive of this measure. They include D Boren [D-OK2], J Costello [D-IL12], M Critz [D-PA12], J Donnelly [D-IN2], D Lipinski [D-IL3], C Peterson [D-MN7], N Rahall [D-WV3], M Ross [D-AR4], H Shuler [D-NC11].
Today, I read about the investigation in the murder and decapitation of Daniel Pearl, the Washington Post journalist that was kidnapped and killed in 2002.
A recently completed investigation of the killing of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan nine years ago makes public new evidence that a senior al-Qaeda operative executed the Wall Street Journal reporter.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed — the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, who is being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — said at a military hearing in 2007 that he killed Pearl. But there have been lingering doubts about his involvement, and the United States has not charged him with the crime.
According to the new report, which was prepared by faculty members and students at Georgetown University, U.S. officials have concluded that vascular technology, or vein matching, shows that the hand of the unseen man who killed Pearl on video is that of Mohammed.
Then, shortly after, I read a comment from Andrew Breitbart in relation to throwing a "big ol' gay party" at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference:
I will be the harshest critic of the activist gay left, who I fear more than al-Qaida.
"Gay left" > religious terrorists who kidnap and murder American journalists? Classy.
Ezra Klein
Great piece from Klein on Sarah Palin's video response. This is exactly what I was hoping Palin would do but sadly didn't. I do not blame her for the shootings but I think figureheads need to take responsibility for their words instead of hiding behind more words.
…and not blame "sides" or political affiliations for what led up to the shootings yesterday. I do think some people need to own up for recent gun-toting speak (please see Sean T. Collins' piece on the disturbing trend of militarization in recent politics), and hopefully they will realize there's no place in politics for it, but i realize that while they do speak for groups of people, it is not the majority. Instead of pointing at people and blaming them these days after, I think it's more interesting and telling to see how they're blaming others.
I came across a tweet today that said, in all caps, "DEMOCRAT GROUP USING SHOOTING AS FUNDRAISER ATTEMPT" with a link to this article on Breitbart's Big Hollywood site, with relatively the same title as the tweet. That does sound pretty damning and I wanted to know who was trying to profit off of this horrible tragedy. In his piece, Warner Todd Huston says:
The email goes on to ask members to "join us in sharing your thoughts and prayers to the Congresswoman and her family by visiting our website where we have set up a page for you to do so." Naturally once you click on the link you are taken to a page that prominently displays the group's DONATE NOW button. It is not in the slightest way discreetly designed. As soon as you go to this so-called prayers page you see a large button asking for donations and another one underneath it urging visitors to "sign up" for email blasts and information.
Disgustingly, 21st Century Democrats is using this crime in a fundraising effort.
Gauche is hardly a strong enough word to describe this action.
But when you click on that link in his piece and go to the site of 21st Century Democrats, this is what you see:
A letter regarding the shooting, sending prayers to Giffords and her family, and then below the letter is a spot to enter your own message to share. This "prominently" displayed "DONATE NOW" button is nothing more than something set up in the sidebar that is part of the webpage design, and appears on every one of their pages because it's, you know, part of the design. Not once in that letter are they asking for donations but according to Huston, this is a "fundraising effort."
Sarah Palin also released a statement on the tragedy yesterday, which was placed on her SarahPAC site:
I don't think Sarah Palin is trying to use this as a fundraising event but by Huston's own speech, she might be.
(Huston also stirred the pot in the comics blogosphere last year when he got into a tiff with some Comic Book Resources writers after damning an issue of Captain America for supposedly having a negative Tea Party reference.)
It's disturbing to me to read this continued hateful speech that is happening a day after this atrocious incident. It's not progressing any discussion about the facts or possible solutions and is instead only continuing to divide this country in a time when we need to come together.
Reading the comments on Huston's piece is even more disturbing. I won't post them here but I only found one comment that denounced Huston's piece that this as a fundraising event and they were attacked by other commenters.
I'm trying to remain civil…
My friend Ruben called me yesterday, after word got out about the shootings in his adopted home state of Arizona. "It finally happened," he said. 'Finally' being the key word — for those of us who have lived in Arizona, yesterday's events had a disturbing sense of inevitability. We had been waiting, powerless, for something like this to happen.
In Arizona, politicians are used to finding themselves in the literal line of fire. In August of 2009, during the height of health-care reform demonstrations, a protester was removed from a Giffords event at a supermarket when his pistol fell out of his holster and on to the floor. Months eariler, the glass front door of her office was shattered. During the general election campaign this year, her Republican opponent, Jesse Kelly, invited supporters to come shoot automatic weapons with him. "Get on target for victory," his ad read. "Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office." Kelly failed at the polls, but an automatic weapon may have removed Giffords from office after all.
It's not just Giffords who is under siege, of course. In July, a window in the district office of Rep. Raul Grijalva was shattered by a bullet. I still shudder when I think of the man who carried an assault rifle at a protest when President Obama came to Arizona for a speech. The other day, lest she forget where she came from, someone sent an incendiary device through the mail to Arizona's old governor, Janet Napolitano.
And so you understand what Ruben meant when he said, "It finally happened." And the truth is it has been happening in Arizona for a while.
Real Life Horror: "The Republican party's repeated intimations of militarization have disturbing implications" — a series as presented by Sean T. Collins.


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Fun fact about this copy protection advertisement, the creator actually stole the song used in the ad from a small film festival. The bloke ended up suing the creator and won. Would you steal a song and use it to promote anti-piracy?
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Lou Zocchi and the Science of Dice
I'm co-opting this week's Creatures of Genskoyo writeup to show you two videos of veteran dicemaker Lou Zocchi at Gencon 2008. You might know Zocchi as the inventor of hundred sided dice.
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I had noticed this before and wondered why the edges of all the dice I could buy were rounded and the ones that my DM had were sharp, he's right. Mathematically if the dice is egg shaped it will do what he says it will and the smaller sides will appear less, dose anyone know where I can get dice with crisp edges. I'm in England.
GameScience dice are available at gamestation.net. I know they have my endorsement (for all that's worth)!
And Lou Zocchi is an institution. His dice rock, and he doesn't mind telling you so. I hope we'll see him again as a guest at Gen Con.
Very cool videos! I buy dice for each of my gaming friends every Christmas. I think this Christmas I'm going to be a little more choosey after watching those videos.
Rather interesting presentation. I hadn't heard most of this stuff before, but it does make some sense.
I now realise why I prefer my sharp edged dice :)
Does it annoy the hell out of anyone else that he keeps using 'dice' as a singular?
The guy is just annoying, period. He doesn't offer any evidence of why his dice are "better", just his claims.
The fact that he advertises himself as a "Colonel" rather than the USAF-retired Sergeant that he really is troubles me, as well.
I have yet to see any issues with Chessex dice favoring any particular results over another.
That said, let's assume that his dice really do average out better than every other brand of dice. They still look like crap.
I respectfully disagree with the statement that Lou "doesn't offer any evidence." I believe you may want to watch those videos again and possibly you may want to stop and talk with him in person at Origins, Gen Con, or any of the other cons he attends. The dice proof is in the product if you are so inclined to measure dice faces.
However, having said that, I would also not put down Chessex or Koplow dice. I think really it is a matter of how accurate you want your dice to be.
If absolute accuracy matters then you probably should accept the bumps and not so pretty look of Gamescience dice, but if the look matters and you can tolerate that the dice may not roll perfectly fair then I would say go with Koplow, Chessex, or Crystal Caste. After all is said and done, these manufacturers do produce good dice and you probably will not even notice that a few rolls come out unbalanced here and there. It really is a personal choice.
But to say that Lou offers no evidence? That seems a strong statement not well thought out. And Colonel is a nickname given to Lou by friends from what I understand. I have a bias here. Lou is a great guy that I have been fortunate to know these past few years. Something always irritates me when someone comes online trash talking him and his dice.
Talk to the man in person. You can walk away saying you do not like his dice, fair enough. But I do not believe you can walk away saying the man has no evidence for his claims.
Oh and Asmor, it does irritate at first, but you will find the majority of dice manufacturing folks use the term dice as a singular and plural. You get used to it after a while. :)
I have seen it written that using die as the singular of dice is a relatively new affectation and that historically dice was used for both singular and plural.
I think that you should know the differences. If you are going to trash talk my Grandfathers Brother you should get to know him first. Plus you dont know what your talking about when it comes to dice. Some people should try making dice and then see how accurate it has to be.
"Does it annoy the hell out of anyone else that he keeps using 'dice' as a singular?"
Seriously! It really diminishes his credibility.
"…historically dice was used for both singular and plural."
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, dice is the preferred plural of die. But, it does also say that dice has sometimes been used as singular over the years. Doesn't make it "correct", though. Dice hasn't been "officially" taken as singular for the past 600 years or more.
Interestingly, in the second video he does occasionally use die for the singular.
As far as evidence goes, what he presents is an interesting hypothesis, but not evidence. His conjecture that extended-rolling dice are less random than dice that don't roll much seems faulty. I'd like to actually see a comparison between precision square-edged dice and precision rounded-edge dice (i.e. with identical rounded edges rather than those that result from tumbling. This may not be feasible with current technology).Probabilistically, it seems that the issue is not the extra rolling, but the nonuniformity of the dice. Casinos use the square-edged dice because they can be more easily machined than round-edged dice (i.e., more cheaply), not because they don't roll as much.
His hypothesis about the "egg-shaped" dice seems sound, though.
What would really do his business some good is data. He's got buttloads of dice. Roll 'em and read 'em. Show us the statistics. Then do the same for his competitors' dice. That'll solve it right there.
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