In the Realm of the Bobbysoxers
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So, I started a MySpace page. I feel so odd, as if I ought to be 13. It's just one of those generational divides: why do you want a recording of music when the city has a perfectly good orchestra?I feel the way I always feel when I first encounter a new technology: exactly what do I need this for? (Once I understand what it's good for I adopt it, happily.
) So far I've discovered I can spam everyone on my MySpace "Friends" list (luckily I figured out what that function was before I hit "send".) Good heavens, why would I want to?I'm sure this will be useful, some day — but the enthusiasms I want to tell everyone about diminish with time. ("Wow, the orchestra is performing on Saturday!") You are here because you wanted something to read, not because I thumped this in your inbox .... unless you subscribed — but you chose that, I hope ....
Anyway, now that I'm trying to understand online social networking the following Religion News Blog link caught my eye:
Religious Web Sites Ape MySpace, YouTube
Last night I heard an interview with the author of Nothing. That's the thing about labels, they help you find your own (more or less: not all Tolkien fans are alike, and no group is completely homogeneous.) I may occasionally sigh and chafe at my affiliations (or my co-affiliates) but they do give me something to be. Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's something I have to qualify, sometimes it's a limitation, sometimes it's a habit I haven't thought to re-examine.
I hope this blog is a place for both the religious and the non-religious. I wish I could comment more on non-Mediterranean religions, but that is my specialty (and my hobble, although I do my best to compensate for it.) But I want to welcome everyone: do not assume that I am for or against anything.
-Kushana
Note to self: talk about Mithraeism, Isis, Osiris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Gospel of Thomas, Kybebe, Mystery Religions (Mystery Cults), the letters of Paul, traditional Roman religion, Asia Minor, Zoroastrianism, Near Eastern religions, Caananite religion, Babylonian religion, Egyptian religion, ancient magic.
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