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Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.
Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.

Behind the scenes

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
— Liz Williams
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“Biochar: A better start to rain forest restoration”

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I can't tell if this young lady is wistful or bored.

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This is Romsdal, Norway.

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There's an old saying that pagans are failed librarians.
— NeoWayland
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In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and soul & knows the worth of what she has to offer.
— Nikki Rowe
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Intelligence

Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.
— Dianne Sylvan
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Situational vortex

The outdoor humorist Patrick F. McManus had a piece where he talked about the situational vortex. Before you can do one simple task, you have to do another task that gives you what you need to do the first. And before you can do the second, there is a third and fourth that you really should take care of.

Working on my lexicon is sometimes like that.

I'd never heard the term black moon before. But in order to define that, I really needed to have a short blurb on February. And if I was going to do that, I really needed to do the rest of the months in the timetable as well. I'd only been putting it off for a year. Or five.

Anyway, a situational vortex is why sometimes something that seems simple ends up taking forever. Adding to a list of political links means going through the lexicon and finding the terms that are political. Then it means cross referencing those entires to the politics entry.

I enjoy it but it takes time. And it's not immediately obvious to the reader.

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Link behavior

I wrote about my thinking behind the link behavior here at Technopagan Yearnings and how I made it work.

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Lexicon mini-indexes

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
— Golda Meir
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
— Alan Kay
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My comments on the “Billy Graham rule”

If anything can go wrong, it will — and in the most annoying manner possible.
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Seven Principles of Leave No Trace

Every sentient being lives in and quite possibly creates a unique universe which can never be 100% identical to that lived in by another.
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There’s something therapeutic about nudity… Take away the Gucci or Levi’s and we’re all the same.
— Kevin Bacon
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Their compromise gave other faiths a wedge into the American religious landscape.

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Knowledge isn't mastery. Eclecticism depends on discipline.
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Pagans can be some of the most computer literate people I know. But every once in a while, I run into a blind spot.

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Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
— James Lovelock
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Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes.
— Robert Watson-Watt. See also Rules of Three
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Still one of my favorite things.

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Who is quoted

If you ask the question of thirteen pagans, you'd probably get forty-seven answers.

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Journal - Friday, 23Nov2018

Thinking by blogging
Well, I didn't quite meet my goals this week. I didn't get thirteen entires to the lexicon. I did manage quite a bit else though.

I got into a long online discussion concerning the assumptions that people bring from their religion into their lives and what they expect of others. In passing, I mentioned some of the differences between a Story and a Journey.

It dawned on me that right now the "pagan community" has a lot of people who want to write the story for others instead of setting them off on their own journey. I'm going to have to think about that some.

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Discussion on morality, sex, nudity, and pagan festivals

Some of my thoughts concerning the military and honor

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Thinking by blogging

There are just all sorts of thirteens in my blogs. And there are about to be more.

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In Which NeoWayland combines Geekary and Technopaganism to Peer Dimly at Humanity's Potiential

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Sexuality is a thing of the mind, not of the genitalia.
— Maggie McNeill, Rope of Sand
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Gotta love that sky!

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Working my way through my "to read" shelf

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Sexuality without politics

There's something luscious about a woman rinsing her hair.

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Me, I compare an on-the-fly online ritual to building one custom motorcycle in twenty different places with 459 mechanics and parts from thirteen manufacturers.

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My lexicon covers multiple topics, from politics to philosophy to economics to magick to religion to civics to electronics to law. Basically everything that I find interesting.

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Lexcion 3.6 ready to use

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
— Napoleon Hill
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I got this from a tumblr blog.

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I do like her expression though.

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It's sometimes called the "Eye of God."

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Kennebunk Police Department, Animal Control Division

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For something with no moral relativism, there's an awful lot or relative morality going on.

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Six new pages

I learned a long time ago that it's worth the trouble to make sure she's got at least two climaxes for every one of mine.

Keeps her smiling too.
— NeoWayland
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Should we be ashamed?

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Sex & sex rules

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Sharing a shower is always fun.

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Study guide - Bonewits' Laws of Magic

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Celebrate

I don't turn on the bathroom lights.

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Growing season

A piece of advice if I may be allowed to give it, is that no philosophy, no creed, no God is worth more than the love that one human being may give and receive in their lifetime – this is what is meant by being ‘involved’.
— Robert Cochrane
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Attention

If you are Pagan because you need attention, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. You can't be Pagan just to be weird or to make people nervous. Faith isn't a costume, it lives and flows inside of you.
— NeoWayland, faith
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Journey

Be not afraid. The forest nymphs have taught me how to please a woman.
— anonymous
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Ecology vs. environmentalism

Ecology studies how living systems interact and interconnect with each other. Environmentalism is about teaching and compelling behavior. These words are not synonyms. As both a pagan and a libertarian, I can not support environmentalism.
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John McConnell & Earth Day

Much of the justification for "establishing" a Greater Pagan Community® is so that certain individuals can get the adoration and deference they believe they deserve.
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Greater Pagan Community

Much of the justification for "establishing" a Greater Pagan Community® is so that certain individuals can get the adoration and deference they believe they deserve.
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Coming home

I do not believe that a government agency should be trusted with caring for the environment.

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Diversity of channels

I don't believe in enabling power through victimhood. I know that can seem cruel, but it's not. After a time, the training wheels get in the way.
— NeoWayland
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Redo

Fixing the behavior, that was challenging.

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Lexicon

I think my lexicon is one of the best resources on the site. And it could be a pretty good resouce for anyone.

Polishing how it looks was easy if time consuming.

Fixing the behavior, that was challenging. I want it to be easy to use and intuitive. The button bar was one part of that. Does it go under the letter or under the individual entries? If I've defined something in my timetable, doesn't it make more sense to link to that rather than copy-pasting the definition into the lexicon? How do I show that different links go to different places? Is there a better way to go through the lexicon other than scrolling? What if the reader/user wants the web link for that definition? What about the secret word?

Solving all these issues opened up more issues. And then I had to decide the overall look. And that opened up other issues. And so on and so on.

I've got the mechanics pretty much solved. Except my iPad won't load the page.

Now I have to finishing transferring the entries from the old lexicon.

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Not seeing

Good morning on this the shortest day.

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Moral absolute

Just out of sight.

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Today

The calendar and some site information.

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Journal 11Aug2017

I have no higher authority. I have to persuade.
— NeoWayland
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A selection of athamés

Home should be more than a place to hang our hat.

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Updating

For the very first time, humans stood somewhere else and looked at the World that birthed and cradled humanity.

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Rules of Three

You don’t have to use the Bestest as long as you can just do

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