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(swiped from lillakat)

Your Quirk Factor: 67%

You're so quirky, it's hard for you to tell the difference between quirky and normal. No doubt about it, there's little about you that's "normal" or "average."

How Quirky Are You?

Call to action

The US department of health & Human Services has now published the rule (not "draft", rule) that will take effect in 30 days unless enough people protest.

This rule says, in essence, that any hospital, clinic, etc receiving government funding must allow *any* employee to choose to not perform some or all of their duties if they think doing so would violate their conscince.

It's obviously aimed at making it harder to get abortions, but it'll also affect GLBT folks and who knows how many others.

Check here for more details and tip[s on how to try to stop it.

death to all fanatics

After running into yet another example of extreme intolerance on the web the other day (of the "we must stop these people from living their evil lifestyle" sort) I found myself wondering about the thought processes of such folks.

Remembering a long discussion I'd had with some young ladies at Saturday Market many years back, plus some other things, I came to the conclusion that there's a quite simple way of determining whether or not it's possible to reach someone like this.

Just one question:

"Ok, what would it take to convince you that God *didn't* want you going after these people?"
"And I don't mean 'what arguments could *I* make. I mean 'tell me what sort of event would cause you to rethink things'"

Based on my experience with the young ladies, I'm certain that there are some folks who wouldn't believe God's voice speaking to them. They'd think it was a trick of Satan. Such folks are unreachable.

Others may require "important (to them) religious authority" telling them that they are wrong. Their minister, well known televangelist, the pope, whatever. They *might* be reachable.