I'm Wiccan and am pro life

I'm Wiccan and am pro-life.

Meat, murder? and Thanksgiving

Meat can be obtained by two ways - raising and hunting.  Raising meat can be done in a humane way (The celts culled their herds and slaughtered the cattle in a humane way - kosher slaughter is very inhumane.)

Many cultures have hunted animals including modern American culture.  Native cultures across the world have hunted and gathered.  This is a good post for Thanksgiving when the Native peoples in Massachussetes helped the whites survive the winter and then had a feast to celebrate.  Native people hunted buffalo, turkey, and deer, as well as other animals.

What I am saying is that meat is not murder.

Vader and Palpatine

Old socket-eyed spindly fingers

Old Bug-eyed Vaccum Mouth

Gossip and sin

Michelle Jackman Carr, also called Michelle Julliet Carr is a horrible gossip.  She spread a horrible rumor that I am Satan.  She also practices black magick.  She infiltrated a church in Portland just to try to have sex with me under a different name.

OTO and patriarchy

The OTO hates womens' freedom.  They are patriarchal.

titian and Wicca

People think I am Titian, the supposed antichrist.  I am simply a solitary Wiccan that cares about the Earth.  I removed the "beavis and butthead" joke about the "grand bewitchment."  I don't know if Wiccans are involved in this kind of torture, or even Christians.  Maybe someone in the Federal government wants me to make a signed confession or something.

Thrash bands, punk and other bands I like

I do not like thrash (death metal) that glorifies satan or ritual killings, or satanism.  I like bands like Ozzy Osbourne, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and bands like them.  I also like bands that joke about, or simply make fun of satan or satanism.

Punk is not junk.  bands that are violent towards the governement were playing during a time when the government and police were violent and oppressive to poor people.  I like Rancid, Aus Rotten, NoFx, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Vandals, and band like them.  About "Anarchy Burger" from the Vandals, they just joke around.

My picks for Democrat and Republican

My favorite Democrat is Franklin Delenor Rosevelt.  When the USA was in the thrall of the Great Depression, he got the New Deal out.  My favorite Republican was Abraham Lincoln.  He came from humble beginnings.  Probably the worst Democrat we ever had, and are still stuck with is Obama.  The worst Republican was George W. Bush, second worst was Ronald Reagan.  The last thing we need in this country is Obama-nomics.

Wicca and respecting Jesus

Please, Wiccans and magical people - Please do respect Jesus, even if you do not agree with the religion of Christianity.  It is like good neighbor policy.  Remember, I am not Jesus or any diety.  I am just a human being like everyone else.

Wiccans and humor

Some Wiccans like to joke about scary or "evil" things.  Some kid about demons, some like death metal and some like horror movies.  Some do not.  They are too religious about their craft, and some ceremonial magicians tell inside joke to do harm to an individual they do not like.  I even like some Slayer (their old stuff that is quite tamer.  Some Wiccans like me only do magic when they need to.  Some practice "magick" tm OTO 1891, which conjures demons and the shades of people living and dead to harm people or make themselves millonaires.

Ozzy and freedom

"I speak for freedom and I am English"

Jesus and freedom

Jesus, for many people of all faiths including Wicca (that follows the Wiccan Rede), died for freedom.  Too many people died for freedom, inlcuding the Christians that were persecuted in Rome, the many that were accused of witchcraft in the middle ages and burned at the stake, the ones who fought and died in the American Revolution and the many who died in both world wars.

Roms and Rosa Parks

The fact that the ROMS are illegal are unjust laws.  I play these games as an act of civil disobedeince.  It is like Rosa Parks not giving up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery Alabama in the 1950's

about the TSR dungions and drgons Riverwind

Riverwind

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Riverwind

Goldmoon and Riverwind. Illustration by Keith Parkinson.
First appearance	Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984)
Created by	Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Game information
Homeland	Que Shu
Gender	Male
Race	Nomad
Class	Barbarian
Alias	Riverwind of the Que Shu

Riverwind (also known as Riverwind of the Que Shu tribe or Riverwind of the Que Shu) is a fictional character from the Dragonlance series of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game supplements and novels, created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman and published by TSR (and later by Wizards of the Coast).
Riverwind made his first public appearance in the first novel of the original Chronicles Trilogy, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, in 1984. However, the character's proper creation was during a tabletop role-playing game session where Tracy and Laura Hickman, Margaret Weis and Terry Phillips, between others, developed the basic storyline of Dragonlance.^[1]
Throughout the series, Riverwind became a well known character and, in 14 years, authors made him the protagonist in two novels, Riverwind the Plainsman (1990) and Spirit of the Wind (1998).

Introduction

Patrick Lucien Price, author of the "Bertrem's essay on numerology" short story, published in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home (1987), describes Riverwind as a character that demands change, seeks variety and new opportunities to develop himself, also a natural leader of men and generous, impressionable, a humanitarian.^[2]
Few facts are given about the early life of the character itself, a shepherd living just outside the village of Que Shu, a barbarian settlement in Ansalon, in the fictional world of Krynn. Laura Hickman and Kate Novak detail, in the short story "Heart of Goldmoon" published in the Love and War (1987) recompilation, Riverwind's faith in the ancient gods and especially in Mishakal, goddess of healing, although the common belief in the tribe was that the high priestess's ancestors become gods.^[3] Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman give a reason in the short story "True Knight", published in The Cataclysm (1992) recompilation, as Riverwind's family is not a native from the Que Shu tribe, but instead his ancestors, Michael, a cleric of Mishakal, and Nikol, daughter of a knight, travelled to the plains shortly after the Cataclysm, the event in which the gods threw a fiery mountain to punish Krynn arrogance, and kept practicing their religion.^[4]
In "Heart of Goldmoon", Hickman and Novak also inform the reader about the journey to the Hall of the Sleeping Spirits, in which Riverwind acts as a bodyguard to Goldmoon, protecting her life when Hollow-sky, the other bodyguard traveling with them, tries to force her to marry him. With Riverwind and Goldmoon declaring their mutual love, the story ends with Riverwind affirming his intention to request a Courting quest, which would give him the right to marry Goldmoon.
Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook give details of such quest in the novel Riverwind the Plainsman (1990), in which the character, needing to find proof that the ancient gods existed, travels to Xak Tsaroth and retrieves the Blue Crystal Staff, a holy relic blessed by Mishakal herself, guarded by Khisanth, a black dragon.^[5] Although the novel ends with the delivery of the staff, in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) the authors explain, through Goldmoon, that the tribe tried to stone him when he could not explain how the staff could prove the existence of the old gods.^[6] However, before they started stoning, Goldmoon embraced him, and both vanished from the tribe.^[7]

[edit] Development through the series

[edit] Chronicles Trilogy

As in the "Heart of Goldmoon" short story, Riverwind is given the role of Goldmoon's protector in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984). Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman kept his involvement at a minimum, only describing him as a character with a serious demeanor. The War of the Lance sourcebook (2004) indicates that he is a man of few words, proud and wary of strangers, who does not make friends easily and people have to go a long way to earn his regard.^[8] It is only after Sturm Brightblade—Squire of the Knights of Solamnia and one of the members of a group of friends who met them in Solace—feels his honor has been insulted that Riverwind's behavior is modified, becoming somewhat friendlier.^[9]
Understandably, it is in battle sequences where the authors give him more protagonism, effectively drawing on his past as a trained warrior. It is in one of those sequences, against the black dragon Khisanth in Xak Tsaroth, where Riverwind is mortally wounded by the dragons' acid breath. However, Goldmoon, after meeting the soul of her mother and the goddess Mishakal, goddess of healing, is able to restore him to health.
It is at the end of the first book, when Riverwind marries Goldmoon just outside Pax Tharkas after defeating Lord Verminaard, that Riverwind receives more attention from the authors.^[10]
Weis and Hickman continue diminishing the protagonism of Riverwind in Dragons of Winter Night (1985). In the second half of Dragons of Spring Dawning (1985), the authors reveal that Goldmoon is pregnant, and the couple decides to stay in Kalaman, ending their participation in the Chronicles Trilogy.

[edit] Lost Chronicles Trilogy

In Dragons of the Dwarven Depths, Tanis leaves Riverwind in charge of the safety of the refugees from Pax Tharkas while the rest of the companions search for an entrance to the underground dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin. Riverwind oversees the refugees as they evacuate to Thorbardin ahead of an attack by the remnants of the Red Dragonarmy.

[edit] Legends Trilogy

As the Legends trilogy, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in 1986, focuses on the twins Caramon and Raistlin Majere, Riverwind's appearance is small. In Time of the Twins (1986) Riverwind visits Caramon and Tika Majere at the Inn of the Last Home to refuse to escort Lady Crysania to the Tower of High Sorcery of Wayreth^[11] and to inform them that his son, Wanderer, is already three years old, and the birth of his twin daughters, Moonsong and Brightdawn.
By wearing the Mantle of the Chieftain, the authors point that he has been named Chieftain of the Que Shu and a number of other tribes like the Que Teh and Que Kiri, which must mean that he was successful in bringing peace.^[12]

[edit] Chaos War series

There are no books about the attacks of Chaos's armies to the Abanasinian tribes. Chris Pierson's novel, Spirit of the Wind (1998), informs that the Knights of Takhisis, knights under the service of Takhisis, goddess of evil, invaded the area bringing brutes, barbarians from northern isles, forcing some tribes to join the Que Shu village to repel the attack, while others separated and left for the mountains. He also hints that at least shadow wights, creatures that possess souls, vanishing them from the world of Krynn, including others' memories of them, attacked the tribe, as Moonsong and Brightdawn explain that their brother, Wanderer, has a three year old son, but nobody, not even Wanderer himself, remembers his mother.^[13]

[edit] Age of Mortals series

In Spirit of the Wind (1998), Chris Pierson covers the last weeks of Riverwind's life. Afflicted by a terminal illness that had been the cause of his father's death, and without Mishakal, who left Krynn after the Chaos War, to give clerical powers to Goldmoon to heal him, he travels to the Inn of the Last Home to inform Caramon and Tika about it.^[14]
The novel continues explaining that a couple of kender arrive requesting Caramon's help to stop Malystryx, the red dragon overlord, from destroying their home town, Kendermore. Riverwind decides to help them, and is involved in the defense of the city. With the imminent invasion of the dragon and the ogre armies supporting her, Riverwind and Brightdawn travel to Blood Watch, where Malystryx's Peak was situated and her only egg was laid. Brightdawn dies on her way to the lair while fighting the nest's guardian, Yovanna,^[15] but Riverwind is able to crack the egg open and slay the embryo within it, forcing Malystryx to go back to the lair and slay him. With Riverwind's sacrifice, the kender were able to flee safely to Hylo, as Malystryx was too depressed to chase them.^[16]

[edit] Dragonlance movie

Main article: Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Actor Phil LaMarr voices Riverwind and Gilthanas in the animated Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight movie,^[17] directed by Will Meugniot, written by George Strayton and produced by Toonz Animation, Commotion Pictures, Epic Level Entertainment, Kickstart Entertainment and Paramount Pictures.

 

Republics and empires

There are two examples of how republics became empires -

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,

The Galactic Republic was guarded by the Jedi, particularly from the Sith, which were an evil order of Force sensitive individuals that used the dark side of the Force.  Often times a Sith student would kill his master and gain his Dark side powers.  One Sith master in particular, Darth Sideous, also known as Senator Palpatine had several students.  They were Darth Maul and Lord Taranus, known also as Count Dooku.  Palpatine took the seat as Supreme Chancellor, and seduced Obi Wan's padawan learner, Anakin Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force.  Palpatine named him Darth Vader.  Vader killed Jedi younglings, as well as killing his own wife, Padme, who was a senator of Naboo.  Padme was once queen of Naboo.  Padme gave birth to Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.  Obi Wan separated them at birth to hide them from Palpatine, who became Galactic Emperor.  There was a rebellion against the empire that lasted several years.  In the process, two Death Stars were built, one that destroyed Alderann in a test fire and one that was incomplete and was destroyed by Lando Calrisian who joined the Rebellion after helping rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt.  Even if this was make-believe, it is an allegory of how evil can take root in a political system and about good vs evil.

Another empire happened on this planet.  It was Rome, and Rome started as a republic.  Emperors were considered divine (none of us are dieties) and their word was law.  They persecuted Christians, the two worst ones were Nero and Diocletion.

Another almost empire started as the Wiemer Republic.  It was formed after World War I.  Hitler rose to power in this case.  He systematically killed 8 million Jews, 3 million Gypsies and countless anarchists and communists in death camps.

We must never have anymore empires.  We considered the USSR the "Evil Empire" and the USA has been involved in wars in Central America, Iraq and Afghanastan.

War Pigs and Wicca

	"Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction In the fields the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds Oh lord yeah!"

This really gives Wiccans a bad rap because it slurs the word "Witch" which comes from a Celtic word meaning "Wise"

Druids, Rome and crucifixion

The Druids, who were the priests and priestesses of Celtic tribes in Ireland, Britian, and Gaul (France), as well as Spain were dealt with heavily by Rome.  Many Roman emperors, including Julius Caesar and Nero, crucified Druids.  I suspect that St. Polycarp himself was a druid sent by Arthur to negotiate with Rome (He got burned at a stake in a public spectacle.  I suspect that St. Polycarp was Merlin.

Religion and politics

The last time we mixed religion with politics, we had the Inquisition and the Salem witch trials.

the OTO and fluffbunnies

The OTO goes around, infiltrating the Craft, and even getting on Wiccan newsgroups spewing stuff like "White Wiccans are 'fluffbunny pagans'"

CoIntel Pro and Nixon

CoIntel Pro by any other name is still CoIntel Pro.