{"id":1699,"date":"2006-04-12T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2006-04-12T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:17:00","slug":"one-last-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/one-last-thing","title":{"rendered":"One last thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-CUT TEXT=\"more religion. I know, I know. boring, boring, boring.\"><br \/>\nSheer&#8217;s minimal acceptable rules for religion<\/p>\n<p>1) Any religion that claims that it is the One True Way, and followers of all other religions are going to hell: Automatic disqualification.<br \/>\n2) Any religion that claims war is desirable: Automatic disqualification<br \/>\n3) Negative points for:<br \/>\n    i) Suggesting sex is evil, sinful, or bad.<br \/>\n    ii) Suggesting sexist, racist, genderist, age-ist, or sexual-orientation-ist beliefs or thoughts<br \/>\n    iii) Encouraging hatred, division,<br \/>\n4) Bonus points for<br \/>\n    i) Short source code.<br \/>\n    ii) Not claiming something that may be false-to-fact i.e. God having the right to judge me. He may have the ability &#8211; but might does not make right.<br \/>\n    iii) Forgiveness, openmindedness, sharing, caring, love, peace, freedom, beauty, respect, unity, in general attributes that I consider positive<br \/>\n    iv) Finding a way to operate that doesn&#8217;t require donations or enforcing tithing in the source code or whatever.<br \/>\n    v) Encouraging divirsity, cross training, hybrid vigor<br \/>\n    vi) OPen and accepting to the shell-shocked<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions? Hmm. We have: Unitarians. They seem on the surface to be pretty safe: they&#8217;re all about little dogma and short source code. We have Bhuddists. I&#8217;m not sure this qualifies as a religion &#8211; it may be more a life philosiphy. However, it fits the hole I&#8217;m trying to fill, which is: operating system. I think. Whatever it is that religion is and does.<\/p>\n<p>We might have: Some extremely liberal christian sects.<\/p>\n<p><\/lj-CUT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheer&#8217;s minimal acceptable rules for religion 1) Any religion that claims that it is the One True Way, and followers of all other religions are going to hell: Automatic disqualification. 2) Any religion that claims war is desirable: Automatic disqualification 3) Negative points for: i) Suggesting sex is evil, sinful, or bad. ii) Suggesting sexist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}