CowboyNate

The decision about "Flying Spaghetti Monster" is not about religion. It is about Agenda. The idea of FSM on the whole is an agenda as you accurately stated and that I have made be bold text. CD note: I'm not going to discuss the religious content of any listing as that is not an aspect of the Listing Requirements and Guidelines. It is the Agenda portion that we review. Methinks we do not see eye to eye on this. I don't wish to get into any long discussions, so I'll post a simple "I wonder" statement and leave off at that. I wonder if it's possible to separate Agenda from Religion so easily; religious beliefs are based on an agenda, often as basic as "Be good" and way past "I want my version of reality taught to my neighbor's kids." Political agendas are often tied up with religious ones. And vice versa. Ah well. I can totally understand GS would like to stay out of agenda based caches (so as to stay neutral to all), I just question whether a passing reference to something is any more an Agenda than it is a passing reference. I somehow feel I've still not plumbed the bottom of the original source of this discussion, which makes me feel like maybe I'm missing something that would close the discussion on the spot. However, I doubt anyone's that interested in spending the time to do so (me included), so heck with it. Have a great remainder of the weekend! Nate

If I happen to end up with the long census form this year and choose to play along, it's a religion. lol ...and why would they pick you? i guess this days anything can be a religion Not to dig up an old thread and restart something.... Cuz I'm not trying to, and no one should be thinking this is any kind of negative toward reviewers who do amazing work for volunteer pay... (and I'm coming from an American's point of view re: religious freedoms, however different or not that might be from a Canadian's...) But why would one religion (whether some view it as a parody or not) be singled out? Does a policy like this mean that it could be decided that Islam was not allowed? Or Buddhism? Or Christianity? (This was the point of FSMism; when some literalist Christians tried to require that their religion be taught in public schools, FSMism showed up to prove a point: teach mine and I'll be OK with teaching yours.) I am _so_ off topic from what I came looking for... lol! All I wanted was to find out peoples' opinions on camping in southern ON and whether Port Burwell provincial park was a nice place to spend a weekend or not! I'll try other sites, like google, I guess. If I ever get off here... lol! Thanks for comments, Nate PS: Wherefore = "why" or "for what" rather than "where". Yes, this is actually what drew me to the thread. rofl!

Question on turning it off: You mean putting its screen to sleep, right? I don't have data to back it up (yet), but it seems like the batt keeps draining even when asleep. Amazing how quickly GPS (etc) drains the battery...

Not a comment intended to offend, but I truly do not appreciate "being played with." Why is it that there seem to be a preponderance of "playing with" responses? Is it really considered all right by police officers to do this? It seems like an excellent way to keep the populace from gaining trust in a group of people who are often stereotyped (rightly or not: "you can get help from a police officer" is a stereotype, too). When I've had a friend who liked to "play" with me like that, I don't think I was friends for very long. I've never considered liking to laugh "at" someone to be a good personality trait. "With," yes, but this is not a "with" type situation.