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Darkfaery Subculture Magazine

517 NW 95th ST

Oklahoma City, OK 73114

Otherwise, we encourage you to have fun here and treat us like a friend. We don’t like snobs, people who think they are better than everyone else, or people who whine a lot. We value strength and intelligence on all levels.

WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE TERMS POSER OR WANNABE, PLEASE DON’T COME HERE AND ACT LIKE YOU ARE THE COOLEST PERSON EVER, BECAUSE I AM SURE EVERYONE GOES THROUGH A POSER/WANNABE FAZE SOMETIME IN LIFE. GET OVER YOURSELF. If you didn’t want to be something, you couldn’t be. So you are a wannabe too!

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Duvy

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Darkfaery Subculture Magazine @ Soonercon

Darkfaery Subculture Magazine @ Soonercon
 
Hey, Everyone! Well, it’s spring/summer 2008 and you know that means! Events, contests, and shows! 
  This year Darkfaery Subculture/Darkspace is pleased to announce we will attending Soonercon ‘08 in a professional fashion. That’s right! After being in the hospital for most of last year I am back to work on hundreds of new projects and attending events is number one on my list. (Doing some of my own shows is second!)
If you are attending Soonercon, please come over to us and give a shout, it’s been a year or two since we were out with video and I have missed you guys. VNV Nation doesn’t really count since I was still sick and couldn’t socialize.
   We’ll be taking photos and video so you guys who are always asking when we’ll be updating our gallery with fan photos and event photos now is your chance to get in them. There will be lots of events to choose from at Soonercon so if you are trying to nail us down look for us in costume at Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Masquerade Ball, Sinnercon Dance, and probably most of the kinky events, like the kinky meet-and-greet, complete with a performance by Wicked Harem Belly Dance from Tulsa. Plans include a workshop series on the ethics and etiquette of convention (not conventional) sex, frank discussions of alternative life/lovestyles, and erotic art how-to’s. Z wanted me to remind you we can be found at the gaming tables too.
If you can’t attend, don’t worry, I’ll post info on how you can watch our videos on cable, MySpace, and YouTube. If you do come out, don’t be afraid of the camera, it won’t be afraid of you!
About DFSM/Darkspace
http://www.darkfaery-subculture.com/
http://www.dfsm.org/

About Soonercon
http://www.soonercon.info/

SoonerCon is a fan run multi-genre convention held annually in Oklahoma City.

If you’ve been around the Oklahoma City area for a while, the name may sound familiar. Here’s why. There used to be a club in Oklahoma City called STAR OKC. Like most fans, they wanted a convention. After putting on a few one-shot types in the late 1970s and early 1980s, these folks, mostly high-school age through just out of college youngsters, decided to get organized, work hard to raise some money, and try to get something started. SoonerCon 1 happened twenty one years ago, in June of 1986. The con was begun and ramrodded by the Chair of SoonerCon 1, Mike Hodge. What he and many other helpers achieved lasted through SoonerCon 13 in 1997. Lots of artist and writer guests, from Tim Powers and Gene Wolfe to Brad Foster and Robin Bailey, were welcomed to Oklahoma City. During those years SoonerCon had hundreds of staff and helpers, and up until the last few years SoonerCon was “owned” by STAR OKC.

With SoonerCon’s exclusive emphasis on traditional SF/fantasy books and art, making it a “lit con,” a move arose as well for a local charity “media con” emphasizing genre TV/film, comics, gaming and pop culture actors, designers, and other guests–especially from Star Trek. Thus was born ThunderCon, which debuted in June 2001, balancing SoonerCon’s November setting, and lasted through seven annual editions and often with staff and helpers working both. The new con operated with a non-profit board and involved all the local fan clubs interested, from Dr. Who, Babylon 5 and Trek’s Starfleet chapters to gaming, modelbuilding, real space and even Dark Shadows! With “BoomerCon” judged a little too cute for a sister event, this project was named in honor of both Oklahoma’s spring weather, its Indian heritage and the state’s heroic 45th Infantry Division, the Thunderbirds—and so ThunderCon was born, its logo even adapted from the 45th’s patch. ThunderCon was created and first run by another member of STAR OKC named Larry Nemecek, who with his wife Janet later moved to Hollywood to work on STAR TREK for Paramount. Yea, fanboys! A few other conventions have also taken place in the OKC area, but haven’t “taken root” for more than a year.

Participants in the 2008 SoonerCon Art Show Include:

Tom Kidd - http://spellcaster.com/tomkidd - SoonerCon 2008 Artist Guest of Honor!
David Lee Anderson - http://www.davidleeanderson.com
Peri Charlifu
Brad Foster - http://www.jabberwockygraphix.com
Ashen Gray - http://www.ashengray.com
Denise Hill
Rocky Kelley - http://www.rockykelley.com
Michael Sheyahshe - http://www.alternativemedia.biz
Terry Southard
Allison Stein - http://www.allisonstein.com
Bob Trobaugh
Evan Wardwell
Tim Chessmore
Cat Conrad - http://artistsinresidence.com/cat
Jan Sherrill Gephardt
W. J. Hodgson - http://www.wjhodgson.com
Dirk Hooper - http://www.dirkhooper.com
Kevin Hopkins
Marla Satterfield
Tony Trammell - http://www.dreamshipart.com
Alain Viesca - http://www.AlainVArts.com

Also Attending

Bill Allen
David Lee Anderson
Gary Babb
Julie Barrett
M. H. Bonham
Peter Bradley
James K. Burk
ShIrron Butterfly
Rachel Caine
Kimber Chessmore
Tim Chessmore
Deborah Chester
Casey Christofferson
R. Cat Conrad
Sherri Dean
Linda Donahue
Rhonda Eudaly
Randy Farran
Melanie Miller Fletcher
Brad Foster
Jan Sherrill Gephardt
Count Gregore
Bennie Grezlik
Beverly A. Hale
W.J. Hodgson
James Hollaman
Brian A. Hopkins
Kevin Hopkins
K. Hutson-Price
Gary Jonas
Rocky Kelley
Julie Kenner
Katherine Eliska Kimbriel
William Ledbetter
Julia Mandala
Mel Odom
Gloria Oliver
Cary Osborne
Jeff Provine
Oscar Ray
Marla Satterfield
Susan Satterfield
Michael Sheyahshe
Wm. Mark Simmons
Brad Sinor
Sue Sinor
Allison Stein
David Thayer aka Teddy Harvia
Tony Trammell
Steven Wedel
Martha Wells
Craig Wolf
Mario Wytch
Dr. Fear aka Brian Young
 

The March Violets - Homecoming Show in Leeds

The March Violets Homecoming Show

Saturday Dec 8 2007

Leeds Metropolitan University

A very special one off gig, featuring ’80’s Leeds’ dark/gothic/punk drum machine band, The March Violets.

Influenced by Gang Of 4, Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Pop Group and other notable post punk bands and championed by the likes of John Peel, the Violets found their own singular voice before imploding in ‘86.

Strewn amongst the wreckage were two classic indie hits, Snake Dance and Walk Into The Sun which still feature heavily in the darker dance clubs.

Simon [vox], Rosie [vox] and Tom [guitar] have decided to return to the source for this show only [and who knows, it could all implode again if they stretched it too far] but they have recorded their first new material in decades and will be hurling it out at the gig…along with the old favourites of course.

These new tracks are available to buy on limited edition CD from the band’s myspace page but can only be collected at the gig itself.

Later this week the band will release an exclusive preview mix of new track, ‘Better Looking,’ on their myspace.

Doors 7pm

Also confirmed for this event are -

Chris Reed Unit - [ former frontman with Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry]
James Ray - exclusive one off guitar driven set
Salvation - reforming specially for this gig
Screaming Banshee Aircrew - upcoming duel vocal excitement

Aftershow party with guest DJ’s from Leeds own Wendy House club night runs 12pm – 3am

Buy your ticket at www.myspace.com THEN tell your friends.

This is the cheapest online option and in addition fans can also purchase the new Violets CD at a discount along with their tickets.

Other Outlets:
 www.resurrectionmusic.com
In person from Leeds Met

To Avoid Confusion….
There are rumours that we are doing other shows…
We have no plans to do any more, just this one.
This is it.

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Girl, 13, gets detention for hugging two friends

Girl, 13, gets detention for hugging two friends

Illinois middle school bans public displays of affection; parents urge change

MASCOUTAH, Ill. - Two hugs equals two days of detention for 13-year-old Megan Coulter.

The eighth-grader was punished for violating a school policy banning public displays of affection when she hugged two friends Friday.

“I feel it is crazy,” said Megan, who was to serve her second detention Tuesday after classes at Mascoutah Middle School.

“I was just giving them a hug goodbye for the weekend,” she said.

Megan’s mother, Melissa Coulter, said the embraces weren’t even real hugs — just an arm around the shoulder and slight squeeze.

“It’s hilarious to the point of ridicule,” Coulter said. “I’m still dumbfounded that she’s having to do this.”
District Superintendent Sam McGowen said that he thinks the penalty is fair and that administrators in the school east of St. Louis were following policy in the student handbook.

It states: “Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.”

Parents urge change in policy
Coulter said she and her husband told their daughter to go ahead and serve her detentions
because the only other option was a day of suspension for each skipped detention.

“We don’t agree with it, but I certainly don’t want her to get in more trouble,” Coulter said.

The couple plan to attend the next school board meeting to ask board members to consider rewording the policy or be more specific in what is considered a display of affection.

“I’m just hoping the school board will open their eyes and just realize that maybe they shouldn’t be punishing us for hugs,” Megan said.

(Duvy’s note: have you seen this? For fuck’s sake, people! Isn’t public affection much better than coming to school with a freaking gun and blasting away because no one loves you? I’d say “hugs, not guns” or “Hugs, not drugs” WTF happened to that policy. No instead, let’s teach our children not to touch each other, or better yet let’s ALL stop touching each other period because it “It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school”. How fucking lame. Let us never feel the warmth of a hand or the trust of a friend. How about we stop smiling at each other too? Parents should stop hugging their children at home too, so we can all feel the darkness of being unloved. After all, girl’s hugging leads to gayness, doesn’t it? I’m sorry, I still think love should be a class we’re taught at school. Everyone should hug and hold hands, everyone should see what love looks like. That’s what stops bullets and violence. Hugs. Get out there and hug someone! Hug a stranger! Stop terrorism through hugs and love!)

Haunted Mansion getting summer makeover

Haunted Mansion getting summer makeover

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Haunted Mansion at Disney’s Magic Kingdom is closed for the summer.

The attraction closed for renovations June 6, according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, and is not scheduled to reopen until mid-September.

During that time, ride designers plan to add some new ghosts and work to enhance the effects of the attraction with technology updates.

This is the first major overhaul of the ride. Designers said they hope to update the ride without losing its traditional features or altering its story.

The Haunted Mansion’s update follows the revisions to other Magic Kingdom rides, including the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the It’s a Small World ride.
(Duvy’s note: now I am glad we decided to vacation in mexico instead of Disney this year)

Gaming’s Health Benefits

Gaming's Health Benefits

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Far from a frivolous waste of time, games, some studies say, can be good for us.
From Forbes.com

They can increase aggressive behavior, encourage the kind of sedentary lifestyle that causes obesity and even desensitize chronic users to violence.

Medical researchers have given us plenty of reasons to limit the amount of time we spend attached to video game consoles.

In the past couple of years, however, a handful of experts have produced studies showing that some games not only aren't harmful, they might stealthily teach us useful skills in working with technology, improve our vision and even help people manage pain.

One study by psychologists at the University of Rochester found that players actually derive a sense of achievement, freedom and social connectedness from games.

"Video games are not a frivolous expenditure of your time," says Dr. James Rosser Jr., director of Beth Israel Medical Center's Advanced Medical Technology Institute and a gamer since the advent of Pong in the early '70s. "They have an upside if properly utilized."

Surgical Savvy

Rosser set out to prove there's more to the hobby than fun by looking at the correlation between gaming and the laparoscopic surgical skills of 21 surgical residents and 12 surgeons during a simulated surgery skills course. In laparoscopy, surgeons insert a viewing tube with a camera via a small incision to examine organs on a video monitor. They can insert instruments through other incisions to perform procedures.

The study's results would make any gamer smile.

Are you an unhealthy gambler? Find out why March Madness may take a toll not only on your wallet but on your well-being as well.
Current players made 32% fewer errors, were 24% faster and scored 26% better overall than their nonplayer colleagues, according to the paper published in February's Archives of Surgery. But surgeons who'd played games in the past for more than three hours a week came out on top. They made 37% fewer errors, were 27% faster and scored 42% better overall than those who'd never played.

"That opened up a new door," Rosser says. "We could start training people at a very young age with video games, not just for surgery, but engineering [and] lab scientists doing gene therapy. It can all be positively affected by past video game play."

Not all games are created equal, of course. Perpetual motion games, in which players are constantly making adjustments and have to target certain pathways, work best, Rosser says.

Vision Quest

Beyond the O.R., researchers are finding games have other health benefits.

Another University of Rochester study has shown people who played action video games a few hours a day for a month improved their results in a visual acuity test regularly used in ophthalmology clinics by about 20%. Essentially, gaming may improve your ability to read a standard eye chart.

Ultimate Distraction

Work by Bryan Raudenbush, associate professor of psychology at Wheeling Jesuit University, also suggests that sports and fighting video games can produce a dramatic level of pain distraction.

In effect, the pull that makes it nearly impossible for parents to get their kids to put down a game and come to dinner can be used to take people's minds off pain during physical therapy sessions or dental work. It could also be ideal for chemotherapy patients or other hospital situations.

Raudenbush had participants play video games with a one-handed controller and place their other hands in water circulating at 3 degrees Celsius. Even after controlling for variables such as players' competitiveness, which could cause them to want to keep playing, sports and fighting games kept people distracted and going the longest.

Raudenbush likens the games' effect to that of meditating.

"If your attention is pulled somewhere else, you don't focus on that pain," he says.

So instead of feeling guilty for all those hours you've been logging with your Wii, consider the possible benefits. Rosser thinks research will show many more in the future.

"This is only the beginning," he says.

Entertainment News

I have seen the future - and it’s goth

I have seen the future - and it’s goth

We mocked their make-up and giggled over their gloom. But the goths are taking over the country. Dave Simpson reports

Tuesday March 21, 2006
The Guardian
It’s every parent’s nightmare. Their apparently well-adjusted child suddenly comes home with hair the colour of a coalface, a face whiter than anything made by Dulux, and announces, “Mummy, I’m a goth.” However, according to a new study, parents of goths will probably end up boasting about their son/daughter the doctor, lawyer or bank manager.

That is the surprising finding of Sussex University’s Dunja Brill, whose doctorate in media and cultural studies looked at people with funny hair and eyeliner in London, Brighton and Cologne, and who is herself a former goth.

“Most youth subcultures encourage people to drop out of school and do illegal things,” she says. “Most goths are well educated, however. They hardly ever drop out and are often the best pupils. The subculture encourages interest in classical education, especially the arts. I’d say goths are more likely to make careers in web design, computer programming … even journalism.”

Perhaps she has a point. Long before finding gainful employment at the Guardian, I too was a goth. For at least six months in the 80s, I reached for the hair crimpers, painted my bedroom black and scrawled the name of gothy band the Birthday Party on the door so it looked like blood. Hours were spent adopting the requisite air of mysterious gloom, reading (um) the spines of Dostoevsky novels, and gazing forlornly at spots. However, similar experiences can be found among people in much more respectable professions.

Visitors to the Archangel dental surgery in west London are confronted by a goth dentist, Didier Goalard, who says: “I’ve got goth friends who are doing quite well. There’s a dentist in Lyon, a couple of solicitors, a Church of England priest.”

“Goths are like masons,” I have been told. “They’re everywhere.” But rather than blaming some sinister conspiracy, let us look at the reasons people become goths in the first place. According to Choque Hosein, formerly of goth band Salvation but now running a record label, “Goths tend to be the weirdo intellectual kids who have started to view the world differently.” Cathi Unsworth is now a successful author, but she remembers that her own dark gothic past gave her an outlet for alienation. “I loved the bands, especially Siouxsie and the Banshees, but it wasn’t a pose - I felt authentically depressed,” she says. Unsworth was a teenager in Great Yarmouth, where she felt that “people didn’t like me. It got to a point where I wanted to stop fighting against being different and embrace it.”

Gillian Porter is now a successful PR but remembers a misspent youth of “electric-blue hair extensions, big boots with great big skulls, more crimped hair than Pete Burns. Totally and utterly ridiculous.” Porter wasn’t depressed, although she concedes that, “Listening to a lot of Sisters of Mercy doesn’t exactly cheer you up.”

Unsworth favoured a “black polo neck jumper and full-length skirt, for which she would be “spat on by the beer boys”.

It could be tough, but being a goth can open up a world where art, current affairs and literature are embraced and openly discussed, perhaps paving the way for future networking. Unsworth remembers debates about “current affairs, Oscar Wilde, decadence, hairspray …” “There was a lot of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker,” remembers Porter. “It was better than the Sun.” For Hosein, it was Quentin Crisp and “The Day of the Triffids. Anything involving horror and death.”

Some took the whole thing very far. Hosein once lived in Headingley, Leeds; he remembers that students would enrol at Leeds university specifically because the town housed gothic kingpins (and his neighbours) the Sisters of Mercy. One night, Hosein saw a fog descending over the area and commented that lead singer Andrew Eldritch was around - then looked up to see him entering his doorway.

Indeed, there is a certain dry humour about goth that is often overlooked amid tales of black-clad youths worshipping Satan and, in one case, carrying out the Columbine massacre. “That wasn’t goths,” insists Brill. “The guys who did it always wore black trench coats but they listened to Marilyn Manson. There’s an academic article: Why Marilyn Manson Isn’t Goth.” Brill insists that goth is a non-violent subculture. “They’re like hippies. I don’t know any goths who are into graveyard destruction or cat slaughtering. They like their graveyards and they love their cats.”

Nor do drugs seem to be much of a problem. “Speed is a goth drug because the ideal is to be skinny,” says Unsworth. “But for most of us it was Blue Nun wine because Wayne Hussey from the Mission drank it.”

So perhaps parents shouldn’t be too worried that a new generation of goths is cropping up again. There’s a goth couple on Coronation Street. Hosein’s bands include Black Wire, who wear black eyeliner, winklepickers and sound a lot like the Sisters of Mercy, although they had never heard them until they started rifling through his record collection. For some goths - who run T-shirt businesses or enterprises such as Whitby’s biannual Gothic festival - goth can become a livelihood as well as a way of life. But most simply drop back into the mainstream.

Louise (she prefers not to give her surname) works in credit risk in Leeds. Aged 34, she got into goth music 17 years ago and now has tickets for the upcoming Sisters of Mercy tour. She reckons about “four or five people” at her workplace are former goths. “There’s a kind of gaydar that lets you spot them.” Goalard the dentist is now 39 but refuses to wear the white smock, preferring to top his boots with a black uniform. Faithful to the last, he plays Nine Inch Nails and Killing Joke songs as he drills.

“It never entirely leaves you,” says Unsworth. “I still look at the world of beer boys and Tories and feel a beating heart of darkness.”

As for Porter, she’s just undergone “flashbacks” visiting Gothic Nightmares, Tate Britain’s study of the supernatural themes in the work of Henry Fuseli and William Blake. However, this goth-turned-PR-woman is adamant that as goths grow up, they are advised to modify the look.

“I see them now in Camden where I live and think ‘Fine in your twenties. But when you’re 30? Sorry - you look like a twat”

Is your boss a goth? 10 telltale signs

1 Drinks snakebite
Former or closet goths still display a lingering thirst for snakebite - half a pint of lager with half a pint of cider, sometimes with blackcurrant. Snakebite is the worst thing the goths ever did after their invasion of the Roman Empire in 267.

2 Penchant for eyeliner
It seems everybody’s wearing eyeliner these days, but a goth’s make-up is a smidgen more extreme: the skin is powdered white, and black eyeliner is used on eyes, brows, lips and sometimes - to draw cobwebs, probably - the skin. NB: goths do not use bronzer, rouge, or St Tropez self-tan.

3 Cape
Capes have been fashionable this winter, but don’t let that confuse you. A goth wears a cape so long it grazes the floor. Looks a little incongruous over a business suit.

4 Went to Leeds university
Strangely, Leeds has a nigh-on magnetic attraction for goths, and there are more cape shops per capita in the city than anywhere else in Europe.

5 Whistles Fields of the Nephilim/ Sisters of Mercy/ March Violets/ Subway to Sally songs
This is why no goth ever had a successful career as a milkman.

6 Strange hobbies
Many of your colleagues will spend the weekend at B&Q, drinking Lambrusco and playing five-a-side. Not goths. They read preposterous fantasy books, do a spot of Wicca and anything “a bit medieval”.

7 Black clothing
Though both wore a lot of black, it is easy to differentiate between the goth and the 80s throwback by asking this simple question: can you imagine this outfit in a Robert Palmer video? The goth’s predilection for black clothing is a reflection of the Black Aesthetic - taking those things society regards as evil or wrong and making them beautiful. Many items in the longtime goth’s wardrobe may now have faded to a sort of charcoal shade.

8 Disturbing dancing at Christmas party
The goth sticks rigidly to the routine of two and a half steps to the front and back again, while gazing at the floor in an affected fashion and waving hands around mysteriously.

9 Disarmingly pointy boots
It is a little-known fact that inside their shoes, goths’ feet are just as pointy as their winklepickers.

10 Drives a hearse to work And doesn’t work at a funeral parlour.
original article: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1735690,00.html

 (duvy’s note: As a 35 year-old Goth in the business of being goth, [yes, my mission is to keep some parts of the Goth lifestyle alive, why else would I waste my time doing this for free?] I take offense at the line “I see them now in Camden where I live and think ‘Fine in your twenties. But when you’re 30? Sorry - you look like a twat” but you know what? That’s how this website came to exist. People tell me I don’t look 35 because I dress goth and like things that are for ‘young people’. WHAT A LOAD OF TOTAL BULLSHIT! When I turned 30 I gave in to the pressure of my 30-something or older friends, my parents, the media…I stopped wearing dark clothes, tried listening to top 40 [total crap], tried getting a normal job, hell i even broke off my marriage of 11 years to find someone ‘productive of sunshine’…but you know what I was still writing gothic dance music, even when I tried to write trance or disco, people still accused me of being goth. You can’t escape something that is who you are. I was seven years old the first time I heard of punk music and everyone around me listened to what is now considered ‘classic rock’ so there never really was a time when I didn’t have shit like Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, and Pink Floyd setting me up to fall for Sex Pistols, Ramones, black flag, bad religion. Let’s not forget that devil MTV where I received all of this subculture in the 1980’s. Believe it or not it was Duran Duran which turned me goth, then The cure, depeche mode, and later christian death, alien sex fiend and so on. I can’t tell you how many times I took a fountain drink across the back of my head with some fuck yelling “fashion punk!” at me while driving by me in deep ellum, texas. I’m 35 years old and in 1984 I was kicked out of school in mesquite, texas for wearing long shirts, blue hair, and too much make-up. Denied an education in public school just because I was ‘weird’, it’s a very real part of who Duvy is, but Duvy sees 30-something goths every day who should modify their dress a bit in the way of ‘do what you want’ because now you can! I just spent the last 30 years thinking the world would end before I got old, yes according to world media if you are 30 you are too old too live already, so fuck it! We are generation me, taught to ‘think for yourself’ and ‘just be yourself’ and ‘come as you are’ so this is fucking me. Yeah I carry a back pack with a cartoon on it instead of a purse, yeah I wear dark colors but I also wear bright colors and sometimes pastels too, but none of these things are what it is really all about for me, they are just things I find compelling. Dressing goth is not the same as being goth, you can dress goth for the rest of your life and maybe never get it.
  On another note, here where I live in Oklahoma City [no mistakes, I was born in Dallas and moved to okc in 1991] it was illegal to receive or supply tattoos until just this year. Now that is what I call backwards as fuck, tattooing has been around for centuries, but until the state realized they could make money from it, it was illegal here. So venture out and get tattooed and dress as ‘ugly’ as you want because it’s your right to be who you are on the inside. I’m not saying go against your parents, I was lucky enough to have parents that encouraged me to be myself, even though they were embarrassed to be seen with me, but if you plan to be a Goth ‘for reals’ it’s time to explain to them what it is all about and try to show them the true beauty of such things. When you freak out, you freak them out and then they write retarded articles like this one:

“Goth” youths more likely to self-harm: study

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/hl_nm/goths_dc_1

and for you little retards screwing up goth for the rest of us, wake up and think for yourself! Don’t use goth as a weapon against society you little prick! Read a book or something!)

Organized Religion is Slowing Down Mankind

Organized Religion is Slowing Down Mankind
By Lance Winslow

The current religious situation throughout the world has put mankind at a standstill to get to the next evolutionary step, to the destiny that awaits us and to the future we deserve. We can not in good faith standby and watch the children of the world die from dysentery, malaria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, AIDS or any other dreadful disease or virus, due to droughts, fresh water supplies or our failure to modify the environment to support human life properly.

We must not fail to act, if we fail to fix the problem when we have the capacity, the wherewithal, the technology to get the job done, then I submit to you that we as stakeholders on this planet, as human beings, as a common species are doing so at the future risk to the ongoing forward progression of mankind and to the detriment of the whole including all those children of the world and the future of the species.

There can be no debate; we know what we must do, we should start today and we should finish the program. The NGOs, the World Bank, and a leadership of the free world understands that something must be done, inaction, lack of a cohesive plan, fighting over methods and means within the context of bureaucracy cannot achieve our common goals.

We must do something and that something is now long overdue. Next paragraph the leading thinkers throughout the history of recorded written time, whose words we’ve read and are grateful for their writings, have discussed what is needed to maintain civilization and now as mankind has procreated to the point where he has spread out across the globe in every quarter of the earth there is no doubt that it is time to connect the civilizations as one global community looking forward to the future in completing the circle. It can be done. Think on this.

“Lance Winslow” - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs