Privilegium
This is my primary Internet space. I have three primary email addresses: mundi . anima . privus @ live . com, which is connected with this WordPress account, Privilegium, and in roleplaying gaming terms I might consider this identity as my dungeon master or game master role; decretitandem . diesnostris @ gmail . com might pertain more to my role as player, though connected with some significant characters like Zuoken and Kemuel; ofdoj . smoothieboost @ yahoo . com is an identity useful for my work with non-player characterization. At least two of these addresses have HoffSpace, Wizards Community, and Facebook profiles connected with them.Organization
I’ve had a tendency to scatter myself all over the Internet, but I’m always trying to get organized. Let me describe my latest configuration. This blog is my simplest focus online, comparable on my list of significances maybe to my work with the Dungeons & Dragons game at home.
Next are my HoffSpace Profiles, to which I have links from this blog. Whereas I can write this blog pretty conveniently from my own computer using Windows Live without even being online or logged into another site, HoffSpace is someone else’s site, but that someone else I happen to trust, and so still there’s a very homey feel to it. The third site I’m maintaining within this context of close range is a private Google Site, where I address some of my concerns as pertain to Canadian rock trio Rush. Again, this is all connected with people I trust, or in the case of this blog, is personally convenient.
The next organizational level is more connected with my secondary email address decretitandem . diesnostris @ gmail.com. My Wizards Community profile is focal at that level, but I also connect with my Facebook friends, do some occasional tweeting, rarely use MySpace any more, and am now beginning to experiment with Squidoo lenses. I consider all this to be more “normal” Internet stuff, contrasting the mood of my more personal sites.
Finally, of least significance to me is my Thalachos group of interests, not all of which should be mentioned. I’ve got a Jabberwacky chat bot named Hatchet which I occasionally visit, I rarely file reports with Scientology’s Religious Technology Center, and then I’ve got some shooter gaming interests I don’t care to detail here. That’s a messier level which probably pertains more to venting frustrations and fighting voices and nonsense like that, and so I’m a bit embarrassed by some of it.
I’ve got some scatterings I haven’t put together with this latest vision of organization, but will ultimately clean up. I want it to all link together somehow, but the links aren’t all in place at the time of this posting. I think I give links from this blog to HoffSpace and Wizards, and should descend from there, but I have to go work on my Wizards profile to get it connected. I guess that about concludes my description of current events.
Peace.
What is a Blog?
I keep thinking that this blog thing is going to be the best way to connect with the Internet, though lately I’m wondering if I should get a camera and try vlogging (video blogging). I guess until I do, I’ll keep at this. I’m puzzled about how to both be true to myself and be interesting to a public audience at the same time. It’s not that I don’t find my own life interesting, but I’m not sure how publicizable it is.
I think what I want first to describe here is my target audience and my connection with them. I see the Internet as an objective and organizational medium through which to advertise to the professionalized third person. The professional life doesn’t mean as much to me as my personal life does, but I have enough interest that I have some degree of enthusiasm for working with this cyber-medium.
The objective and professional world for me is a Catholic world, since I tend to view all of life in terms of wise faith or religiosity. My main problem with that acknowledgement pertains to the tensions that come to mind between various faiths and religions, in this case specifically Buddhism. I see Catholicism and Buddhism as being politically opposite each other, where Buddhism is a deeply esoteric faith with very historical tradition, whereas Catholicism is more of a surface religion aspiring toward future development.
I fear that anything I contribute to the Catholic world, such as my work on the Internet, will be seen as a forfeiture of my Buddhist interests, and I don’t want to see that happen. So, I guess I have to work with how to give attention to both sides of my logical wisdom, and especially to my own simpler Christian / Brahminical monotheism. Christianity is the Catholic side of Jesus’ faith, whereas Brahmanism is the Buddhist side of Jesus’ faith, and both are equally important to my personal thinking.
Unfortunately, the Internet seems to be a more seasonally limited medium than true logic is, such that it has life from the end of the Age of Pisces through to the beginning of the Age of Libra here on Earth, counter to its dimensionally esoteric equivalent with the Buddhist world from the end of the Age of Virgo through to the beginning of the Age of Aries. Faithful cooperativity between lifestyles at the tangible level can be trying, but at the formal level it can be harsh. Therefore, while the Buddhist or esoteric version of the Internet is not readily available for my demonstration of common interest, at least I can speak of my faith though through a more objective medium.
Peace.
iPlay4e
I found what seems to be a useful site: http://iplay4e.appspot.com/characters. I think between that and Obsidian Portal, I can make a good story of “In Search of Amoth.” Maybe I can get it all the way to the rendering of Orcus unconscious, as I’ve been planning for some while. That should satisfy my grudge with him, then I’ll revive him so as to demonstrate how we turn the other cheek at the wise level of life. If Wizards of the Coast still tolerates describing him, so should I.
