wrongplanet.net

Well, I see daylight beginning to appear in the sky this morning.  I haven't slept at all tonight.  I did try, but I failed for 2 hours and finally gave up.  I've been catching up on reading forum posts at wrongplanet.net tonight.  I stopped reading there a very long time ago because at the time it seemed a rather hostile place.  Maybe I'm just choosing better topics this time, but seems a lot calmer now.

I've been catching up on the dating/romance sections.  There seem to be very few autistic/autistic pairings, which is something that bitterlawngnome asked me about earlier.  Judging by the available commentary, such relationships seem to convey no overall advantage.  There do, however, seem to be a lot of autistic/cousin pairings... meaning that one partner is diagnosed and the other partner has some similar qualities but not enough for diagnosis.  Maybe it helps to have at least one person with a social instinct to get things started?

I found a few posts from people also considering the idea of not dating for life.  Those posts also mentioned the key phrase "inflicting oneself" on someone else as the concern.  I tried to contribute to the threads by offering the detailed text in my recent post.  Their forum, however, prevents me from putting any kind of url (I even heavily edited it to try to escape the filter) because I've never posted at the site before.  I've been a member since 2004, but I guess half a decade of association is insufficient merit.  (They have my sympathies, though.  I've operated a forum and had to take drastic measures to cut back on spam too.)

I'm going to be burned out today at work.  :(  And I'm going to see the sci-fi mystery "Moon" with the local bears at 7pm too.

It's a caffeine day for me, I think.

America was a non-Christian nation (and should remain so)

My thanks to snousle for pointing out this quote in furrbear's thread:

"As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion..."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tripoli

Two-thirds of America's (then, only 32) senators were present for the vote on this 1797 treaty, and it passed unanimously.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Article_11.GIF

The wonders of wikipedia are boundless.  They even have a photo of Article 11 of the treaty.  :)

This quote is new information to me.  Maybe it's time to remind the nation that mixing religious fervor with government authority is a bad idea.  It is always a bad idea, no matter which flavor of religion is trying to do it.  We really don't need to recreate (Christian) Rome.

I've listed here the necessary links for promoting this old (and therefore conservative?) idea.  Go forth, new meme.  Fly!