[Noisebridge-discuss] [Build] 2169 shrine

Al Billings albill at openbuddha.com
Fri Aug 28 00:39:35 UTC 2009


On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:

> Rachel McConnell wrote:
>> I don't want it because it is a religious object, which I feel has no
>> place at Noisebridge.  Even if it's Cute and Historical and Adds
>> Character.  Noisebridge ought to be entirely orthogonal to religion;
>> having a shrine is either promoting or disrespecting (of course in a
>> totally cute and funny way, those wacky Chinese, gosh that's neat!)  
>> some
>> religion or other.  We should do neither.
>>
>> That said, I care about this issue about as much as I care about most
>> detail, which is, enough to mention it but not enough to insist.
>>
>> That is all.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, I generally feel the same. We don't need any gods
> and we certainly don't need the old master of a sweat shop watching  
> over us.

It sounds like we don't have consensus.

Al



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