The Anarcho-Geek Review. So it turns out Anarcho-Geek Review is going to occasionally publish essays, either original ones, or mildly annotated ones.
The following is an essay we have reproduced in full from a long-extinct Geocities page. We were unable to track down the author—we present this piece in good faith. It is perhaps the best exploration of the alignment system we have encountered. Our few notes are marked in red. In 1977, admittedly before I was born, the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons introduced the world to an ethical system known today as the nine alignments. The nine alignment system is a two dimensional understanding of human behavior and motivation.
The nine alignments are, based on these two axes: Chaotic Good, Neutral Good, Lawful Good, Chaotic Neutral, True Neutral, Lawful Neutral, Chaotic Evil, Neutral Evil, and Lawful Evil. These alignments are seen as each character’s moral compass. Good versus Evil On first glance, this is the less interesting and more obvious of the two axes. Feminism – You’re Doing It Wrong. Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows!
Puppies and kittens and unicorns! There. I just wanted to conjure some warmth and fuzziness for you before I go and say something you might not like. Okay, so there’s a strong likelihood that you won’t like it. But I’m going to say it anyway. Have you ever felt like the odd one out on a joke, and though you try, you just can’t grasp the punch line? I’m sure you’ve seen this phenomenon on the interweb. Something you should know about me: I pick things apart.
I hear things like “Why do you have to dissect everything?” It seems that there are a lot of women out there making a feminist issue out of the au naturale selfie. To be clear, the feminist perspective is not my gripe. Let’s be real. There are many definitions for objectification, but the take home meaning is regarding something or someone as an object. Naturally, the ceaselessly churning media machine has something to say. And let us not forget our old friend Narcissus. Like this: Like Loading... India’s Holy Men In Powerful Portraits By New York-Based Photographer Joey L. Our technologically-obsessed society often finds it hard to grasp the reasons behind asceticism: for what reason should one forsake all of one’s earthly possessions and live excluded from society?
This stunning set of portraits by Brooklyn-based photographer Joey L puts us face to face with religious ascetics who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of spiritual liberation. Starting in Northern Ethiopia, Joey has traveled the world searching for wandering monks and spiritualists. The latest installment of his Holy Men series features holy men, or sadhus, living in Varanasi, India. Definitely one of the best people in the world. Why I Wear Nail Polish — Gender Justice/Feminism. A teenage girl sat across from me on the tram today.
“Excuse me,” she asked, “are you a boy or a girl?” “Boy,” I replied. Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education. A Spiritual Conspiracy, by Author Unknown. The question of being kicked hard and why?
Compare. Work from your dark mirror, as we do at times, and ‘ASK’ your light mirror of the comparison of where you have been working from, and the issue at hand. ManWoman Is Taking Back the Swastika. Photo by Janousz Meissner Before World War II, the swastika was a sign of strength, luck, and other decidedly un-Nazi-like good vibes.
Unfortunately, it only takes one angry little man with a Chaplin mustache to ruin a perfectly nice symbol (and mustache, for that matter) for the whole world. Here we are, almost seven decades after the guy's death, and the swastika is still one of the most recognizable and viscerally despised emblems around. ManWoman, a Canadian artist and poet, has been trying to reclaim the swastika from cue ball-headed bigots since the 1960s, when he was tasked with the mission via a series of powerful dreams.
As he describes it, he fell into a trance and his soul "soared up into the Womb of the Sacred," where an old guy in white robes showed him the symbol and told him to redeem it. And in case you were wondering, ManWoman is not transgender. VICE: Can you tell me about the moment when you were given your mission to reclaim the swastika? Sounds like it. Mr. Happy Man.