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Christmas fast approaches and I’m having a crisis of faith.

My problem is I’m unsure if I should be calling myself a technomancer or a technopagan.

Lets review the options:
(anything in italics I’ve added as my comments
The Technomancer (source: here)

Like druids, but with tech instead of nature. Technomancers are more than just skilled technicians. They are in tune with machines, connecting with them not only on an intellectual but a spiritual level.

Check, this is what has been referred to as my “Make it better field”, my uncanny ability to fix most computer related problems by entering the room

Note: A “machine”, for purposes of the technomancer, is any electronic system. A technomancer does not necessarily have any mechanical or structural engineering abilities or knowledge. But “electrical and electronic systems, computers, and artificial intelligences” is one hell of an awkward phrase.

Enough people know me well enough to recognise this meaning whenever i say “Machine”

Class Skills: Machine Empathy (Cha, exclusive skill), Engineering, Knowledge: Any Tech Related, Computer Hacking, Sabotage Starship/Vehicle, Concentration, Craft, Diplomacy, Handle Machine, Profession, Net Search (Int, exclusive skill), Spellcraft, Tech Lore (Wis)

Again I seem to fit the bill with all of those!

After checking on technopagns, it seems that most of them are just a branch off the wiccan crowd, so screw those hippies! With out all the pollution and coal burning we’d never have computers!

“Any relationship between technology and spirituality is constructed by Hippies from the past who now wish to cover-up the guilt of their present relationship to Capitalism.”

Florian Rötzer

That still leaves Technoshamanism to investigate, but that is an exorcise for the reader and the author.

So far this Christmas my Boycott list is small. The list at the moment is:

• Harry Potter and the Gobshite of Fire
• Anything Disney
• McDonald’s

Why you may ask?
Well, HP&TGSOF I’m ignoring because I’ve no interest in HP or any of JKR’s works. Its not because I don’t like them, its simply because I don’t want to get to know them.
Disney & McD’s, otoh, I’m boycotting them because in all the publicity I’ve seen and heard for TLTWATW I’ve not seen or heard any reference to C.S. Lewis.
Most of the promotional material I’ve seen or heard suggests that this is an original piece of work by Disney, which is about as true as Disney writing Cinderella, Snow White, Peter Pan or any other fairy tale.

Aside from their cartoon characters (some of which are often debated were stolen) I’d like to know what Disney has done that is original. I’d also like to know if Walt is spinning in his fridge, but like many Disney claims thats also not true

This may be the new home for my current and under used lj.
And before anyone says it I still did this before phil did, so nyeh :P