Over the last few years, it’s been amazing to see how social media has united people globally in various causes from ecological concerns to political uprisings. These days it’s much harder for a government to silence people, to censor them, and keep them under wraps. (more…)

Married couple playing checkers

This weekend I had the pleasure of meeting two friends in person who I’ve known for a few years in Second Life. We met in the Skeptical Buddhist Sangha, and they have been really supportive in the new island  I’ve been creating, Secular Community. (more…)

For a couple of months I joined in on a regularly scheduled talk in Second Life (SL) called SL Relationships and Beyond. I found it interesting, and quite frankly really odd, that people were having relationships in SL. In fact, I discovered later in talking with folks that there are many chapels and churches were couples could go to get married. I had to check this out! (more…)

I had an interesting conversation with a tarot reader in Second Life (SL). I had asked him if he found it harder to do readings in SL because there is an avatar between him and is client. He disagreed heartily that there was something between them. “On the contrary,” he said, “avatars tend to be better representations of people than their genetic bodies, as flesh bodies often don’t fit
the person or portray them well. Avatars, on the other hand, are usually expressions of what a person feels represents her or himself well in real life (RL).” Interesting. (more…)