I figured out/had revealed to me why I'm here at Blogger. I need a public space by myself, just they way Sara did over at MySpace. I was asked to keep the name of the group in the background from now on;we are individuals operating in a rhizomic network in both etherealspace and cyberspace. I will be referring to reference material in a near-future post.

Goes like this:

We are not going to have one big central website. We will be nodes, all over the Internet. Pictures here. Music there. Fun someplace else. Philosophy? Go to www.________________ and check it out. Perhaps that will be Nietzsche or Bachelard.

The fun, Seima told me, is just beginning.

This I feel is easier to use than the previous blog we'd tried. I will get around to posting pictures, by the way. If anyone's interested, my name is Roy Waidler, and I will let it go at that for now. "Morion" as a word is a type of 16th-century helmet; however I am more familiar with it as a the name of a comic-book character from the early 1970's. As I recall this Morion was not a Good Guy; but the name stuck with Stro Moon Daglo and myself over the years. (Oh my goodness! Stro Moon Daglo?) (Yes. As a matter of fact ole Daglo has a Space on MySpace. I'll get the full URL another time)

Without going into too much detail, I am the steward for the Outlands Community here in America; we are QUITE distinct from the agricultural group of the same name that I've seen on Google a few times. We are a spiritual community, not agricultural. No, we don't take money, we are not seeking acolytes, proselytes, electrolytes or even a lyte beer.

Since we are about quite a number of things, we initially discussed having a website; you know, a page for this, a page for that, lots of pictures, lots of links, a Q&A email center....and being on a limited budget and having just got my first computer in April we jumped in feet or head-first. Inna meantime, some young friends turned me onto MySpace. Huh? Looks like a fun place...for young kids. But it's what you make of it, I swear it is worth browsing every nook and cranny, even if you don't sign up. And it's free. As of today, four of us have Spaces on MySpace. Almost like a website. Almost.

Because you can only have ten photos in your photofile, and you need to know HTML (we don't - yet) to add more pics at MySpace, we tripped over a place called WebShots. It too is free and is owned (I think) by the same company that owns MySpace, casalemedia. At the moment we have over 100 pieces of art there with more to come.

Now we have added Blogger. Rhizome-like, not centralized, that is how we are appearing on the web. Nietzsche would approve!

August 15 2005 So here I am, trying a new blog service. They made it sound easy. They made it sound free. I've gotten to distrust a lot of so-called free services on the web, simply because they have too many ads crawling over your whatever, or they're to simple/complex for any sane person to use, or their services are crashing, or they leave shit in your computer that has no business being there, or their service/help consists of a bunch of endless and vague FAQ's that get you nowhere.

Originally I had thought of having a blog simply because I have been keeping a hand-written journal since 1973 - that's right, thirty-two years' worth of my rambling, bitching, moaning, poetry, scholarly research (back in my biblical-historical days), copying of favorite quotes (I was quote the literateur) and other things one writes. Since I got this computer back in early April of this year, I have several on-going journals stacked inside of it, but I wanted some things public. Provided that this service delivers, I should be posting some pungent material when I do show up here. Although I do not believe that I am a total singularity, the chances are good that I do not think like most of the people in America upon a variety of subjects.

• Politically I am a libertarian with strong anarchistic leanings - the less government the better.
• I have not been happy with the present administration so-called, but in this I am hardly alone. Still, there are others who like the Guy. Sheeesh! What a woild!
• I am not in favor of religion. I am in favor of spirituality. Religion binds and kills the heart. Spirituality opens and liberates it. I am not an atheist. I listen to others on this subject, and will answer questions if they are not too nasty or not obviously leading to my having to read a bunch of Bible quotes about why I am going to hell. A note to those who feel obligated on this point: A Biblical text is not proof that you are right about something. A Biblical text is a Biblical text, period. To say it is proof for something which you may believe (or say you believe but do not) is a poetic statement, it is using the poetic function of the mind, and is not open to logical analysis. Should you attempt such, you are then on my turf - I am a poet among other things and not very good at logical analysis...but I really don't wanna be bogged down on this point.
• I believe in total sexual liberty. I do not think that the government, any government has the right to interfere with the sexual nature of anyone. I am, however, a civilized person, and in proclaiming sexual liberty for all, this does not mean that I approve of rape and/or the imposed, unwanted sexual torture of others. To rape someone is to take away another person's sexual liberty. Don't know why some people find that so hard to understand.

So far this has been a piece of cake. I have a bunch of 1"x1" miniavatars which I may splatter across the blog as days go by. In the meantime I really oughta get one of those books and learn HTML.

Look for future entries, at least one of them anyway, to have URLs to my favorite places. Also, I'm not the only one who will post material here. I'm "Morion," and others will have their own made-up names clearly visible in the blog. So you all - whoever you are - have a good day now, y'hear?