BTW, any prototype yet?!?!

Also, I registered halliegreider.com at Dreamhost.com. I think I’ll need some additional advice on how to get everything going for that.

Nice seeing you, albiet briefly, at TVC this morning.

Since you designed my website, that’s probably where this all came from…

Why on earth would you want to attend a church you have to apply to in the first place?

Kind of like US citizenship vs. green card.

Other benefits: Members are usually shown a secret handshake. They also are given immunity from speeding tickets and told the punch lines to various jokes that other members usually leave hanging. They also have the right to make any non-member carry their things and explain complex theological issues using pig latin.

That said, clearly I don’t know what I am talking about. So I will just shut up.

I am curious what the result would be if Ken and Sarah aren’t made members – do you keep attending, always knowing that the leaders of the church don’t think you are cool enough to join? Or do you find another church?

I don’t think it will be much of a problem seeing that Ken dwarfs me in coolness and I was accepted….

Pez

So that they can be snobbish and be all “I’m a member of such and such church” … its like the theological country club or something.

/me ducks and runs for ken before he can punch me.

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I like democratic institutions in which everyone gets to vote, instead of the elite member class..
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I have to agree. This is something that was brought up recently in a local tech group meeting. The arguement that I gave into was “You shouldn’t be able to vote unless you have a basic knowledge of the topic at hand.” Thus, to get membership you need to have a basic understanding of the topics (and in the case of this group, a gpg key and get on the keychain … voting is limited to gpg so people can’t vote twice … or at least that is the idea, nothing is coded yet )

That logic I can go with. I wouldn’t expect to walk into a church one day that they were voting on something and be allowed to have the deciding vote on some issue. Thing is, who decides is that basic knowledge if there or not? Especially in issues of something like religion where one passage in a book can mean completely different things to different people.

These interviews aren�t like job interviews, where they pick and choose members based on skills or character or some other criteria, but more like opportunities to get to know the church leaders and let them get to know us. Alex was just being clever.