hey spike, join the Unitarian jihad! that act will was your worries away. googled it and got my jihad Unitarian style name. smile, ilsa<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">><br>> From: "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@comcast.net">spike66@comcast.net</a>><br>
> ... Having a baby on the way does change one's perspective on openness.<br>><br>> How, Spike?<br>><br>> Olga<br><br>I am an openness advocate because I am in some ways a special case: I have<br>nothing in my past I want to hide. (Except perhaps my ExI posts. {8^D)
<br>Likewise my wife has nothing that requires privacy, but while an openness<br>advocate, I do not wish to peer into other people's privacy. I can think of<br>a zillion perfectly legitimate reasons for not being open. While I may sign
<br>up for openness, young Isaac may not. My openness compromises his privacy.<br>I don't yet know if he will be a privacy fanatic; he isn't born yet.<br><br>This next generation thing has me thinking bigtime: I have pondered
<br>abandoning the nickname spike, which I have carried for over 20 years now,<br>and carried through my entire professional career. Reasoning: I could leave<br>behind all traces of everything I have ever posted on the internet.
<br><br>For instance, I cannot be certain I never blammisphied online any religion<br>that could have adherents who may akbar a knife between my ribs at any<br>future date. I think all my blammisphy has been restricted to the common
<br>domestic varieties of religion, but I honestly cannot recall. The internet<br>never forgets. Unthinkable scenario: if Iran and Israel go at it with nukes<br>in the next few years, we could end up with a million Tarheel jehadists like
<br>Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar. I could see the wisdom in becoming invisible, or<br>having no memetic past. Everyone should have that option.<br><br>spike<br><br></blockquote></div>