I know there's work in progress on the Code of Conduct, but I wanted to address this topic here, because this is the only place in the Ubuntu Context I've ever had this problem. In order for everyone to properly understand the importance, I'll explain very briefly – and to the entire community – why this is so important to me and why it makes me want to step back from the community. But I primarily want to explain why I'm here and why it's important that people like myself don't go away – though everyone seems to want us to.
I begin reacting to religion a long time before my rational reasoning begins. Religion is such a strong topic for me. My grandmother was brought up as extremely christian. And she's been a very powerful presense in my family. On my fathers side, everyone's non-religious, I think. But my grandmother was taught that everything nice was evil. Music, for instance. And I'm a musician. And cards. I'm a card artist. And games. I'm a pool player. Mostly everything I love, she was taught, is evil. However, the final years of her life, after my mother died, she was very lonely. And I spend large amounts of time with her, talking about life and death. And it was so important to me that my efforts to talk honestly to her, didn't affect her beliefs. That really took a commitment. Because I was always confident that I would be able to convince her that her beliefs didn't make any sense, but I didn't want to take it away from her - even subconciously. . I respect my elders and their religions. It doesn't mean they're right. I've spent a very large part of my life talking about religion – all of the big ones – though I've never been one myself. I can argue with priests or mullahs or anyone. It is extremely interesting to me, understanding what makes people think the way they do. Whether they're different because of age, religion, sex or sanity, really doesn't matter that much to me, as long as I truly understand. That's also why I want to engage in the way people use computers. Because I don't only consider them as tools. I consider them as a new part of our reality. In my inner mind, I call it the hypersynapsis. I think it's bigger than computers and bigger than the internet, but definitely not bigger than humans. Ubuntu was never sold to me. I joined because it immediately clicked with all of my strange personal vectors. I fight very hard for Ubuntu, but I also defend Microsoft – simply because much of the things people are saying, isn't true. I hope I never have to defend my beliefs in any Ubuntu channel ever again. Because it's the one and only time I do. And it feels wrong to me, that I should be forced out of the community because of my non-religious beliefs – weird as they may be. Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
