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Unlikely, courts tend to take a dim view on religions that aren't several hundreds if not thousands of years old. It is a legal hack to prevent situations like the one you described.
Doesn't Scientology have the status of an accepted religion in the US?
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He made it pretty clear it was self-depreciative humour. If this blog post actually offended you, instead of merely making you think that others might be offended, then I suggest that you lighten up a bit.
I'm offended by such bad writing.
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He made it pretty clear it was self-depreciative humour. If this blog post actually offended you, instead of merely making you think that others might be offended, then I suggest that you lighten up a bit.
I'm offended by such bad writing.
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Doesn't Scientology have the status of an accepted religion in the US?
They got an exception because of the all the rich/famous people they have.
Now where's my chapel in the Apple Store? I suppose the Genius Bar may constitute, but I'm smarter than those people so it doesn't provide me any solace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
I attended a military academy, which mildly resembled prison in a few respects. We weren't allowed out of the dorms after 7pm, and an instructor would make sure we were all in bed (checking off our names on a checklist) and turn the light out in our rooms for us. Then he'd stay there and make sure we didn't leave our rooms until just before Reveille.
The jocks and bad atitude cases would sometimes dress up as commandos in all-black outfits and go on "missions" to sneak off have trysts with girlfriends or pull pranks (like shining the breasts of one female statue on campus.) They'd often get caught, which was bad because it was technically a dismissal offense. Me, I was part of a group that snuck around after lights out to gather and play D&D. Actually, we didn't sneak. We just put on dress uniform, and the security guards assumed we were Officer of the Day.
No, I did not have a girlfriend in High School.
Personally, I think the reasoning is completely bogus, however, I'm all for not allowing people to spend their day playing D&D while I and other tax payers pay for it (and I'll expand the D&D to anything that does not fall in the restitution or rehabilitation buckets). On the other hand, I could see D&D being a good rehabilitation tool. Personal rant aside, D&D sure seems like it would be a LOT better than some thing…
Personally, I think the reasoning is completely bogus, however, I'm all for not allowing people to spend their day playing D&D while I and other tax payers pay for it (and I'll expand the D&D to anything that does not fall in the restitution or rehabilitation buckets). On the other hand, I could see D&D being a good rehabilitation tool. Personal rant aside, D&D sure seems like it would be a LOT better than some thing…
Personally, I think the reasoning is completely bogus, however, I'm all for not allowing people to spend their day playing D&D while I and other tax payers pay for it (and I'll expand the D&D to anything that does not fall in the restitution or rehabilitation buckets). On the other hand, I could see D&D being a good rehabilitation tool. Personal rant aside, D&D sure seems like it would be a LOT better than some thing…
One of my bosses got a lot of his "think on your feet" chops from D&D. He was damn good. No one ever caught him flat footed without an answer and all of his answers sounded good and scored a point for his side. I asked him once where it came from, and he told me it was playing D&D.