Comments on: It’s Christmas Eve in SL. Do you know where your churches are? http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/12/its_christmas_e.html Always Fairly Unbalanced Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Maria La Veaux http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/12/its_christmas_e.html/comment-page-1#comment-48089 Maria La Veaux Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:08:12 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2573#comment-48089 Being a Catholic, On Christmas eve, I was in my RL church, attending RL Midnight Mass officiated by a properly Ordained Priest. In life, for me anyway, there are some things that shouldn't be trivialized by treating it as a game. My Faith is on the top of the list. Churches in SL are good builds, I even saw, in a sandbox area, someone constructing a reproduction of Notre Dame De Paris, But they are not, and by nature of their construction Cannot be, Consecrated, and to the best of my Knowledge, are not run by Ordained Priests or Ministers. I am well aware that there are other denominations that make use of meeting halls and Lay Preachers, But even those seem to favor the RL approach to Going through the motions in the digital world. I am also not surprised that the one place that Did have People in it was a Dance Club. After all,, for some Christmas is a time of Celebration, and these people were Celebrating. I would say, Given the environment. The game areas were each treated with a proportional amount of response from players. Parties attended, and Mock Churches Shunned in favor of the real thing. Maria Being a Catholic, On Christmas eve, I was in my RL church, attending RL Midnight Mass officiated by a properly Ordained Priest.
In life, for me anyway, there are some things that shouldn’t be trivialized by treating it as a game. My Faith is on the top of the list.

Churches in SL are good builds, I even saw, in a sandbox area, someone constructing a reproduction of Notre Dame De Paris, But they are not, and by nature of their construction Cannot be, Consecrated, and to the best of my Knowledge, are not run by Ordained Priests or Ministers. I am well aware that there are other denominations that make use of meeting halls and Lay Preachers, But even those seem to favor the RL approach to Going through the motions in the digital world.
I am also not surprised that the one place that Did have People in it was a Dance Club. After all,, for some Christmas is a time of Celebration, and these people were Celebrating. I would say, Given the environment. The game areas were each treated with a proportional amount of response from players. Parties attended, and Mock Churches Shunned in favor of the real thing.

Maria

]]> By: urizenus http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/12/its_christmas_e.html/comment-page-1#comment-48088 urizenus Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:47:36 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2573#comment-48088 it was very impressive Misha, congrats! it was very impressive Misha, congrats!

]]> By: Misha Martov http://alphavilleherald.com/2004/12/its_christmas_e.html/comment-page-1#comment-48087 Misha Martov Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:31:54 +0000 http://localhost/wp_2/?p=2573#comment-48087 Nice to see you visted my little church. Nice to see you visted my little church.

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