Windows Live Messenger Invites

Could someone please help me out by letting me give them WLM beta invitations. Just reply with an email address that is both your passport and a valid working email that you can check.

Free speech or Life?

Just watching Hotel Rwanda at the moment.
It really puts a few universal rights under an interesting spot light. The root right that was first forgotten was that everyone is equal. When the Portuguese first came in and elevated one clan over the other and disturbed the natural economy between them it set in motion the terrible actions depicted.
But this is ancient history and hopefully wont be repeated
What has sparked my thoughts though is the radio station depicted in the film, it is used by the spiritual leaders to help incite violence. Early in the film all it is saying is that there need to be a shift in power and that the other group are worthless, does this mean we should ban any speech which goes against the basic principles we hold dear? I think yes.
But what are these basic principles? I hold dear:
Freedom of association
Freedom of religion
Personal security
Equality of all people (and their equal rights to the bounty of the world, what a pity communism doesn't work)
and such things, but you have a hard time granting them without letting people speak against them. I guess its a good thing I aren't in the position to try and change these things as I don't know the answer.

Azorious Deck

I've been thinking about this Azorious based deck for a while now, all I really needs is some dual lands, but I'm sure Dissension will have some other goodies for it.

Disruption:
4x Leyline of Singularity
3x Faiths Fetters
3x Confiscate (this is the slot I think is most likely to be replaced in Dissension, I'm hoping for a good UW permanent stealer)
3x Threads of Disloyalty
3x Pacifism
3x Spirit Link
3x Cage of Hands

Win Conditions:
4x Hunted Phantasm

Control:
4x Remand
4x Hinder
4x Remand

naturally some collection of land to let you cast this type of stuff.

This decks signature opening play is obviously opening hand Leyline with turn 3 Phantasm. The best late game play it can make is remand Fetters in response to the second copy of a bomb being played, your paying just 7WU to draw 2 cards, gain 4 life and nullify another one of their permanents. All this is trying to do is use leyline of Singularity to turn all of your 1 for 1 enchantment based removal spells turn into 2 for 1s.

So does anyone out there have any opinion of this deck?

New Look - Same Crapness

Changed the theme to the blue version because black was getting on my nerves.
Problem is that changing themes really doesn't get around the crud that is blogger. Why can't the default themes include:

• Post heading perma-link to article.

Ok actually that list was rather short, but its still annoying. Wonder how much longer till I move to rpd.cerberos.id.au and wordpress?

What am I trying to do?

I've been trying to wrestle with the question of how I'm going to create my faith community around Magic. This has been missing the point somewhat though: What am I going to create? For that matter am I going to create anything or just shape something?

I've been tasked with creating a missional team based around Magic. Kewl, I'll just go do that as soon as I know what a missional team is. (Have a glance at the NCCC website or at Signposts: Phil and Dans blog for some references on the church I'm apart of)
Careworks is probably the biggest missional team at Northern, that's a group of people who help out underprivileged and marginalised people in our wider community in practical ways (op shop, food bank, English conversation classes) and interact socially while doing it (a lot of the people working within Careworks are also its target market). So from that example I should gather a group of people who enjoy magic and start running lots of tournaments and events.
Their is two primary fruits of the Careworks at Northern though, the good works that it does in the community AND the connect congregation that meets for lunch on a Thursday. I don't see the value of just running lots of Magic events as the Melbourne Magic community is quite healthy already. There is a need for connecting with it from a Christian perspective though.

So should I try and create a congregation through the tried and true practice of starting with mission projects or by the much more post modern method of inhabiting the community and letting church happen?

Judge Test

Just letting all my faithful readers that I passed my level 1 judge test on the weekend.