Paradise Regained

Our policy on Non-Photographic Images of Minors is being removed. What this means is that we will no longer be requiring the removal of this content, or suspending people who have posted it. We feel that with the introduction of the adult content flagging system, we do not need to take any further action on this type of material.

-- LJ Policy

Wow, it looks like we are back to the pre-Six Apart, Brad days. Unless I misunderstand, we can post a drawing of Humbert Humbert laying it into twelve-year-old Lolita in full, wet, squicky detail, so long as it is age-protected. You just cannot use actual photographs of real children, of course.

It is nice to be free in imagination and dreams, no matter how wild and depraved, where the beast within can roam free, as he cannot do in real life, which can be a valued and even necessary freedom for those more limited and repressed in their real lives.

Paradise Regained

Our policy on Non-Photographic Images of Minors is being removed. What this means is that we will no longer be requiring the removal of this content, or suspending people who have posted it. We feel that with the introduction of the adult content flagging system, we do not need to take any further action on this type of material.

-- LJ Policy

Wow, it looks like we are back to the pre-Six Apart, Brad days. Unless I misunderstand, we can post a drawing of Humbert Humbert laying it into twelve-year-old Lolita in full, wet, squicky detail, so long as it is age-protected. You just cannot use actual photographs of real children, of course.

It is nice to be free in imagination and dreams, no matter how wild and depraved, where the beast within can roam free, as he cannot do in real life, which can be a valued and even necessary freedom for those more limited and repressed in their real lives.

The Vatican and Darwin

The Vatican is planning a special conference in 2009 to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution.

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Next year's conference will be held in Rome and organised by Poupard's former office, the Pontifical Council for Culture as well as by the University of Notre Dame and six pontifical universities. The event, claim its organisers, is a milestone in the rapprochement between science and the Church. They say it is time for the Church to look at Evolution again, “from a broader perspective”, explaining “appropriate consideration is needed more than ever before.”

-- Bess Twiston Davies for Times Online

The Vatican and Darwin

The Vatican is planning a special conference in 2009 to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution.

...

Next year's conference will be held in Rome and organised by Poupard's former office, the Pontifical Council for Culture as well as by the University of Notre Dame and six pontifical universities. The event, claim its organisers, is a milestone in the rapprochement between science and the Church. They say it is time for the Church to look at Evolution again, “from a broader perspective”, explaining “appropriate consideration is needed more than ever before.”

-- Bess Twiston Davies for Times Online