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1. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   Years ago, there was a replica of Mecca in SL. This is back, before islam was a popular raceplay theme for kinky people. Back when we actually had Muslims praying in SL, as regularly as Christians. I once spent a couple of months at virtual mecca, studying islam, with muslim scholars from all over the world. It was great to see so many different perspectives on things, while studying the Quaran. I'm still an atheist, but I feel like I understand Islam better. 15 years ago, if you wanted to go to virtual religious services, you had a choice of christain, muslim, hindu, jewish, satanist, etc. Nowadays, I can't find any serious mosques, anywhere in SL. I don't think I know of any jewish temples that are active, either. I know of one hindu temple that seems to celebrate a new festival roughly every month or so, but I never find people there to celebrate the festivals with. There is an active, serious satanic, Thelemic temple in SL, and they have daily activities, but it's a smaller community. While the other religions shrank, the christian churches exploded in popularity. Every time I go to a christian service, I see more people in the pews. So I do believe that religious diversity in SL is kind of dead, but I don't think that it died from lack of interest in religion. People who are interested in religion in SL seem to seek out christianity, for some reason. I almost want to call it a monculture, but it really isn't. They're all christians, but you really can't put, say... Anglicans in the same building with Acts 29 Evangelicals. So there is diversity, it's just all diversity under christianity.

2. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   I have visited it and before the Herbie Lovebug deletions I did have a Ross Mosque pick, but my description for it noted that saying it was built by a non-Muslim because there are no mosques left in Second Life is being a hostage to fortune. I have yet to find a non-RP mosque, but SL is a big place. Herbie is no more and Saeed is back, so I suppose Mr Saeed should return to Ross Mosque and create a new pick. He dresses in a dressed down version of Library Bollywood Male, with the white garments functioning as a sort of thawb.

3. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   The mosque at Cordoba, with the double arches is just breathtaking. Islamic architecture makes the best uses of interior spaces! I did note that someone has done a mesh version of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, but unsurprisingly it's not merely rather pricey (although that wouldn't necessarily stop me) but absolutely enormous. One day, maybe, when I'm rich and famous?

4. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   Lol. This happens all the time with products that I've modified beyond recognition . So even if I'm not the creator , Ive often improved something so dramatically , that people ask me " why can't I find the one that looks like yours at that shop ? " And at this point I'm done explaining that hours and hours of modification went into it . They can't fathom the idea of someone making their own high quality products , or altering them to great lengths , so they just assume it came like that by default , or that you're selling it . I've gotten creators so many sales from people who saw my modified versions of their products and went to buy it , thinking that my modifications were just a secret preset included with the item . 🤣

5. What is peeving you now, while logged into Second Life

   The interior of those mosques are amazing...would love to see that in SL. Long ago I did a full-region build for a customer in that theme, but it was pretty generic and the inner complexities of mosques weren't taken into account.