Furry ban in Cologne cathedral

Ok the builders of this particular Cathedral have made their wishes clear & it is right to respect that. But otherwise, why not? If your AV was a full-time Vampire, why not continue the role in a church build? It is not a church. And it is not a Cathedral. If the basic rule of SL is "do not behave in ways which you would not behave in in real life", why bother logging-in?

Any respect for the skills involved is due to those who built it in SL. Go to the RL original & wonder at the skills of those who built it. If you do, you'll discover that visiting the two are totally different experiences. And guess which is the more impressive when you're there.

If your AV was a full-time Vampire, why not continue the role in a church build? It is not a church.

Any respect for the skills involved is due to those who built it in SL. Go to the RL original & wonder at the skills of those who built it. If you do, you'll discover that visiting the two are totally different experiences. And guess which is the more impressive when you're there.

I thought vampires and churches didn't get along something about holy water and crosses and the like oh and wooden stakes as well ifn' some pose with the crosses and holy water is after you and then poof your dust in the wind.

@Asher.

Apologies, I misunderstood. I thought you meant "That'd be just rude" per se rather than 'that'd be rude because they stated that they didn't want that kind of behaviour", which I succeeded in just reiterating.

The second part still reads as though you'll behave nicely in the SL version because of your respect for the builders of the RL version though - but maybe I'm misreading that as well.

Down with fascist churches in sunny sims. I cry vampersecution!


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All this vampire stuff in with the cathedral is starting to give me another hairbrained wilhelm idea

(wonders how crypt rentals would do ) ^^

Ok the builders of this particular Cathedral have made their wishes clear & it is right to respect that. But otherwise, why not? If your AV was a full-time Vampire, why not continue the role in a church build? It is not a church. And it is not a Cathedral. If the basic rule of SL is "do not behave in ways which you would not behave in in real life", why bother logging-in?

Any respect for the skills involved is due to those who built it in SL. Go to the RL original & wonder at the skills of those who built it. If you do, you'll discover that visiting the two are totally different experiences. And guess which is the more impressive when you're there.

Vampires are a pain in the neck.

K, so, I haven't read this whole train wreck. Sorry. I cite RL and time. However...

I have been to the cathedral in question in real life, quite a few times, and never once did I see someone in a fursuit there. ZOMG discrimination? Or, just people being respectful?

Sounds like the people who created this in SL wish to have visitors show the same sort of respect as visitors in the real world show to the cathedral. That's why they don't want you going in wearing stripper gear with a cigarette hanging out of your mouth while your wings of Mael beat ominously behind you. You know, modicum of respect.

I sure as hell won't go there in my vamp character and pretend to be undone by the sight of the cross and the proximity of holy water. That'd just be rude.

I probably will go, though, and play by their rules, because I respect this building in real life, and I respect the people who took time to make it in real life.

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What's the big deal here?

I think one major point is that these people are either ignorant of the fact that you can't do that, RL does not translate well into SL and visa versa (thus why you don't see guys in fur suits walking the streets of LA every day) or they do know and their just betting that they'll still attract some people who don't care that they're getting SL totally wrong.

I'm not sure I totally understand that.

Do you mean that it's easier to go around in furry form in SL? Sure, I'd buy that. Don't really see how that changes the argument at all, though.

my point is whoever conceived of and/or whoever executed it got SL totally wrong, you cannot bring RL into SL very well, morals and norms are different, avatars can teleport from point to point, fly, build stuff out of thin air with no loss of natural resources... etc.

OK I got through page 17 of this thread and gave up, so forgive me if this has already been asked:

WHERE exactly is this place? I was at the Koeln am Rhein - Germany sim, in the Cologne City area. Are we talking about the really badly textured big building in the center? (The inside is okay, I guess, but I've seen nicer in SL.) I can't see any signs about anyone not being welcome... am I in the wrong place?

... and?

Sorry, but I don't think that the way that you "get SL" is going to be the same for everyone. That doesn't make your way right and their way wrong, or vice versa. For some people, morals are very much set, no matter where they are or what they do.

I agree that not everyone "gets" sl the same way but comparing real life animals in a church or even people wearing masks in a church versus people in an animal avatar or as they would prefer in animal form (many people consider themselves to be more furry than human and express that in SL, not my thing but to each his own) just doesn't transfer to second life you just can't make that comparison since it's so far out there.

Agree to disagree? I think it's "so far out there" to insist one's civil rights are in jeopardy because they are asked to use these pixels and not those to access a portion of a computer game/world/whatever.