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'''Nathania''' is a {{tag|bliki}} by [[Nathan Larson]] containing his own commentary as well as that of several sexually dissident {{tag|United States|US}} federal prisoners who were interviewed.[http://nathania.org/wiki/Category:Sexual_dissidents] It appears that all the material is {{tag|Wikis with a strong viewpoint|inappropriate}} for the [[English Wikipedia]]. Some of it contains personally-identifying information of private individuals, including minors, although this latter content is [[mw:Extension:CategoryIndexingControl|excluded]] from Google search results. All Nathania content (including raw wikitext) is, however, [[mw:Extension:AllowInternetArchiver|included]] in the [[Internet Archive]].[http://nathania.org/wiki/Special:ViewFiles] | '''Nathania''' is a {{tag|bliki}} by [[Nathan Larson]] containing his own commentary as well as that of several sexually dissident {{tag|United States|US}} federal prisoners who were interviewed.[http://nathania.org/wiki/Category:Sexual_dissidents] It appears that all the material is {{tag|Wikis with a strong viewpoint|inappropriate}} for the [[English Wikipedia]]. Some of it contains personally-identifying information of private individuals, including minors, although this latter content is [[mw:Extension:CategoryIndexingControl|excluded]] from Google search results. All Nathania content (including raw wikitext) is, however, [[mw:Extension:AllowInternetArchiver|included]] in the [[Internet Archive]].[http://nathania.org/wiki/Special:ViewFiles] | ||
The content includes Larson's memoirs;[http://nathania.org/wiki/Nathan_Larson_memoirs] analysis of female body types,[http://nathania.org/wiki/Female_body_types] with an emphasis on the positive attributes of those that are on the pudgy, chubby, or plump side;[http://nathania.org/wiki/Essay:Why_do_I_love_fat_women] as well as accounts of controversies concerning women who have purposefully become obese.[http://nathania.org/wiki/Cherries] Some of this content contains nudity. There is also a detailed exposé of the {{w|Federal Correctional Complex, Petersburg}} Psychology Services Department's practices[http://nathania.org/wiki/FCC_Petersburg_Psychology_Services_Department] and commentary on the anime series {{w|Death Note (anime)|Death Note}}.[http://nathania.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte/Deathnote] Much of the site consists of [[wikipedia:intrapersonal communication|intrapersonal communication]], including frequently inchoate musings and streams of consciousness, occasionally in the style of [[wikipedia:Jon Arbuckle|Jon Arbuckle]]'s utterances in [[wikipedia:Garfield Minus Garfield|Garfield Minus Garfield]]; logging of mood states and accompanying thought patterns;[http://nathania.org/wiki/Miscellany:Log] and random personal pastebins without any descriptions. | The content includes Larson's memoirs;[http://nathania.org/wiki/Nathan_Larson_memoirs] analysis of female body types,[http://nathania.org/wiki/Female_body_types] with an emphasis on the positive attributes of those that are on the pudgy, chubby, or plump side;[http://nathania.org/wiki/Essay:Why_do_I_love_fat_women] as well as accounts of controversies concerning women who have purposefully become obese.[http://nathania.org/wiki/Cherries] Some of this content contains nudity. There is also a detailed exposé of the {{w|Federal Correctional Complex, Petersburg}} Psychology Services Department's practices[http://nathania.org/wiki/FCC_Petersburg_Psychology_Services_Department] and commentary on the anime series {{w|Death Note (anime)|Death Note}}.[http://nathania.org/wiki/User:Leucosticte/Deathnote] Much of the site consists of [[wikipedia:intrapersonal communication|intrapersonal communication]], including frequently inchoate musings and streams of consciousness, occasionally in the style of [[wikipedia:Jon Arbuckle|Jon Arbuckle]]'s utterances in [[wikipedia:Garfield Minus Garfield|Garfield Minus Garfield]]; logging of mood states and accompanying thought patterns;[http://nathania.org/wiki/Miscellany:Log] and random personal pastebins without any descriptions. Some content is encrypted with an extremely weak algorithm intended mainly to keep it out of search engine results.[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ROT13] | ||
The site name was inspired by the use of "Nathania" as a country name in the 1988 Israel Del Rio DOS game ''{{w|The Strength of Nations}}''. The Nathania logo is a black flag with a white "N" monogram in {{w|Century_type_family#Century_Schoolbook|century schoolbook font}}. This has been described as "narcissistic" and, indeed, the site openly embraces the ethos of egoism/egotism.[http://nathania.org/wiki/Miscellany:Nathan_Larson_2014.02.13_letter_to_Chris_Wenzlick] | The site name was inspired by the use of "Nathania" as a country name in the 1988 Israel Del Rio DOS game ''{{w|The Strength of Nations}}''. The Nathania logo is a black flag with a white "N" monogram in {{w|Century_type_family#Century_Schoolbook|century schoolbook font}}. This has been described as "narcissistic" and, indeed, the site openly embraces the ethos of egoism/egotism.[http://nathania.org/wiki/Miscellany:Nathan_Larson_2014.02.13_letter_to_Chris_Wenzlick] | ||
==First incarnation== | |||
The first incarnation of the site was created in mid- to late-2008, and hosted with [[1and1]]. It had an anarchy symbol for its logo. No record of this incarnation appears in the [[Archive.org|Internet Archive]], so apparently all the data was lost when unpaid server fees resulted in the site's becoming unavailable. The domain expired on 3 September 2009. Example urls from the old site are: | |||
*http://nathania.org/index.php5?title=Short_answers , short answers prepared circa 13 September 2008 for the Cathy Lewis show ''What Matters'' on the political topics of transportation, energy, the housing crisis which existed in 2008, education, and the Chesapeake Bay area watermen.[http://video.wned.org/video/1444164334/] One critique of these answers, as they were posted to Nathania, was that the first half was a bit wordy and also used words that don't resonate with the public. | |||
*http://nathania.org/index.php5?title=Parliamentary_procedure , an essay on parliamentary procedure created no later than 9 September 2008. | |||
*(URL unknown) A table comparing and contrasting (if memory serves) the attributes of proxy voting, along several different dimensions of desired characteristics, as practiced in government, nonprofit nongovernmental organizations, and for-profit companies. | |||
==Current incarnation== | |||
This incarnation of Nathania was originally hosted on Bluehost and then Hostmonster. After a concerned citizen submitted a report of "adult content", Hostmonster issued a terms of service violation notice on 10 September 2012 noting that the website would be deactivated unless the content were removed within 48 hours. Eventually, Nathania ended up at Dreamhost; like other sites that use Dreamhost's share hosting, Nathania is subject to frequent performance problems, including internal server errors, although as of February 2014, these had become less common. | This incarnation of Nathania was originally hosted on Bluehost and then Hostmonster. After a concerned citizen submitted a report of "adult content", Hostmonster issued a terms of service violation notice on 10 September 2012 noting that the website would be deactivated unless the content were removed within 48 hours. Eventually, Nathania ended up at Dreamhost; like other sites that use Dreamhost's share hosting, Nathania is subject to frequent performance problems, including internal server errors, although as of February 2014, these had become less common. | ||
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Since the fight over pedosexuality is still, in the terminology of Harris Mirkin,[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm] a Phase I struggle, there seemed to be little to gain, politically, by becoming a martyr; but this did not constitute an excuse from duty. In Larson's view, the system is designed to put activists in situations that will essentially induce them to say "[[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Confession_and_betrayal|Do it to Julia!]]" and thereby make themselves seem unworthy in their own eyes; but it is still the activist's responsibility to resist succumbing to coercion, regardless of punishment, for the greater good of society. According to this view, allocution is often the activist's one chance to speak in court in defense of his ideas and actions, and the whole nature of the situation is to serve as a test of whether he has enough backbone to rise to the occasion when called upon. Vlad Draconis PenDragon (aka Matthew Mercer-Kinser) compared it to a situation of a homeowner's declining to tell the Gestapo about Jews hiding in his attic, but Larson viewed his statement to the court as more analogous to Erwin Schrödinger's 1938 ''[http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Miscellany:Confession_to_the_F%C3%BChrer Confession to the Führer]''. | Since the fight over pedosexuality is still, in the terminology of Harris Mirkin,[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/mirkin_text.htm] a Phase I struggle, there seemed to be little to gain, politically, by becoming a martyr; but this did not constitute an excuse from duty. In Larson's view, the system is designed to put activists in situations that will essentially induce them to say "[[wikipedia:Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Confession_and_betrayal|Do it to Julia!]]" and thereby make themselves seem unworthy in their own eyes; but it is still the activist's responsibility to resist succumbing to coercion, regardless of punishment, for the greater good of society. According to this view, allocution is often the activist's one chance to speak in court in defense of his ideas and actions, and the whole nature of the situation is to serve as a test of whether he has enough backbone to rise to the occasion when called upon. Vlad Draconis PenDragon (aka Matthew Mercer-Kinser) compared it to a situation of a homeowner's declining to tell the Gestapo about Jews hiding in his attic, but Larson viewed his statement to the court as more analogous to Erwin Schrödinger's 1938 ''[http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Miscellany:Confession_to_the_F%C3%BChrer Confession to the Führer]''. | ||
==Controversies concerning the site== | ==Controversies concerning the site== | ||