Maia wrote:
How and in what way are you influenced?
The Goddess is the whole of nature, our universal mother. The life force flows through everything, connecting every part of it to every other part. I feel this connection most strongly when I’m out in nature, the trees, animals and plants all around me. Sometimes the feeling is overwhelming. I feel it in the city too, but it’s muffled, to varying degrees.
When I feel this connection, my most powerful emotion is of gratitude, for everything I have been given in life, and I want to somehow give something back in return. This involves, among other things, dedicating myself as a priestess of the goddess, through a process of spiritual purification, foregoing my own selfish desires and trying to help others, and the earth.
So, for example, with regard to the vaccine, since I have been blessed with good health I surely don’t need it for myself, but I know that having it will be of benefit to others, especially the elderly people I work with.
Shieldmaiden, I have a message for you from Turd. He says welcome back, he thought you had died.
The rest is from Turd, who has asked me to post the following contribution to this thread:
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More than just the COVID vaccine matters, most deaths are due to complications of the immune system- I noted very early on in the forum I was seeking out the pneumonia vaccine- it cost $125 in the state I got it in at a Walmart. I had to cross state lines to get it because the state I live in used to be very liberal when it decided to require doctor approval for it- liberals love control over and limiting medical access, because “socialism” = fanatical pointless control. Even though the state isn’t liberal any more it remains on the books as a vestigial legal concept from that era so crossed state borders to get it and the other state said whatever and gave me the jab. Most deaths from Corona Virus comes from overactive immune systems producing too much liquid in the lungs. The vaccine helps stops secondary bacterial infections from germs in the mouth that triggers this. Infact when people are hospitalized for COVID doctors do a emergency jab of this vaccine first. So if you are unwilling to get the Corona vaccine due to experimental or new status, then at least get the pneumonia vaccine- most insurance covers it free.
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I early reported on the benifits of Zinc Ionophores like Hydroxychloroquine (requires a doctors prescription) or Quercetin (does not, can be found in vitamin stores). When coupled with Zinc it can change the electric charge of cells allowing Zinc to enter to do its job. It lowers the immune system. This had been known prior to COVID, and works on Lupus (a autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the body) and works on my Vitiligo (Immune system attacks pigment cells). I’ve been successfully recovering. It doesn’t do shit to COVID per say, but will calm the immune system down enough so it doesn’t kill you, giving your body time to fight the disease off. Obviously don’t take it if you got AIDS, but hundreds of millions have taken it prior and during the Corona outbreak, so nothing immoral or experimental. Used in various forms since the 19th century to treat malaria. If you have heart arrhythmia caution, as hydroxychloroquine can cause the heart beat to widen slightly, but in the vast majority of people who take it- a sizable portion of the planetary population- no symptoms. My older friends who listened to me and took it lived with no symptoms when their families got ill, but they had unconvinced family members, and a few passed.
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Genetic factors such as being black (west African which is most black Americans) can cause certain blood disorders that cause clotting of blood. Active D3 (not vitamin D store bought) prescribed by a doctor can remedy this in most cases, but it takes time. That’s the chief mortality issue for the black community, not poverty or ideology. Also heavy consumption of High Fructose Corn Syrup can fuck you Active D3 levels- when Vitamin D enters the body the body converts it to OH-25, but the high fructose can retard this effort, and the body turns it to OH-24. All that does is limit your dietary access to D3 and puts fat on your body, as the OH-24 likes to build up on the abdominal area in fat there.
The doctor will write a script to get your blood level for OH-25 tested, or if in America you can buy the script online skipping the doctor, head to a blood testing site, and get it done cheaper, and then show up to the doctor with the results. Faster, saves money. Active D3 is cheap and helps a lot.
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NAC is another supplement I’ve brought up, it thins the blood a bit and helps the kidneys filter out the blood more efficiently. I’ve gotten a friend almost booted out of the merchant marines on it, given he is prone to hospitalization for blood clots. Both the Quercetin with Zinc and NAC was recommended by MedCram on YouTube, a doctor in LA who dies medical refresher courses and works in a ER on the frontline.
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I finished the Pfizer vaccines back around Easter. I was dropping off a elderly person to a vaccination center sitting in the car, not planning on getting a vaccine till the fall, when I was more or less forced in to get it due to too many doses and not enough people- place I was in had one of the highest vaccination rates in the country at that point. There are no moral or ethical questions regarding the Pfizer as it wasn’t derived from aborted babies. The change is to the RNA, not DNA, and all sorts of things effect RNA, like Viroids (not a virus, but rather floating chunks of replicating proteins that get tangled into RNA and hijack the replication process). Humans actually have in our junk DNA several viruses (actual viruses, not the viroids) that stuck themselves into our genome, some we share with chimps, others are quite older, and let’s not forget Organelles are separate life forms that synchronize with our cells in division and have symbiotic advantages in acting as intercellular mechanisms. Our cells literally built themselves up this way, over billions of years and constantly are changed. The RNA vaccine doesn’t trip up and classical code of ethics, from Stoic to Peripatetic Ethics that underline both Pagan and Christian Ethics, nor interferes with Islamic law, Buddhist doctrine or Hinduism- though a argument can be made it violates Jains belief in Non-Violence to the Corona Virus- if you consider denying replication of a non living protein a act of violence. We are not engineering a new species that surpasses Homo Sapiens, no evidence exists this is a hereditary change, and interbreeding appears still possible. The new “vaccines” we have coming out that inserts Olympic athlete DNA into people could be considered unethical under Stoic, Peripatetic, Christian and Islamic law- but not Hinduism and I don’t know about Buddhism. That aims to rescues your organs over time, everytime a cell is replaced the new DNA will assert a new kind of cell with the custom mutations- your essentially rewriting your DNA code to someone else’s. That’s potentially gonna conflict with concepts of hereditary and incest. I would consider it if I knew it wouldn’t be passed on to offspring if I had limiting conditions. If I had debilitating asthma wouldn’t mind the lungs of a Olympic runner for example, but that might trigger a negative effect in say, my ability to think creatively or logically in ways the vast majority of people can’t…. but most people can’t think that way and the average or below average thinkers really wouldn’t have much to fear from a shift in IQ if it was not noticeable in medical testing.
I basically don’t think a eugenics approach to fundamentally changing the human race PERMANENTLY is wise- we only been screwing with such vaccines since the 1980s and this is the first global success story, but non hereditary adaptions to our RNA to resist a global pandemic is wise if done properly. I wouldn’t recommend a Sinovac but a reasonably tested and high rate of success RNA vaccine is good. Once we get a few hundred years of background on DNA and RNA manipulation and find ourselves on another planet, where changes to our biology is clearly needed (like low gravity on Mars or the Moon) then changes would be prudent, so long as they aren’t so radical they can’t be changed back for new off spring wanting to immigrate elsewhere, including back to earth. We should keep a baseline DNA outlook, that’s earth centric (works naturally for regular humans) and not create bizarre shit too alienated to ever return to humanity- any human changed should always still consider themselves human and be able to mutate back to human and not declare themselves a ubermensch and try to enslave or wipe out humanity like on the TV show andromeda. m.youtube.com/watch?v=KafGdWFNOVM If someone like Fixed Cross or Sauwelios wants to turn themselves into spider people and crawl around on webs quoting Nietzsche fine, but if they start catching humans in their webs and eating them then I’ll have to hunt the two down, behead and mount their heads up on trophy panels up on a wall as a warning. But obviously the Corona Virus vaccine is nowhere near like that- it is just aimed at ending a epidemic without long term charge to the species. It is quite valid. Only people afraid of cell phone towers or aliens touching them in the butt have anything to worry. And no Iambigious, I will neither read what you say or reply, you fought for the Viet Cong you bastard.
We’ll – I’ll? – just have to accept that my own inability to understand Paganism as you do is a reflection of lives that have been on different paths over the years. Until recently, I’d always been out in nature but I never felt anything akin to a deep-seated spiritual connection. Is that embedded in a sense of self that – congenitally? – was just never meant to happen? I don’t know. I’m just more inclined to root things like this existentially in dasein than in anything psychical or transcendent.
My own experiences [and religious beliefs] had led me to connect the dots between the behaviors we choose on this side of the grave and the fate of “I” on the other side of it. For many Pagans apparently it is different: patheos.com/library/pagan/b … -salvation
But having no experiences of my own in which to understand this, it is what it is.
On the other hand, unlike Sculptor and his ilk, I’m not here to suggest that you have been brainwashed into believing in something akin to a fary tale. As I have noted before, I respect your intelligence, your ability to articulate it and [above all] your considerable curiosity about the world we live in. I just find it difficult to understand how others come to believe things that don’t resonate with me at all.
And bringing nature together in the form of a Goddess seems particularly mysterious to me. Nature, from my frame of mind, is simply too vast an amalgamation of good and bad, construction and destruction, beneficence and detriment to ever imagine “communing” with it in the manner in which most religions denominations imagine God.
Here, again, from my frame of mind, to understand this far better someone would have to have been around you and been able to note the particular experiences you had that led you down this path. Whereas I am more inclined to focus instead on how, had those experiences not unfolded, you might have never been on this path at all. Unless of course it is something you came into the world with. Born without vision but with a deep-seated capacity to feel connected to nature. Again, the sheer mystery of it all.
The glass half full or the glass half empty. I suspect though that each of us will relate to this depending on what nature has in fact thrown our way over the years. Has nature been generally kind…or cruel?
In the absence of a Goddess, the Goddess, a commitment to what though? And how is spiritual purification to be understood other than in how you think of it “in your head”?
I’m trying to grapple with how this experience unfolded for you. How did you come to decide what celibacy means? How far does that go? Are all things deemed sexual by most of us now taboo? Or only some things? And why one length of time and not another? Again, for those like Catholics, such a commitment is rooted to a God, the God, their God. And that means linking it to the behaviors they choose here and now as that becomes a crucial factor given the fate of their soul there and then on the other side.
But you give up all of the good things that can come from sexuality for…what? How does nature/the Goddess convey this to you? Is it just some deep-seated intuitive “feeling” that you have or is it conveyed more tangibly?
On the other hand, why my own reaction here and now?
Because there is a part of me that can’t help but wonder if it might be possible that through you I can regain what I think you experience given what I once experienced myself when I was also on a spiritual path. And another part of me that wonders if instead the sort of empathy I crave in being understand given my own set of assumptions might be possible to the extent I can make another see the world as I do.
It’s like either way I have something to gain and little more to lose.
There’s a word for that now, Turd.
This one: Chickenshit.
To the extent that you are an objectivist in regard to your moral and political – and spiritual? – values, I’d have you for breakfast.
So, grow a pair, come back, and prove me wrong. 
I have no definite views on an afterlife and I very much think that it’s important to live in the present, the here and now. If there is any sort of afterlife I doubt that what we do here on earth will affect it in the long run, though I suppose negative attachments and thoughts might stay with us temporarily. I really don’t know for sure though and that’s kind of exciting. How boring it would be if we knew everything.
I have indeed often wondered if being blind has affected how I commune with nature, and I think the answer must be yes, probably in ways that I don’t even realise.
I’m certainly a glass half full sort of person and have always had a pretty optmistic outlook on life. I’m pretty sure this comes from my connection to nature, though I suppose it could be the other way round. Either way, the two things are definitely connected.
To me, celibacy is an essential part of my spiritual purifaction at this stage in my journey, and includes all sexual activity of any kind. Seven years is a traditional period of time found in many cultures throughout history, and simply felt right. A year would have been too short, for example, and would not have tested my willpower enough. It is my own personal sacrifice, my way of showing my gratitude and commitment to the Goddess, and doing it makes me stronger. I knew that it was the right thing to do, and the right time to do it, through my own intuition.
I think if you are meant to regain a spiritual path you will do so. The best thing to do is not worry about it and go with the flow.
Our views about the afterlife are [for me] no less rooted existentially in 1] our views about religion and the extent to which our beliefs include an afterlife and salvation and 2] our particular set of circumstances in life such that we embrace our life and do not want to die, and, then 3] how far removed we are from being face to face with our own demise.
In other words, even if you don’t much believe in the possibility of an afterlife, if your health is good, your life is fulfilling and you are relatively young it is that much easier to keep thoughts of death/oblivion at bay. After all, there are those who are in good health and are relatively young, but, for whatever personal reasons, actually choose to die through suicide. Their individual life being anything but fulfilling.
Each of us as individuals have managed to think ourselves into believing one thing rather than another given a life that can be very, very different from others. The part I derive from my own understanding of dasein. And, thus, given a new set of circumstances you can find your thinking about life and death changing dramatically. There are just so many things out there that are beyond your control.
Yes, the ever profound and problematic mystery between what we think we know about ourselves consciously and the part the subconscious/unconscious mind plays in nudging/propelling us in directions we may scarcely be aware of at all.
And all the variables in our lives [especially our indoctrination as children] that we had very little understanding or control over. The ultimate conundrum and quandary that “I” becomes.
Again, what ultimately matters here is that, given your own understanding of your own life, you did the right thing. And, if others find it strange or incomprehensible, what do they know about being you? And it’s not like this choice brings harm to anyone else. It’s all about your own need to feel connected to that which you construe to be bigger than yourself…to nature, to the Goddess. The intuitive, visceral “I” that can never really be understood other than how you understand it yourself from day to day. The part those like Sculptor will scoff at because you don’t think like he does.
More power to you if you can in fact take it with you all the way to the grave.
I’ll just have to accept that, given my own life, this is not something I am able to do myself. No sexual pleasure or fulfillment at my age is just too big a sacrifice. And those who are able to embrace celibacy for their entire lives do so by and large because they link it through a God or No God religious path to an afterlife and salvation/nirvana
Here though [for me] being “meant to” implies a life that is really not in my control at all. If I was fated from birth to embrace a spiritual path then lose it then maybe embrace it again, where doe the autonomous “I” come into play?
And it is this part in regard to the Goddess and your sexuality [and other things] that I find [by far] most enigmatic. I just can’t bring myself – will myself – into aggregating all of the profoundly different good/bad aspects of nature into an understanding of it that would enable me to make such a leap to…what?
I’m always back again to my failure to understand things like Buddhism. If there is no God, how can nature or the universe become something I could commit myself to? It just becomes an existential rooted in dasein psychologism to me. I’m ever stuck trying to figure out a way to make it more than that. More substantive, more substantial.
I certainly don’t rule out the possibility of an afterlife, and on balance, I suspect that one exists. We probably have an opportunity to continue our journey, either through reincarnation, or some other means, or both. What I certainly don’t believe in is the sort of static afterlife that Christianity proposes, where you go to heaven and that’s it, forever, with no further progress or evolution. Other than that, though, I prefer to keep the options open.
Thankfully I escaped any sort of indoctrination when I was little, as neither of my parents are religious. I would describe them as easy going agnostics.
Well, currently it’s for seven years. At the end of that time I’ll decide whether I want to extend it or not. Celibacy is just one part of the purification process, though. It also involves the daily exercises that I described before, and also giving up meat, alcohol, and so on. Not that I was ever much of a drinker, I hasten to add, though I sometimes had the occasional glass of wine at a moot or some other event.
By committing myself to the Goddess, I’m also making a commitment to myself.
Nature?
Go figure:
washingtonpost.com/world/eu … story.html
Headline: Something strange is happening in Britain. Covid cases are plummeting instead of soaring.
[b]"LONDON — This is a puzzler. Coronavirus cases are plummeting in Britain. They were supposed to soar. Scientists aren’t sure why they haven’t.
The daily number of new infections recorded in the country fell for seven days in a row before a slight uptick Wednesday, when the country reported 27,734 cases. That’s still almost half of where the caseload was a week ago.
The trajectory of the virus in Britain is something the world is watching closely and anxiously, as a test of how the delta variant behaves in a society with relatively high vaccination rates. And now people are asking if this could be the first real-world evidence that the pandemic in Britain is sputtering out — after three national lockdowns and almost 130,000 deaths.
Public health experts, alongside the government, predicted that cases would be rising in Britain at this point, perhaps even exponentially.
The highly contagious delta variant of the virus, first detected in India, accounts for almost all new cases here. On July 17, the number of new day cases reached 54,674, the highest since January.
Two days later, dubbed “Freedom Day” by the press, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government ended almost all government mandates in England for mask-wearing and social distancing. Pubs are serving pints at the rail and night clubs have reopened with maskless youths packed on the dance floors. Viral defense is now a “personal choice.”
And so some of the best infectious-disease modelers on the planet warned that 100,000 new cases a day this summer could be expected.
But the trend since then has been on a sharp decline.
Scientists have theories. Maybe it’s the sunshine? There was a week-long heat wave."[/b]
One thing we can count on is that this will become yet another political football in which the politicians and the objectivists will use it to prove that one side is right and the other side is wrong. Then if the trend does shift to a big spike in infections, they will pretend that this didn’t really happen at all. Or if admitting that it did, it is still the other side that caused it.
You can take that vaccine, and stick it. Anywhere but in your arm.
Besides, I already had covid. I wasn’t even aware, but a test revealed it. Apparently it came and went without my notice. And I’m supposed to get an experimental vaccine that utilizes a certain potentially toxic protein instead of the normal vaccine shit, for a virus so powerful I didn’t even notice I had it? Besides, now the nimrods in charge say, even after being vaccinated, you still have to keep wearing face blankets and adhering to quarantine… the whole point of the vaccine was to return society to normal.
Yeah, that isn’t happening. It’s not going back to normal. Because we’ve been in a weird parallel reality time-stream for a good couple years now and everything is growing a little bit weirder day by day as we approach the apocalypse and the world un-ravels.
That isn’t the case though. The UK lifted all legal restrictions last week, precisely because of the success of the vaccine rollout.
Yeah well they did the opposite in the US. And the CDC is recommending that even vaccinated people need to keep wearing their masks because of “new data”. This is a pretty weird virus. Vaccinated people are releasing, apparently, as much of the virus as people who are unvaccinated and currently ill with it… Pretty weird, especially considering the fact that viruses never transmit asymptomatically in the first place, let alone in the asymptomatic and vaccinated… It’s like it was designed or something as a test-bed for bioengineering un-naturally contagious viruses that are able to silently propagate to the point of critical mass before enough symptomatic people start showing up to draw people’s notice… in a lab, or something. Like a coronavirus lab. Like the one 10 feet down the street from where the first cases started appearing. Weird.
No one is saying that. What they are saying is that vaccinated people can still get infected.
It’s not a weird virus its just that you are completely ignorant.
A vaccine is a second line of defence and only works once the virus starts to insinuate inside the tissues.
Anything can carry a virus and can stay on surfaces for up to nine days. This is perfectly normal.
As you ought to be aware vaccinated people can still get ill. That means that they can carry and spread the virus.
Its pretty fucking simple really.
The rest of your post is so fucking stupid its pointless commenting on it, because you are just not “receiving”.
Here you come off [to me] as an intertwining of perpetualburn [above] and Joker [on other threads].
In other words, as the objectivist who actually looks forward to the day the world finally unravels in one or another apocalypse.
Let’s try this…
Do you believe that your argument here reflects the optimal or the only rational manner in which to think about the covid vaccination? Do you believe that if others don’t share your own point of view here that they are [necessarily] wrong? Do you believe that the conclusions you have reached here reflect what you construe to be a core Self. The one and the only real Parodites?
Finally, do you agree that given new experiences and access to new information and knowledge, you might well change your mind about all of this and come to accept instead a very different set of conclusions?
Then we can move on to why your own experience with the covid-19 virus might have been very different from the 197,031,700 experiences that others have had with it around the globe. In particular, the 4,209,350 who have died from it.
That is a very calm and reasoned reaction to a collection of fake ideas.
Do you think he is going to respond with the same reason?
For me, with beliefs of this sort, it always comes down basically to three things:
1] the accumulation of expereriences in your life that predispose you to believe one thing rather than another
2] the assumption on my part that there does not appear to be an argument or evidence able to establish what all rational men and women are obligated to believe about the afterlife
3] the length in the gap between what someone believes about the afterlife and what they are actually able to demonstrate [even to themselves] is in fact true about it
My own parents were not overtly religious and I was in and out of street gangs – or, rather, what we called a “gang” back then – as a kid. To the best of my recollection, religion never, ever came up among us. Either in or out of the family.
But then I fell under the spell of Reverend Deerdorf at the Protestant Community Church. I came to be rather fanatic about the Christian God. I then knew there was an afterlife.
At least for about 6 months. But then the dots I connected the afterlife to was an actual entity: A God, the God, my God.
Again, there is [so far] no way I can understand how you connect the dots here to a Goddess that is clearly not like the God I worshipped and adored. Nature as a whole is to me simply too amorphous, ambiguous, intangible, formless, indeterminate to bring it all down to a commitment to a Goddess, the Goddess, my Goddess.
Or in understanding how you make a distinction between where the Goddess ends and you begin.
I’m just always wary about beliefs that seem to ask someone to choose to avoid, to steer clear of, to keep away from things that actually bring them pleasure in life. To sacrifice them in order to prove what to whom? Especially when the pleasure you feel does no harm to others. And in fact can even bring them pleasure too.
Here’s one take on it:
patheos.com/library/pagan/e … -sexuality
“Unlike other religious traditions that have advocated celibacy, prohibited all sexual expression outside of marriage, and encouraged married couples to limit or restrict their sexual behavior, Pagan religions often reflect the permissiveness of the 1960s-era sexual revolution in regard to extramarital sexuality, homosexuality, swinging or non-monogamous relationships, fetishes or BDSM, use of contraceptives, and abortion. Although many adherents of Paganism adopt lifestyles consistent with mainstream liberal society, those who choose alternative lifestyles generally are accepted within the Pagan community with no need to hide or apologize for their lifestyle choice.”
So, while you note there is no one-size-fits–all Pagan philosophy/agenda here, what still fascinates me most is how you seem to go against the grain here and worked out your own path with and through the Goddess “in your head”. And though you focus here on an intuitive/visceral leap of faith…that is seen by me as well as rooted in dasein. In other words, that had your life been different there would be no Goddess at all. Unless you do believe that this is all basically fated from the beginning.
Just out of curiosity, do you connect this in any way to having been born blind? A need perhaps to make this part of your life more understandable and acceptable if you can intertwine it in a “bigger picture”…a sense of reality where everything has a reason when it is understood as a part of nature?
I ask this because I often thought that way myself about many things when I was a kid being raised in the belly of working class beast…barely making ends meet from week to week. I am now convinced that was the primary motive for my having come to God for the answers.
Anyway, the bottom line [mine in other words] seems to revolve around any empathy that we might be able communicate and sustain in the way of an actual virtual friendship. One based on my being able to come closer to your frame of mind or you coming closer to mine.
Note to others:
About what I’d expect from one of my Stooges here. His whole point being to side with anyone that I take an exception to.
Why?
Not sure. The irony is that in regard to things like religion and most political issues, we share the same prejudices. That’s why he reminds me so much of Karpel Tunnel.
But for his own reasons [rooted in dasein] he seems to have taken a rather visceral dislike of me. In part I think it revolves around the exception I take to his arrogance. Whether in reacting to Maia here or to Ierrellus on his own thread, he seems ever driven to heap scorn on those who refuse to share his own point of view.
Thus his own reference to “fake ideas”. Fake being synonymous with ideas other than his own.
Sure, I can come off much the same with my cracks about chickenshits and fulminating fanatics and Kids and pinheads. But that’s basically just me engaging my polemicist persona. I just like to wield words as swords from time to time. All entangled in this:
“He was like a man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with his impotence; and had only me, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.” John Fowles
But even I don’t fully understand why I have came to embody this. Back again to dasein. After all, I’m no less entangled in all of the hopelessly problematic implications of it myself.
For me, it comes down to my intuition. But what feels right to me, needn’t do so for anyone else. I don’t think anyone can prove the existence of an afterlife, because of evolution and natural selection. Early humans who were sure of an afterlife would be slightly less determined to stay alive.
At school we had Christian assemblies, which is the nearest I’ve ever come to that. Though there was no attempt of any sort to indoctrinate us. In fact, I believe it’s the law in the UK that assemblies in schools have to be Christian based. So basically this just involved a couple of hymns, and a very short talk by one of the teachers. We also had a nativity play before the Christmas holidays.
I don’t make any distinction between where the Goddess ends and where I begin. I’m part of nature, therefore I’m part of the Goddess. All of nature is connected to every other part, and works as one harmonious whole, evolving towards ever greater complexity and consciousness.
My decision to embark on a period of spiritual purification was mine alone, and I certainly wouldn’t expect anyone else to do it. My life was stuck in a rut and I needed to change it. Romantic encounters, such as they were, were not particularly bringing me any pleasure anyway, and quite a lot of emotional upset.
Yes, it’s true, a lot of Pagans have a very liberal attutude towards sexuality (as parodied and massively exaggerated in the Wicker Man). I think I’ve described before my first forays into organised Pagan groups, such as Wicca, and how I eventually came to realise they were not my path. Most of the current Pagan movement is a modern revival, taking in elements from all over the place, but I was always drawn to something more ancient and, to me, more authentic. In my experience, rituals are far more effective and powerful if one practices self discipline. I certainly wouldn’t criticise other Pagans for having a different view, though.
I’m sure that being blind has influenced my life and beliefs in all sorts of profound ways. It has certainly given me a sense order, for example, or a desire for it, anyway. What I know is that I’ve been very lucky and blessed in my life, in all sorts of ways, and I feel a very strong wish to give something back, and once my period of purification is complete, I’m sure I’ll know what that is.
I like to think that I’m a pretty empathetic sort of person and I’m always happy to discuss pretty much anything, including frames of mind.
Because you are a paranoid idiot?
How about you then…
Then we can go to this part:
Just say the word and I’ll create a new thread in order to explore it. Your reaction to me, my reaction to you.
You can choose the forum.