I'm curious: is there anything which could convince you the new vaccines are safe? I'm finding I'm having a hard time coming up with anything I'd accept, and I'm wondering if anyone else can come up with something....
I don't take the flu vaccine either so it's a No. The issue isn't necessarily the vaccine's effectiveness either: I have no co-morbidities. I'm in good shape. I am not over or underweight. My real age is 47 but I would guess my biological age is around 25. For someone like me, COVID poses less than a fraction of a percent threat of death. Getting in a car or just feeding my feral cats puts me at a higher risk of death. The vaccine has a much greater bunch of unknowns: will I be allergic to it? Will it cause my immune system to freak out? I don't think the vaccine protects grandma either, plus as much as I value my elders, it is my life and I must act for myself first.
Update on the Ontario lockdown: Ottawa, a city with a population of a million, has zero Covid cases in the ICU. This is now a reason to keep us locked down: we are doing well, so we can't afford to do anything to risk that. At this point it feels the rule is this: "No matter what, we need to stay locked down!"
This plus the fact our government wants to allow employers to force people to get the vaccine, and if need be require them to do so, makes me think this could be a major turning point....
This plus the fact our government wants to allow employers to force people to get the vaccine, and if need be require them to do so, makes me think this could be a major turning point....
Horrible. I hope they rebel.
Illinois's morbidly obese Dictator-Emperor Pritzker (J.B. the Hutt) is vacationing in Florida while he makes rules for various districts of Illinois. The restaurants and bars are locked down here and have been since late summer. It's a second lockdown for us. I belong to a group on Facebook called Stay Open Stay Strong. It's a bunch of restaurants that are refusing to shut down. I am starting regular in person meetups at one of those restaurants after meeting the owner last Saturday night. He has a nice brewery/restaurant that has been devastated by the Great Overreaction.
Illinois's morbidly obese Dictator-Emperor Pritzker (J.B. the Hutt) is vacationing in Florida while he makes rules for various districts of Illinois. The restaurants and bars are locked down here and have been since late summer. It's a second lockdown for us. I belong to a group on Facebook called Stay Open Stay Strong. It's a bunch of restaurants that are refusing to shut down. I am starting regular in person meetups at one of those restaurants after meeting the owner last Saturday night. He has a nice brewery/restaurant that has been devastated by the Great Overreaction.
I hope things get better for you this year. I don't comment much but I enjoy your blog. Despite the lockdowns, I have begun to feel more liberated in an odd way. The more the media tells me to live in fear, the more determined I am to make the most out of whatever amount of life I have left to live. This feeling of bravery has spread into other areas of my life; this past year I have had an existence I never would have thought possible, and I have discovered hidden depths within myself. I am grateful for 2020 despite all of the tribulations and anxiety, and I am going into 2021 a new and fearsome thing.
Hey Kim! Happy holidays and blessings for you and the family. Thanks a bunch for all your useful and accurate ogham readings. What book or resource did you rely on for your initial foray into ogham?
As a fellow former atheist, its amusing how the world works and leads us to this experiental spirituality. What was your journey away from the point of view like? It must have lead to a lot of confused looks from friends and family :p
Do you know of any specific prayers, prayer bead repetitions or other devotional material for the druid revival gods and goddesses?
Thanks so much for everything. In March, I'll be cleaning out a number of books from my storage and would love to donate some to you. Would it be ok if I message you with the various titles to see which you'd like?
Andrew
As a fellow former atheist, its amusing how the world works and leads us to this experiental spirituality. What was your journey away from the point of view like? It must have lead to a lot of confused looks from friends and family :p
Do you know of any specific prayers, prayer bead repetitions or other devotional material for the druid revival gods and goddesses?
Thanks so much for everything. In March, I'll be cleaning out a number of books from my storage and would love to donate some to you. Would it be ok if I message you with the various titles to see which you'd like?
Andrew
I love this! Thank you -- I'm determined to muscle through. I am a fiery person by nature and as I get older, I get braver. I'm glad other people are waking up out of the stupor of cowardice. With each soul awakened to their own inner courage, the rest of us are reignited with strength.
Effectively what the Chinese Communist Party has attempted to do is to cast a great curse upon the US (and the rest of the world). The CCP wasn't doing well when Trump got in, so its strategy was to undermine and corrupt the American system via two million spies and with compromised political clans like the Bidens, the Podestas, and the Clintons. COVID was just another hex. The CCP does not consider blowback, as is evidenced by their decision to cut the vital energy of their country in half with the Three Gorges Dam. Their strategy is to poison, to curse, and to hex. They race to the bottom, enslaving their own people in hideous and cruel factories and sending marginalized groups like the Uyghurs and Falun Gong into labor camps. The CCP always counts upon the docility of their citizens to face the consequences of their actions for them like good little foot soldiers.
The best countermeasure to their curses and hexes is not to throw them a hefty dose of their own medicine, but to build upon our own strengths. I am going to try to save a local restaurant business by starting a club there. I am going to complete my book Sacred Homemaking, which I think will help a lot of people understand spirit of place in the way I understand it. I am brave. The luxury communists have made a grave mistake in trying to stop me from living a free life. They don't have my vast reserves of will power, though they mistake their passionate hatred for will most of the time.
Effectively what the Chinese Communist Party has attempted to do is to cast a great curse upon the US (and the rest of the world). The CCP wasn't doing well when Trump got in, so its strategy was to undermine and corrupt the American system via two million spies and with compromised political clans like the Bidens, the Podestas, and the Clintons. COVID was just another hex. The CCP does not consider blowback, as is evidenced by their decision to cut the vital energy of their country in half with the Three Gorges Dam. Their strategy is to poison, to curse, and to hex. They race to the bottom, enslaving their own people in hideous and cruel factories and sending marginalized groups like the Uyghurs and Falun Gong into labor camps. The CCP always counts upon the docility of their citizens to face the consequences of their actions for them like good little foot soldiers.
The best countermeasure to their curses and hexes is not to throw them a hefty dose of their own medicine, but to build upon our own strengths. I am going to try to save a local restaurant business by starting a club there. I am going to complete my book Sacred Homemaking, which I think will help a lot of people understand spirit of place in the way I understand it. I am brave. The luxury communists have made a grave mistake in trying to stop me from living a free life. They don't have my vast reserves of will power, though they mistake their passionate hatred for will most of the time.
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Thank you Andrew! Blessings to you and your loved ones as well. You're welcome for the Ogham readings; it is my pleasure. I found Ogam: The Celtic Oracle of Trees by Paul Rhys Mountfort useful when I started studying the Ogam. He uses a different order of letters, but he has an effective way of tying mythology to tree letters that helped me to think deeply into each letter.
I think the biggest step away from atheism happened when I accepted that magic isn't whatever I or most people assumed it is. Especially as a child, I expected magic to happen in a Disney-fied form. Wish gratification and rays shooting out of fingers. It took Druidry and a load of discursive meditations to sort out my wish-fulfillment fantasies and ego from stuff that actually happens as a result of will.
This Christmas, my brother casually said something about me being an agnostic and I said "not so much". I told him I was a Druid and I worship trees. My husband, still atheist, has a good sense of humor about my Druid practices. One day while waiting outside the laundromat, we came up with an entire abecedary of alternate names for the Sphere of Protection: A, the Arc of Aspiration, B, the Bowl of Beatitudes, C, the Circle of Consecration, etc.
I say the Druid Universal Prayer quite a bit. I say it every day when I leave work to bless the space and I say it every night when I kneel and give a prayer of gratitude for the past day.
Druid Universal Prayer:
Grant us, O Holy Ones,
Thy protection, and in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in the love of it, the love of all existences,
The love of Earth our Mother, and of all goodness.
Awen
Yes, I'd love more books. I don't see myself as being able to open a library space until 2022 at the earliest, but I'd like to have a big offering of books once I get there.
I think the biggest step away from atheism happened when I accepted that magic isn't whatever I or most people assumed it is. Especially as a child, I expected magic to happen in a Disney-fied form. Wish gratification and rays shooting out of fingers. It took Druidry and a load of discursive meditations to sort out my wish-fulfillment fantasies and ego from stuff that actually happens as a result of will.
This Christmas, my brother casually said something about me being an agnostic and I said "not so much". I told him I was a Druid and I worship trees. My husband, still atheist, has a good sense of humor about my Druid practices. One day while waiting outside the laundromat, we came up with an entire abecedary of alternate names for the Sphere of Protection: A, the Arc of Aspiration, B, the Bowl of Beatitudes, C, the Circle of Consecration, etc.
I say the Druid Universal Prayer quite a bit. I say it every day when I leave work to bless the space and I say it every night when I kneel and give a prayer of gratitude for the past day.
Druid Universal Prayer:
Grant us, O Holy Ones,
Thy protection, and in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in the love of it, the love of all existences,
The love of Earth our Mother, and of all goodness.
Awen
Yes, I'd love more books. I don't see myself as being able to open a library space until 2022 at the earliest, but I'd like to have a big offering of books once I get there.
I don't know if you've heard of the Randonautica app. It's at the center of a raft of sensationalist YouTube videos, and at least one real life discovery of murder victims.
Looking into the details of how it's intended to work and what it's intended to do, I think the app creators could indeed have tapped into a way to channel some sort of metaphysical phenomenon. Apparently their random numbers are generated from this : https://qrng.anu.edu.au/ which is fundamentally different from a computer's "random number" function in two very important ways.
1. Computer "random" numbers are all pseudorandom. It takes the time on your clock and uses it as the input of an equation that returns a value from 0.0 to 1.0, so the number is actually predestined depending on the time on the clock.
2. The generation is from the observation of an electromagnetic field which means it is potentially influenced by the sorts of quantum spooky actions at a distance that are being more and more observed.
What I do wonder is whether the channeling of all the intentions of all the users of the app into apparently a single spot in a lab in Austria causes its own sort of mingling of intention. Is the effect different if only one or two people cast intentions at the app vs a few thousand at once? Would it be different if there were a distributed array of labs to bear the load, or is it effectively no different whatsoever?
Looking into the details of how it's intended to work and what it's intended to do, I think the app creators could indeed have tapped into a way to channel some sort of metaphysical phenomenon. Apparently their random numbers are generated from this : https://qrng.anu.edu.au/ which is fundamentally different from a computer's "random number" function in two very important ways.
1. Computer "random" numbers are all pseudorandom. It takes the time on your clock and uses it as the input of an equation that returns a value from 0.0 to 1.0, so the number is actually predestined depending on the time on the clock.
2. The generation is from the observation of an electromagnetic field which means it is potentially influenced by the sorts of quantum spooky actions at a distance that are being more and more observed.
What I do wonder is whether the channeling of all the intentions of all the users of the app into apparently a single spot in a lab in Austria causes its own sort of mingling of intention. Is the effect different if only one or two people cast intentions at the app vs a few thousand at once? Would it be different if there were a distributed array of labs to bear the load, or is it effectively no different whatsoever?
Weird, no, I had not heard of this... Has anyone else heard of it? Interesting!
Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?
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kimberlysteele
2020-12-31 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/agora/2020/12/irish-american-witchcraft-why-the-roots-of-your-fairy-beliefs-matter/?fbclid=IwAR081fTzmarz92Sf0f6rIYYaGz_4b85AWimFMe20KHFBzsce-7zcjwa19iI
I skimmed the article linked above, but it is so full of gobledygook I can barely get through it. I think the author is saying that believing in ancient Irish fairy myths in any meaningful way is racist and ableist.
I skimmed the article linked above, but it is so full of gobledygook I can barely get through it. I think the author is saying that believing in ancient Irish fairy myths in any meaningful way is racist and ableist.
Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?
houseofmirrors
2020-12-31 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Yes that is what they are more or less saying. They've been doing the same to Norse mythology for a few years now. Not long ago, the Swedes were subjected to an ad campaign from their own government telling them that a Swede isn't even a thing. No history. No culture. Nothing. At what point does all this stop being a coincidence and start being an intentional attack?
I was chatting with a doctor yesterday about vaccines. His caveat is that the mRNA is dangerous because RNA is the substrate/template for the DNA of your cells and there is a potential to alter your DNA using this type of vaccine. Alter it to what??? Count me out.
Also WTF is now What The Fauci. (If that is not a curse word, I don't know what would be).
Also WTF is now What The Fauci. (If that is not a curse word, I don't know what would be).
Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?
kimberlysteele
2020-12-31 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
OK, thank you, that's what I figured. I'm also guessing that the writer of the article is a self-hating white woman with extensive grad school. She's such a complete ass -- meanwhile, materialist atheists are laughing at her for entertaining those beliefs in the first place. Her notion of myths is a Disneyfied caricature anyways, and she operates from the presumption that anyone who believes in the Fae/fairies envisions the same silly cartoons she has dancing in her vacuous skull.
I saw the stupid airline ad that tried to claim Swedish meatballs weren't Swedish or some such nonsense.
I saw the stupid airline ad that tried to claim Swedish meatballs weren't Swedish or some such nonsense.
I think they're still trying to track people who get the vaccine without their consent. The point is probably genetic modification (just a guess here) so each person can be microchipped (nanochipped?) and programmed via future vaccines. Fauci used to go by a different name a while back... Mengele.
Here's wishing you and your family a Happy New Year
Raymond R
Raymond R
Doctor specializing in genetics here: my guess is that it'll cause random mutations. Since that's the cause of birth defects, cancer, and a host of other issues, it's insanely risky....
Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?
temporaryreality
2020-12-31 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
This, "Current theories and genetic studies support the idea that there was no massive population shift, rather there was an influx of new cultural influences which would make the idea of an older population being driven out by invaders impossible."
Is the fancy way of saying, "they're not taking your jobs and pushing you to the margins, they're bringing you diversiteeeee"
Is the fancy way of saying, "they're not taking your jobs and pushing you to the margins, they're bringing you diversiteeeee"
Thank you. Yes, this vaccine gets a great heaping load of NO THANKS from me. The more of us who refuse the vaccine, the less power they'll have to attempt to force us to take it. That's why they're selling it so hard and gaslighting people to make them think they need it.
Thank you Raymond, I wish the same for you and your loved ones.
Re: Can anyone translate this word salad article from Patheos?
kimberlysteele
2020-12-31 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's her way of telling us she's insane.
"In all these cases we see the actual, older folklore is being rewritten or reimagined for a plot point, which makes sense in fiction but contributes to the erosion of older folk beliefs. There is also an unpleasant layer of colonialism here, where people outside the cultures these beliefs come from are taking them and using them in a way that doesn’t reflect the actual belief and results in those beliefs being radically changed by the dominant culture without concern for the culture being taken from."
Huh? Her head is so far up her ass she has to vomit in order to defecate. I've seldom seen someone more tormented by her own carefully disguised racism. She takes pretentious, dissonant, partitioned self-loathing to new levels! If she is what is called a pagan nowadays, no wonder the pagan movement is disintegrating.
"In all these cases we see the actual, older folklore is being rewritten or reimagined for a plot point, which makes sense in fiction but contributes to the erosion of older folk beliefs. There is also an unpleasant layer of colonialism here, where people outside the cultures these beliefs come from are taking them and using them in a way that doesn’t reflect the actual belief and results in those beliefs being radically changed by the dominant culture without concern for the culture being taken from."
Huh? Her head is so far up her ass she has to vomit in order to defecate. I've seldom seen someone more tormented by her own carefully disguised racism. She takes pretentious, dissonant, partitioned self-loathing to new levels! If she is what is called a pagan nowadays, no wonder the pagan movement is disintegrating.
The totally bizarre part, from my perspective, is that there are tons of articles in the mainstream media arguing this is a good thing, since Pritzker will have a better idea of how a state which isn't locked down is suffering by spending time in Florida. Dear gods, the media is senile....
In my experience, there are two types of atheists: those with zero interest in the spiritual, and those who are but are terrified of the implications. I think a lot of us who were in the first category have experiences which convince us there's more to it; I know that's what happened to me!
I have a question about the subscription library: will it be open to Canadians? I'd happily join such a library, but I can't find a local one, so I figure if there's talk of it here, I'll happily join. I can understand if the hassle of including another country is too much, and also will happily pay a little more if need be.
Part of me thinks the fact it might make COVID symptoms, or any Corona-virus symptoms worse might be by design. How do you sell people that they need a vaccine? You maximize how dangerous the disease is perceived to be. One good way to do that, from the perspective of people who manage our society, is to make the numbers look worse. Since even the soviets never tried to fake death data since it's so difficult to do, it makes sense to me that one option would be to fiddle with the numbers by making people more susceptible...
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