icon: "contemptuous (my face with bold cat-eye makeup, with a disgusted expression: eyebrows drawn together and down, eyes wide, lips curled up in the middle and down to the sides in an exaggerated frown)"I've been watching "the Path" and the main character is having a crisis of faith because the leader of the religion might not have done a miracle ( Read more... )

icon: "garrulous(a photo of my lips with the skin greyed out and the lips overlaid with a green and blue fractal pattern)"
( it is very long )

icon: "disassociative (a digital painting of a stylized person in profile with wide open screaming mouth and arms up with palms spread wide. Head and hands flow into strands like blood vessels)"I have had really high anxiety for the past five days. Eating became really difficult; I've managed a food bar once a day and other than that it has been a ( Read more... )

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Literature and relics: what sources (like spiritual tomes) did you consult or study for increased knowledge and guidance in each phase, if any? (from hereWhen I was a ( Read more... )

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(from here)
do you currently have any spiritual practices? are you developing any in particular at the moment? have you abandoned any recently? Yes. Art, self-reflection, meditation, energy work, spell-writing, etc... I'm sort ( Read more... )

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Have you ever had a spiritual mentor? if so, what was the relationship like, and if you are no longer close or in contact, was there anything specific that caused the disconnect (aside from moving away from the religion/spiritual practice in ( Read more... )

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from topaznebula: What about [Christianity] and its followers makes you mad? Why? Have you chosen to abandon that religion and/or part of that religion and/or it's followers, why or why not?What infuriates me is when people use a religion as a weapon - any religion, but ( Read more... )

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darkestgarden asked me to describe my spiritual transitions: how did you transition from one spiritual phase to another? what thoughts and ( Read more... )

Last week my bioparent M came in town and we spent an evening together. I don't remember how I got on the subject but I started talking about privilege, and trying to explain how it worked. At first M just straight up denied it, then moved sideways with the "but I don't discriminate" bit and then agreed that it existed and that ze benefited ( Read more... )

It's been ages since I wrote -- partly from busyness and partly because I was so freaking stressed about financial stuff that I could not spend time in reflective mindspace or I'd fixate on it. My financial aid finally came in this week (two and a half weeks into the semester, having no books) so I have a little room to breathe. and so much has ( Read more... )