A comment I made on a YouTube video:

Okay, about the bible and homosexuality. The one and only verse in the whole book that is ever used to support this flimsy argument was actually condemning pedophilia, which is not at all the same thing as homosexuality. And even then, it was only mentioned once. The bible condemns mixed fabric clothes and ( Read more... )

Neale Donald Walsh keeps coming up on my Facebook feed. He's this guy that wrote this series that started with the book "Conversations with God." A series that I used to like. And while it did have some interesting thoughts about the nature of God / the universe, and did introduce a lot of people to the concept that you could have two-way ( Read more... )

The thing about Genesis is that it is specifically the story of the creation of the Hebrews by Yahweh, not of humanity as a whole. Other gods made other humans, hence the usage of the plural for god which was Elohim (Singular would have been Eloha.) as well as the presence of other people in the Land of Nod from whom Cain took a wife. So basically ( Read more... )

There's something in DS9 where the female changeling is trying to describe The Great Link to Odo, and she says that in the link, their consciousnesses are all one. When they leave the link, "the ocean becomes the drop." When they go back in, "the drop becomes the ocean."

I didn't get it growing up, but after years of being a neopagan, after looking ( Read more... )

People talk about the ocean being beautiful, and they go there and play in the waves like it’s just random, ordinary part of their world. But I’m here like “Yes, it’s beautiful, the same way a dying star is beautiful. Or the way a meteor wiping out all humanity would be beautiful. The ocean is great and terrible and monstrous in its beauty. The ( Read more... )

Something that I don't think Christians are ever going to understand when they try to proselytize to me is that when they describe Hell, I'm just like "So basically it's like living on earth, but forever? That doesn't sound so bad. Immortality ( Read more... )

A little tired, but I just wanted to note that tonight I did a "dance around a candle flame" ritual tonight, making this the first ritual I'd done in a very long time. Doing rituals in the old apartment was nearly impossible; the confined space of two people trying to fit into a space that was barely big enough for one, my roommate's unpredictable ( Read more... )

Another Quora.com answer I gave that I feel is worth repeating here ( Read more... )

Belief: "God has a plan!" (Picturing this big, sprawling, intricate plan.)

Likely truth: The Goddess Eris gets up, spins a great enormous wheel of fortune, chanting, "Wheel of Chaos, spin spin spin, what kind of trouble will we be in ( Read more... )

Got some face painting sticks, IE face paint in a marker type form, from Amazon. The bit on my hand is a test, the shape is the symbol for the SH sound from the syllabary (alphabet, but each character is a specific sound) for my Trai’Pahg’Nan’Nog conlang. Once the test had been on there for hours without any sign of reaction, I drew the Eye of Grah ( Read more... )