Nutty day

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First of all, I just found out that my dad's dad is still alive. My dad had not seen him in 30 years, and before that time it was 15 years, or something like that, and he and his brother and sister all thought their dad was dead. My aunt found him online or something, he's 81 and living in New Hampshire with all these health problems. He was

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[nonentityb]

I wanted to respond to these earlier but I didn't have the chance, so don't think that I didn't care or anything like that. Actually, I was really interested in what your answers would be and very pleased to read them now. I have always thought you seemed like an interesting person and I am glad I had an excuse to get you to talk more about yourself.

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2. I just hope I can, you know, express myself and make things look nice.
Good. Don't worry about making "grand statements" about society or any of that crap. That usually makes the worst art. Please, please, please don't fall into the MassArt trap...

3. I understand your difficulty explaining this and how personal all these things are. I mean, I really understand. And I absolutely did not roll my eyes at any of these things. Furthermore, I really don't think you have to worry about going way over my head: this happens to be an area of special interest and (if I do say so) expertise for me.

I'm quite fond of Brigid myself, but it's probably not the same as it is for you. I am familiar with the idea of goddesses as expressions of parts of the human psyche, but my views are a little bit different.

Based on the way you answered this question, I wonder if you are familiar at all with chaos magick? And also, have you ever read anything by Julius Evola? And, I would be interested to know more about your experiences with astral projection, but you don't have to go into that here (or at all) if it's too personal.

4. I think I would have guessed all these things. And I don't think that there would necessarily be no one who would answer it, I think it's more like no one who generally reads personal ads would answer it.

5. I am the last person in the world you have to worry about sounding weepsky in front of...