just saw someone say online that they’ve never seen mountains irl and lost my mind. is this an experience you guys have had. are there some people who havent seen mountains
i’ve never seen mountains. but i live on and island and i lose my mind when people tell me they’ve never seen the ocean. the ocean. some people have never seen the ocean before.
What really gets me is that some people have never seen either.
If you’re an adult, do the stuff you couldn’t as a kid.
Like, me and my sister went to a museum, and they had an extra exhibit of butterflies. But it cost £3. So we sighed, walked past, then stopped. We each had £3. We could see the butterflies. And we did it was great. We followed it up with an ice-cream as well because Mum and Dad weren’t there to say no.
I was driving back from a work trip with 2 other people in their early 20s, and we drove past a MacDonalds. One of the others went “Aww man, I’d love a McFlurry.” And the guy driving pulled in to the drive through. It was wild. But it was great.
I went to a park over the weekend and I was thinking “Man, I’d love to hire one of those bikes and cycle round the park.” It took me a few minutes to go “Wait, I can hire one of those bikes!”
I guess what I’m saying is, those impulsive things you wanted to do as a kid – see the dinosaur exhibit, play in the fountains with the other kids, lie in the shade for 2 hours – you can do when you’re an adult. You have to deal with a whole lot of other bull, but at least you can indulge your inner 8 year-old.
It is legit the best thing about being a grown up. I still have to remind myself I can Do The Things…but I do, and then I do them, and it’s brilliant. 😀
Just got to do some woodworking for the first time in a long while, and I am once again reminded of why I enjoy my favorite type of word to work with: Purpleheart.
Why’s it called purpleheart?
Muthafuckin’ purple wood. How cool is that? It’s brown when you cut it, but due to oxidization, eventually turns to a beautiful purple color. (if you don’t seal it at this stage, it’ll eventually turn red, I believe, which is still pretty, but you buy purpleheart for purple, damnit!)
And everything you make with it turns out amazing.
Purple floors?
Nice.
Purple stairs?
Fancy.
Purple table?
Sweet.
Purple guitar?
Awesome.
Purple whatever the hell is going on here?
Epic.
It’s just such a cool wood to work with, and it’s sturdy enough to be used for just about anything. If I ever get a house, half of it might just end up being made out of purpleheart.
Anyway, that’s enough nerdery for one post. I will now return to reblogging stupid pictures and recipes.
For some reason this ancient, ancient post keeps getting notes randomly. It is now less than 40 notes away from 30,000.
The older I get the more fiercely protective I get of younger girls. I was heading into work yesterday and I saw that 12 year old (I mentioned her before, the one who wore makeup) talking to this older man. She’s normally really bubbly but she looked a little more subdued talking to him so I go over and loudly say “Hey sweetheart, who’s this?” And the guys just glares at me and she says “oh um his name is Justin.” And I’m like “Hi Justin, how do you know her?” And he gets nervous and is like “I just saw her jogging and thought I’d give her pointers.” So I just kinda tilted my head and looked at him for a minute. He literally asked me “are you a cop or something? I haven’t done anything wrong.” So I took her to the McDonald’s near by, bought her something and had a talk about not talking to strangers. Low key I’m debating the next time I see her parents (they drop her off at the gym and leave her there for hours) to maybe have a talk with them or something. Idk if it’s my place tho
Just to add because some messaged me saying that I was being a nosey bitch: so a woman who used to go to my gym (and my same university. Like I used to see her at my job and on campus) actually went missing not far from my intersection (literally a 5 min walk away from the major intersection) on may 10 and they found her body literally last week (June 19). Everyone has been on high alert lately so when I saw this random dude talking to this little girl, my brain immediately went into defence panic mode. So yeah call me nosey if you want
This world could use more nosey b*tches.
I’ll stop being a nosey bitch when males stop being predators
Always be a nosy bitch where young girls are concerned. Always be a nosy bitch where creepy old men are concerned
His first reaction was to go on the defensive and ask if she was a cop. HE WAS UP TO NO GOOD AND KNEW IT. That girl he was talking to was 12. TWELVE.
I decided to start my series of posts on the topic of Demonology by giving my perspective on a simple, yet crucial question: what is Demonology? As many things within the domain of the Occult, there is no unique definition of Demonology. It can be intended as that branch of Magick that is concerned with Demons, which are, in the minds of most of us, infernal creatures and evil spirits. Demonology is traditionally concerned with the art of summoning and enslaving these inhuman creatures in order to get them to work for us for a specific goal.
But looking deeper into the concepts behind Demonology, one can discover that the practice of Demonic Conjuring has a much broader meaning and can be considered a foundation for many different magickal applications.
In order to understand why and how Demonology is so significant, I would like to start from one of the most common questions that people ask when confronted with the idea of working with supernatural, extra-dimensional and/or divine entities: “are they real?”
As I have stated several times before, I define myself as a Nihilist Witch. This means that I don’t worship any God or Goddess as the creator of this world, I don’t believe in their physical existence and I don’t believe that the Universe has an ultimate purpose or meaning. I am a materialist and I have a solid faith in Science. Therefore, most people would be surprised if not outraged to know that I support and practice Demonology. Here’s my reply:
“I believe that the question of whether a certain God, Demon or Supernatural Entity is real or not is ultimately a meaningless question.”
This idea stems from the consideration that many things that are devoid of physical existence still have a huge impact on the lives of people. In order for them to have power, it’s sufficient that a certain number of people believe in them and enforce them in society.
Here are some simple examples of this. The pieces of paper, or the virtual transactions, that we use as money, can function only because people believe in their inherent value. The same thing could be said about gender roles, which are completely meaningless and don’t have any material justification for their existence, but have become so strong that they rule the social behaviour of millions of people all over the world. I am a non-Christian person, but being raised in a Roman Catholic environment, I would be lying if I said that the Christian God didn’t have a huge impact on my life, regardless of whether I believe in him, or not.
Our society can give a massive amount of power to invisible things, by feeding them through the collective belief in their existence. In this sense, these things are Demons that are constantly conjured and reinforced by our behaviour. When these things become powerful enough to have an impact on the material plane, the question of whether they exist or not is inessential.
This is the idea behind Demonology.
If you want to interact with a demonic entity for whatever reason, my advice is to stop asking whether they are real or not. Instead, when it comes to practically conjuring a Demon, there are two core ideas that you should consider:
Time is non-linear. You live with the illusion of the existence of the past, present and future but these concepts have no meaning outside of your experience. My personal way to put it is that when you summon a demon, what is actually happening is that the specific entity you’re working with is calling you through the fabric of spacetime and conjuring themselves into existence through you.
Everything is connected. Even when you’re doing a summoning ritual in the privacy of your room without anyone being aware of it, it will still have an impact on society and the cosmos as a whole. There can be no action without reaction. You can never fully predict the consequences of your actions, and, to put it in thermodynamic terms, there can be no reversible process in this universe. So take your conjuring very seriously, even if you’re working with a lesser entity.
These concepts may require a lot of meditation to be fully understood. My suggestion is, as always, to take your time to deeply ponder these ideas and give them personal meaning before engaging in any summoning ritual. In my next posts, I will give you some practical tips and directions on how I put together a conjuring circle, and what to keep in mind.
I hope that this post will be useful to anyone interested in this topic. If you have any doubts you can always write me a message and I’ll help you to the best of my knowledge.
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A couple years ago, my mother (who is white) was watching from her window and saw a strange young black man in her driveway. He was crouching down beside her car as if hiding behind it. She didn’t call the police. She just kept an eye on him and waited. After about a minute of coaxing, he pulled a puppy out from under her car, gently tucked the puppy under his arm and walked away while lightly scolding it.
I’m not telling this story because my mom deserves a prize or anything, but to try to relate how terrifying a simple everyday activity can be. If my mother hadn’t been the person she was—and he had no way of knowing that—rescuing a lost wandering puppy could have easily gotten that man killed.
“rescuing a lost wandering puppy could have easily gotten that man killed”
-a sentence sounding utterly crazy to a non-American person
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