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“Justice for the World” Working
Sigil: sowilo for the flash of clarity over the bindrune with Godself oil blend on the corners. The bindrune was created by one of my beloveds, Amoret. The cards are The Arrow of Truth, The Priestess of the Silver Star, and The Balance from the Enochian tarot. All other items live on this altar all the time.
This is on Hel’s altar – for fierce bravery, honouring of the living and the dead, and change that feels brutal.
REBLOG – From Rattle, Roar, & Ritual
As we move into the week of Thanksgiving here in the US, Clan of the Wildlings has this to say about recent tragic events and the divisiveness that they have spawned.
To those who fear, there is a place set for you at our table should you choose to join us in peace. To those who hate, there is a place set for you at our table should you choose to join us in love. To those who are alone and hungry, there is a place set for you at our table should you choose to join us in gratitude.
So may it be. Blessed be. Aho!
Already In Place
Lovely!
Instant enemies of friends and other human failings
With so much horror and unrest across our country and globe against every variety of person you’d think a compassionate humanity would unite. After natural disasters people rush to aid their fellow humans. After human caused disasters they clump by likeness and throw verbal and sometimes physical stones.
People now take any dissenting voice as that of the enemy. What The Bloody Hell? For a country that prides itself on higher learning, critical thinking, and critical analysis we sure throw that out of the window the first chance we get. No more debating opinions, only debating the person stating them. This debate stems not on who they actually are, only on their similarity or difference to us or our most dearly held opinions. No more critiquing others’ words or actions from a place of knowledge that humans are complex and varied, that group labels do not mean carbon copies of a singular ideal, presentation, physicality, or philosophy.
“If you’re not with us, you’re against us” has always been a fear wielding battle cry for verbal battles and weapon battles. I remember when it was used to push through the Patriot Act oh those many years ago, and tagged on the back end was folks were “anti-American” if they disagreed. One dimensional, pet-peeve clinging, lockstep thinking was encouraged and praised. And that wasn’t the first time this tactic was used in this country. Not the first time it was used by humans.
It isn’t used only by governments. It is common for the people to use it against each other in their private lives, against family, friends, and neighbours.
We claim we desire diversity in all things – race, ethnicity, gender, religion; we even claim we want it in thought then we crow and stomp, slander and impugn, when we see such diversity in our cherished circles of family, friends, or co-workers.
Differing opinions become swords for ending relationships and fueling anger instead of fodder for discussion, understanding, opening awareness and finding ways to solve issues.
Stress induced pushing conformity by peer pressure. I am appalled.
Female Sovereignty and Erasure
Stellar idea. REBLOG
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George Monbiot: How to Build a Crisis – http://wp.me/p4xqzG-2C5
The case of the Missing Bedfellows
REBLOG – where are you, allies?
Bedfellow:
noun
an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
I remember some WW2 propaganda that has always stuck with me. It was the image of a Russian soldier running and leaping into bed with Uncle Sam and a British soldier. I was still a child sneaking Time Life books, so I smirked at the unintended(?) homoeroticsm of Uncle Sam and big strapping masculine soldiers in bed together. Despite my initial juvenile sexual humor, the larger implication wasn’t lost on me.
“Our new bedfellow!” the poster proclaimed, reminding Americans that the war had shifted. Russia was on our side. The Nazis were still evil, but the Russians had seen the light, come to Jesus, and suddenly loved American liberty. They were our friends and allies. Sort of.
This image has always stayed with me, and even as an adult I recall it when I see groups at polar ends of…
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Everyone’s a critic: The rise of the TV hate-watch
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It’s Wednesday night, 10:00 p.m. In her suburban Detroit living room, MontiLee Stormer is sitting down in front of the TV, her husband at her side and her laptop logged into Facebook. In Bethel, PA, Pamela V. Jones is doing the same. They are both tuned in to CBS’s CSI: Cyber – but not because they enjoy the show.
Quite the contrary.
As the show begins with the narrated backstory that introduces every episode, Jones starts a thread on her Facebook page.
“LOL ‘It can happen to you,’” she writes, echoing the fear-mongering last line of the show’s intro, which is delivered in a whisper by actress Patricia Arquette.
“They really gotta change that opening,” writes Stormer’s husband.
“Why? It sucks like the rest of the show,” replies Jones.
Thus begins the hate-watch.
Every week, thousands of people tune in to watch television programs they genuinely despise, purely to…
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