(That's part of how to fuck it up, by the way. That's why the places Christians 'exorcise' every decade or so for hundreds of years don't 'stay fixed.' )
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What is there in your opinion?
sep 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
I don't have an 'opinion.' I have a 'nothing productive to say in this venue.'
sep 1, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
I didn't say, but think less of 'the dead' than that the *world* is alive.
sep 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you. I think I have a kid of understanding. Is this along the lines of the druids where the world and its abundance is holy and vital?
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. Also the knotty spots. Which is usually what monotheists and atheists get unduly-wrapped up in demanding answers about. Stuff breathes, though. It's Ok if things take some times. Someone else brought the terror-of-not-defining.
sep 1, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view
A knotty spot would be a strongly special place? I like the name.
sep 1, 2025, 3:45 am • 0 0 • view
people tend to notice? Pay attention without fear. (Druid bit ain't wrong I guess.)
sep 1, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
Years ago I had a PhD geologist come to a place in the middle of nowhere to look for water. I hired her as she was also a diviner. She wandered around with two metal rods for about 20 minutes. Then the rods crossed. They drilled and found a large aquifer! Explain it? I can’t.
sep 1, 2025, 3:52 am • 1 0 • view
Water molecules got poles, that's why so much dissolves in water.
sep 1, 2025, 3:54 am • 0 0 • view
Interesting. Did you know Joseph Smith was a diviner and a fortune teller? Then he found gold tablets with sacred Hebrew scripture in Egyptian in upstate NY. Hebrew scripture in Egyptian? I question that. Then he translated all that into English with a couple of rocks. Okay 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 6:25 am • 0 0 • view
We need a new thread for this. Want to start one?
sep 1, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
👍🏻 there’s a lot to unpack with the Church of Latter Day Saints. Ever hear of the “Blood Atonement”? In Journal of Discourses, Vol 4, Brigham Young said that “some sins are so bad they cannot be atoned for with water, but must be atoned for by the shedding of the blood of the sinner himself.”
sep 1, 2025, 7:57 pm • 0 0 • view
So we're clear, none of that shit has a damn thing to do with Druids of any kind if you don't mind so very much. Fockssakes.
sep 1, 2025, 6:36 am • 1 0 • view
👍👍
sep 1, 2025, 7:30 pm • 1 0 • view
(Also I was just kinda saying a lotta Atheists got no filters, they see a ghost once and next thing you know they think that freak Joe Smith was right. )
sep 1, 2025, 6:32 am • 1 0 • view
I guess there are two kinds of atheists. First kind does not believe, period. Second kind is open to a god of some form - they’re really agnostic, but they call themselves atheists. I’m an atheist.
sep 1, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
He was convicted for fraud in three states before he managed to get his Christian theocratic cult to Utah. We got all kinds of queer people wreckage from there in the 80s and Nineties. Your point?
sep 1, 2025, 6:29 am • 1 0 • view
Thank you - that helped too. In Japan they have forest bathing (you prolly know I’m sure) - where you deliberately walk in a quiet green area and contemplate. I do this a lot, and can feel the almost instant serenity it brings. And the serenity lasts.
sep 1, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0 • view
Serenity may take me a bit longer but some things they never stopped leaving space for there. :) (Also, yeah, maybe I got called a Druid but I've tended to be picky.) The head of my Druid order had a way of putting me on the spot though so I guess that's part of it. :)
sep 1, 2025, 3:53 am • 1 0 • view
Serenity of forest bathing is unique. Meditation is another spiritual area I invest time in. It also brings serenity - different type. I have speculation as to why, but no answers.
sep 1, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
Druids are not unusual where I come from. You would like it there, I am guessing.
sep 1, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Also some celebrations may have been premature, but I still got the hardware,bruises and all. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUx5...
sep 1, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
(Also Druids should always be unusual. Who's not frickin trying!? :) )
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
😂 very good point!
sep 1, 2025, 5:38 am • 0 0 • view
(also I really wanna get back to New England for one of the big festivals. I was hanging out with the aDf folks and someone was like, "Is this the OBOD camp?" And I got to say "I'm sorry, these aren't the Druids you're looking for."
sep 1, 2025, 4:14 am • 1 0 • view
I'm not sure where you are from but I'm a displaced Bostonian in the South. :)
sep 1, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
UK. Land of ghosts etc. more ghosts per square mile than any other place in the world. Japan has fabulous spirits too - just fascinating.
sep 1, 2025, 5:46 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, I dunno, I got called a Druid when the head of the order put me on the spot, 'Here's a Druid, why wasn't Cuculain subject to the pangs of Ulster," "Well he wasn't a fucking Ulsterman, was he? He was from Meath."
sep 1, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
Was that a good thing - to be an instant Druid? Sounds like you are dealing with the faerie folk in Ireland. They have a billion cool legends there - love it. Great forest bathing too!
sep 1, 2025, 5:43 am • 0 0 • view
I guess remember when Conor Mac Nessa called the Colloquoy of the Sages? There might kinda come a time when it stops meaning much. A problem it'd be a luxury to have right now but. Yaknow, OK. Druid enough. :)
sep 1, 2025, 5:59 am • 1 0 • view
Actually in that case I think the point was I had been setting too high of standards for myself when that wasn't the damn point. And it was New England.
sep 1, 2025, 5:52 am • 1 0 • view