Expanding my thoughts on Christianity's theft of who we are, its insidious nature.
You are not its worshipers, you are its victims.
#Christianity #Christian #MurderGod #Pagan #Wiccan #FediCoven #Resistance #PolyTheism #PO\olytheist
I'm going to write a longer thing on this soon, but like... do you ever think abt how Euro Christians enslaved and murdered ppl from everywhere to spread their murder god's cult and now some of us worship that same god? Does that bother anyone as much as it does me? Like they literally killed so many of us and now we're following that fker?
Fking nope. NOPE.
Let's bring back our goddesses and our gods. Let's restore our traditions. And if our stories have been lost, let's find them. BC for me, following the god of enslavers, rapists, and genociders isnt a fking vibe.
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#religion #Christianity #crusades #cult #slavery #pagan #wiccan #fedicoven
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_101175794/rassismus-vorwurf-gregor-gysi-nennt-vorwuerfe-absurd-.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Cafh: We look for freedom in order to grow, explore, experience, discover, and unfold; we seek to unfold all our possibilities so that we can go beyond what we envision now. We dare.
Buscamos libertad para crecer, para explorar, para descubrir, experimentar y desenvolvernos; procuramos desarrollar todas nuestras posibilidades para ir siempre más allá de lo que avizoramos en este momento. Osamos.
#cafhglobal.com #cafh.org #meditation
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"If you’ve been conscious at all the last 10 years or so, it’s been pretty tough in #politics. Many people think they cannot have a conversation across the political aisle, so to speak, without harming or ending friendships, and even family relationships." https://ofb.biz/sa1403
Whoever understands life, the world and humanity as an indivisible unity will work and struggle for all.
Quien entiende la vida, al mundo y a los seres humanos como una unidad indivisible, trabaja y lucha para todos ellos.
#cafhglobal.com #cafh.org #meditation #introspection #spirituality #silence #discernment
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I became atheist shortly after seeing god. I was very young, maybe 10, and I prayed every night for god to send me a sign that I should become a catholic priest. I had read my children's bible many times. I had disturbingly grandiose fantasies about old testament prophets and casting out demons.
Anyway, it was at that point I did see god. It wasn't very nice, overtly evil actually. Very, very impressive and absolutely terrifying.
I have a family history of schizophrenia and interpreted the experience accordingly. It was the first time I had seen what the mind can do, and I could see the parallels with the experiences I was reading in the bible. I had experienced terror and infinite hostility, but it seemed obvious other people might have more benign and relatable experiences.
God's lesson for me was scepticism. Anyone could see anything. And if you wear a funny hat, lots of people will believe your wild tales. I became much more self aware and self critical - a mixed but essential blessing.
The experience left me with a painful awareness of my neurodiversity. But the kid who wanted to exorcise their classmates clearly wasn't doing too well anyway. I stopped thinking about that.
I had the thought "What if god did appear and said, screw the ten commandments - I want to see torture and cannibalism!" Would people start a religion for that god? Probably yes, but I knew I wouldn't.
I can't say for sure if supernatural beings exist or not. But I do know that the moral category of "god" does not exist. All beings have responsibility for their own ethics and actions. Power does not correlate to morality.
Here endeth my holy book. Hearken unto my words and go forth with my holy message.
For clarity: I am wearing a funny hat.
"Thiel's entire action can... be read as a prolonged act of heresy against the liberal consensus: a challenge to the very foundations of civil coexistence, which he now considers outdated,"
~ Benant
#broligarchs #eschation #fascism #darkenlightment #eattherich #christianity
Il Tempo: Continuiamo a non voler vedere il pericolo islamista
Oggi Il Tempo vi propone un documento inquietante: il comunicato con cui le comunità islamiche sciite, piangendo Khamenei padre e esaltandone il figlio, celebrano il «martirio» e invitano la nuova Guida Suprema a rimanere in quel «lucente solco». Non serve un sofisticato conoscitore dell'Islam per capire di cosa stiamo parlando: un pericoloso discorso sul filo della violenza.
La nota èfirmata da associazioni e centri culturali che non si nascondono, e almeno questo è positivo ai fini dei controlli indispensabili per garantire la sicurezza nazionale.
Ma il punto è proprio questo: se già vengono dette cose del genere apertis verbis, immaginiamo il tenore delle prediche che nessun «estraneo» ascolta, dei sermoni più infiammati a porte chiuse.
Anzi, c'è da sorridere amaramente quando qualcuno immagina che il proselitismo fondamentalista avvenga solo online, sottovalutando la forza di trascinamento delle aggregazioni fisiche nel cuore delle nostre città.
E allora? Non si tratta di chiudere a prescindere quei luoghi, lasciando spazio a raduni in case private ancora meno controllabili. E tuttavia si rende indispensabile un'attività che andrà peraltro costantemente aggiornata, perché nomi e persone cambiano vorticosamente.
Occorre un censimento (uso appositamente un concetto sdoganatissimo, che evoca solo positive esigenze di trasparenza) di tutti i luoghi di culto, di incontro e di associazionismo ispirati all'Islam sul nostro territorio. E la medesima trasparenza va richiesta sulle relative fonti di finanziamento.
È il minimo sindacale, a maggior ragione in assenza di un'intesa con lo stato italiano che non è stata possibile per ben due volte (con governi di centrosinistra e di centrodestra) a causa delle diverse scelte delle comunità islamiche, che non hanno saputo indicare rappresentanze unitarie, e si sono opposte a far sapere chi le finanziava.
Ma la mancata intesa con lo Stato non può significare assenza di trasparenza su attività, persone, finanziamenti. Non credo sia necessario aggiungere altro: cosa sia in gioco è fin troppo chiaro.
We continue to refuse to see the danger of Islam.
Today, Il Tempo proposes a disturbing document: the statement with which Shia Muslim communities, mourning Khamenei the father and exalting his son, celebrate the “martyrdom” and invite the new Supreme Guide to remain in that “bright path.” It takes no sophisticated knowledge of Islam to understand what we are talking about: a dangerous discourse on the edge of violence.
The note is signed by associations and cultural centers that don’t hide, and at least this is positive for necessary controls to ensure national security.
But the point is precisely this: if such things are already said openly, imagine the tone of the sermons that no “outsider” listens to, the most inflamed sermons in closed rooms.
Indeed, there’s something to bitterly laugh about when someone imagines that fundamentalist proselytism only occurs online, underestimating the pulling force of physical gatherings in the heart of our cities.
And then? It’s not about closing those places indiscriminately, leaving space for private home gatherings even less controllable. However, it makes indispensable an activity that will, of course, constantly need to be updated, because names and people change dizzyingly.
A census (using, specifically, a concept thoroughly sanitized, which evokes only positive transparency needs) of all places of worship, meeting places, and associations inspired by Islam on our territory is required. And the same transparency must be requested regarding their relative sources of funding.
This is the bare minimum, all the more so in the absence of an agreement with the Italian state, which, for two times (with center-left and center-right governments) has not been possible due to the diverse choices of the Muslim communities, which have not been able to indicate unified representations, and have opposed revealing who was funding them.
But the lack of an agreement with the State cannot mean absence of transparency on activities, people, and financing. I don't think it’s necessary to add anything further: what’s at stake is far too clear.
#Islam #IlTempo #ShiaMuslim #Khamenei #SupremeGuide #Italian #Muslim #State
Blessed and clear
My vision remains
My mind is still
My view of you is
Great Goddess of the light of reason
Great Goddess of the wise
Great Goddess of the great walls that protect and define us
Blessed and empowered
I am made
I seek to remain
I thank you for
Great Goddess of the city
Great Goddess of strategies
Great Goddess that defends civilization from barbarity
Blessed and assured
I feel this day
Sure of my place here
Standing with your grace
Great Goddess of the citadel
Great Goddess of the shield
Great Goddess of Olympian fame
Art: Gedenkzuil van den Nederlandschen Krijgsroem in Junij MDCCCXV
#gods #hellenimos #pagan #paganism #polytheism #religion #prayer
we braved the pennine crossing and played a great gig with my friend geoff and his big bass saxophone.
a performance exploring the forms of attention deployed in the practice of free improvisation - a deep space of community listening, flow, awareness and compassion.
#deeplistening #improvisation #concentration #flow #communalcomposition #soundart #extendedtechniques #meditation
thanks noise upstairs for having us
What happens when you outsource to politicians the work of the Church. The problem post-Dobbs is that the pro-life legislation passed previously was crafted as virtue signals, unexpected to activate. When it did, it looked vindictive and created a caricature of "pro-life." https://x.com/collinhansen/status/2032084072290287661
Freedom begins with the ability to grow inwardly beyond our limitations and conditioning; to grow expansively, consciously.
La libertad comienza con la capacidad de crecer interiormente más allá de nuestras limitaciones y condicionamientos; de crecer en forma expansiva y cons¬ciente.
#cafhglobal,com #cafh.org #meditation #introspection #spirituality #silence #discernment
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To Persephone
Give me your breath
That I may breathe
The cool Spring air
That I may smell the rich earth
And the scent of the greening grass
Come forth dread lady
Come into the light
Hear our song and follow it forth
Into the warming sun
That brings you to life
Give us your power
That we may feel energized
As your journey comes to en end
From the nebulous depths
To the clear blue dome of heaven
Come forth dread lady
Come into the light
Hear our song and follow it forth
Into the warming sun
That brings you to life
Give us your laughter
That we too may laugh
In the blooming of the earth
And the returning song of birds
Calling into the skies
Come forth dread lady
Come into the light
Hear our song and follow it forth
Into the warming sun
That brings you to life
Statue: Marble 5th century BC statuette of Persephone found in Piraeus, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens Greece.
#gods #hellenimos #pagan #paganism #polytheism #religion #prayer
Cafh: Let us celebrate each instant of existence as a precious moment, as the gift of life.
Celebremos cada instante de la existencia como una instancia preciosa, como el don de la vida.
#cafhglobal.com #cafh.org #meditation #introspection #spirituality #silence #discernment
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Up too late with perhaps one too many beers and happened to open a tiny zine of the Major Arcana of the Gulf Coast Tarot from Mystic Multiples to Temperance. It spoke to me as the season seems to be well underway. The garden is jumping to life and my seedlings are nearing the point to jump into the fray.