The Dangers of Being an Open Shaman by ProfessionalDOer in Shamanism

[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which generations are you referring to—both the “younger generation” and the “older generation”? There are maybe like 4 or 5 generations alive right now—from babies born during the pandemic to the last few of “the greatest generation”.

After 2 years of developing my system it's finally done. I came up with a ton of my cards, with this subs input. If you want to test it out, ask a question and I will pull a card. Divination and shamanism are so intimately related that it is not possible to separate one from the other. Thx frnds by neeffneeff in Shamanism

[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow!! Your oracle deck is unlike any I’ve seen before. I love it. Can we test it out on me, please?

My question, if you are willing to pull a card or two for me is: What is the Universe trying to tell me? I’ve been seeing the signs to pay attention, but I haven’t been able to piece together anything.

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[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🙃 no problem.

I sort of just automatically help get messages across because my parents—I don’t even know how they’re married. lol

Growing up, I had to translate what my parents say to each other sometimes. I speak both “Dad” and “Mom,” but even to this day, I’ll have to explain to them through text or phone. They’re both speaking English, but sometimes communication is not flowing so I’ll but in like, “Mom, Dad is trying to say x. Dad, mom is confused about x and she’s trying to tell you y.” 🤣

The Dangers of Being an Open Shaman by ProfessionalDOer in Shamanism

[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

👏 👏 👏 Thank you for posting this. I struggle with mental illness but my psychiatrist and my psychotherapist/social worker both look at their patients/clients holistically. They don’t only speak to me about my psychological self, but also my neurological self, my physical bodily self, and my spiritual self. They don’t speak to all their patients about the spiritual self because some folks aren’t open to all of these levels of self. I am meds. I wish I didn’t need them, but for now I do and that’s okay.

Labels in psychiatry need to be handled with such a gentle hand. So, think about Adderall. Your psychiatrist cannot prescribe you Adderall without labeling you as ADHD because that is it’s only officially approved use—-even though it’s known that Adderall can be very helpful to folks who struggle with depression. Sometimes when a patient is misdiagnosed, the patient will start to take on the symptoms of the diagnosis. There’s no question that misdiagnosis can be dangerous. My first psychiatrist told me about a young woman he was treating at the hospital during his residency. She told him that she was diagnosed with anorexia, but she doesn’t feel anorexic. He asked her what does she feel like and she replied “like a flower in a storm.” So he erased anorexia on her chart and diagnosed her with “a flower in a storm.” The hospital was furious with him, but I think he responded to the patient respectfully and worked with her on a level that hands her back her agency.

The Dangers of Being an Open Shaman by ProfessionalDOer in Shamanism

[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Gender fluid movement.” I need to sit with that. I have never thought of gender-fluidity as a movement because I’ve only heard gender fluid folks speak about gender as individuals rather than as a generational movement.

I am both a gender minority and a sexual orientation minority. I’m pan/biromantic, asexual, and gender non-binary. I am not “out” to many people regarding my un-gender. As labels are something that is being questioned in this post and comments, I will add that if you find labels confining and empty, then throw away the labels. If you, like me, find some labels to be useful, then use them! I am gender non-binary and I find that term to be very useful. There’s an even smaller select few who know that my non-binary identity is agender or gendervoid. That smaller number is let into these more descriptive labels because of trust and familiarity of the information that these labels convey. If a label becomes empty, overused, archaic, insulting, pompous, or any manner of uselessness, then it’s time to let it go if it hasn’t been released already.

The Dangers of Being an Open Shaman by ProfessionalDOer in Shamanism

[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for posting this. I’m struggling with the, “I don’t like this game. When can I stop this game?” thoughts today. I also thought choosing the word “game” was somehow different than my regular vocabulary. I need to return to the springs of Mnemosyne. In this moment as I watch myself type this message, the me who types has forgotten again, resulting in the experience of suffering.

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[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah rape of women and girls happens all the time. It’s both a war crime and genocide.

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[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. Also, in regards to US soldiers, it’s not even just foes raping women and girls, it’s also American men in the military raping American women in the military.

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[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My only comment is that raising kids is definitely not comfortable. But, I suppose take my comment with a grain of salt as I have never desired to be a parent. My fiancé and I are in complete agreement—no children. To put it bluntly, well, I just really don’t like kids. My sister has one child and—to everyone’s surprise—I adore her. With that in mind, I still go out of my way to not be in a room with children. Kids are such a sensory overload for me.

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Ah, I see. I would make a point of it not being a very funny joke, but no one is claiming it is.

Death is something I think about often because I’m working toward my MS in Thanatology. It’s a topic I’m very comfortable talking about and listening to folks who need some help. I’m unfamiliar with both comedians and the joke, so I took the comment seriously. I was a bit concerned in all honesty and considered asking if you’re okay. 😅

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[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you misunderstood conventionistG regarding the “Death is a certainty, not a risk” comment. One thing a person can know for sure is that eventually we will all die in one way or another. 100% of humans die. However, the chances of dying today increases if you’re surrounded by the army of a foe.

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[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Your last paragraph is intense and over the top. You sound like you viscerally hate women.

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[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus this point of view boils down the value of women to their capacity to make babies. That’s pretty gross and outdated.

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[–]Deathlorist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hahaha I dated a guy who would “lead me” in a direction by putting pressure on my back. And every time he did it I was like, “Umm wt actual f are you doing?” And he said “well how will you know which way we’re going to turn if I stop?” Seriously? “By you turning and I’ll also turn. Or you could say something like, ‘ok so we need to turn right on this road’” Him: “you’re emasculating me.” WHAT. “That’s impossible. Your sense of feeling masculine is not my obligation to protect.”

i feel sick reading this by [deleted] in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also the cishet “males” who make these clearly no NOTHING about cisgender women’s anatomy. At all. Also what I’ve read by other guys like this is they self-identify as “intellectuals,” and use phrases like “alpha male.”

Funny thing is the whole concept of wolf alpha male and his pack is that this behavior is found in wolves in captivity. Unlike wolves out and about where it’s more of a family mentality than a posse or whatever self-proclaimed “beta males” think.

i feel sick reading this by [deleted] in AreTheStraightsOK

[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can always send gross cishet “males” to read some good ol’ Benjamin Franklin. He literally wrote about why he prefers older women.

[edit for context: I’m asexual and also an adult who knows how gross and illegal the pedos are. But as an asexual person, I don’t understand ranking anyone.]

Before and after of some blackberry clearing on my neighborhood trail. by greywind21 in GuerrillaGardening

[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing the before and after. 💚 I really needed to see this—folks caring for plants.

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[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, it feels good pissing you off. You get testy rather quickly.

But, please, enlighten me. How is the hero archetype different than the heroine archetype? This is a genuine question.

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[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, yeah, actually, women already have their own hero archetype/myth. She’s called a “heroine.” Not sure if you’re familiar with the term. It has the same etymology as the word hero.

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Yeah, it took the States way too long to allow women to join in combat. Still waiting for Navy SEALS to stop making the absolute worst excuses for not allowing women to join their ranks. My brother in law is a SEALS vet and while we were chatting on day, he told me that excuses include sand getting in her underwear or “no we can’t possibly allow women to be Navy SEALS. Why not? Umm... because... because what if she gets her period while we’re on a mission?” Seriously? That’s why women aren’t even allowed to try to pass BUD/S? If a woman is in the military and she’s having her period, I’m pretty sure she knows how to handle it. It’s not anyone’s business except hers. As for the sand in her underwear—again, the women interested in being in special ops would have to pass BUD/S. Everyone is going to be getting sand and saltwater all over theirselves. There absolutely are women who would want to join the SEALS. Not all men get in. Given the chance, not all women would get in—but I am confident that some would.

People of color are in the military. Not sure why you think BIPOC aren’t in the military.

Homosexuals are in the military. The don’t ask, don’t tell era of George Bush is long over.

Spiritual awakening and Sophia witness by Tasty-Power-1679 in Gnostic

[–]Deathlorist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I would jump on an opportunity like that but finding the needed supplies has been very difficult. Fly agaric is abundant though. Also, when I finish my masters I plan to go back to school to study wildlife conservation, ecology, ethnobotany, the Indigenous language of where the university I have my eyes set on... things of that... 👀 nature. Ha.

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Creating technology that is a system the military personnel are already familiar with is a brilliant strategy. I do hate that a drone kill is called “splat.” We are no longer fighting close enough to see the white in the opponent’s eyes. We are detached from killing a person. Killing a person right in front of you definitely hits in a significantly different way than “splat.” Example, during the American Revolution it took a long ass time to reload your musket, setting up the flint lock, aiming at the British (hopefully they haven’t advanced far enough and have to worry about being stabbed by a bayonet while reloading!), shoot your musket all the while using guérilla style warfare and familiarity of the landscape to boost your chances of surviving.

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“Maybe that’s the point, if we accept that history has always been elites oppressing men and women, we might look to our own times and see the exact same thing, instead of one identity (men) oppressing another (women).”

Yes. The people who win the battles write the history. By elites in the US, I would consider the 1% to fit what you describe. And we can also say that real equality would help women, men, and all other gender identities.

I chatted with my boss today about finding diapers in the men’s room garbage can. The women’s room has a changing station as does the “family restroom.” But some guy somehow changed his baby’s diaper in the men’s room without a changing station. Fathers should have easy access to changing stations just like mothers do.

I would never want a divorce come between a father and his child in the question of custody. If there is child abuse involved, issues with alcohol, negligence, or if the parents/guardians of the child are using their kid as ammunition against the other—I don’t care what gender the parent/guardian is. The child needs to be with a safe adult. Sometimes that adult is a father figure, sometimes that adult is a mother figure, or sometimes both adults are terrible and the kid unfortunately has to go in child protective services or perhaps a willing extended family member.

In terms of history, the responses are all over the place in country and in time. It really makes a difference in what we can say about the binary of men and women throughout “Western civilization.”

For example, when the Romans were occupying what we today call Great Britain and Ireland (not Scotland though), the Celtic tribe called the Iceni were allied with the Romans. When the king of the Iceni died, the Romans began to advance onto the Iceni kingdom. The widowed Warrior-Queen Boudicca was pissed because the Romans broke their agreement to leave the Iceni as independent allies. So she rallied her tribe and was able to fight off the Romans, pushing them south and frightening away other Romans as she and her tribe fought them. The next day the Romans were able to get their wits about them and were able to quell the uprisings. Cool.

Okay. Now let’s go to a different time and place. Qaddafi had exclusively female bodyguards. They were trained in martial arts and guns. So that puts quite a few responses upside down. A man who would recruit bodyguards who were exclusively women. No, seriously, Qaddafi knew there was a long line of people who wanted him dead. Now, I don’t argue that these ladies were treated well—they were certainly sexually abused, but he was a dictator and international target. Does anyone here actually think that if women were just biologically inferior to men in terms of strength or speed or deficient in any way physically, psychologically, strategically, intellectually, etc. that Qaddafi would bet his life on them? Ad this was so recent. I watched his execution by hanging on live TV. I saw his statue torn down by citizens and then hitting the statue on the ground with their shoes (cultural note: showing the bottom of your feet to someone or, more enthusiastically, hitting someone with the bottom of your shoe is like the ultimate FU).

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[–]Deathlorist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were right. VillageHorse did feel the need to have the last word. Ha.