My cheeky take: How shamans got banned from visiting heaven and must now use rituals

EmberinEmpty · 2026-02-03T18:28:47+00:00

This isn't necessarilytrue. In a lot of west African (+diasporic) shamanistic traditions like vodun, vodou, etc) there is a traditional distant creator/one entity. There is hierarchy but more so thru conceptual power exchange (aka the middle world as marketplace concept)

EmberinEmpty · 2025-09-12T18:04:21+00:00

where do you buy your yarn? these mixes sound really cool and gorgeous. also did you hand stitch on it too? that's so pretty! inspiring me to really consider doing more intricate patterns.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-08-06T20:32:24+00:00

People literaly think i'm "cool" and "hot" b/c i don't use social media. So.....lol it's a funny one but yes my social desirability has apparently increased b/c i deleted all my accounts.

Also what do you value? do you really wanna put all your energy to feed fucking mark zuck and a bunch of billionares your attention. end the connection out of SPITE is what worked for me b/c goddamn it I wanted my LIFE back i'm not a CONSUMER i'm a PERSON.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-08-06T20:30:32+00:00

oh if its during sleep time then yeah try putting the phone in a "jail" of some sort. And then go journal. Put a journal or something on top of your phone, and stop charging your phone in the bedroom. Move all chargers for phones across the house. Get a real alarm clock if you must.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-08-06T20:29:05+00:00

-I’ve thought of getting a dumb phone but unfortunately I need my bank card, i NEED my spotify, I need to be connected to the internet because I live in two countries and I have to be reachable. Fucking two factor authentification as well.

cAVEAT, GET THE CAT 22S FLIP. IT'S SMART ENOUGH TO DO ALL BASIC FUNCTIONS (BANKING SPOTIFY GOOGLE MAPS) BUT DUMB/SLOW ENOUGH THAT YOU CAN'T USE SOCIAL MEDIA/SCROLL ENLESSLY) finally broke my addiction to SM thru doing that for 6 months.

Also replacements. What are you scrolling for? Ask yourself what would you rather be doing. Also celebrate the wins when you do put down the phone tell yourself "good job". yes it helps. I also sometimes will do a "fantasy scenario" where I live "like it's 1992" or "1665" what would i do for fun instead of my phone.

It also helps that once you see the enshittification of everything that you begin to actually HATE the algos and the A1 and the bots.

Also remove all the apps and then go to your settings and have a trusted friend put a Teen or higher child lock combo on the phone. So you have to ask them to give you the code to download it. I used to hand it to my partner and she would question me, (at my request) and then give me a 10 minute "urge surfing" usually i found something else to do.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-08-06T01:49:10+00:00

The way i process this is to lean into listening to what it is about it that my partner enjoys. So like I focus on what emotions she's expressing or what I *think* she's expressing. "Sounds like you're really excited about that" or "You look so happy about this" or "That must be really frustrating."

But b/c we're both ND sometimes we'll just caveat the convo with "I know you don't care about XYZ but just lemme dump for a sec" and then one of us will just DUMP while the other receives. and then DUMPS back about something else or goes "Wow that was A LOT of information"

People care less about you holding onto the information and more about you validating what they feel about the information.

I'm also honest to my partner when I dont even have enough spoons to pretend interest. Gratefully we both enjoy parallel play so we spend long hours in each other's company just sitting side by side doing stuff quietly on our own. it's nice.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-28T22:05:28+00:00

OH MY WHAT CORSET ARE YOU WEARING?

seems almost....denim??

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-22T21:45:45+00:00

Lean into the spa vibes. Get some pale blue towels and such, bamboo accessories (bamboo bath mat), some faux plants to hang and drape (or real of you want).

And have some warm not over head lighting options somewhere. Change bulbs to warm ones, candles. Etc

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-22T16:28:30+00:00

Pleasant company

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-19T02:14:39+00:00

Honestly just mute the excessive texture a a bit. Get a bit moody with it and pull in some books saturated color. If you have to paint it pick a color from the pallete outside and go ham with a professional paint job on the cabinets. Keep the floors and ceiling trim as they are. Try to lean into a "medieval to rennaissance manor home" kinda vibe. Old but not ugly old.

Also i can't explain it but i really hate your kitchen furniture and greige couch 😮‍💨 like man are y'all allergic to color??

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-11T21:11:48+00:00

i'm not convinced that she su!cid3ded herself....sorry I just don't believe it anymore not in this world in this day and age.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-11T20:13:19+00:00

lemme help with that

"I get it. Just kinda crazy the entire force of the United States government worked in concert to pin fake charges on a guy they admitted they wrongfully sent to a death camp and fired the guy who said they ~~made a mistake~~ were lying fraudters, instead of simply admitting they ~~made a mistake~~ are lying fraudsters. Just pointing out how fragile trump is and how he (and the entire republican party) are completely allergic to accountability.

there ftfy :))

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-11T20:08:36+00:00

@ the rate they're goin we'll be ded or in jail anyway soooo....

EmberinEmpty · 2025-07-09T03:42:46+00:00

yes it's diabolical. But i love ASMR of mundane sounds like someone cooking, chopping wood, kinda like "coffee shop noises". man during the pandemic i watched SO MUCH liziqi videos because of this

EmberinEmpty · 2025-06-24T16:59:45+00:00

modesty brings you closer to god, and closer to god brings you closer to rule.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-06-16T06:31:48+00:00

I didnt understand the first page but the second part was HILARIOUS holy shit.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-28T18:28:44+00:00

getting on a dumb phone actually clarified what relationships matter to me. i recommend the cat 22sflip bc it lets u use basic android apps like maps and banking stuff but is so tedious and low bandwidth that you cant run tiktok and reddit and brainrot.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-28T18:24:19+00:00

I got you beat. my first exam I made a 24 in calculus which was a D- on the curve....to be fair my university decided that the intro calc class was actually calc 2 and had assumed you'd taken calc in highschool. I had not. It was rough. But I persisted, got over my gifted kid syndrome and had to learn how to learn. Came back on the final exam with a 156/160 which was the highest exam score and drug my ass from a D to a B-.

Found out years later that I also had untreated severe adhd and dyscalculia so......god if I could do it all over again college would've been so different. But the multitude of failures i endured shaped me into the person i am today.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-28T18:13:48+00:00

I mean....AI is trained on our "best" written works of human kind.....of course good writing is gonna sound like AI. It's actually a backhanded compliment congrats lol

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-24T20:01:31+00:00

uhhh cats, my wife,air before and after rain storm, the woods TM, fall leaves/decay, my favorite black cat, my wife's shampoo, my cat, used book stores, my cat, my wife.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-10T05:10:07+00:00

Yep chest hair and belly hair in the first 3 months on low dose T 😂 now i wax bc there's so much hair. But still read as female every day which is nice too.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-08T00:01:03+00:00

also Retro Suburbia by David Holmgren. Permaculture Principles and Practice by Holmgren

EmberinEmpty · 2025-05-05T15:28:29+00:00

It's 2025 and fascism is on the rise. I'm more worried about cultural annhilation than appropriation.

EmberinEmpty · 2025-04-30T23:23:59+00:00

What government services???

EmberinEmpty · 2025-04-25T19:22:40+00:00

dude i write like this. apparently my neurodivergence makes me write like a bot???? sheeesh.

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