“Lyin Eyes” - Eagles
Most of the Rumors album.
In This Moment’s cover of “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins.
“He’s Gone,” Grateful Dead
“Jack Straw” Grateful Dead
Ankh. As a coverup it changes a symbol of torture and death to a symbol of healing and life.
Leggings and a Pagan tank top. I also have some very loose sleeveless dresses - house-dress looks.
Tomorrow morning I’ll be in a July 4th parade on the Cleveland Pagan Pride “float” - a pickup with banners.
Friday I work. The weekend will be low key with my wife. I’ve got several projects I need to plan.
A Wrinkle in Time. I read it when I was 8 or 9 and absolutely loved it. Read it dozens of times.
The Don’t Blink episode of Doctor Who is amazing.
You also said, “The Holy Bible is all true and inspired by the Living God Jesus Christ.”
Genesis starts with a God named El and His pantheon, the Elohim, creating stuff. The actual real meaning of “Elohim” is something like El’s Council or El’s Brotherhood or Family. A pantheon.
Later another God, YHWH or in English rendered as Jehovah or sometimes Yahweh, appears. He is the main character in the Old Testament, but he is NOT El.
Later, Christians had a serious issue. Most of the early converts were Jews. They insisted their new religion was still monotheistic - one God. But they couldn’t really explain the three gods of Jehovah and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. So they looked and acted like all the polytheists around them.
This finally came to a head in 325 CE. The theological fights within Christianity, and theological arguments with other religions were causing disruption across the Roman Empire.
Emperor Constantine ordered the Bishops to fix the problem at the Council of Nicaea. The majority faction invented the doctrine of the Trinity and used the force of government to eliminate any who disagreed. Those who refused to endorse the creed would be exiled by order of the Emperor. By Imperial order the writings of Arius confiscated and burned. Supporters of Arius were labeled “enemies of Christianity" and actively persecuted and prosecuted.
As a tool of Imperial Rome the Christianity ordered into existence by the government began to spread by force and violence. Setting the Biblical cannon was much the same: a political council decided which books were acceptable and which ones were proscribed. It wasn’t about religious truth, it was rooted in political power and control.
The Bible is confused about the identity and nature of Jesus, and actual historical events make the confusion worse, not better.
You know the Bible is true because verses in the Bible say it is true. And you trust those verses because you trust the Bible the verses say is true.
That is like plugging an extension cord into itself and expecting to get power.
You did say you “know it's true and that it witnesses with me is because that same Holy Spirit became alive inside of me when I gave my life to Jesus.”
That is a good answer but it is called UPG, or “Unverified Personal Gnosis,” or information you got spiritually that you have no objective evidence or proof of. That doesn’t make it untrue, it just means it is inside you.
I am a Priestess and daughter of the Goddess Isis. I know She is real, She loves me, and communicates with me because of UPG - it is internal and spiritual. My evidence is every bit as real and convincing as yours.
I can point to passages from 4,000 year old Egyptian scriptures, hymns, and teachings that support what I say about Her. And most of those are original documents written on papyrus or clay tablets or tomb walls thousands of years ago, and preserved in the tombs and temples and dry sands of Egypt. But I suspect you would not accept them as truth any more than I accept your Bible as truth.
Instead of saying “I get it” look very perplexed and make him explain. Keep pushing for explanations.
Get a nice blank card - rainbows or horses or something.
Inside write, “Well, your prayer seems to have worked and so I’ve had an abortion. Checkmate, bitch.”
This is part of the reason I’m Kemetic - working with and worshipping the Egyptian pantheon. We don’t have arguments about minutiae of theology. Our religion is rooted in Ma’at, right actions in the world. I am accountable to myself and the Gods for my choices and actions.
None of that answers how you know which ONE Christian denomination out of more than 40,000 has the TRUTH.
It doesn’t matter how many translations they have if they aren’t teaching the truth out of them.
The books in the Old Testament were collected over a thousand years, with lots of changes over those years.
The New Testament books were written between 100 and 200 years after Jesus, there are no original documents. We don’t know who wrote them, and don’t know if they were based on earlier documents or stories or made up legends.
The books in the Bible were chosen by various councils for political reasons, not religious. And the books rejected were also rejected because of politics.
Remember, Deuteronomy 4:2 commands “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.” So everything after that should be ignored, including every story in the New Testament.
Finally, you say “if it goes against the Bible it is false,” while ignoring that over 40,000 denominations each claims to teach the truth and that all others are wrong.
What you really mean is you have some ideas about what the Bible says and found a church that you agree with.
Drumming is my go to. Mickey Hart is a favorite, but lots of shamanic drumming works.
There are forty thousand Christian denominations and sects. How do you know which one is teaching “the Word of God” out of all those thousands and thousands of options?
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. The ending is… horror.
Lucifer’s Hammer, by Larry Niven. Massive comet hits the earth.
The Stand by Stephen King. Get the unabridged.
“Spreading the holy word” is often obnoxious, dogmatic, and pugnacious.
Show us you are a follower of Jesus in what you do - how you treat and help others without ever mentioning your religion, without expecting an outcome.
I’m a priestess of Isis. I tend to show Her love by how I treat people.
Where do you get the idea people born into wealthy families are “less likely to commit crime.”
The biggest crimes are committed by wealthy assholes. Look at Trump’s crotch goblins and their spouses.
“The Revelation Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron.
You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and Skip out for beer during commercials Because the revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In four parts without commercial interruptions The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell General Abrams and Spiro Agnew To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal The revolution will not get rid of the nubs The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner Because the revolution will not be televised, brother There will be no pictures of you and Willie May Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 Or report from 29 districts The revolution will not be televised There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down Brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down Brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of Whitney Young Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkens Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving For just the proper occasion Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction Will no longer be so damned relevant And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane On "Search for Tomorrow" because black people Will be in the street looking for a brighter day The revolution will not be televised There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb Or Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink or the Rare Earth The revolution will not be televised The revolution will not be right back After a message about a white tornado, white lightning or white people You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom The tiger in your tank or the giant in your toilet bowl The revolution will not go better with Coke The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath The revolution will put you in the driver's seat The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised Will not be televised, will not be televised The revolution will be no re-run, brothers The revolution will be live
• To Kill a Mockingbird • Lord of the Rings • Lonesome Dove • The Gunslinger • Stranger in a Strange Land • Something Wicked This Way Comes
He’s Gone - Grateful Dead.
Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, you know better but I know him Like I told you, what I said, steal your face right off your head
Kurt Russell in a dozen Disney movies in the late 60s to the mid 70s.
No, it isn’t a reason. Vaginoplasty is major surgery with months of recovery and brings pretty significant life changes. It is absolutely not reversible.
You need to want vaginoplasty, not just convenience.
But Ian Malcolm’s line is so useful in so many places: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming.
The Christian desire to turn every single interaction and event into a marketing opportunity baffles me.
My policy was once a group of people / situation / place met me the never saw “him” again.
I introduced myself by name, said I was transitioning, generally didn’t have to say pronouns as they got it.
If someone slipped I’d gently correct if they didn’t. If someone was malicious I’d misgender them back while projecting a strong “don’t fuck with me” attitude.
Now, I worked hard from day one to adjust my body language and cues to female. My wife and cis-fem friends helped, and I did a lot of people watching.
Is it better to ignore people misgendering you?
MtF