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What was magic like in ancient mesopotamia? What kimds of Guys were there?

We are constantly learning new things about ancient Mesopotamia but the big one was the Asipu. The class of temple priests who were responsible for things like fumigating crops with holy incenses to ward away bugs.

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Evening dress, 1840′s

From the Kent State University Museum on Facebook

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"not often that i see a 19 year old with fatigue" rub it in why don't you

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Many movements arose to mend the rift. America was awash in revival churches who doubled down. If science contradicts the bible, the science is wrong. You had the earliest murmurs of pagan reconstructionist movements, Romantic poets who wrote of an idealized pre-christian past dominated by druids, attic oracles, and wandering yogis. You had spiritualists who sold themselves as both spiritual re-awakening, and scientific study of those phenomena.

Much ink has been spilled as to whether Blavatsky was or was not a spiritualist. This misunderstands her. Blavatsky was peddling something unique. She was privy to the One True Religion, the ancient, secret tree of wisdom, from which all religion, science, and philosophy sprouted. The Bible conflicts with science? No it doesn't. The Bible you know is but a corrupted form, a third-hand translation of a translation of a translation of a lost text written in a lost divine language. Of course the bible conflicted with science. The Bible was just a pork chop. Blavatsky could show you the whole hog.

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The who’s-who’s of 1873 New York were having themselves a Victorian Crisis of Faith. Science had been training in the off season. Geologists had just recently confirmed that the earth was far, far older than the Book of Genesis could account for. That rascal Darwin wrote a book about birds. A literal reading of the bible now directly conflicted with observable scientific fact. For folks who based their entire moral worldview on the Bible, this caused some problems. If your morals are based on the divinity of the bible, and the bible is just a book, what does it mean to be a good person? 

Many movements arose to mend the rift. America was awash with revival churches who doubled down on biblical literalism. If science contradicts the bible, the science is wrong. You had the earliest murmurs of pagan reconstructionist movements, Romantic poets who wrote of an idealized pre-christian past dominated by druids, attic oracles, and wandering yogis. You had spiritualists who sold themselves as both spiritual re-awakening, and scientific study of those phenomena. 

In 1874, a man in Chittiden Vermont claimed he could levitate.

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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New-York Tribune, New York, November 25, 1920

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I want you plain. I want you bragging. I want you naked as a tongue without a word. I want you laughing. I want you joy. I want you wonder & wonderful. The hips on every guitar. Copper tambourines scoring your laughter. Don’t ever learn how to stop laughing. Laugh when you shouldn’t. I like that laughing best. I want you miracle. I want you possible & foolish.

— Rachel Eliza Griffiths, from “Paradise,” Seeing the Body

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sexual attraction? you mean the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

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i want to scream i want to fucking scream

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a year ago I was finally, finally healing from one of the most hellish periods of my life. I was actually happy, prolongedly, for the first time in probably 3 years at least, and now I'm pretty much back to where I was before. This is actual hell. I am a gamer and I am in hell. What the fuck, genuinely, is wrong with me. When will I get it through my head that I'm fucking annoying. Why do I need to understand so badly and why am I so goddamn selfish about it. I could've let it rest, I could've lived with it. It'd hurt but I could've done it. But noooo, I couldn't keep from trying to know more and make myself understood. Now I have to live with this instead, and it's so much worse. I can't fucking do this I can't not again please don't make me do this again, and I am talking to the damn mirror. I feel fake I feel like a shell I feel like everyone treats me like a child and a nuisance and i hate it i hate it i hate it.

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Extremely upsetting 1 month. Jesus it’s felt like a week. Like it feels like it’s been 1 week. But today it’s been a month. Dear god. anyway