#Family Altar

[studentofshinto]

Not directly related to Shinto, but I wanted to share it anyway. Those who have chosen to set up family alters in their homes may well be bucking the slow decline of tradition. This also brings to light something I hadn't been aware of. Many of the old family altars have been donated to Buddhist temples. For any family wishing to take up this tradition once more, I'd suggest contacting your local Buddhist temple.

[wutbju]

In the April/May 1980 issue of Lester Roloff’s Family Altar magazine, Roloff identified what he thought was “wrecking” America:

Divorce.

Dope, liquor, cigarettes, rock music, television, immorality, pornography and the news media.

No discipline or standards.

No home worship. There ought to be three altars - the personal altar, the family altar and the church altar.

Dead churches and a lack of Gospel preaching.

The humanistic religion presented in our educational systems.

Communism, which endorses the ERA and children's rights in an effort to break up the traditional American home.

Riiiight, Les. Forget all kinds of abuse. It’s the ERA that’s ruining America.

[basictutor]

Prayer For Couples

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Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you today with a heavy heart, burdened by the increasing number of broken homes and divorces in our world. Lord, I pray that you would intervene in the marriages of your children, and that you would heal and restore all that has been broken. You designed marriage to be a reflection of your love for us, and I pray that all marriages would reflect that…

[queerprayers]

i want to say first of all that i fully respect a community's/denomination's/culture's right to have closed practices. i am not entitled to other people's traditions, and when i am a guest in a space i understand that everything is not automatically for me. and i know i do not have to understand to respect.

and also! when i go to a catholic church and can't receive communion i want to fall on the floor weeping. what do you mean i can't have him he's right there. sorry my baptism was the wrong kind of baptism. i'm hungry and you want me to become someone else before being fed.

[ministarfruit]

the doppelgang but they're a guild also. because I think it would be funny. doppelguild

[punkeropercyjackson]

He's so Kool by Mm@ta-coded

[jaimeblancarte]

@jaimeblancarte Silao, Gto. 2024

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

If Soren and/or Ezran don't walk Rayla down the aisle, then WHAT is the point

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

not me typing a whole rant about some catholics being insufferably smug about their "better looking churches" while ignoring the history behind the barebone austerity of protestant churches and then deleting it all because my seething anger isn't christ-like either

*gnaws on wood* God help me love your children even when they are absolute prigs

[amagnificentobsession]

Husband? @the-metatron

Ashtoreth and I have something to talk with you about. Perhaps your wife and governess can lend a hand with your “heavenly endeavors?” You know, the family that prays together, and all that sod or is it lays and prays together?

*glances to the side, @docdust this better work*

@dream-of-pain you look good enough to……. 🔥*inside voice, inside voice*

[xochimillilili]

Inviting all of you for hot chocolate and silly shaped breads rn !!!

[hadesoftheladies]

hate going for christian weddings sometimes because i always see the prettiest women with the ugliest men, the sermon is always some shit about wives being slaves (but not like bad slavery, mutual slavery except the husband is a benevolent master which makes it okay) and making babies for their husband, the music is always lame, the mc is always weird and obnoxious, and older women keep fucking asking me when it's gonna be my turn and never take no for an answer.

[grimm-the-tiger]

My FL main went through some really weird, organic development over the...oh god, I think it's been five years since I started playing now.

So my main is named Skadi Larkin. They are a little bastard. They started out extremely 2D; I named them after my favorite Norse goddess and the protagonist of the book I was reading at the time. I originally wanted to make them female like both of their namesakes, but the second I saw the third-gender option, I thought it was too good to pass up. This is where they got their primary base characterization as a mad scientist who wanted to Cause Problems.

Then I started the Nemesis ambition and forgot which option I'd chosen for who I was trying to avenge, so they lost both their lover and their older brother under tragic circumstances (only the lover was killed by Nemesis's antagonist, though).

Then I got an Exceptional Friendship and had to give my tragic backstory in order to gain entry to the House of Chimes. Skadi pulled said tragic backstory (orphaned in a hansom accident) more or less out of their ass, but it did establish that their parents are dead.

Somewhere down the line, I realized that technically Skadi is a linguist, since the Correspondence is a language, and I made that their profession on the Surface as well.

Around this time, I started working on character designs for my fan comic. I got really into messing around with skin tone, and somewhere along the line thought it would be fun to draw Skadi (who was originally white) with darker skin, and it stuck.

Then I abruptly realized I was taking a lot of options that increased my Melancholy, and almost all of them were based on the Surface. So now Skadi has a longing for the Surface.

I left the game for a few years, but somewhere during this stretch of time, and I don't know how this happened, but I decided Skadi was now Native American; specifically, Metis. I changed their design to incorporate a sash woven in a style characteristic of the Metis, which also added a bit of color to their design (which was mostly black or grey at this point).

During this time, I started incorporating Skadi into my fan comic. This would eventually lead me to actually flesh out their backstory in greater detail. When I started playing the game again, I also created my first alt by total accident (long story), and I decided to weave her backstory with Skadi's.

So Skadi is in the interesting position of being an Indigenous person who is what we'd probably consider Two-Spirit today but they'd just call "Bollocks to that gender crap". They never belonged on the Surface, since the Metis are in a bit of a liminal space compared to other tribes due to their interesting background (the Metis are the descendants of French settlers and Indigenous inhabitants, mostly Cree), and Skadi exists in a liminal space within that liminal space due to only being half-Metis and raised primarily in white culture, although they still maintained a connection to it through their late mother. They also never belonged because no one else on the Surface outside of the communities they already felt isolated from would ever accept them for their gender. London gave them a chance to express one of those, but not both, and despite knowing that the Surface hates them just for existing, they still long to return.

[sanjispudding]

Here’s part 1 of my anime nyc adventures this weekend!

[handsomegentlebutch]

My 3 little cousins were baptized today. "Triggered" is kind of a strong word but being in a catholic church again... I'm a little fragile rn ngl.

[moonhedgegarden]

In Samhain’s embrace, we’re drawn to see,

The fleeting dance of mortality.

🎃

What are your plans this Samhain/Ancestors Night?