#spirituality tw

[compassionatereminders]

How do you personally or people you know live in peace without believing in God or afterlife? I'm not judging, just curious. Believing in God is the only reason why I'm not living in fear of the possibility of my loved one's dying or of what's going to happen to me when I die myself. And the idea of God punishing someone really awful who hurts others is somewhat comforting as not every bad person gets their karma in this life. How do you cope with people hurting you and getting away with it if you don't have faith?

I grew up without religion, so I've honestly never felt the need for a god or an afterlife. Not having those beliefs doesn't feel like a loss or an empty space to me, because it was just never there. That doesn't mean I'm comfortable with death and abuse - I'm very much not - but I was raised to focus on, value and make the most of the one life we know we have, and with that as the framework for my existence, I just haven't needed the belief that there's something more out there. It's just a different perspective I guess?

[gongyussy]

women………….. | DOROHEDORO

(by the way. this is noi.)

[voodoo-economics]

"skinwalker caught on camera!" you would've believed in changelings in medieval britain

[chirrups]

here is my au piece for 2024 @mcytblraufest! simple premise is that PET are infected but asymptomatic carriers of the zombie virus and find purpose in doing what uninfected people can't safely, delivering mail!

PLEASE for the love of god, check out the fic for this piece written by @theminecraftbee and betaed by @aistandardcherry. it's so well written and i will be rotating it in my mind for forever

[nite-puff]

y’all ever hear about that urban legend about staying at a hospital and waking up with one of your kidneys stolen?? yeah uhhh… it’s their fault, actually. just some mother-son bonding.

first drawing of the year (yippeeee!!)

alt versions under the cut:

[uncanny-tranny]

All I want is to go to a trans person's funeral after they lived a full, enriching life. I want to see trans people grow old, I want us to live like the stars. We don't deserve to burn out before everybody else. When we die, I want it to be because we grew old, because we had lived.

[voidic3ntity]

I yearn for something far more peaceful than my own mind.

[wigglybunfish]

Can we name Mizu's cat "Chunks" It just seems suitable. Bahahahahahahha.

Yes, yes we could

[tothecrucifieddeer]

PROPHETIC SIGNS/COMMANDS/IMAGES

Moonchild by Santiago Caruso

Untitled by Liz Mamont

She Laments by VikiGrindhouse

Dumb (acrylic on board) by Wilqkuku

Untitled on Zegalou's blog

ヨコイジュウ @4kuda5rana1

Nightmare (acrylic on canvas) by Vaxolong

Survival (acrylic on canvas) by Vaxolong

Untitled by Cult of Mortem

Divine Ammonitic Fluid Harvest System by dariuszkielisszek

The Crucible by dariuszkielisszek

Ten Piedad by bawdysuojb

Untitled Painting by A Bearded Artist

Split (acrylic on plywood) by Vaxolong

Untitled by A Bearded Artist

English explanation of signs will be under the cut--beneath the Irish.

Míníonn an Doe cad as a dtagann sí agus cén fáth go n-éiríonn sí san Oíche den chaid is mó. Rugadh ar an ngelach í. Mar leanbh gealaí tá sí os comhair réalta na maidine agus oi bríonn sí i groinne draíocht chun on Meisias a chosaint.

Bíonn Doe le feiceáil lena fenn sainiúil ar lasadh--ní raibh mé einnte cad is aiis leis sín Creidim gur rabhadh é seo a bhaineann leis an spiorad naounh agus éirí amach na marbh.

Déanann Doe caoineacdh m'easumhlachd agus an suithheadh atá le tacht ar son an domhain-molann sí mé chun gnimh. Tá a fhios agam nach féidirleon. Ach iarran sí orm orcas agus gan dula chodlaoh. Chun gniomhá or bhás ag teacht. Meisiasa thabhairt chun a chuspóir.

Sampla de na mairbh agus a reachtanaas oerach.

Meabhrúchán ar hamlinté atá ag titim as a chéile, lena n-áiritear amlinte ALfa, Bunscoile, agus Órga a bhaineann le héabhlóid mé féin go Macalla, Ocrais, nó Ascended. (Is tuar níos oimhe níos sine í seo nach mór amhiniu uair elle)

Taispeánann Doe í féin leadharca laasracha angus clóca suíle. Tá si at afire angus at cosaint dom í rith an hamlinte chun né a bheannú. Fiú má bhí né ag mí-iompar den chuid is mó.

Fulaingt an march in Ifreann a mheabhraíonn Doe dom go bhféadfainn die ready a chur leis and tascannanach ndéanfaídh mé.

Níos marbh

Comharthaí lobhadhi *súile brevity (féach orthodontist see ionam féin angus a ngaolta—ciallaíonn sé breoiteacht, olc, easpa cosanta)

Caireadhchun athbhreith an Mheisias a Chríochnú ó sofa go diaga.

Arís ag impí orm an rad nach ndéanfaidh mé a dhéanamh.

Meabhraítear gurb é an Melissa’s a lean hour agus cé go bhfuil fears uirithi teastoionn uaithi abhaile é.

Foirm leathfior Messiah.

Na Mairbh ionam agus na hamlintie a rialaíonn mé. Tá Doe ag iamaidh orm iad a shaoradh.

Mo chimiúint má éiríonn Orcas orm leonta le Lobhach.

Doe explains where she comes from and why she mostly only rises at night. She is born of the moon, the moon is her womb. As a moon child she is opposite but close to Morningstar and works in opposite magic to protect Messiah.

Doe appears with burning head. I’ve never bee sure what caused it. I believe this is, the warning the involving of the Holy Spirit and the rising of the dead..

Doe laments my disobedience and the coming turmoil for the world. She urges me to act. I know I cannot. But she asks my to act on the Death coming and inevitable—to bring Messiah to he’s true purpose. To bring him home.

An example of the dead and their ravenous need.

A reminder of the collapsing of Timelines in on each other through including theAlpha, Primary, and Golden Timelines including the evolution of myself into Echo, or Hunger, or Ascended. (This is an older, deeper prophecy that must be explained at another time…)

Doe she’s herself again. Flaming antlers, a cloak of eyes, she is watching me progress through timelines, trying to bless me even I have been mostly disobedient. She doesn’t want to punish me even though I have jeopardized a great many things in my stubbornness.

The suffering of the dead of Hell.

More dead.

Signs and symptoms of rot: *Sick eyes (watch for these in self and loved ones—sickness, evil, unprotected)

Invitation to complete Messiah’s rebirth from Holy to Divine.

Again begging for me to do what I won’t do.

A reminder Messiah is Doe’s child and that she is angry and she misses him. I know what she wants me to do but I won’t do it.

Messiah’s semi-true form.

The Dead within me and the timelines I control—Doe wants me to free them.

My fate if I become the Hunger filled with rot.

[neptuneslure]

clearing negative energy (a twitter thread):

cr: wetneptune on twitter

[boymanmaletheshequel]

I see…

- I see Lady Persephone when I devour a delicious palm full of juicy and gemmy pomegranate seeds, or cleanse my face with pomegranate skin

- I see Lady Persephone when I mourn the loved ones I lost, the memories I have of them, and the ones I one day will lose, and as I seek them and their love from the afterlife

- I see Lady Persephone in the Lily of the valley that spring from the cold spring dirt after a rainy day, and in the mushrooms that pop out of the soil to bring new life from nothing

- I see Lady Persephone in the animals that are taken by a busy road, and i also see her and her compassion in those who are sent to fetch them, to spend their time and energy to make the effort to put them to rest with closure.

- I see Lady Persephone when I think about my own fate, and how I have become rather comfortable with it. I’ve loved, I’ve lived. if death were to come for me now? I can say I’ve lived a life worth living.

[compassionatereminders]

Do you belive in apparitions?

No. I'm not spiritual at all. Not in an arrogant way, though - for me it just feels safer not to entertain that world at all when I know I'm schizophrenic and can sometimes struggle to stay in the shared reality

[wildfeather5002]

Indigenous folks, ex-christians & anyone who's knowledgeable on social issues, I have two questions that have bothered me for a long while and I believe y'all might know how to answer them.

The question: I read a webcomic about community A living on an island along with another community B with different culture & beliefs from them. Community A believes that their culture & religion are the correct ones and that members of community B are dooming themselves to eternal damnation (in a religious sense) if they don't adopt the beliefs & practices of community A.

I saw someone talking about the comic in its comment section, saying that one of the characters who's a member of community B is selfish for not adopting the burial practices from community A's religion, because according to that someone, not burying their loved one like community A believes is correct is " potentially dooming their loved one to eternal damnation".

If you're indigenous, has rhetoric / talking points like this been used against your own religious / cultural practices? Could you give any concrete examples?

If you have religious trauma / are ex christian of any kind, have people used talking points like this to guilt trip, to frighten, or to shame you into obeying religious rules? (People belonging to other religions than christianity are welcome to give their perspectives as well!)

[neuroticboyfriend]

it is so good to just start to be a regular person again. i'm just some guy with disabilities. i'm just some guy with trauma. i'm just some guy with financial hardships. i'm just some guy surviving abuse. i'm just some guy who's queer as hell. i'm just some guy who binge drank and popped pills like they were candy and now, today, i don't do that.

i'm not chosen by god. my life (ie, being alive) doesn't depend on constant spiritual growth. i don't need to be hyperaware of my flaws and pray to god to remove them. i don't need to interact with another person if i don't want to, and am allowed to work through my feelings in whatever way works for me. and i can smoke a little weed. as a treat.

i just feel part of the world again. i didn't realize how small my world had gotten in AA. i didn't see how disconnected i felt from everyone outside the rooms. i thought AA was making group therapy work better for me. nope. that was all me. and i know that because now that im not in AA, group therapy feels fucking amazing.

more and more i feel like i just traded drug addiction with intensity addiction. like the relationships i had in AA were so intense, that they felt deep, meaningful, heaven-sent. but stepping back, im realizing that despite seeing them all every day for a almost a year... i knew almost nothing about them as regular people.

so. dear me. welcome to the world. again. i hope one day you can break the cycle of building your entire reality around an existential and/or spiritual ideology but for now. let's just enjoy sanity while we have it. (hooray childhood onset schizoaffective disorder meets cult-like group in adulthood)

[hateaintwinning]

Unwelcome-ozian's book selling step by step instructions on how to sexually assault a child. Including which sex positions to rape a child in and what to say to a child while raping them. As well as how to gas light, trauma bond, and abuse the child.

Link to free copy of Rules of Programming - you can see for yourself.

In light of unwelcome-ozian publicly abusing a teenage girl I wanted to put a spot light on this. This comes from someone who claims to have been taught how to abuse children, and is now teaching other people I guess? Presenting it as raising awareness for the sake of survivors of child abuse, but after what been brought to light about them this is a lot more disturbing.

It provides step by step instructions on how to gas light and trauma bond a child to you after / as you sexually abuse them.

They are currently threatening to post stories of a teenage girl being torutured and sexually assaulted, along with her identifying information without her consent, again. In retaliation for her coming forward about her experience with them.

They are undeniably well aware of the damage and trauma they are inflicting.

They openly give "tips" on how to abuse children.

[voidic3ntity]

torture: the concept of reality seems to mould itself around pain.