Hi Zeke
I've been looking into hellenic paganism and Norse paganism for a while now and your blog's been really helpful! One thing I really want to do is pray informally to the gods however I've been struggling with not knowing how it works on their end I suppose
I was raised Christian, and that when I pray he listens and answers every prayer. And it might be a silly question but I don't know if the greek or Norse gods are listening let alone responding.
I guess this mini ramble is me asking do the gods listen to all the prayers? Sorry if it's something you aren't comfortable answering or poorly phrased
Thank you 💛
This is very much a thing that varies person by person! I (and most others) personally do believe that they listen to every prayer, and depending on the request, may respond through real-world occurrences and happenings.
Most everyone believes that the gods live in a separate plane from humans and therefore have no restraints with time as we do, leading to most of us believing that they can (and do) respond to all prayers.
So while it is varying, I (and most people in our religions, in my experience) believe that they do listen and respond to our prayers.
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"maybe if i dress more boring i'll get gendered correctly by strangers" that's the devil talking
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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
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lmao the worst thing about being Palestinian is you’ll be fucking grieving and you are STILL expected to articulate all your thoughts in the most coherent manner IN ENGLISH and have at least 25 citations backing up any point you make, even if you’re just talking about the way you are feeling . otherwise the west is just going to paint you as a barbarian
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heavy metal lyrics: the prophecy yeahhhh evil wizard superhell i hate living in britain
thrash metal lyrics: the government sucks and im insane
power metal lyrics: HELL YEAH DRAGONS BABY
death metal lyrics: i love fucking corpses
black metal lyrics: Yesternight whilst I was sauntering throughout the Carpathians I consorted with Lucifer on a cataphalque
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Prompt:
Jason insists on being the bait for a joint mission with the Bats. But the moment he starts “screaming” during the interrogation process, Batman calls the whole thing off and smashes right through the window and into the first thug.
Absolutely nobody is surprised by this development. Except Jason.
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some buttons for the fellow voters out there
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