Consequences of Suicide within Pagan Religions
TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of suicide
NOTE: If you are depressed and contemplating suicide, please, please get help. If you have a trusted friend or family member, counselor, teacher, etc… that you can talk to, do so. Otherwise (in the US) you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or chat online with someone who can help via IMAlive or CrisisChat. For international assistance you can check the International Suicide Prevention wiki for resources. No matter how bad things may seem right now, they will eventually get better. Taking your own life is not the best solution, and there are people out there who can help.~*~
Hello, I’ve had this question for a few months now and I’m still trying to find the right way to ask about it. I’ve been looking up people to ask, but it never seems to work. When I found you, I got excited. If you commit Suicide, will you not be welcomed in by the Great Mother and Great Father? I’ve been told that if you commit suicide out of Deep Depression, you wont be loved or forgiven by the divine. I’m sorry if the question makes you feel uncomfortable, but I had to ask.
Thank you.
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People need to stop perpetuating the myth that polyamory can’t be healthy.
Though I will say, personally, I don’t mind people asking me horrifically intrusive and detailed questions about my sex life and relationships. The only stuff I won’t answer there are any points that one of my partners has asked me to keep quiet about.
-Pete
Sigyn’s way is simple: constancy of heart, in the face of hatred, opposition, jealousy, slander, exhaustion, grief, anguish, rage, despair and a thousand other obstacles that life has a way of creating. She is constancy of purpose.
[We] call Sigyn “My Lady of the Staying Power,” because She is vast, and Her strength is vast even as it is so completely unassuming. It simply is and will not be moved. She is the “Lady of Unyielding Gentleness” for much the same reason. Her gentleness of spirit is Her shield and Her strength, and in it She is fierce. Her devotion is Her armor.
Our Lady of the Staying Power, by Galina Krasskova. (via einmyrias)
Take notes here Marvel if you decide to try this character again in future.
(via thormovies)
^^^All of this. Though there is still a lot of assumption that because a woman is gentle, she cannot also be strong. (Or that in order to be strong, she has to wield a big ol’ sword.)
Beyond Braille
Add Tactile Picture Books to the list of cool things 3-D printers can do. We’ve all experienced picture books with textured patches for itty bitty kiddie hands to graze over while they glance at the pictures and listen to the story. But not everyone has been able to have the same experiences. Until now, visually impaired children were left out of the picture part of picture books.
Thanks to the emerging technology of 3-D printing, classic storybooks like Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Goodnight Moon have become more accessible. The 2-D pictures in those storybooks have been run through a 3-D printer, resulting in the sculpted scenes pictured above.
Now that the 3-D printed images sit alongside the braille words, visually impaired readers can engage in picture book reading in a whole new way. The future of this technology hopes to put the power in the hands of the parent who would be able to snap a photo of a 2-D page, send it to a printer, and produce their own Tactile Picture Book for their own kids.
Source: NPR
Resources for Male Survivors
I posted last week asking people if they knew of some good resources for male victims of sexual assault. Here is the list people came up with:
Thanks everyone.
You are immortal; you’ve existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are Life, and Life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.
Don Miguel Ruiz (via liberatingreality)
I was reading Clash of Kings and I felt inspired to write a Mother’s Hymn but for Loki and I
I just
Im so sorry
That first stanza I just
And then I started laughing and I
Im so sorry
THIS MAN HAS ALS, AND HIS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH. THEN IT’LL MAKE YOU CRY
The video begins humorously as Anthony Carbajal, a photographer, dresses up in a neon bikini top and soaps up a car before being doused with ice water.
People talk so much shit about the challenges. Saying it is wasting water when other countries can’t get water to drink. So donate to them too! It’s simple and a good cause. Finding a cure for ALS is a step closer to finding Multiple Sclerosis. And I want that because my mother has MS. So stop putting such a worthy cause down. And if you think it’s taking the spot light away from other causes, start speaking up!!
A Meditation on Sigyn’s Bowl
by Fuensanta Arismendi
I am burned beyond words.
Deeds are hollow.
My soul is as light as a fossil
beyond all passion, all joy, all love.
But love spawned duty once and for love’s dead sake,
I’ll hold the bowl,
go through the motions,
and hope they taste to You
as once loved ones did.
Please may this be as cruel and brief
as the ebbing tide;
and may the blessed waves
wash us clean of this drought.
I’ll hold the bowl.“Hold the bowl. I never thought it would feel so foreign and yet so right to do so. We always think of serving the Gods by scurrying around doing things. Now I serve by ‘just standing there.’ I serve just by keeping still. My back itches. Hold the bowl. What does She have to look at as She holds the bowl day after day, year after year? Is Her Husband all She looks at, all She needs? Or does She sometimes look away, to dank walls and bare ground? Can She see Loki at all, or is it dark in the cave, endless night? Hold the bowl. If it is dark, how can She tell when the bowl overflows? When Loki screams? Damn, I’m crying and I can’t blow my nose. Hold the bowl.
Do They speak to each other? What is there to articulate when this endless choice to stay and endure says all that needs to be said? Does Sigyn think of Her children or has grief turned Her to stone, the better to give Her strength? No, I don’t think so––She is the Lady of the Invincible Heart, the Goddess of Unyielding Gentleness. Hold the bowl. Time is going so slowly and I know I’ll stop after ten minutes––what must it feel like for Her, who does not even know if this will ever stop, this infinity of stillness and grief and pain? Hold the bowl.
The monologue goes on, combining fervor and triviality. At times, one reaches a state of grace in which no thoughts or feelings intrude. All one’s being is intent on simply being still, and being there. And when the ten minutes have elapsed, part of me is relieved to stop, and part of me feels exiled from my true place, the place I fear, the place I pray to be in because if They are in that cave, then that cave is my only home. Hold the bowl…
Ten minutes seems like nothing until the weight of the bowl fills my hands, pulls at my arms. It seems to me that if everyone who loved Sigyn and Loki held the bowl for just a little bit, just ten minutes a day, perhaps She would not have to hold it at all.”
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[A bit lengthy, but I needed to share this excerpt because it hit me in a really deep part of my heart. That last sentence, in particular, almost moved me to tears.]
Holding the Bowl 