I started wearing a pentacle again earlier this year. Not always, and not at work. Sometimes, often when running weekend errands, or during work from home days when I know I’ll be at the laundromat during my breaks. It was both a decision and not a decision. Last year, I bought a stainless steel Hestia … Continue reading On Religious Jewelry in 2025
Tag: politics
Some Thoughts
For the first time, my state allowed early voting. I was fairly sure that standing for a while in line on election day would not be adhering to the guidelines that my surgeon had set down, so I took advantage of that option. While I had hopes that I was wrong and that we would … Continue reading Some Thoughts
Some Comments on Truths
This is one of a set of several posts that I am creating together in order to have peace of mind about some pressing matters, primarily focused on current matters American society. It is taking me some time to compose these — I have a feeling that our partisanized atmosphere makes this effort about as … Continue reading Some Comments on Truths
Internalizing Externals and Fighting One’s Way Out
The true warfare with the Giants takes place in souls: whenever reason and intellect rule in them, the goods of the Olympians and Athena prevail, and the entire life is kingly and philosophical; but whenever the passions reign, or in general the worse and earth-born elements, then the constitution within them is tyranny. Proclus, Commentary … Continue reading Internalizing Externals and Fighting One’s Way Out
The Future Is More Than Us
Sometimes, I fantasize about people who are utterly unlike myself being able to draw from their religious practices in ways that are unremarkable, not avant-garde. I think about the kids of polytheists today two decades from now waking up for a day of work and praying at a wall shelf shrine held up with command … Continue reading The Future Is More Than Us
Yggdrasil, or the World Tree, and White Supremacist Appropriation
In my family's group text on Thursday, someone wrote these motherf—ers below an image she shared from Wednesday's white supremacist mob storming of the Capitol. She had circled the QShaman guy, who was bare-chested with tattoos of several Asatru/Heathen symbols that are now being called white supremacist symbols. Because she and I are learning Swedish … Continue reading Yggdrasil, or the World Tree, and White Supremacist Appropriation
Decompressing About Recent Events
When I quit Facebook in late 2016, it was because the site had shifted so much from learning about people I knew and keeping in touch with them to a collective political scream, with divides worsening as the people I knew, all of us processing what happened during the 2016 elections, fought with conservative relatives … Continue reading Decompressing About Recent Events
Four Brief Reflections on Politics, Consumerism, and Religion
Reflections on materialism, spirituality, religion, and consumerism. TL;DR — I am not a fan of out-of-control consumption.
The “Why” Is Not, and Cannot Be, Uniform
I was thinking recently about a parasocial interaction online — parasocial because the person does not know me, nor I lim — in which I assisted with an information need. It got me thinking about actions versus reasons and how the two differ. In that specific case, I helped the person with the question despite … Continue reading The “Why” Is Not, and Cannot Be, Uniform
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