@starkatt Awooooo!
Different cultures
All of human experience is complex and fascinating. It should be treated that way. Anyone who simplifies humanity is selling you something.
Different cultures
It's an illusion that you should see a country just by its leadership and current cultural hegemony. Every region at nearly every time of history has had multiple factions, particularly through migrations, co-existance, and natives in colonized lands.
Every country, every region, has complexity. Every population group has complexity. Like people in the 50% Republicans think they understand all of the 1% trans, but that 1% trans population has their own cultures & divide too
Religions
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space
I feel I am very close to understanding myself, especially comparing notes with my sisters. Its simplistic yet convoluted and where its simplistic and where its convoluted dont exactly help day to day existence directly. Yet being happy with existence helps too, and I've removed a lot of my doubts and fears. But theres also no guaranteed 100% chance of pure reward either, just stages of the personal self in their cycle.
I'm homeless now, financial need, ongoing
I live in a tent under a maple tree now.
My communication disability makes human interaction stressful, difficult, and occasionally makes me want to run further away.
I need funds to keep the process going.
The plasma torch and welding tools have helped me get my car running, now I'm trying to get it into a driveable state.
Please share here and elsewhere, literally anything helps.
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@amalgam
Wishing you much healing and for good things to come.
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space
Hey, all understandable. Thank you all for being cool headed about it tho. <3
@Ulfra_Wolfe
Eh, there are plenty of religious affiliations that do accept other values! The "you can only follow one religion" is a very Western Cultural thing. It's possible, normal, and even common to follow multiple ones.
@xurnami
I hope you feel better by now, at least. Sending you support, whatever hugs you're ok with receiving from me. Wishing you the best and sorry you had to deal with such a nightmare. :(
@indi
My biggest hard question tbh is "why can children be hurt in this reality?"
Religious discussion (Eternal Student)
@Shotagonist@mastodon.social
I think theres many kinds of enlightenment, and multiple stages. As well as no guarantee that any one source can offer it. But theres many paths to enlightenment. I mean, Kindred from League of Legends led me to some enlightenment myself, identifying more with Lamb than Wolf helped me realize I was trans and also unlocked my spirituality
@thefishcrow
I'd looooove to <3
The children peered into the forest stream, watching the small silvery figures darting about just below the surface.
"Are they fairies?" asked the youngest, whispering in awe.
"They're aquatic and have fishtails; they're mermaids," said the oldest, whispering so not to be detected.
"But they're so small; aren't mermaids bigger?"
"Clearly ocean ones are big, and forest ones are small."
The youngest accepted this explanation.
#tootfic #microfiction #writing #urbanfantasy #terylstales #mermay
Religious discussion (Eternal Student)
@Shotagonist@mastodon.social
Hmm, really? World of darkness, especially Werewolf, legit actually deepened my spirituality and how I saw the world. So i guess i agree with you and also kinda disagree. I find fiction helps me a lot with my own enlightenment, and provides me with something for analogy for my own understanding.
@thefishcrow
Oregon convention. We plan to day trip at least.
Religious discussion (Eternal Student)
@Shotagonist@mastodon.social (I also find it fascinating how many similarities the generalities of myths and gods there are between cultures, but also each culture has their own perspective and cultural addition, little niggling details they add in, that make things interesting)
@eifie Fine to boost!
Nettle -- a punk rock sheep. Ulfra - big wolf mama tf witch. Vedia -- Witch girl with magic sword. Wolf & sheep kin. Hazel and Willow are my sisters. Refugee from witches.town. An open book -- talk to me and I'll try to talk back as much as I can!