To island_gurl12: Thank you for your answers. I still am a bit confused about some things. Like you often refer to a Magickian. Is this God or is it an example (like the artist)? What exactly do you mean by Magickian? Is it like a witch? The Magickian in question is myself. I am a practicing Ritual Magickian. The Magick involved, in my c
To KFC: are you absolutely sure about this? How do spirits cohabit with women? Surely you're not doubting the veracity of inerrant and infallible scripture? Go read the scripture in Genesis. Then go read this: ( Link ). In parti
To cactoblasta: I have a friend called Shaeron. Some time back in the late 90s I went with her to an AIDS awareness gig. At one point the MC asked everyone who practiced safe sex to raise their hands. She whispered in my ear "I'm totally celibate. Is that safe sex?" My reply? "Sure. The safest sex there is."
To Moderateman: See? That's how little I know about comics... But I did love them both. And you're welcome.
To Tova7: I do actually like Sponge Bob (I can see Sabrina rolling her eyes at me even now...) but in all honesty my current favourites are Invader Zim (a hapless insectoid invader who never quite manages to conquer earth. His archenemy is Dib, a human child with an unfeasably large head, and his [Zim's] partner in crime is Grr, a robot whose habitual disguise is a dog suit); Ren and Stimpy (a chihuahua and a cat who live in a world that's bey
To little-whip: this is a very good thing, seeing that I love you.... (see, even Sadists can be soppily romantic).
I've stood where you are, staring into the abyss, seeing only intolerable darkness and hopelessness. My first marriage ended in divorce, after 12 years. 12 years of pretence on my part, trying desperately to be what I was not in order to please another. At the end I faced a situation in which (so it seemed) I had no options, no choices, no hope for something else. And your situation is complicated in ways that mine was not - by serious ill-health and c
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1. I hate, loathe, detest, abominate and am revolted by spiders. 2. I love cartoons of all kinds. 3. The only DC Comics I liked were Dr. Strange and the Silver Surfer. 4. I am completely devoid of any sense of direction. 5. Numbers make no sense to me. 6. I am English. 7. I am not 'British'. 8. My ancestry is Spanish and Irish. 9. When
To island-gurl12: Do you relay on your God, do you pray to him to take care of all your worries like Christians do? The short answer is 'no'. The God I worship has no interest in whether I eat today or not. Why should It? One of the most abominable facets of Christianity, and something that perturbed me from my beginnings as a 'Christian
To Tova7: It is hard to reconcile your God with mine....they have similarities, but the God I walk with and talk with does care...has cared enough to take things that should have destroyed me and removed them, or turned them to my benefit. We have a different view of 'caring'. An artist cares deeply for every aspect of his or her creatio
To Moderateman: Just know that I have started reading you and do enjoy what I can understand. If people have trouble understanding what I write, then that's my responsibility as author not yours as a reader. I still write in the style suited to an academic paper (except for the odd times I write fiction) which is the consequence of worki
To Xtine: I once worked in a lefse factory. What are lfse's and how are they made...?
To Tova7: An excellent response, thank you:) what IF God's enemy really does exist and has a legion of followers? One of the things I found hardest to reconcile with my natural inclination toward monotheism was the strain of dualism, the last vestiges of the Manichean heresy, that still runs deep in Christianity's soul. God has
To dharmagirl: I like the signs I see around here.... No Solicitors....
To BakerStreet: Given your demand that people have well-defined beliefs, I would imagine they drive you nuts. It's not so much that I require well-defined beliefs; more that I require well-defined people who live according to what they themselves profess. If you (for example) are happiest l
Teabags, damp (not soaking wet) ones. Place on the eyes (while closed lol), lean back, quit worrying... Cucumbers are also very soothing and refreshing (but won't do much for the bags) so use both. I also kept my promise and wrote the conversion thing... ( Link )
Can you write an article about this experience, or a link to it if you've already written about it? Link
To BakerStreet: Dayum... and I thought I'd had some miserable jobs... Or working the desk at a motel in the same town after I had left school, where all the Methodist kids showed up to party off campus and smugly made note that I was doing so well after leaving school. Don't you just <
To Texas Wahine: Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. It was fun writing it too... kinda lol.
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I have insomnia right now... something that happens virtually every time I'm between jobs, hence the two articles in one day. I'm writing this one at the request of island_gurl12, who asked me to talk about my conversion experience(s). A 'crisis conversion' is exactly what's implied by the term - some radical change (perhaps religious, usually 'spiritual')
So tell me how it works... I've never been able to get my head round this sort of thing.
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