Category: rants

I’ve been on an Alice in wonderland kick as of late with some of the metaphors  I’ve used lately and things I’ve said.  Now it’s time to get back to the business of the real and mundane and tell it like it is.  So I was on a thread from a group that was presenting a story that was reported in the news about a religious debate.  Seems a bible was obtained by a child who’s parent was pagan. Now there seems to be controversy as to whether it was given or the child picked it up by itself like others were allowed to do, but the parent objected, contacted the school board, who agreed to present a balanced view, but when she brought literature representing her faith, they reneged.  Hence the debate of separation of church and state.  One ill informed piece of fluff posted about how this country was based upon Judeo-Christo faiths, but that the wiccans burned back in the day is why many believe in the separation of church and state.  I call BULLSHIT!  First, this country was founded upon religious freedom.  One could worship as they chose without one faith/church dictating how that should be done.  Majority of those who convened to forge a way of running the country were Deists.  They didn’t worship god as the church in England decreed they should..some didn’t worship god at all, but acknowledged a higher power.  Second..there were NO wiccans burned at any time .  Hell there weren’t any witches burned! I suggested she learn some history.  Apparently that hit a nerve because she packed up her fluff and left the thread.  Then Im reading elsewhere and someone wants to practice their readings with free tarot..She says if she gets more accurate, then she will begin charging.  Someone replies to her”I’m sorry, but I feel tarot should not be used in this manner”.  WTF!?!?!?! How else did she want this person to use her tarot?  I use my cards for validation of the energy reads, sometimes read for others, read for myself as well as use them as correspondence for spellwork.  Was it wrong to offer it for free?  Is that what the problem was?  Or was it that one should never offer to read for the masses .  IDK, but it just hit me as little on the fluff side to tell someone that they are WRONG in how they work.  Ya’ll know how much that pisses me off.  Stop with all the damn rules about how people should believe, act or work.  It makes you all fall in that little upside down world of the fairy tales.  Doesn’t exist people.  Try that shit in the mundane world,  a real witch will probably  kick your ass, then you will  see how well  that shit works.  Some of these people decide they are otherkin of other worlds, they live in fantasy world about what paganism really is.  They refuse to learn history, then spread their fluff on various group threads around the net.  ~HEADDESK~ They would do well to come back into the real world for a bit, have some coffee, and wake the hell up!

So, I’ve been rolling my eyes over the football scene lately.  I have my picks for favorite teams , one of whom is working on the playoffs(go G-men).  I am a fan of the Manning brothers, because of their ties to Mississippi, so have followed their careers.  One team that I am not enamored over this year are the Denver Broncos.  Not because of their play, but because of their quarterback this year, Tim Tebow.  Since he played for Florida, and SEC team, I had reason to root against him because of who I follow in that conference as well.  Nothing major was ever made of his wearing of the eye black with John 3:16 written on it.  It was something that was allowed, although I failed to see why since they have strict guidelines about additions to uniforms, but I guess since it was mostly under his helmet, nobody said much.  Here in the south, its not uncommon to hear prayers before sporting events (even though the law of the land has deemed it “illegal”), or see groups of people gather together before or after to have a communal prayer.  I have no problem with that either.  What I am having trouble wrapping my head around is the built up hype over the fact that this boy/man(depends on who you speaking with as to what he’s called)is pretentious in his faith so that after the games, or a huge play, he drops to his knees and “assumes the position”. People are calling it “tebowing”.    It’s become so stupid as the planking, owling, etc., that people are doing it all over the damn place.  Get up people!  It makes you look retarded and while he may have a valid reason for doing it, I don’t see you speaking to god on a regular basis.  His faith may in fact be legit.  I can’t say.  He was certainly raised in it with his parents being missionaries, and living in places to “spread the gospel” to people who probably have a damn better view of faith that most give them credit for.  It is the other “pious” souls out there who act as if he is the second coming of Christ.  For pity’s sake people..he is a kid barely out of college and having a so-so year, not even better than some of those not in the playoffs.  What makes him so special?  Oh yeah..that “faith” that ya’ll keep going on about.  You know… the one that is all well and good until someone comes out and says they are gay, or have another view of spirituality, and then we all going to hell in a handbasket!  I’ve seen people quoting scripture as if god is going to help him win(like god watches football..just saying) , and then saw on another site where today some witches in Salem are actually getting together to “hex” him to keep him from winning.  Ok, the first one makes me roll my eyes, the second had me laughing out loud.  Why you may ask?  First because it’s like a staging of “good vs evil”, secondly its because majority of those in that area have their roots in wicca and are adverse to kicking people’s ass because they are afraid of “karma”.  I hear it from some all the time.  Personally, I think if you accept that the universe carries with it, its own balance, do as you please and accept the change.  So I will watch the game today, and see what happens.  Oh, and if some by chance the Broncos win, please don’t attribute it to god or some facsimile thereof..just say they other team laid down and decided they would rather stay home than go on to the superbowl.

 

 

DEUCES

It’s human nature to want to take the easy way out.  Some people are professionals when it comes to doing that.  I’ve been privy to a conversation where someone had loaned some money to someone and wanted them to pay it back because they were unemployed and needed the money.  Since they were no longer involved with said person , they wanted to force them into doing the right thing, so what to do?  Why  visit your closest metaphysical, botanica, vodou store right?  Even if they are online.  So…this person went down the proverbial list, buying candles, spells, oils, whatever it takes to throw it all together to make this person pay them.  All the while they kept coming back to the proprietor to check and see if there was “something else” they could do because if they didn’t get this money they could lose their place to live.   Apparently this person does readings, doesn’t drive(who in the hell in this day and age does not drive unless there is a medical/age related reason?) Makes no sense to me.(sorry, that’s another rant)  Seriously, while I am not adverse to working to make someone return what is not theirs, if I am worried about my becoming homeless, why not put that energy into a working to gain employment, as well as a few well placed applications?   As I’m reading this wall of text that they are  putting out explaining all of this, I can’t help but laugh .  How hard is it to use some common sense?  They are  reasonably young looking(from profile pix), so what part of J. O. B. do they not get?  They  had some sort of money coming in while with the person who owes them money..what happened to that?  Apparently they also freelance as a tarot reader and according to them are “accurate”.  Really.  Might I suggest reading those cards for yourself.  Don’t try and make them say what you want them to say..really pay attention because even from here, I’m hearing…WAKE THE FUCK UP!  Get off your ass and stop making excuses as to why you cannot get a job, money, find true love.  All I am hearing is this child’s voice come out of an adults mouth with fucking excuses.  Know why there is no true love?  You keep binding these beautiful specimens to you with spells and sex and there is no mutual respect between you.  This is one reason I have no use for those type of workings.  It removes free will, and well, let’s just say that while the sex may be incredible, nothing else will work because they had no intention of staying.  Your free use of such workings(as evidenced by mention of another previous lover tied to you that you now need to sever such a tie)tells me that you have no concept of any ethics magic entails.  So get off your ass and do the physical, mundane work it takes to live as a responsible human being.  Otherwise, it looks like you are getting exactly as you deserve.

 

DEUCES

Ok, I guess I’ve mentioned the control issues once or twice?  Yeah..well, those who know me well, or read here on a regular basis know how tightened down I keep my security.  It comes from a lot of things, but mostly the need for protection.  The need for self-preservation.  I only allow a few through that web, to know what secrets lie there.  So on Facebook, I tend to keep my page buttoned down as tight as their security will allow.  mainly because living in a small town, I don’t feel the need to have everyone who knows me(and there are quite a few)know all that I do or whom I associate with.  Occasionally I will  accept a request from a friend for games or something, but that happens infrequently.  So…I commented on a friend’s page..one I know pretty well personally, have worked with her, been to her home and she has done the same.  Then I get a friend request from someone I don’t know.  I ask my friend who he is.  She laughs explains he’s just a friend, plays some games, good guy, I should add him.  I think, ok, we’ll try it.  I add him.  JEBUS!!! Up he pops in my chat window to wish me happy new year! Seriously..I wasn’t expecting him to speak to me..not that I have anything against talking to people on there, but a mere seconds after the add, I get a chat window?  THIS is how I’m starting off my new year?  So I fix the chat ,and now I’m not available  so I can keep the interruptions and distractions down.  Today, another friend of mine gets a message from “Jebus” , asking her if her profile picture is one of Countess Bathory(some claim she was ultimate vampire), it’s not it’s something else, but what got me is that after adding me from a friend’s posting/list, he has moved on to one that I know is not on that list, but is on mine.  If ya’ll think I have control issues about myself, you have no idea how it gets with friends that I care about.  they are moved into the protective realm and I choose to not have them harassed , or annoyed by someone who has no sense of boundaries.  Seriously…what would it hurt to send a message with your request and say “hey, I saw you on so and so’s list/post and since I play the same app, would it be ok if I added you?” That would be polite and almost make me willing to say “yes”.  I guess maybe it’s because I’m little OCD, or maybe it’s because I was raised with some damn manners that all of this bothers me.  I don’t care how long you think you’ve known me, known anyone that knows me…you just can’t go around like a troll and collect people off my list. First of all, it’s more than a little rude, secondly, some of those people will eat your ass alive!  You have no idea about some of those people,lol.  I am about to cull my list again..and yeah Jebus will be one of those about to hit the bonfire.  Good riddance , Bon Chance and  Deuces Bitches!

 

Resolutions.  People make them, break them, forget them until its time to make some more then lament that they didn’t keep the ones they had made the year before, but will try “harder” this coming year.  I never make them.  First because of said reasons listed previously but because I choose to live my life in the here and now and not so much in the “if only”.  I am among those who can use a weight loss for health reasons and I’m working on that..but it’s already been in the works, so not so much in the resolution category.  I guess I could resolve to clean up my language because some people do not approve when I use the “F” word, but then that is their issue not mine because some situations just seem to call for the use of that word.  I’ll just keep on doing what I’m doing…whether anyone approves or not.

 

So here is the thing.  I was out and about today, making some returns for a gift that didn’t fit for one that was more suitable, one that didn’t work for something else, and met up with family at iHOP for a late breakfast.  We waited until a friend of my daughter’s had a table open since he is a prompt, courteous worker and less likely to piss me off at not having things done my way(yes, I know..control issues, AND?). So we are seated next to someone we have met before, but doesn’t remember us(we can tell by the “I know ya’ll from somewhere” look on her face), and her husband and her 3 daughters.  She is in fact a woman associated with a group of Girl Scouts down toward Tishomingo/Iuka area and helped organize a flash mob dance for the girls earlier in the year, which could have been better had it been more thought out.  She helped teach them dance steps  to Lady Gaga’s “Born this way”.  Anyway, they are finishing as we are seated and gathering our order.  As they go to leave our server, who was also their server brought their check, went to cash it out and since they had a gift card, he needed a signature.  He handed the pen to the man who signed it and the server walked away.  The woman says to her husband”Do you need some hand sanitizer to wash away the gay cooties?” WTF?!?!?! Seriously?  I looked at my daughter who looked back at me as if to say “Did she just say what I think she said?”  She again speaks to her husband, in front of their children mind you, “I wouldn’t want you to turn gay”.  They leave.  Now I ask you what the hell kind of example to show their children was that?  They lost any kind of teaching moment to explain to their children that people should be respected  at all times.  the Girl Scouts have an anti-bullying policy so I was more than a little shocked and dismayed that someone who works with them in a leader capacity would show such a callous disregard for others in a public forum.  I’m thinking to myself.  did she not even listen to the words of that song she was teaching the girls?

 

I’m beautiful in my way

‘Cause God makes no mistakes

I’m on the right track baby

Cause I was born this way

So resolutions for the asshats who have no concept about being the change they want to see in the world:

1.  Treat people with the respect you wish to be afforded to yourself.  None of us are perfect, and we all are granted the inalienable right to live as we choose.

 

2.  Stop trying to make others feel as if their sexuality, religion, race is less than yours(see #1 above).

 

3.  Teach your children that they are a member of the human race. We all are.  If they are going to join organizations that teach compassion for others, then damn well make it a point to live it.  May I suggest going back and reading the GS promise and laws?  Might be an eye opening experience for you.

 

4.  People in the service industry often make the bulk of their money on tips.  If you come in with children(especially the 3 you had with you), and walk out without leaving a tip for the server because you had ignorant ideas about his sexuality, then might I suggest you keep your fine dining out at McDonalds?  The server in question was actually working on one of his precious days off because with all the after holiday traffic, the restaurant was swamped and he is damn good at his job.

5.  And lastly, reconsider your motives for becoming a leader of impressionable children.  You set the example .  Our world is filled with examples of how children should not be treated, of hate being perpetuated over and over again by those who’s fears keep the cycle going.  Showing your ignorance in your words and actions  and then dragging your kid to church somewhere does nothing to instruct them in what true love really is.  

 

So while I don’t make resolutions, may I suggest one for us all.  If we truly want one that is doable and worthwhile..make it about love.  Respect for others even if you don’t agree with how they live their life, and compassion for others.  Set the bar high for those who walk in your footsteps.  We all could use a little more of that positive coming back our way in the new year.

 

 

 

So yesterday was more than a little frustrating for me.  The princess had been sick half the night causing us both to lose sleep, back to the doctor and more meds  and lab works..Stressful for all concerned because she hates needles..but the girl at the clinic was extremely good and Brae came through it very well.  It’s hard watching little ones be sick ..you just want to take the pain from their body and set them back to their exuberant little spirits running wild all across the yard.  She just hasn’t felt well, but we might have turned the corner a little last night because of some things I work with, some things others work with(you know who you are)…so she woke up fever free this morning and seemed to feel a little better on her way to school.  Yeah…boat is sitting up, now to bail out the water.

On to the next thing…I harass my friends..both on Facebook and Twitter… they return the favor.  Sometimes the feeds fills with the jokes, pictures, the timelines with crazy stuff like snippets of song lyrics.  My friends think they’re funny(so they tell me), so we all are entertained when I am bored.  So..yesterday, someone on the tweet line tells me he hates my song lyrics which, while filling feed, since he also follows me,  are not directed to him, but to someone else they also follow.  I tell him, they don’t mind..as my friend I am sending it to knows its a joke, much the same way I was messing with another friend earlier in the week with a different genre.  He tells me he hates reading it all in the feeds..Ok, I’ll admit I was stressed yesterday because of sick little one who wanted me to hold her half the day, so I didn’t take it well.  I told him to unfollow me then…he won’t see it, and he’s a fine one to talk because in his drunken state I saw his offerings sometimes for couple hours and nothing else, which when I mentioned that..he didnt appreciate, because after all, none of us like to be shown the mirror right?  Since he kept talking, I finally did the best thing for me..unfollow, block, delete..Gotta love those buttons sometimes and I truly wish that sometimes in the real world there was one available for the difficult people in our lives.  So I snark about it a little on FB…just a way to release the energy, which is better than kicking his ass to hell and back.

On to the next thing..Ever notice how when you’re having a difficult day things seem to come in set of numbers?  Mine seem to happen in 3’s..yeah I know the significance, doesn’t make me like it any better,lol.  Anyway, on Facebook, a christian friend of mine was posting some things, similar to what I had been doing, only hers more positive, godly, sweet…One statement caught my eye.  It was a quote from Joyce Meyers(I already have issues with this woman and others of her kind, but I digress).It said, “when you walk in love, you give up your right to be right”..WTF!?! Who gives up the right to have a valid point?  I stated that I felt that this was wrongly worded.  When walking in love, then one gives up the NEED to be right.  So a woman,says I missed the point.  Walking in love is following Christ and giving up the right to be right means to follow unequivocally.  I tell her I didn’t miss the point.  When one is in a “love” relationship, whether it be spiritual or physical, then our need to be right diminishes.  We CHOOSE  to not do whatever it takes to be “right”.  Giving up the right to be right implies that choice is taken away…with my control issues, that won’t ever happen.   Yeah, needless to say, it did not go over well.  I did apologize to my friend for the snark on her page, her answer?  It’s fine, everyone has different view…yeah, she believes in the statement she posted, but because I am pagan..which she knows, will pat me on the head and overlook it.   So here is my thinking.  If one is going to blindly accept what someone says either from behind the pulpit, some televangelist with dollar signs  in their pockets, selling their spiel to the sheeple who will not question, seek, study for themselves, then I guess they get what they are asking for.  Does that make me right?  I think so, according to what I have experienced, seen, learned…but I don’t have the need to go pound others over the head to make them learn..That may be their way of getting through life..that way if god doesn’t intervene in some situation they’ve brought upon themselves, they can spout some platitude to explain it all away.

So what did I do with all the frustrations of the day, both off and online?  I shut down Twitter..less aggravation, and it hits my phone from some people anyway…and stuck to chat with a few, and lit the sage, clearing my space, smelling that crisp smoke, letting the stress and negative float away.  Simple things really, but sometimes its all it takes .  Today? So far so good,- the princess has left for school, feeling a little better..I have’t gotten into a verbal skirmish with anyone yet, coffee has been imbibed..so maybe there is hope for the rest of the day….~smiles~

My favorite time of the year is almost here.  In little more than a week,  it’s the time that little ones get dressed up as their favorite ghoul or character and go bumming for candy .  Here in a small town we feel free to take kids to people’s homes we really aren’t familiar with,the traffic can get little crazy as people come from rural areas into town to satisfy their sweet tooth(and those of family members who walk or drive with them around town.)  It’s a lovely time for all..usually…. because we have had tragedy..Kids not watching as they drive, others in a hurry to cross the road..created a sad time in our town a few years back when my children were young.  But we don’t dwell on that. We celebrate.  Samhain is also this time of year, Fet Ghede, All soul’s day, Dias de los Muerte.  So what does that mean? Each of those are in various paths and yet they all celebrate the same thing…ancestors.  Those no longer with us, those who walked the path before us.  Celebrations of bonfires, dumb suppers(specific food prepared for those spirits passed on who will return as the veil thins), specific herbs and candles burned.  All done in honor and celebration of the life that was, and the gift they shared with us in the way of love and knowledge.  So it was with curiosity I saw an event on FB today.  It is a WORLDWIDE SAGE BURNING PURIFICATION RITUAL.  Now those who use herbs know that sage is indeed done for purification as well as banishment and protection.  So why I ask you..would one do this on the very day the veil is thinnest and we are welcoming in our ancestors?   This is a time of new beginning,to say farewell to old year, ring in the new…When I burn herbs, I use 3 in particular.  Thyme(associated with departing souls), Rue(flower of repentance), and Rosemary(for remembrance).  One can also use others, such as Mullein(for abundance), calendula, mushrooms, pumpkins seeds, .  Pretty much everything one would gather for this time of year..except sage(which is gathered in early summer).  One can also use acorns.  I shake my head at the ignorance displayed sometimes by others.  If one is not grounded in a path, then I guess they feel that to do whatever one wishes is just fine.  I think not.  For me personally, I honor those who walked before me, the ones who provided me with my knowledge such as my Gran, for without her, I would be lost in my herbs.  For the ones no longer with us, it would be a slap in the face, a sign of disrespect.  so I set my altar with images from the seasons, jack-o-lanterns, witches that belonged to my mother,  an Army patch that was worn by my father,pictures of those who are no longer with us.  Specific colors of candles, sometimes the color of the year, other times for a specific working.  I will also add specific stones such as black obsidian and the amethyst that is personal to me.  But in all things,I will honor the ones that are before me.  Not decide that I could create some asinine ritual with no basis on any path, and with an herb that is often used to repel spirits in general.  That is just STUPID..yes, I said it…STUPID.  Anyway, however you celebrate this year, take a moment to honor those no longer with us.  It’s not a big thing, even if its just a “thank you” to the universe..but this time of year, the veil is thinnest, they are closer and that is a comforting thought to many who may look back at their time with us  and smile as we generally remember the times of shared laughter and good times rather than dwell on any negative..and that’s as it should be..the letting go of the old and moving forward..  I bid you peace.

You know it’s been a frustrating week and a half.  Everything I say or do has become suspect with other people.  When I do things, there “must” be a motive.  If I speak my mind then I am apparently wrong or being judgmental and negative.  It’s an across the board thing.  No matter what group I post in, what I post in my feeds, speak to someone in the “real” world..I’m “wrong”.  I am not allowed to tell people they have no voice in my path apparently. It holds no value because it isn’t done according to others rules, definitions or dogma.  It’s just wrong, feeds nothing, and is not workable.  Really.  My response is going to be negative, so get ready(disclaimer).  Fuck you! It has worked for me for quite some time…and my guides tell me that I am where I am supposed to be..well, except for dealing with asshats who think they know it all.  So go on your merry way, say what you will, but I refuse to listen anymore.  Apparently I also am not allowed to voice opinion about what I think based on what someone else said.  Sorry..I thought that was the basis of communication…listening, then speaking back what one heard, so as to get clarification..apparently I was again mistaken.  But I refuse to “sit” in a pagan forum and listen to one spew nothing more than what amounts to propaganda for a group that bases their views on bigotry and hate.  So what to do about both of these situations?  Maybe  it’s time to walk….walk away from the madness that spills over into my life, causes me to feel so defeated that I cannot find my way above it.  I have candles and incense lit today in order to check the tears..find some balance and light.  And writing…long has it been the release of emotions for me..a way to pour out all the things I want to scream from the rooftops.  But I’ve walked in the shadows so long that I’ve developed habit of not saying everything I want to say…partly because I feel as if I ever open those flood gates, I won’t be able to stop until I am spent and the carnage  I leave behind will not be fixable..people will be harmed irreparably, relationships damaged, hell even physical damage could happen.  So I disguise it in sarcastic truth, making most think I am joking(yeah I know there are some of you who know the truth of it)…or I pretend nothing happened and walk on…to pull it out later and grieve over it.  Maybe that is what’s happening today..my heart is filled to overflowing to allow any more pain to be inflicted so its had to let it out..all that grief that is bottled, that is serving no real purpose… I wish it was anger…Anger I could understand..use it to work to pull myself back into balance.  I am familiar with that emotion well and do not see it in a negative light  because it has served me well in the past.  Grief..that makes me feel weak and untethered.  I hate that feeling of disconnect.  That is not an emotion I handle very well.  I’m sick of letting myself get here.  I’ve GOT to find the damn light switch and turn it off,   it’s attracting too many asshats who want to make me doubt myself in order to be “right”.   I refuse to stay here in the cubby hole they’ve tried to place me in…life is about changing directions and I prefer to be outside of the lines set by others, so….going back to my shadows, where it always warm and welcoming.   No longer will I allow myself to be drawn out to be used as a personal project.  This would be the sound of my light going off…~CLICK!~

I am not a “yes” person.  I will say that right up front.  My control issues make me take the contentious route in many conversations.  So when I see a posting from someone  that can get little over the top, I take notice.  Such was one today …news article about how some cultists forced women to have sex “with themselves”..their words not mine…mine would have said lesbian sex, because that term “with themselves” could also have been masturbation..~shrugs~ just saying.  Anyway, it was filmed and when said cultists(again their words..probably sect outside of regular faiths), were arrested, they found film, weapons.  Comments were made disparaging the women, which I actually found offensive.  Remarks about how could someone be coerced into performing such acts..so of course they must have been prostitutes.  Now I have issues(ok, a lot of them) with people always blaming the victim of crimes that involve  sexual crimes, or religious coercion.  One wonders why they would “consent”..well, in my humble opinion, I believe that if one is trying to save their lives, most people would do damn near anything…It’s why cult leaders are so successful in what they do.  they string you along, prey on those who have a weakness, be it youth, ideology, poor home life, spiritual disconnect..whatever that may be..they start off with the physical, provide shelter, companionship, food, etc..under the guise of spiritual love.   When all those other elements have been met, it then moves on into their own depravity….  their own self-gratification..and has nothing to do with religion or spirituality.  It takes a lot for those involved to make it out…it’s been shown many times in the news that the brain is fragile, and can be fucked with on a grand scale by master manipulators.  Kidnap victims have been known to identify with their captors in a syndrome called “stockholm syndrome”, in that the victims soon empathize and even defend their captors, mistaking lack of abuse as kindness.  So what does all this have to do with people who always agree you may ask?  Well, in this same conversation, there was a person who automatically jumped on the bandwagon of disparaging the women..and they agree with the comments because one..they don’t think for themselves often enough, and two..the comments came from someone they look up to and take their words at face value..as gospel..although if you were to ask the second person, he would tell you that he is not infallible, is still a student of life, and he voices his opinion as do the rest of us.  Now while I too, respect the words from this person, and from others as well.  I have a brain and coupled with my control issues..it makes me pause and think things through even to the point of playing devil’s advocate sometime…just to give another point of view that some may not have considered.  I see it in daily life as well.  People trying so hard to fit in or not be considered “strange” for not being the same as others, i.e. going to church every time door is open, having same political views….  whatever someone says..one agrees to it.  As someone who has always been on outside looking in..always the “new kid” moving from base to base..I’ve become a people watcher and can see the  complexities  of human nature, so am aware of people’s need to fit in..believe me, am not unaware of that emotion myself.  But I refuse to fit into a mold of “yes people”.  It’s how the bullies, dictators of this world are able to get as far as they did before being taken down.,  People refuse to stand up and voice their opinion.    But those not on a life or death scale..what do they gain from agreeing with those they are enamored of?  Does it reinforce in their world that they are on the right path..doing this “just so” so that the plan moves accordingly?  Screw that…make your own road!  Take the knowledge offered and see if it works in your world?  if not..acknowledge that and move on.  When we stand by and become a cheer squad for whatever comes out of someone’s mouth, we place them on a pedestal(yeah I get the irony Nagini,lol)..and then do not keep their feet to the fire and keep them honest, we are disloyal to our very being.  Our spiritual connectedness to the universe is threatened.   We want what they teach us to be truth, based upon fact, not opinion..if they speak from personal point of view, we want that stated as well.  So, maybe next time one makes a controversial statement(or not), think before automatically agreeing.  Is it really how you feel?  If not, then speak up..what do you have to lose?  Perhaps you could give someone else food for thought..a perspective that they had not considered.  What do you have to lose?

 

PEACE OUT