Messaging People For The First Time Is So Hard. What Am I Supposed To Say? Like, "You Seem Really Odd

thinking about this again

who up dinking they oiter

what's a little ritualistic bleeding between friends

it should be noted that this thought concept is most well known (originating from iirc but don't quote that) from George Orwell's book 1984. it is a method used by the government to confuse and oppress until the main protagonist learns to 'speak their language' to abuse and eventually escape the corrupt system.

their language may be evil, but speaking it and being able to talk your way out on their terms will save your life.

Speechcraft101: What is Double Speak?

(Please check out this video as this is gonna be the real meat of the post and this guy does a better job than I could simply)

Double speak is way of making one thing sound like something else. It's the art of misleading someone in speech.

Youll find many famous Pagan characters and stories have this moment: Loki, Famous evil cult leaders from the 70s, Satan in the Bible, really any character of mischief in mythology.

Get this! Its also common in US politics. Presidents, politicians, good and bad.

So in conclusion, I am not failing my classes I am "Struggling to reach the ideal point of resolve for my educational goals"

I maxed the tags because of how much I love the Dude

thinking of jesus at the gay bar again………

*quickly shoves my mtg commanders back in the box i have charged to affect the people i associate them with* YEAH Mtg adn maggic is cool and normal things that are very separate 👍

Tumblr does not seem to understand the difference between Magic (the spiritual practice) and Magic (The Gathering) and seeing posts about the latter come across my dash will always be funny

as someone who spent a long time in that category of worshippers and is still unlearning some of it, i’ve been making more of an effort to use Theoi vs gods (for more of an anthropological perspective discussion.) i’ve wanted to open more of the barrel of monkeys that is reconstructing ancient religion, but in this current day and age, it’s a little more difficult to trust sources.

do you have any known reliable resources for finding the more historically accurate terms (unfortunately digging through texts isn’t always accessible and google can’t be trusted anymore) or is there terms you prefer to use?

I hate a lot of terms adjacent to HelPol spaces. So many of them are indicative of 1. Being raised with Christianity 2. Lack of deconstruction of those beliefs and 3. Utter lack of research (what I call Tik-tokisms)

I do not like the terms deity, misuse of the term “altar”, ever using patron, “my gods or goddesses”, devotee, “reach out” (as in a spirit is reaching out), “talking to the gods”, offending the gods.

I’ve got some REALLLY unpopular opinions about Ares, some primordial spirits, Khaos, like.

I am selective about the term “god”, (Theos and Theoí are commonly more appropriate to my conversations). I’m also slightly apprehensive around the phrase “work with”, but that being said I don’t care as much.

the Dude will always be the world’s buddy but will also just leave if he wants to be alone and I can never not respect the confidence in this age

also your magic concepts are dope af!