Chalk Revelations

instead they just say “thats normal” or “oh theres nothing wrong with you”. Because in their mind “it wont kill you and i cant fix it” means its not worth mentioning.

But then I went to collect the link on duckduckgo since I don't have my bookmarks at work, and oh god, there's actually thousands of these essays, and even studies now.

So uh. I'll synthesize a bit here:

Doctors need to stop doing this, yes. But for that to happen, med school has to stop punishing this with public humiliations, residency has to stop punishing this with extra shifts, and employers have to stop firing doctors who admit this for "malpractice liability."

The individual doctors sending their patients home ignorant and afraid are the last leg in a long chain, basically.

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Here's some further reading by request. Enjoy!

Study: Doctors have PTSD at rates second only to war zone survivors and soldiers.

Study: Medical training traumatizes more than half of doctors.

Essay: The way medical schools are set up today causes excessive trauma and filters out marginalized doctors thereby.

Our world map today looks completely different from how it looked a thousand years ago. Nations and empires have risen and collapsed. Wars have been waged over petty bullshit that changed names and borders. Empires that were once thought invincible and perpetual crumbled to dust within a peasant's lifetime as they tilled their fields and worried about crop failure. The invention of flight, motion pictures, and the automobile chased the coattails of WWI and the great depression. Children played mischief games and elders complained about kids these days being too soft and sensitive during the fall of the Roman empire.

World War II was uniquely terrible and we know it ended in 1945 and was followed by an era of huge economic growth in the west.

I think it's important to keep perspective on this not only to make some plans for your own life, but because there is purpose in engaging with politics and the small footprint you can leave on your community right now.

Yes it's worth it to pressure your local government to move in the right direction for important issues, yes it's worth it to come together with local non-profits, friends or neighbors to tackle an issue close to your heart. That is how change happens.

Other names: Borvo, Bormo, Bormanus, Bormanicus. He gives His name to the Bormida river in Italy and to the Bormio city (also in Italy).

Meaning of His name: maybe His name share the same roots with the Indo European words that mean "boil". So perhaps His name means "the one who warms the waters", or "the one who boil".

Éléments : He is strongly connected to the waters and the idea of the curative rivers. Many inscriptions with His name was found near rivers around all the Europe. He is a God associated to the healing process, but also (maybe) with pestilence. In fact, Gaulish people call Him also for battles, and in some regions of the continental Gaul He was associated to Mars.

For His healing role, I suppose that He is a God of Life and of Its sacred flow. He is a God of purifications, of phisical and psychological strength.

Maybe, for His role of protector of the rivers, He is also a guardian of the Threshold. Rivers revest a magical meaning in the Celtic lore, as a natural line which devided the mortal world with the spirit world, the Other Side.

Sacred animals: unknown. He can maybe be linked to the bull/cattle (He is the consort of Damona, the Celtic Cow Goddess) or the snake, animal strictly connected with the waters.

Sacred plant: uncertain.

Symbols: waters, rivers, wells, springs, fruits, sometimes moneys, helmets and shields.

Maybe cauldrons/cups, for His name: hot waters and boiling waters was used for healing people.

Realm: Bitu, Dubnos.

We don't have so many representations of Him, but we have found His name in many inscriptions near springs and rivers. We know that He was linked to Damona, a Goddess of fertility, agricolture and healing, so we can imagine that He may share some roles with Her.

We don't really know how He can appear "physically", but He can take with Him a cest of fruits, which represent abondance.

Interpretatio Romana: Apollo, Mars

Called for: healing for yourself or your loved ones, protection from illness, purification, prosperity; maybe called in battle.

Offerings: Gaulish people used to leave to the waters items (as weapons or money) as an offering. Actually I do the same thing, giving to the waters little coins. I also give flowers or food or beverage. Be careful that what you donate to water is not polluting.

Other links:

https://faireroseswitchygarden.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/211/

tl;dr Amanda Nelson of Amanda's Mild Takes (substack link) has made a spreadsheet of one action you can take every day from Monday, 3 August until midterm election day, 3 November. if you'd like a list of concrete actions to take to help get cheeto guy's enabling cronies and shills out of office, here it is.

(people whining about electoralism and doom-replying about how nothing will change and bitching about "bOtH pArTiEs aRe tHe sAmE" will be summarily blocked and also sent to hell. do something or shut up and get the fuck off my post.)

If I ask you for help then I demonstrate you can ask me for help.

That.

help then I demonstrate you

can ask me for help.