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AWAKENING DAY

reblog thread!! Everyone who wants to partecipate will share the date of their awakening (as specific or as generic as they feel comfortable) by reblogging to this post!

Here’s mine!

If we want to talk about fictionkin specifically, 2015.

What I'd call my awakening happened over a period of, probably about a year and a half though. Which is when I started having shifts and stuff. But it was 2012 when it finally hit me that those all probably ~meant something~ and what they seemed to mean is that I was actually a Creature very awkwardly existing in a human body. And then everything just sort of clicked into place and made sense suddenly. "Oh, that explains a lot" ass moment.

we wish for a plural future.

and not in the way of wanting more people to have a dissociative disorder, but in the way of plurality being more accepted and known about.

and not just traumagenic plurality; all types of plurality.

everyone deserves a safe place to be themselves, which includes plurals of all kinds, no matter the origin.

Radiance - Eva Volf⁠ , 2023 .

American , b. 1983 -

i dont know if it was intended or if you just magically overlooked the issues in Sundragon’s response because he was agreeing with you- but it appears as if you are okay with referring to indigenous people as stupid & are willingly overlooking users using slurs/harmful stereotypes when referring to certain groups

I think indigenous cultures are really cool! Learning about their beliefs and practices is always fascinating. Calling them savages is most certainly disrespectful; that didn't click at the time, since it seemed they were making a different point entirely: dismissing an idea as *insert blanket statement here* is not a valid counterpoint. Besides, many of the injustices that occurred at the hands of Westerners were not because of the idea of empiricism, but because of all the crap they believed about God and manifest destiny and etc.

You know, my mom hates empiricism too! And she keeps trying to sell me essential oils she says I should ingest, which will literally destroy the lining of my intestines. Supposedly they "purify the light" in my cells. You know what? I think I'll ditch the whole idea and purchase a batch, maybe even pour a bottle straight into my mouth like I saw her do one time. /s

Back when I was still living with her, her naturopath "doctor" diagnosed me with a "mold" infection after hitting me with an Activator Adjusting Instrument a few times. What kind of mold? Who the hell knows. I actually had stomach ulcers and I suffered for years because I didn't know any better and they wouldn't actually do a proper test. After I finally worked up the courage to go to a real doctor after I escaped, I got an endoscopy - and they found 7 of those bad boys in there. That level of suffering is the kind of thing empiricism was designed to avoid.

Advocating for the scientific method does not mean that I am condoning all of the horrible things Western societies have done. In fact I am very much against many of their ideologies. The idea of creating a hypothesis, testing it, and withholding belief until those tests are conclusive, is one of the reasons why we know which plants are poisonous, and it's the reason why the majority of children no longer die before the age of 5. You might not even be alive without it. Just because some people have have abused this tool doesn't mean it's inherently evil. A tool is just a tool. People like yourself will preach to the mountains how horrible empiricism is until they need a lifesaving medicine designed and tested by scientists.

I believe that there may be some misinterpretation of the reblog in question. Knowing that Sundragon is a person of color and being generally familiar with the tone of his posts, I did not interpet his comments the same way.

As a fellow person of color, I read that reblog as expressing a frustration with a dichotomy of critical thinking being on one side (the European side) and a sort of anything-goes mindset on the other (the rest of the world's cultures). This was equated to promoting the noble savage trope, which if you aren't familiar, involves white people treating indigenous people as lacking complex moral and philosphical ability, amongst other things.

i dont know if it was intended or if you just magically overlooked the issues in Sundragon’s response because he was agreeing with you- but it appears as if you are okay with referring to indigenous people as stupid & are willingly overlooking users using slurs/harmful stereotypes when referring to certain groups

I think indigenous cultures are really cool! Learning about their beliefs and practices is always fascinating. Calling them savages is most certainly disrespectful; that didn't click at the time, since it seemed they were making a different point entirely: dismissing an idea as *insert blanket statement here* is not a valid counterpoint. Besides, many of the injustices that occurred at the hands of Westerners were not because of the idea of empiricism, but because of all the crap they believed about God and manifest destiny and etc.

You know, my mom hates empiricism too! And she keeps trying to sell me essential oils she says I should ingest, which will literally destroy the lining of my intestines. Supposedly they "purify the light" in my cells. You know what? I think I'll ditch the whole idea and purchase a batch, maybe even pour a bottle straight into my mouth like I saw her do one time. /s

Back when I was still living with her, her naturopath "doctor" diagnosed me with a "mold" infection after hitting me with an Activator Adjusting Instrument a few times. What kind of mold? Who the hell knows. I actually had stomach ulcers and I suffered for years because I didn't know any better and they wouldn't actually do a proper test. After I finally worked up the courage to go to a real doctor after I escaped, I got an endoscopy - and they found 7 of those bad boys in there. That level of suffering is the kind of thing empiricism was designed to avoid.

Advocating for the scientific method does not mean that I am condoning all of the horrible things Western societies have done. In fact I am very much against many of their ideologies. The idea of creating a hypothesis, testing it, and withholding belief until those tests are conclusive, is one of the reasons why we know which plants are poisonous, and it's the reason why the majority of children no longer die before the age of 5. You might not even be alive without it. Just because some people have have abused this tool doesn't mean it's inherently evil. A tool is just a tool. People like yourself will preach to the mountains how horrible empiricism is until they need a lifesaving medicine designed and tested by scientists.

dude I’m trying to tell you that it’s bad that you said “agreed” to someone saying grossly anti-indigenous shit instead of ignoring them or shutting down that behavior & that because you didn’t ignore it or shut it down it makes you look like a racist

and that maybe you need to take a step back from debating abt empiricism & your framework because aside from looking racist you’re beginning to look like someone who’d be willing to lock away your peers for being “too crazy” abt therianthropy (not specifically in this reply, but in regards to sanism lining certain points of your framework)

Like I have not now or at any point denied the abuse of ppl through non-scientific thinking, I don’t disagree with advocating for the scientific method on a lot of shit. I live in the Bible Belt- let’s use our thinking caps about how I probably feel about that subject. I think you need to take a break. I think you need to get off the internet for a bit & stew in your feelings.

@sundragon was referring to this in his response, seemingly to imply that y'all are saying that "primitive" culture is better therefore empiricism bad