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Ill be in town this whole day since there's no busses on easter Sunday, for sum reason????
What do people even do on easter?
Ive never really experienced it, Its not like Halloween where i can give the excuse that it's about irish culture to go out
Anywhixzzzllee.
Also these are the only strings keeping my books together
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When you get into Catholic folk magic and projection.
I’ll try to keep this short and and to the point. (lol, yeah, April fools! Short is never involved when I’m writing) Okay. So over the brief period of time that I have been here on Tumblr, I have gotten several messages from people ranting at me. Ranting about how they hate the Catholic church, Catholicism in general, how horrible their childhood was, and being forced to go to church. And basically everything that you can think about being awful that has to do with the church. I don’t want to plaster these posts all over my Tumblr, simply because that is not what this blog is about and just because I. do. not. want. to. So let me make a few things clear. - When you feel the need to rant about your- rightfully -horrible/bad/negative experience you had within the Catholic church, don’t. I am not The Catholic Church. I am not the Vatican. I am just a person, just a person. I have a lot of opinions on what and how the Church can do on amending, re-tribute and maybe even heal, but that’s a whole other conversation that is best done in real life, and preferably with a few bottles of good wine. And to that, I am not your therapist. Ranting at me, because I am active within catholic folk magic, will not solve your issues with the church. - That some people are not comfortable with Catholicism in a folk magic context, is their problem. It’s not mine, nor any other Catholic witch/magician/practitioner’s, problem. I’m just fine living and working within the frame that it provides. - There is a difference between what is being said and done in church, and by church officials, and what lay-people say and do outside of the church. And Catholic folk magic, can very much be outside of the official learning from the church. Maybe chew on that for a while. Folk magic is of the people, the ordinary folk and has an entire life separate from the clergy. With that said... I do understand where it is coming from! Most people in any given witchcraft, pagan, heathen community do come from a Christian- or specific Catholic background, and do go through a long process of rebelling against it. Which is normal. And then there is a portion of people who’ve had truly horrible, abusive experiences with the clergy and local community. Ranging from rape and molestation, to emotional abuse and so on. And the church needs to do way, way more to rectify this, be more helpful and transparent. And in all fairness, there has only been one message that mentions such abuse. Still, yelling at me because your parents made you go to church when you were a child, does not solve anything. If anything, it makes you an annoying anon. What here, in West Europe, is a slight problem is that the folk magic narrative has been ignored for so long, that people forget it is even an option! We have various interesting magical traditions, as Wicca per example. Then mainstream eclectic witchcraft and paganism, and the respective heathen traditions. Which are all great, as I have spend a lot of time involved within various groups. And it is fashion to rant against Christianity as a whole. No matter what anyone says, this is a reality. Which is fine. But when you go into Catholic folk magic, it seems that it directly triggers this rant-response from other people. And usually it is not directed against you. No, it’s always against ‘The Church’. As if you, a lone practitioner, can change a thousand year institute overnight. Here there is a massive projection going on where all their frustrations and anger are thrown onto you, as if you are responsible for their feelings. And here’s the thing; you are not. In various cultures around the world, there is a good dose of Catholicism mixed in with local practices and beliefs. Even where saints suddenly get more pagan powers matched to them, or are mixed with local pagan deities. Working within one frame of mind, does not exclude another. If anything pagan and Catholic world-views are perfectly compatible for a magical practice. Though it seems that a lot of modern religious-magical practitioners seem to think it is either one or the other, but certainly not both. And that is a way of thinking that, ultimately, not only limits yourself, but especially your magical practice and magic in itself. So, dear anon’s who’s rants I refuse to post, think about this. What is it actually you are actually angry about? Me, one individual, or an institute as the RC Church. And if it is the latter, why rant at the first one? Seems more that a tad misplaced, doesn’t it? For anyone who wants to get into a Catholic folk magic practice; just because you want to work with saints, does not make you Catholic, nor does it endorse the actions of the church neither do you owe anyone a explanation about why you want to work within a certain frame. It just simply means you work within a Catholic folk magic frame.
Happy Easter! The good news is that salvation is bullshit!
So, well, it's not like anyone needs my approval to have whatever religious beliefs they have.
But today, Easter Sunday, I would just like to state for the record that I intensely disagree with and morally disapprove of the idea of sin and the idea of hell.
(Which means I also disapprove of any concept of salvation which is salvation from the whole "the wages of sin is death" thing.)
First off, the concept of right and wrong should be one of harm caused to actual people or things in the the real world, not of defiance of arbitrary rules created by an authority figure. Children feel bad when their parents are unhappy with them because their parents have the power to punish them. Sin and hell are taking these dynamics and projecting them onto God the Father. It's not real. It's not real ethics. When you're a kid, playing loudly when your mother has a headache and needs quiet isn't bad because your mother is an authority figure and she might get mad at you, it is exactly as bad, no more no less, than causing anyone who does not have authority over you extra suffering while they are not feeling well.
Suffering is bad (really shocking take I know), attempting to alleviate suffering is good and causing more suffering on purpose or through insufficient caution are bad. And some other things: respecting autonomy (letting people live their lives as they see fit) is good and denying autonomy is bad. Truth is good and deception is bad. Tending to the interdependent web of existence on earth is good and disrupting it is bad. All of these are in tension with each other all the time, but none of them should be in tension with obeying or defying the will of a made up super-parent.
(Am I saying God is not real? Not really. I think good people can believe in God or not believe in God, it's orthogonal to morality. Am I saying that conception of God is not real? Definitely.)
People will talk as though obedience to authority is a reasonable substitute for coherent ethics. It's not. For one thing, notice I claimed autonomy as a core value? Find that in the Ten Commandments. (It's not there. Nor is any reference to sexual violence, even though popularly everybody thinks sexual violence is one of the worst things people can do to each other.)
For another, the motivation is all wrong, people who follow moral rules to avoid being punished are fundamentally being selfish, and going from a selfish avoid-pain-supplied-by-authority motivation to a "other people have feelings and interiority" motivation is not that easy (it's actually much more direct to go from "this is what I find good or bad for me" to "maybe other people find similar things good or bad for them?") and "well I have a conscience, if I do bad things I feel guilty" isn't actually morality, it's just internalizing what other people want you to do, it's having a cop in the head. It's the "my parent will punish me" dynamic all over again. (I am acutely aware of this because my conscience makes me feel bad for things that are not actually ethical issues all the time, mostly about not being productive enough, and other times I'll do things that rationally I think are harmful and not get feelings of guilt. It's internalized authority, it's not ethics.)
For a third, sometimes when people do things out of fear of authority they are morally bad things. The Holocaust was a thing a government did. Wars are things governments do. Colonization is a thing governments do. Slavery. Baby snatching. Residential schools. Comfort women. The Crusades and the Inquisition were driven by the Church (and it's not like Christians are uniquely capable of committing atrocities in the name of religion either. Just that in the last several centuries they've had a tremendous amount of power.)
For a fourth, coercive authority is inherently bad. We understand coercion is bad when there is no "legitimate authority", we know that a schoolyard bully is not right for beating up a loner kid and we know muggings aren't right and armed robberies aren't right and we know you can't just tie someone to a chair and tell them you're going to hurt them until they agree to do everything you want them to under normal circumstances and pretend that's morally OK. But suddenly when there's a "legitimate authority" it's ok to torture and imprison people against their will and generally force people to do things they don't want to do? No. "Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong" extends to lots of things beyond the death penalty. Why do we hit kids to show that hitting kids is wrong? Why do we take people away from their families and everything they find enjoyable in life for causing some form of harm to others (at most justified) or because they stole or damaged someone's property or because (least justified) they got caught with a bunch of drugs on them? Why do we frown on gangs but fund police forces, which operate basically the same way as gangs? Why do we frown on killing people at home but give them medals and discounts at restaurants for killing people abroad?
You ever listen to someone with a child or a pet going off about "good girl" and "good boy"? You notice how it's almost never about actual morally right behavior, it's about what's convenient to the adult human? The cat eating your sandwich is "bad". (You being late to feed your cat is just your cat being funny for being so melodramatic over food though.) But a cat eating the food it can find is not being bad at being a cat, nor is it being unethical. It is doing what cats do to survive, and in as much as ethics even apply to cats that is actually being a good cat. If anything the human was being a bad human for leaving the sandwich where the cat could get to it. But the "nice" thing about being a pet owner is there's no one standing over your shoulder telling you you're doing it wrong, so you get to blame your cat for your bad behavior all you want. Or your dog. Or your child.
Kids should run around and be loud a lot of the time, and have their own wants and needs that are independent of their parents' wants and needs. Kids mostly should take care of their needs and learn and grow, including needs for play and for making friends and for getting attention and having new experiences. And learning for instance what happens when you fall from climbing all over something that was not designed to be climbed on.
And adults should...do things adults need, and as we're able help other humans get things they need when either it's likely to get reciprocated or when someone's in a situation where their needs vastly outstrip their ability to return favors. (And maybe not wreck the planet? That would be nice.)
Many Christians think that life on Earth is some sort of dress rehearsal or test before the main event of Heaven. But Earth is all we've got. And part of that is Earth functions on a cycle of life and death. Your body functions because cells have a life cycle and die and get replaced. And your ecosystem, such as it is, functions on organism having a life cycle and dying and getting replaced. And the biosphere, the entire living part of Planet Earth, functions on organisms having a life cycle and dying and getting replaced. We do die. The world will someday die. That's not the price of sin. It is the price of being alive.
And it is a cycle. I don't think we come back as us in any meaningful sense. Heck, I'm not entirely sure that the concept of an identity that spans a lifetime is not mostly illusion. But life comes back. The seasons cycle and the days cycle and the moon (the months) cycle and the cells die and new ones are born and organisms die and new ones are born, it cycles.
Now the green blade riseth/From the buried grain.
And Earth is our home. It's not some place out there that has no suffering or death or change, where everyone is frozen in place and does not grow. (It's not after the Revolution either, it's now, capitalism and everything.) It's HERE, with the suffering and the sickness and the disability and the death. (And the new life, and the growth, and the healing, and change change change change change change.) It's here. It's here. It's here.
A Brief History of Easter
As written by me during a bored shift waiting tables. And so it was that on the third day - this day! - (although not really this day because we don't trust the Jewish to run a calendar) Jewish political activist Jesus of Nazareth awoke from his coma to ask his followers why they hadn't checked for a pulse. This was clear proof of his divinity, as he had been crucified for his protest of a military presence in his people's holy spaces...kinda like the current issues in the Middle East that we ignore until money is involved. After this display of power he returned to his father's kingdom...by which I mean he died from complications that arose after being crucified and then left comatose in a damp cave. His sacrifice of being brutally killed for his unpopular political beliefs allowed for assholes thousands of years later to feel morally superior without ever having to life a finger to aid their fellow man. We celebrate this momentous occasion by: 1. Plying our children with candy and rebranded pagan fertility rituals 2. Displaying our wealth via our nicest clothing and massive feasts 3. Making sure said displays of wealth are publicly visible at church, where we expound on how dumb the Jewish are for not understanding their own holy books. Amen and Happy fucking Easter
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Friendly reminder this Easter: This, my friends, is the face of pure Evil. If any of you is unfortunate enough to see a baby bunny being abandoned on the side of the road, RESCUE IT AND ADOPT IT AND LET IT DEVOUR YOUR SOUL!!
-RK, Lilith Prime
NOPE
IT'S EASTER SUNDAY.
THIS IS TERRIBLE.
IT'S LIKE THANKSGIVING ONLY WORSE BECAUSE IT'S MORE RELIGIOUS. Ok so it's mostly my mom that makes it religious but still...
PROBABLY BECAUSE IT'S ON SUNDAY.
ALL THE FAM TOGETHER TALKING ABOUT MUNDANE STUFF AND WATCHING SPORTS AND "OH YOU SHOULD TALK WITH THE FAMILY THEY NEVER SEE YOU."
NO I DON'T WANT TO. YOU'RE GONNA WANT ME IN A DRESS AND TO TALK TO PEOPLE AND I'M JUST GONNA WANNA EAT AND THEN HIDE IN MY COUSIN'S ROOM. NO.
