#stone stuff

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Got a new stone necklace ;D (the pink one)

Claiming that this was an ancient culture like Atlantis

and I am

I am so

I don’t even

how can people be like that ffs. Lemuria was a landbridge proposed back in the day before people knew about plate tectonics to explain the fossil record across the indian ocean. 

Until some woo idiot got their grubby dollar-grabbing hands on it nobody in fucking ever connected it to woo.  

ok, so I have to judge my looks and the verifiable physical properties (like ‘melts in a candle flame. Btw a candle flame can reach easly over 1100°C so that’s not honestly not as cold as people think), but I’m strongly suspecting that Lek Lai is in fact a mineral known as Goethite. 

It’s weakly magnetic (what with being an iron ore) and I would chalk up any ideas about it becoming ‘heavier or lighter’ to that. Additionally, it only got a mohs hardness of 5 to 5,5 which is pretty damn low, and a melting point of only 350°C (as we covered above, a candle can do thrice that easily).

(2) The body. That does mean that it’s actually magic, a spell, or any kind of charm. I mean okay maybe it could be a charm in someways. but it’s not completely that way because the person who is putting the rock on themselves is not in the paradigm that it needs to be in that. Like the idea of sympathetic magic and/or animistic qualities needs to be further explored in context to provide paradigmal explanations of why that rock = cleanser or whatever rock it is. Like it could be the color

(3) is the reason it is because urine and such. Or maybe the concept is that the rock somehow, by sitting on top of the organs, is charmed to help ya liver process toxins better because magic. But that all requires like… a paradigm. A knowledge base. And certainly a technique to be established rather than “Put Rock on point A u b k”. Understanding a paradigm is understanding a technique. Having a bare, cherry picked fucking technique out of paradigm is literally unhelpful for those who are

(4) Trying to learn how to do the technique or who are practitioners of that technique passing their practices forward to others. It basically says that there is a universally, widely accepted, everyone does it, thing with critine. Like you wanna talk woo with me, you want to talk spells and techniques with me, don’t come at me with some cherry picked, outta context, no one knows what the base paradigm is. And certainly don’t sit there and say “Oh well I used language to hint that this isn’t

you can get an allergic reaction to basically everything, I’m afraid. 

What you could do is avoid wearing the item directly on your skin, either by getting a pendant with a completely closed back, or by having it sealed in somehow, though the sealant itself may influence the color and/or appearance of the stone. 

Generally, if they sell it at a jewelry store it’s ok to be worn though that still may not preclude allergies and always remember that many gemstones are sensitive to light or sweat and may not be intended for extended wear to begin with.