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You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!
Spin the wheel to find out what!
How bad is it?
Actually way better than before!
Its good
It's alright
It's annoying but I'll be fine
It's pretty bad
IM DEAD
worse than death
Nothing changes/results
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Yeah I think most people do
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I haven't done a ritual for a while. This solar eclipse in Leo, developed by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, felt just right for me now.
My writings for the ritual.
My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.
Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.
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A/p/e/p worshipers have absolutely no place in the Kemetic tags. Especially not posting art depicting the destruction of our deities. Fuck off out of here, you fucking fascists (fascism is in fact under a/p/e/p's domains to me so that's all y'all are to me).
It's an open religion but y'all are appropriators using that out of context. And with that in mind, if it's comforting & not fucking you up...you need better discernment. That's not a/p/e/p but something using its name. Still don't want you around, though.
Greetings!! In all good faith, knowing very little about kemetism generally (more of an Assyrian/Sumerian mythos creature ourself), may we ask if you have source texts or similar bodies of work you might recommend to the class for anybody wanting to know more about the nature of the enmity between A/p/e/p and the kemetic pantheon and by extension creation? We would also like to ask if you would tell us why you sever its name in such fashion.
while I cant point you to a particular text, simply because I cant remember any, the Egyptian Gods' (Netjeru) main duty as gods, is to create and maintain Ma'at, the ideal form of Justice, Truth, and Order, and to defy and destroy Isfet, which are Injustice, Chaos, and Violence, and all that opposes Ma'at.
Ma'at is personafied by the Goddess Ma'at.
Isfet is personafied by A/p/e/p, usually depicted as a snake, that seeks to destroy everything that is Ma'at.
People outside kemetism likes to say A/p/e/p is a force of nature like Entropy, but the myth that says it originates from the umbilical cord of Ra is a newer addition to the myth. Because Isfet is thought to come from human's free will, it also makes sense (in my opinion) that A/p/e/p is created from the evil thoughts and actions of humans.
No Egyptian Deity can be Evil, that is to say none of the Netjeru can exists as an agent of Isfet, because the Netjeru exists and subsist through and because of Ma'at. The god Set (Sutekh) have been villainized due to Ancient Egyptian temple/religious politics but even then he still is, and even until now, and for eternity without end, The Slayer of A/p/e/p, the Destroyer of Isfet.
regarding the severance of the name: in the magic of ancient Egypt, heka, Names have great Power, and to desecrate a name weakens the being of said name. As Kemetics, we must sever the name whenever we see/write/say/think about it. The weaker A/p/e/p is, the weaker Isfet is, and the stronger Ma'at is, considering the state of the world, we need as much help as we could in defeating Injustice, Violence, and Chaos.
some links for extra reading:
Uh we do not recommend Butler anymore (Henadology). He's a fascist.
https://thetwistedrope.tumblr.com/post/93818075042/is-worship-of-apep-a-bad-thing
https://thetwistedrope.tumblr.com/post/66876342925/what-is-an-apep-or-apep-as-ive-seen-you-write
https://thetwistedrope.tumblr.com/post/91065107417/whats-apep-and-why-is-it-bad
https://thetwistedrope.tumblr.com/post/54552778063/adaoineile-hey-kemetics-how-would-dodo-you
From there you can start poking around for additional resources.
I think it's important to understand the desire to worship destructive and "evil" beings before we make judgements informed by the stagnancy of a(n unfortunately) dead religion whose followers seem only to focus on adhering to tradition rather than creating new philosophies engaging with the kemetic gods unbound by the inertia of historicity.
Now, I do not venerate the specific manifestation of human cruelty, evil, and so and so, but the world has revealed various destructive elements that we cannot divorce from the universe, aspects continuously engaging and participating with existence; therefore, by proxy, my reverence for all that is contains it. These forces are not contained in simple moral categories but are a part of more intricate system of cause and effect. A/p/e/p as evil personified can be symbolically demonised in order to engage with ritual banishing and wealth bringing, but understanding that it is contained still as a participating agent of the universe and should be respected as such that is also a political tool (a convenient character one could fault all problems on) should not be lost upon us. A/p/e/p as a figure emerges from the same impulse that caused abrahamic religions to create satan, the same imagery informed by it even. This is a figure that is created as a monster from its very conception, seen as the source of all evil, as if to say that the gods themselves are completely "pure" untouched by damage and harm and contamination. When something is at such an unfortunate state it isn't strange to see some empathising or feeling empowered by the imagery.
In the Mahavidya, we have Goddesses that signify pain, decay, sickness, residue and impurity, who are also the provider of boons and power, music, art. It is understood that destroys creates, what hurts heal, what feeds starve. It is understood that there is no true face of evil beyond that which also is the progenitor of good in the first place. Just like how dharmic philosophies and traditions had grown and change throughout time to reveal these wisdoms perhaps it's time we resurrect the living quality of a religion, a system which is dynamic and addresses the needs or revelations of the times, onto kemeticism.
That's a very large series of assumptions you got there.
Just because Kemetics don't publicly discuss new philosophies they create within their personal interpretation of their religion doesn't mean they don't exist. At a certain level of religious building it's common to stop discussing one's personal gnosis in a public setting (reasons vary and are frankly no one's business if the person in question doesn't wish to discuss them). Just because you don't personally see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Destructive elements outside of a/pep exist within the ancient Egyptian religion. It's part and parcel of the fundamental basis of our religion, ma'at. Those destructive forces are not divorced from the religion nor are Kemetics typically divorcing those concepts from our religion.
The very concept of a/pep is antithetical to life. Full stop. It isn't about cruelty or chaos or evil or anything either gods or man-made. It is the unmaking of all creation. There is no reverence to have for any being or personification in the unmaking of all existence.
Your soliloquy makes it very clear that you have a very cursory understanding of all of this. We spend extensive time researching our religion. We know what is and is not acceptable. We don't have some person on high standing in the way and dictating what we believe or not. We have taken the time and effort to understand a dead religion from an historical perspective and brought it to today. You've divorced the very central tenants of the faith from itself in order to defend people who have not done the time and research and exploration over the people who actually live the faith.
Just as I would not presume to tell you about your faith, I, and other kemetics, would appreciate the same courtesy.
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obsessed with how fixable society is, on a structural level.
obsessed with how all you need to do is throw money at public education and eliminate most standardized testing and you will start getting smarter, more engaged, kinder adults. obsessed with how giving people safe housing, reliable access to good food, and decent wages dramatically reduces drug overdoses and gun violence. obsessed with how much people actually want to get together and fix infrastructure, invent new ways of helping each other, and create global ways of living sustainably once you give them livable pay to do so. obsessed with how tracking diseases, developing medicines, and improving public health becomes so much easier when you just make healthcare free at point of use.
obsessed with how easy it all becomes, if we can just figure out how to wrench the wealth out of the hands of the hoarders.
i've lived in four different cities in my adult life and talked to literally tens of thousands of people about politics and the change they want to see in the world and the overwhelming majority of them wanted life to be better, happier, easier for everyone, and dreamed of that world. the only people who didn't think that way were A) really obviously in need of mental/medical care, or B) rich.
wanting universal free healthcare, well-funded public education, and social support for all people is the most unbelievably normie opinion that exists, even among people who have lots of bad or misguided opinions about other things. when you feel alone, know that the reason you feel that way is billions of dollars are being spent to obscure the fact that you are in the majority.
please give me a magic wand for universal free high-quality pre-K, well-implemented ranked choice voting with universal sufferage, electrify everything and get off fossil fuels yesterday, an exit ramp from capitalism as the only economic system worth respecting, and everyone having a modest stipend via UBI, and I will show you a world so full of human and non-human flourishing that our present era will be called the dim ages in comparison.
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