Posted by firemarshal1
Blessing
My name
Her pain
Hurtful
Somehow
I feel
Hopeful
Listen,
Like me
New plan
I swore
Good friend
I feel
Shameful
Posted by firemarshal1
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“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening,
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terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in
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this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the
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religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by
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giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their
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view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and
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learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;
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chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.
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Think for yourself.
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Question authority.”
Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man-a woman who was ‘one-in-herself.’ The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chasity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past…, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus-they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramatic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chasity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle-‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’ - the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshipped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.
- Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor in the book “The Great Cosmic Mother -Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth” (via wine-loving-vagabond)
(Source: sacredwoman)
I’m going to do my best to start posting here more, need an outlet for some writing
Posted by firemarshal1
Phallocentric shock and awe