I’ve not ever been discrete about my infatuation with her.
It certainly is. The problem is people have taken the spiritual elements combined with Asian mythology too far and these charlatans are making big money off peoples’ insecurities. It’s like those mediums or tarot card readers you have in the West, only people here are many times more superstitious and pay them lots of money and make stupid life decisions because of them.
The unit I was stationed at during my military service had a rat infestation in the officer mess. The exterminator put rat poison out overnight. I was the first to enter in the morning and saw lots of dead rats on the floor. I can’t describe the feeling. I’ve seen lots of dead people. Worked at a funeral parlor when I was a kid. But the dead rats somehow affected me because they looked like the souls had left or something(?) I don’t know. I was just feeling weird. It’s assumed that a dead person looks like a dead person, as in you can clearly tell he’s dead and I kinda rationalized that it was because the soul has left since I’m Catholic. But the rats looked the same in death. I think I felt like I should have given them a proper burial and do a little mourning or something…I don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore lol.
No, I get it. Dead things are weird. (Words are failing here, lol.)
I can imagine it would have been, I don’t know, intense?
I dunno, kinda like I owed them some respect by burying them properly and all. Then the mess steward came and swept all of them into the garbage disposal area and I just let it slide.
It does. Downright sucks. One more thing for which to “thank” momma. Tevye the milkman had several ironic statements on the topic.
That said, that ability is undoubtedly no small part why your profession chose you (or vice versa).
Did you watch Trolls World Tour just to listen to her voice? I did.
Yeah, I noticed that.
I grew up on the Apache reservation, theoretically Catholic, although really we were not so much Catholic (excepting my mom, who is actually now an Evangelical, as Catholic are too soft for her) as still pagans with a new set of names for the same ideas – e.g., Coyote and a certain trickster serpent being functionally equivalent and both bad news.
Anyway, the idea of everything being alive with the spirit of – something – is very much an Apache idea, too. I’ve talked with inanimate things and am fairly convinced they’ve listened, or been mad (or happy and sad) at what has happened. And I talking about things.
Animals, and horses in particular, have serious spirits and sometimes know and see things you do not. I’ve had a horse in a pen warn me – fricking going crazy – that there was someone around a corner laying in wait to cause me ill.
Anyway, I married a Jewish lady and went through a year-long conversion class, replete with daily reading, praying, videos, and lots of meetings with a Rabbi prior to marriage. As noted in other posts, it did not particularly stick.
But I was amazed at what overlap there was between Judaism and our pagan religion regarding the souls of things and animals.
And I, also, am deeply curious where Christianity (generally), dropped this concept. Probably the “enlightenment” or some such. I bet it’s just Western Europe Christianity.
Id just like to take this opportunity to point out that Anna Kendrick is from Maine.
You’re welcome.
Maine has the hottest chickies~
IME~
“I know we’re the chosen people, but would you mind sometimes choosing someone else??”
But, all things considered, it’d feel awful to not be chosen.
You’re a bigger fan than I. I salute thee. But she’s still MINE!
Lest anyone here thinks I’m exaggerating:
“The judge said Chan was not content with the HK$3 billion ($387 million) that Wang had given to him while she was alive and decided to claim her business empire and estate as well.”
What’s even weirder:
“Chan is a former feng shui master who changed his name from Tony after converting recently to Christianity.”
My kid likes peanut butter on toast for breakfast. I make this while doing my coffee. Each day I wonder what adding peanut butter to coffee would result in.
deliciousness given a decent blender. Butter coffee is amazing. I’m sure PB coffee woud only add flavour
The original, less successful, attempt at Bulletproof coffee?
I’d wager a 20 to 30 pound weight gainr
I’ve always wondered if penguins feel love
Have you tried showing them love, see how they respond?
Only when they win… 
Nikola Tesla has…