2019
Better than this
Sunday, 15Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
I'm rather fond of bears.
Can't you just see this one watching?
Can't you just see this one watching?
Comments
“Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31”
Sunday, 15Sep2019 Filed in: studies
Two and only two
Saturday, 14Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝When someone starts offering two and only two alternatives, that's the cue to look for the fourth, fifth, and sixth choices.❞— NeoWayland, NeoNote — Abortion is not about women's rights
Watching the parade
Wednesday, 11Sep2019 Filed in: Gallery
A NeoWayland original.
Half fill a water glass with ice.
Put in one and a half fingers of lemon juice from concentrate poured slowly down the inside edge of the glass.
Put in one finger of lime juice poured slowly down the opposite inside edge of the glass so it sits on the lemon juice.
Very slowly, fill up the rest of the glass with V8 juice.
If you have done it right, you can see three separate and distinct layers of juice.
Top with a few drops of tabasco sauce.
Drink with a straw.
The flavor will change as you sip, the ice melts, and the juices slowly mingle.
Put in one and a half fingers of lemon juice from concentrate poured slowly down the inside edge of the glass.
Put in one finger of lime juice poured slowly down the opposite inside edge of the glass so it sits on the lemon juice.
Very slowly, fill up the rest of the glass with V8 juice.
If you have done it right, you can see three separate and distinct layers of juice.
Top with a few drops of tabasco sauce.
Drink with a straw.
The flavor will change as you sip, the ice melts, and the juices slowly mingle.
One off the bless list
Tuesday, 10Sep2019 Filed in: Bless list
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 egg
- 1 can of fruit cocktail
- brown sugar
Mix and bake at 350º for 1 hour with some brown sugar on top.
Lemon Lime V8
A NeoWayland original.
Blend pineapple with it's juice.
Add bananas and coconut. Blend.
Add OJ concentrate and water. Blend.
Enjoy.
- one 20 oz can of crushed pineapple
- two fresh bananas
- 1/4 cup of shredded coconut
- Add one 12 oz can of frozen OJ concentrate
- 1/4 cup of water
Blend pineapple with it's juice.
Add bananas and coconut. Blend.
Add OJ concentrate and water. Blend.
Enjoy.
South Carolina Barbecue Pork Burgers
More and more I'm thinking that this is a resource site and blogging is secondary.
So I put Befores, Quotes & Thinkums, Gallery, and the Timetable in the main menu bar. I think people will find these useful if they can find them more easily.
So I put Befores, Quotes & Thinkums, Gallery, and the Timetable in the main menu bar. I think people will find these useful if they can find them more easily.
Very simple cake
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 egg
- 1 can of fruit cocktail
- brown sugar
Mix and bake at 350º for 1 hour with some brown sugar on top.
Egg casserole
“Fall down twice, get up three times.”Probably related/derived from the old Japanese proverb Nana korobi, ya oki which translates as “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
No questions
Monday, 09Sep2019 Filed in: Gallery
Between the pose and the angle, there is no doubt that this young lady knows exactly what she wants.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 09Sep2019 Filed in: site news
Ro3 № 34
Thursday, 05Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Fall down twice, get up three times.”Probably related/derived from the old Japanese proverb Nana korobi, ya oki which translates as “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.”
Gibbs Rule #16
“If someone thinks they have the upper hand, break it.”
Law of triviality
Thursday, 05Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“If it works, it’s true.”
“If a pattern of belief or behavior enables a being to survive and to accomplish chosen goals, than that belief or behavior is “true” or “real” or “sensible” on whatever levels of reality are involved.”
How we treat the Other
Wednesday, 04Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ manifest
❝The trust we share among ourselves and how we use that trust is really what defines our community. I've said that how we treat the Other may be the defining characteristic of a great human civilization. I stand by that.❞— NeoWayland, Characters
Behind the scenes
Tuesday, 03Sep2019 Filed in: site news
“Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.”
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 02Sep2019 Filed in: site news
Organized Religion and Organized Crime
Sunday, 01Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Swimming and the sauna are two of the few non-sexual activities where nudity is openly accepted.
Read More...Contemporary paganism
Sunday, 01Sep2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
I use pictures available on the web. I don't mess with consent forms. I don't show photos of sex. I don't show photos of naked kids.
Read More...“The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29”
Saturday, 31Aug2019 Filed in: studies
A Pict Song
Thursday, 29Aug2019 Filed in: entertainment
“When I was a boy and would see scary things in the news, my mother would always say to me 'look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'”
“Have YOU Found Jesus?” (Author Unknown)
Thursday, 29Aug2019 Filed in: entertainment
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”Read More...
Look for the helpers
Monday, 26Aug2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Emotionally Extreme Experiences, Not Just “Positive” or “Negative” Experiences, Are More Meaningful in Life”
Read More...How to see
Monday, 26Aug2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ Gallery
“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”Read More...
Quietly
Monday, 26Aug2019 Filed in: Gallery
“The History Guy remembers the Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven lost days in 1750. It is a curious calendar-related piece of forgotten history that deserves to be remembere”
Read More...Added to the lexicon
Monday, 26Aug2019 Filed in: site news
“Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History #28”
Saturday, 24Aug2019 Filed in: studies
But for me, politics is not a part of paganism. Things don't go well when faith and politics are mixed. So I am saying that politics has nothing to do with the sunrise of the bright Moon. You can't find politics in an infant's laugh or in the call of a coyote.
Read More...Judge not by the label
Tuesday, 20Aug2019 Filed in: thinking by blogging
But for me, politics is not a part of paganism. Things don't go well when faith and politics are mixed. So I am saying that politics has nothing to do with the sunrise of the bright Moon. You can't find politics in an infant's laugh or in the call of a coyote.
Read More...Gentle touch
Monday, 19Aug2019 Filed in: Gallery
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 19Aug2019 Filed in: site news
❝There's an old saying that pagans are failed librarians.❞
“The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook: Crash Course World History #27”
Sunday, 18Aug2019 Filed in: studies
Sunrise at the Troll Wall
Wednesday, 14Aug2019 Filed in: Gallery
Casually
Monday, 12Aug2019 Filed in: Gallery⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Yes, I know this one is staged. But it is the casual acceptance of nudity that I'd like to see more often. We're born in our skin, we shouldn't be ashamed in it.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 12Aug2019 Filed in: site news
“In an era where women undress their outfits & give their bodies so carelessly, become the rare wild woman that undresses her mind and soul & knows the worth of what she has to offer.”
“The Seven Years War: Crash Course World History #26”
Saturday, 10Aug2019 Filed in: studies
Then I realized I was going to have to define intelligence.
Yeah. Okay.
What we call intelligence is actually three things that interconnect. Well, at least three things.
Read More...Old saying
Friday, 09Aug2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝This is the first truth.
We share life and through life we are all connected. We are measured in the lives we touch. We live to manifest and we manifest by living.❞
Intelligence
Thursday, 08Aug2019 Filed in: thinking by blogging
“Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can.”
First truth
❝This is the first truth.
We share life and through life we are all connected. We are measured in the lives we touch. We live to manifest and we manifest by living.❞
Undresses her mind and soul
Thursday, 08Aug2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Consider the holiness of your hands.
Thursday, 08Aug2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
See, people today like to forget, but pagans invented civilization. And trade. And philosophy.
Read More...My eighth sex rule
Thursday, 08Aug2019 Filed in: sex⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Really stand out
Monday, 05Aug2019 Filed in: Gallery
NeoNote — Not slur words
Sunday, 04Aug2019 Filed in: modern adult pagans⭐︎ NeoNotes
Before you can do one simple task, you have to do another task that gives you what you need to do the first. And before you can do the second, there is a third and fourth that you really should take care of.
Read More...“The Modern Shaman: A Guide to Carl Jung”
“Always work as a team.”
“The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25”
Saturday, 03Aug2019 Filed in: studies
“Like attracts like; to create a particular reality you must put out energy of a similar sort.”
Situational vortex
The outdoor humorist Patrick F. McManus had a piece where he talked about the situational vortex. Before you can do one simple task, you have to do another task that gives you what you need to do the first. And before you can do the second, there is a third and fourth that you really should take care of.
Working on my lexicon is sometimes like that.
I'd never heard the term black moon before. But in order to define that, I really needed to have a short blurb on February. And if I was going to do that, I really needed to do the rest of the months in the timetable as well. I'd only been putting it off for a year. Or five.
Anyway, a situational vortex is why sometimes something that seems simple ends up taking forever. Adding to a list of political links means going through the lexicon and finding the terms that are political. Then it means cross referencing those entires to the politics entry.
I enjoy it but it takes time. And it's not immediately obvious to the reader.
Working on my lexicon is sometimes like that.
I'd never heard the term black moon before. But in order to define that, I really needed to have a short blurb on February. And if I was going to do that, I really needed to do the rest of the months in the timetable as well. I'd only been putting it off for a year. Or five.
Anyway, a situational vortex is why sometimes something that seems simple ends up taking forever. Adding to a list of political links means going through the lexicon and finding the terms that are political. Then it means cross referencing those entires to the politics entry.
I enjoy it but it takes time. And it's not immediately obvious to the reader.
Gibbs Rule #15
“Always work as a team.”
Obsessed with Christians
I wrote about my thinking behind the link behavior here at Technopagan Yearnings and how I made it work.
Read More...Sunshine low in the sky
Monday, 29Jul2019 Filed in: Gallery
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 29Jul2019 Filed in: site news
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”
Revived 28Jul2019
Sunday, 28Jul2019 Filed in: site news
“Nudity is a problem for Americans. It disrupts our social exchange.”
“The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24”
Saturday, 27Jul2019 Filed in: studies
Link behavior
I wrote about my thinking behind the link behavior here at Technopagan Yearnings and how I made it work.
Read More...Lexicon mini-indexes
Thursday, 25Jul2019 Filed in: site news⭐︎ sex⭐︎ beliefs⭐︎ celebrations & passages⭐︎ philosophy⭐︎ rite & ritual⭐︎ studies
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.”
“The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23”
Saturday, 20Jul2019 Filed in: studies
“Bend the line, don't break it.”
Erase the past
Saturday, 20Jul2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ tellus
“Any pattern of data can be split into (at least) two patterns with “opposing” characteristics, and each will contain the essence of the other within itself.”
“Everything contains its opposite.”
I used to think that this was a silly thing Christians used to hide their own insecurity. And if I had my druthers, I'd put this is a caution box with the red banner and be done with it.
Read More...Added to the lexicon
Monday, 15Jul2019 Filed in: site news
My comments on the “Billy Graham rule”
“If anything can go wrong, it will — and in the most annoying manner possible.”
“The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22”
Saturday, 13Jul2019 Filed in: studies
Gibbs Rule #11
“When the job is done, walk away.”
Keep a notebook
Wednesday, 10Jul2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.”
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 08Jul2019 Filed in: site news
“Anything can be a person.”
Saturday, 06Jul2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners. Crash Course: World History #21”
Saturday, 06Jul2019 Filed in: studies
“In which John Green teaches you about the beginning of the so-called Age of Discovery. You've probably heard of Christopher Columbus, who "discovered" America in 1492, but what about Vasco da Gama? How about Zheng He? Columbus gets a bad rap from many modern historians, but it turns out he was pretty important as far as the history of the world goes. That said, he wasn't the only pioneer plying the seas in the 1400s. In Portugal, Vasco da Gama was busy integrating Europe into the Indian Ocean Trade by sailing around Africa. Chinese admiral Zheng He was also traveling far and wide in the largest wooden ships ever built. Columbus, whether portrayed as hero or villain, is usually credited as the great sailor of the 15th century, but he definitely wasn't the only contender. What better way to settle this question than with a knock-down, drag-out, no holds barred, old-fashioned battle royal? We were going to make it a cage match, but welding is EXPENSIVE.”
Read More...Added to the lexicon
Monday, 01Jul2019 Filed in: site news
“There’s something therapeutic about nudity… Take away the Gucci or Levi’s and we’re all the same.”Read More...
Seven Principles of Leave No Trace
“Every sentient being lives in and quite possibly creates a unique universe which can never be 100% identical to that lived in by another.”
“Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the Mongols: Crash Course World History #20”
Saturday, 29Jun2019 Filed in: studies
“You live in your cosmos and I’ll live in mine.”
Saturday, 29Jun2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
Rocky river
Monday, 24Jun2019 Filed in: Gallery
“In which John Green teaches you the history of the Indian Ocean Trade. John weaves a tale of swashbuckling adventure, replete with trade in books, ivory, and timber. Along the way, John manages to cover advances in seafaring technology, just how the monsoons work, and there's even a disembowelment for you Fangoria fans.”
Read More...“Venice and the Ottoman Empire: Crash Course World History #19”
Saturday, 22Jun2019 Filed in: studies
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 17Jun2019 Filed in: site news
“Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade: Crash Course World History #18”
Sunday, 16Jun2019 Filed in: studies
Therapeutic
Thursday, 13Jun2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ Gallery
Not the thing
“Like attracts unlike; energy and actions often attract their “opposites.””
“Opposites attract.”
Thursday, 13Jun2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“Wait For It...The Mongols!: Crash Course World History #17”
Saturday, 08Jun2019 Filed in: studies
“In which John Green teaches you, at long last, about the most exceptional bunch of empire-building nomads in the history of the world, the Mongols! How did the Mongols go from being a relatively small band of herders who occasionally engaged in some light hunting-gathering to being one of the most formidable fighting forces in the world? It turns out Genghis Khan was a pretty big part of it, but you probably already knew that. The more interesting questions might be, what kind of rulers were they, and what effect did their empire have on the world we know today? Find out, as John FINALLY teaches you about the Mongols.”
Read More...“Fairies, Aliens and Demons - Common Evolving Archetypes”
Monday, 03Jun2019 Filed in: studies
❝The deeper the passion, the harder it is to see beyond our expectations.❞— NeoWayland, pedestal problem
Between the moments
Monday, 03Jun2019 Filed in: Gallery
❝We pagans make a big deal about walking between the worlds, but sometimes I think we spend so much time trying to be in the world we want that we forget to be in the world we're in.❞— NeoWayland, Related to who?
“Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa: Crash Course World History #16”
Sunday, 02Jun2019 Filed in: studies
Dancing naked
Thursday, 30May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ Gallery
But there's a part of me that's sad that those ideas won't be part of the conversation going forward.
Read More...See beyond
Thursday, 30May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
Very little honor
Thursday, 30May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“You don't waste good.”
❝What’s in a name? — Everything!❞
Thursday, 30May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does.”Read More...
❝Nudity is a problem for Americans.❞
Thursday, 30May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 27May2019 Filed in: site news
Swimming
Monday, 27May2019 Filed in: Gallery
❝Nudity is not sex. Sex is not love. Love is not nudity. Your desire does not control another's choice.❞
We forget
Sunday, 26May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?: Crash Course World History #15”
Saturday, 25May2019 Filed in: studies
Journal - Friday, 24Mar2019
“Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.”
Revived 24May2019
Friday, 24May2019 Filed in: site news
These blog entries have been reformatted and entered into the current directories. Redirect pages have been placed in the old locations.
Read More...Nudity, sex, love
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
“Human beings are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.”Read More...
❝The Road goes ever on and on…❞
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ entertainment
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Desert
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ philosophy
“Understanding brings control; the more that is known about a subject, the easier it is to exercise control over it.”
Reinventing the wheel
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Habitual nakedness
“Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane.”
Three Laws of Thermosecurity
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
Ro3 № 32
“Once again there was the desert, and that only.”— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Human experience
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ”
My seventh sex rule
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ”
Ro3 № 31
“In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.' ”
Touch and sunlight
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.”
Part of nature
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: Gallery⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Gibbs Rule #4
“Mirrored Ceilings and Criss-Crossed Stairwells Give a Chinese Bookstore the Feeling of an M.C. Escher Woodcut”
Read More...Really there
Wednesday, 22May2019 Filed in: Gallery
Power trio
Monday, 20May2019 Filed in: Gallery
An unusual picture that is just about friendship, not fashion or titillation. Going by the amount of pubic hair, the jewelry, and the feathered hair, I'd say late 1970s to early 1980s.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
“The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They, Really?: Crash Course World History #14”
Saturday, 18May2019 Filed in: studies
“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
The future
Thursday, 16May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”
Listen objectively
Thursday, 16May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
❝Beings within…❞
Thursday, 16May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“Be so good they can't ignore you.”
McGee Rule #70
❝Humans do change the planet. But humans don't change the climate.❞— NeoWayland, anthropogenic climate change
❝Be so good they can't ignore you.❞
Wednesday, 15May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Be so good they can't ignore you.”
Bright smile
Monday, 13May2019 Filed in: Gallery
Added to the lexicon
Monday, 13May2019 Filed in: site news
Humans do change the planet
Saturday, 11May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ tellus
❝Humans do change the planet. But humans don't change the climate.❞— NeoWayland, anthropogenic climate change
Gaia is not a frail child
Saturday, 11May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ tellus
“Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars All Without a Flamewar: Crash Course World History #13”
Saturday, 11May2019 Filed in: studies
“In which John Green teaches you the history of Islam, including the revelation of the Qu'ran to Muhammad, the five pillars of Islam, how the Islamic empire got its start, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and more. Learn about hadiths, Abu Bakr, and whether the Umma has anything to do with Uma Thurman (spoiler alert: it doesn't). Also, learn a little about the split between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and how to tell if this year's Ramadan is going to be difficult for your Muslim friends. Let's try to keep the flame wars out of this reasoned discussion.”
Read More...“Fall of The Roman Empire...in the 15th Century: Crash Course World History #12”
Saturday, 04May2019 Filed in: studies
American obsession
Saturday, 04May2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
“In which John Green teaches you the history of Christianity, from the beginnings of Judaism and the development of monotheism, right up to Paul and how Christianity stormed the Roman Empire in just a few hundred years. Along the way, John will cover Abram/Abraham, the Covenant, the Roman Occupation of Judea, and the birth, life, death and legacy of Jesus of Nazareth. No flame wars! Let's keep the commentary civil.”
Read More...Added to the lexicon
Friday, 03May2019 Filed in: site news⭐︎ philosophy
Their compromise gave other faiths a wedge into the American religious landscape.
Read More...NeoNote — For your own good
It means I watch for the exceptions where neither IS nor IS NOT applies. It means our understanding is limited by our perception and assumptions at the moment.
Read More...“Christianity from Judaism to Constantine: Crash Course World History #11”
Saturday, 20Apr2019 Filed in: studies
❝If monotheism was all that amazing, it wouldn't have spent centuries trying to suppress alternatives. Still does in the case of some versions of Islam.❞
NeoNote — Mostly
It means I watch for the exceptions where neither IS nor IS NOT applies. It means our understanding is limited by our perception and assumptions at the moment.
Read More...If monotheism was all that amazing…
Sunday, 14Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or...Which Was It?: Crash Course World History #10”
Saturday, 13Apr2019 Filed in: studies
Added to the lexicon
Friday, 12Apr2019 Filed in: site news
❝Knowledge isn't mastery. Eclecticism depends on discipline.❞— NeoWayland, Eclecticism, Discipline, & Mastery
“Who Invented Parkour?”
“Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Alexander the Great and the Situation ... the Great? Crash Course World History #8”
Saturday, 06Apr2019 Filed in: studies
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
Added to the lexicon
Friday, 05Apr2019 Filed in: site news
Pagans can be some of the most computer literate people I know. But every once in a while, I run into a blind spot.
Read More...❝Knowledge isn't mastery. Eclecticism depends on discipline.❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“We’re developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won’t be able to think.”
Apologize
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
New citizenry
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝I got better at dealing when I stopped arguing and just did my thing.❞
❝The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
❝Beings within…❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“It is possible to establish internal communication with entities from either inside or outside of oneself, said entities seeming to be inside of oneself during the communication process.”— Isaac Bonewits, The Laws of Magic, The Law of Invocation
Better at dealing
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
The myth can be more comfortable than the truth, but the myth can keep us from growing
Read More...❝Don't start nothing, won't BE nothing!❞
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ entertainment
Don't worry
Thursday, 04Apr2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
Distasteful
Saturday, 30Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ simple
❝If we wrap ourselves in sorrow and pain and misery and self-loathing, then that is exactly what we attract.❞— NeoWayland, Invoking passion for failure or success?
Part of my offering
Saturday, 30Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝Honor and the other classic virtues are part of what we choose for ourselves as Pagans.❞— NeoWayland, The Old Breed
“2,000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius: World History #7”
Saturday, 30Mar2019 Filed in: studies
Added to the lexicon
Friday, 29Mar2019 Filed in: site news
Like calls to like
Friday, 29Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
❝If we wrap ourselves in sorrow and pain and misery and self-loathing, then that is exactly what we attract.❞— NeoWayland, Invoking passion for failure or success?
Classic virtues
Friday, 29Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝Honor and the other classic virtues are part of what we choose for ourselves as Pagans.❞— NeoWayland, The Old Breed
That's my joke you see.
Friday, 29Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
I've been doing some research and the possibilities look pretty good. Read More...
The universe has a sense of humor
Friday, 29Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
A novel?
Tuesday, 26Mar2019 Filed in: book
I don't know if I am going to try this yet. I've been doing some research and the possibilities look pretty good.
On another World, Sarah Tsinigine was elected President of the United States in 1912.
In 2011, Jack Greene dropped into ours.
In 2011, Jack Greene dropped into ours.
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Monday, 25Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also gets into the reign of Ashoka, the Buddhist emperor who, in spite of Buddhism's structural disapproval of violence, managed to win a bunch of battles.”
Read More...Personally I'd be willing to live and let live with Christians.
Sunday, 24Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ modern adult pagans
❝I don't understand why any group should change their language, practices, customs or actions when the shooter was not part of the group or the community.❞Read More...
I wouldn't call Christian Day an idiot.
Sunday, 24Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
NeoNote — This tragedy does not reflect on Heathens.
“In which John compares and contrasts Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. Of course we're glad that Greek civilization spawned modern western civilization, right? Maybe not. From Socrates and Plato to Darius and Xerxes, John explains two of the great powers of the ancient world, all WITHOUT the use of footage from 300.”
Read More...“Buddha and Ashoka: Crash Course World History #6”
Sunday, 24Mar2019 Filed in: studies
There is nothing that prevents people from following religious law. But there is nothing that demands others follow those same religious laws.
Read More...Two wolves
Wednesday, 20Mar2019 Filed in: studies⭐︎ practicals
“An old Grandfather said to his grandson, who came to him with anger at a friend who had done him an injustice, "Let me tell you a story.
I too, at times, have felt a great hate for those that have taken so much, with no sorrow for what they do.
But hate wears you down, and does not hurt your enemy. It is like taking poison and wishing your enemy would die. I have struggled with these feelings many times." He continued, "It is as if there are two wolves inside me. One is good and does no harm. He lives in harmony with all around him, and does not take offense when no offense was intended. He will only fight when it is right to do so, and in the right way.
But the other wolf, ah! He is full of anger. The littlest thing will set him into a fit of temper. He fights everyone, all the time, for no reason. He cannot think because his anger and hate are so great. It is helpless anger,for his anger will change nothing.
Sometimes, it is hard to live with these two wolves inside me, for both of them try to dominate my spirit."
The boy looked intently into his Grandfather's eyes and asked, "Which one wins, Grandfather?"
The Grandfather smiled and quietly said, "The one I feed."”— Two Wolves from First People
NeoNote — Religion & morality
“Well done is better than well said.”
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Friday, 08Mar2019 Filed in: site news
“Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.”
❝Life isn't about finding yourself.❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
Trouble
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of intermediate periods. Learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile with John Green.”
Read More...❝Do not let your fire go out…❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
Change
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ philosophy
“I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.”
Seek wisdom
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water if you would discover magic, for it is here that the old secrets are preserved.”
DiNozzo Rule #3
“Never underestimate your opponent.”
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Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
❝All things are possible, though some are more probable than others.❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
❝I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.❞
“Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.”
Multiple and diverse
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
Doxology
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
❝A thing is right…❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ ecology
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
❝Well done is better than well said.❞
Thursday, 07Mar2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Well done is better than well said.”
NeoNote — Politicos want problems they can stage-manage
Monday, 04Mar2019 Filed in: NeoNotes⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
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“Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes.”— Robert Watson-Watt. See also Rules of Three
“There’s always something new”
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
My sixth sex rule
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
DiNozzo Rule #1
“Don't sit on the sidelines while your people are in trouble.”
Innocent faith
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
❝Conservation is getting nowhere…❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ ecology
“In which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of territorial kingdoms, empires, Neo-Assyrian torture tactics, sacred marriages, ancient labor practices, the world's first law code, and the great failed romance of John's undergrad years.”
Read More...“Don’t do it if you don’t want it done to you.”
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
❝Bad money drives out good.❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“ When two coins are equal in debt-paying value but unequal in intrinsic value, the one having the lesser intrinsic value tends to remain in circulation and the other to be hoarded or exported.”— Gresham's law, (original version)
“The Story is not the Journey” banner
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
❝Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
Nature favors
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”
Easier
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The number of phenomena to be known is infinite; one will never run out of things to learn.”
Difficult problems
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ philosophy
❝Gods and Goddesses of myth…❞
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when allowed to flower permit us to be more fully human.”
“Mesopotamia: Crash Course World History #3”
Saturday, 23Feb2019 Filed in: studies
“Gods of Arabs before Islam”
Friday, 22Feb2019 Filed in: studies
❝We don't have a perfect solution. But we don't need one. We just have to make today better than yesterday.❞
❝Perfect is the enemy of good.❞
Friday, 22Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Third best, second best, best
Friday, 22Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”
Perfect solution
Friday, 22Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“I don’t explain — I explore.”
Curveball
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“If you’re not ready to find exceptional things, you won’t discover them.”
Mispronounce
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“The genius is the one most like himself.”
Explore
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”
Exceptional things
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
Genius
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Pardon, but I think there is a difference between rapes occurring and rape culture.
Read More...Everywhere I go
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”
NeoNotes — Rape culture
❝Rape is a terrible thing. Pagans and heathens have had more than our share of bad apples. We tend to attract the outliers and nonconformists.
But, America is not a rape culture. I won't speak for Europe. Not anymore.
The #MeToo movement never could have happened in a rape culture. It would not have been allowed. There would not be news stories about rape. Men would not be willing to talk to women about consent and mutual pleasure from sex. Nor would women have the right to own property, to vote, and to accuse rapists.
I bet that for every one person in America that thinks rape is acceptable, I can find thousands who don't. In those thousands, I bet that I can find hundreds who might decide a very physical response was appropriate. Personally I think removing body parts might be a good start.
By all means, do as you will to raise awareness of consent. Do what you can so people can enjoy sex with someone they care about. Respect each other and each other's boundaries.
But America is not a rape culture.
Thinking about it, that may be what bothers me most.
I firmly believe that most people are decent. I think I resent the implication that most men and women (yes, I said women) can't be trusted to behave themselves. There are always going to be bad elements, but most people are basically good no matter what their "race," gender, sexuality, or taste in socks. I resent the implication that people basically can't be trusted.
I think one of my pass-alongs sums it up.
“The people who pay attention to the law aren't the ones you have to worry about.”
Pardon, but I think there is a difference between rapes occurring and rape culture.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I think a rape culture actively and legally encourages rape. The examples that leap to mind are certain Islamic groups and nations.
We have thieves, but we do not live in a theft culture. We have murders, but we do not live in a murdering culture.
Rape is a terrible thing and absolutely should be punished. But not every person is a rapist, nor is every man. Today women are much more likely to be believed if they report a rape, that wasn't necessarily true twenty or thirty years ago. At the same time, I read about some of the things happening in Europe and Africa right now (even leaving out the Middle East) and I don't think American women have the slightest idea what a real rape culture is.
It's easy to toss the phrase around, but that doesn't mean it's accurate.
That isn't the case with most of American society and culture.
I will grant you that is glamorized and celebrated by certain very visible people. I also think that some if not most "feminist allies" call themselves that and say the "right" things so they can take advantage.
What I see is the assumptions and punitive measures taken against people (men & women) who don't rape or even think about it. And then I see abusive behavior excused if the person happens to have the right politics or connections, like what happened prior to #MeToo.
It's not even a matter of "all men are rapists." Almost all men aren't rapists and would be horrified if it happened to someone they know, much less care for. At the same time, men are castigated if they dare give an admiring look, or actually hold a door open for somebody.❞
NeoNotes are the selected comments that I made on other boards, in email, or in response to articles where I could not respond directly.
Only one difference
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Never screw over your partner.”
Eat and drink
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ philosophy
Gibbs Rule 1?
“I don't care who gets the laughs on my show, as long as the show is funny.”
❝You can become another.❞
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ studies
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
My fifth sex rule
Thursday, 21Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
Added to the lexicon
Friday, 08Feb2019 Filed in: site news
Abby Rule #9
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
‘I told you so'
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.”
Pursuit of truth and beauty
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
Full of magic things
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
Virtue
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.”
Strength and growth
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”
Who gets credit
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Always keep a spare.”
Clearest way
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Ro3 № 28
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
❝There are three types of history. There's the Official History™, there's the stories that people tell, and there's what really happened.❞— NeoWayland, Synchronicity, coincidence, perception, and perspective, see also Rules of Three
❝Just cause it’s invisible don’t mean it ain’t there.❞
Thursday, 07Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Dancing Trees
Wednesday, 06Feb2019 Filed in: Gallery
“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
Gentle stretch
Monday, 04Feb2019 Filed in: Gallery
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
❝Beings without❞
Thursday, 31Jan2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“It is possible to establish external communication with entities from either inside or outside of oneself, said entities seeming to be outside of oneself during the communication process.”
Ro3 № 27
Thursday, 31Jan2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
❝A living faith draws from three sources. There's what others have done before you. There's who you are and what you've done. And finally there's the link you make to the Divine. The dynamic tension shapes your faith.❞— NeoWayland, Faith Triad, see also Rules of Three
Polarities
Sunday, 27Jan2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ manifest
“Never apologize for grief. For honoring the memory of people you’ve lost by admitting how much they meant to you when you had them.”— David Weber, Uncompromising Honor
Ro3 № 24
Sunday, 20Jan2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“Study: People Who ‘Microdose’ LSD and Magic Mushrooms Are Wiser and More Creative”
Read More...Not even the same subject
Friday, 11Jan2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ philosophy
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Snow on red rock
Wednesday, 02Jan2019 Filed in: Gallery
“In which John Green teaches you about the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the largest of the ancient civilizations. John teaches you the who, how, when, where and why of the Indus Valley Civilization, and dispenses advice on how to be more successful in your romantic relationships.”
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A narrow slice of life, but now and again pondering American neopaganism, modern adult pagans & the World.
A narrow slice of life, but now and again pondering American neopaganism, modern adult pagans & the World.
Pagan philosopher, libertarian, and part-time trouble maker, NeoWayland keeps truths alive despite a wash of nonsense. But don't be surprised when he's doing the “nekkid pagan guy” thing.
There are pagan news & opinion sites. Technopagan Yearnings is not one. It’s more like a digital binder with interesting pagan stuff. And nudity. Don’t forget the nudity.
Since Wren Walker retired the Wren’s Nest of The Witches’ Voice, there is not really a pagan news site anymore.
The Pagan Vigil Reader is a pagan news aggregator.
You won’t find porn or erotica here. I do discuss nudity & sex, but I do not describe sexual events. As a naturist I admire the human body so you will find nudes here. You will not find photos of sex. There is some art showing sex and orgasms in a ritual or mythical context.
Updated weekdays when possible, otherwise irregularly as circumstances permit and the mood strikes.
This is the fourth major version of Technopagan Yearnings. I still have № 3 on file with it’s comments. I’ll convert that bit by bit as I get the chance. This version uses
RealMac’s RapidWeaver instead of Lifli’s iBlog.
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