#inventing religion

[thewitchfarhan]

Introduction (About & DNI Below):

Hi everyone 👋

I am a 24 y/o white, disabled (hard of hearing), neurodivergent (ADHD +), queer transman (he/him) - and witch.

You can call me Farhan 🧙🏻

I was raised Roman Catholic by my Catholic mother and Methodist father - but left The Church at the age of 13.

Around this same time I began a solitary Wiccan practice (under the guidance of works by Scott Cunningham📗). Over the past 11 years my practice has evolved and grown, and can no longer fit into any one label or school of witchcraft. But I would describe my practice as being inspired and influenced by Wicca 🌙 (specifically the works of Scott Cunningham 🏳️‍🌈), Hellenic Paganism 🏺, Hinduism 🕉️, and Buddhism ☸️.

This blog will act as a place for me to work on and post about my personal practice - as well as my thoughts and opinions on religion, spirituality, and history.

If you’re interested in that sort of thing, feel free to follow!

DNI (Do Not Interact):

- If you’re not LGBTQ+ friendly and/or a TERF.

- If you’re racist, colorist, or xenophobic.

- If you’re a minor (18+ only please and thank you).

- If you’re a Christian.

- If you’re a conservative/republican or apolitical.

- If you’re gonna trauma dump in my asks/inbox.

- If you believe only women can be witches 🙄

#religion #pagan #intro post #witch #witchblr #Wicca #wiccablr #paganblr #buddhism #hinduism #queer witch #trans witch #inventing religion #religion-for-sale #religion for sale

[thylacid]

One of my favorite things about warrior cats is the way that there are so many things that are just so so strange . What are your guys' favorite insane warrior cats things tell me in the tags or smth

#posts from my evil lair #warrior cats #personally for me its the birthing stick #its so funny to me. i genuinely think abt it a lot #though i also think its funny that jayfeather went back in time and invented religion Who let him do that

[p4nishers]

yeah your rituals may be intricate but have you ever had your life saved by the person who was supposed to let you die? have you ever been seen as never been before by that person and changed by him seeing you? have you ever been faced with the devastating realization that he didn't remember you, two separate times? have you ever had to watch him die over and over and not been able to do anything about it? have you ever looked at him and decided that nothing was more important to you than his life? have you ever taken up the biggest burden you could so he would live in peace and still listened to everything he was doing because you couldn't let him go?

#have you ever loved someone so much it felt like inventing a religion #lokius #loki #mobius m mobius #loki series #loki season 2

[canisalbus]

I just wanna say that your gay dogs have singlehandedly rekindled my obsession with the Renaissance, help

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#good GOOD #answered #quorine #for the record I don't think renaissance was the specialest most unique galaxy brained era like it's sometimes portrayed to be #I don't think it's even my personal favorite #but it was interesting! I like learning about it! several inventive things happening in fields of art and science at least #history art & religions are some of my special interests and renaissance italy is definitely one of the points where they meet very closely

[chamerionwrites]

Intellectually I understand where people are coming from, but personally I do THE biggest double take every time someone boils down conservative Christian ideology (and/or secularized cultural reflections thereof) to a kind of dour puritanism that proclaims happiness is sin/suffering is a moral good/everyone should be miserable all the time. Like I get it! I do. But also, institutionally, I have never met a group of more passionate worshippers and vicious defenders of their own comfort than evangelical Christians. There is a reason the common thread between my various weird triggers more or less boils down to "toxic positivity." There is a REASON my exvangelical tag is #walking away from omelas.

#one of my biggest problems with half-cooked critiques of christianity tbqh #and fundamentally it's just the flip side of the same coin #to liberal christians going 'well republicans aren't REAL christians bc they flout the teachings of their own holy text' #religions are socially as well as ideologically constructed! 'real' christianity is christianity as it is really practiced! #valid critique WITHIN the faith perhaps but not that meaningful (and in fact kind of willfully dense imo) take on christianity as a whole. #likewise trying to pin the evils of institutional christianity on some fatal underlying theological flaw is getting the issue backwards #in much the same way that treating race as a biological reality as opposed to a social construct is getting things backwards #empires do not rob and murder and enslave because they are racist. #they do those things out of naked self interest and invent racism to justify themselves and prop up their power. #walking away from omelas #my posts

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#SawStop #science #inventions #religion is a mental illness

[4ce-of-2pades]

Hazel: Are the Bendy cartoons still around? I only got to see a few of them back in the 30s, but…

Leo: Oh that’s right, you don’t know! There’s, like, this big famous conspiracy around that old animation studio, because a bunch of people who worked there went missing, and no one ever found them. It’s on basically every true crime show. Hang on, let me google it…

#maybe leo listens to true crime podcasts while he works on inventions #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #hoo leo #leo valdez #hoo hazel #hazel levesque #bendy and the ink machine #I’m entertained by the idea of joey drew studios existing in the pjo universe #sammy lawrence and his cult are manifesting a new religion through sheer willpower #move over zeus there’s a new god in town

[theasexual-jackson]

Has anyone else noticed some people starting to grow against monotheism, or even theism in general, or....

Okay so, yesterday night, in a video talking about cultures with more than 2 genders (which are many, btw), someone said that monotheism ruined everything.

And I corrected them, saying: Actually, only christianity, because christianity was the only one to dominate the world and get lgbtphobic at some point in the hands of europe.

And they were like: No, all 3 religions are homophobic, islam being the worst of them, you must hate the west.

???

I doesn't help any bit knowing that most people think all the 3 religions (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) worship the same God (It is worth remembering that they are based on the same Abraham, but not on the same God. Because it is impossible for the God of Christianity, who sent Jesus to be a savior, to be the same God of Islam, where Jesus is, as far as I know, a prophet) and have the same morals, rules or even doctrine as Christianity.

And I'm scared, because this association could lead into a wave of islamophobia and anti-semitism (which are racist, because you're going against a non white culture in specific).

Or, this could be a small paranoia my brain created and Jewish and Muslim + Arab people are safe, nonetheless. 😃🤷🏽‍♂️

I want to hear y'all's opinions, please, I can't stand this feeling growing up insida'me- 🙇🏽‍♀️😭

#jew #judaism #muslim #islam #genuine question #religion #christian #christianity #racisim #religious intolerance #i hope this is just an invention from my head #cuz I don't want people of colour with their cultures of colour getting called homophobic or misogynistic just because #some white guys decided to get a middle eastern culture and do shit with it #specially when one of those actually has more than 2 genders and it's open to women's liberation

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

#BEGONE!!! *wizard beam blast leaving a black smoking crater in the middle of the tumblr dashboard* #I think another downside to everyone doing everything on phone apps on shitty tiny screens nowadays is the inability to really see details #of an image and thus its easier to share BLATANTLY fake things like.. even 'good' ai art has pretty obvious tells at this point #but especially MOST of it is not even 'good' and will have details that are clearly off or lines that dont make sense/uneven (like the imag #of a house interior and in the corner there's a cabinet and it has handles as if it has doors that open but there #are no actual doors visible. or both handles are slightly different shapes. So much stuff that looks 'normal' at first glance #but then you can clearly tell it's just added details with no intention or thought behind it. a pattern that starts and then just abruptly #doesn't go anywhere. etc. etc. ) #the same thing with how YEARS ago when I followed more fashion type blogs on tumblr and 'colored hair' was a cool ''''New Thing''' instead #of being the norm now basically. and people would share photos of like ombre hair designs and stuff that were CLEARLY photoshop like #you could LITERally see the coloring outside of the lines. blurs of color that extend past the hair line to the rest of the image #or etc. But people would just share them regardless and comment like 'omg i wish I could do this to my hair!' or 'hair goallzzzz!! i #wonder what salon they went to !!' which would make me want to scream and correct them everytime ( i did not lol) #hhhhhhggh... literally view the image on anything close to a full sized screen and You Will SEe #I don't know why it's such a pet peeve of mine. I think just as always I'm obsessed with the reality and truth of things. most of the thing #that annoy me most about people are situations in which people are misinterpreting/misunderstanding how something works or having a misconc #eption about somehting thats easily provable as false or etc. etc. Even if it's harmless for some random woman on facebook to believe that #this AI generated image of a cat shaped coffee machine is actually a real product she could buy somewhere ... I still urgently #wish I could be like 'IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION. YOU SEE???? ITS NOT REALL!!!!! AAAAA' hjhjnj #Like those AI shoes that went around for a while with 1000000s of comments like 'omg LOVE these where can i get them!?' and it's like YOU #CANT!!! YOU CANT GET THEM!!! THEY DONT EXIST!!! THE EYELETS DONT EVEN LINE UP THE SHOES DONT EVEN #MATCH THE PATTERNS ARE GIBBERISH!! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THEY ARE NOT REAL!??!!' *sobbing in the rain like in some drama movie* #Sorry I'm a pedantic hater who loves truth and accuracy of interpretation and collecting information lol #I think moreso the lacking of context? Like for example I find the enneagram interesting but I nearly ALWAYS preface any talking about it #with ''and I know this is not scientifically accurate it's just an interesting system humans invented to classify ourselve and our traits #and I find it sociologically fascinating the same way I find religion fascinating'. If someone presented personality typing information wit #out that sort of context or was purporting that enneagram types are like 100% solid scientific truth and people should be classified by the #unquestionaingly in daily life or something then.. yeah fuck that. If these images had like disclaimers BIG in the image description somewh #re like 'this is not a real thing it's just an AI generated image I made up' then fine. I still largely disagree with the ethics behind AI #art but at least it's informed. It's the fact that people just post images w/o context or beleive a falsehood about it.. then its aAAAAAA

[lord-squiggletits]

After I write that new IDW Optimus meta, the next one is gonna be a post of "why I really hate that theory about Rodimus being a better Prime than Optimus and how it doesn't even match the themes of IDW OR canon fact about how the Matrix functions."

But the TLDR that I feel like encapsulates where a lot of this fanwank comes from, is that I feel like ppl don't properly appreciate that the context of Optimus and Rodimus' leaderships are extremely different.

Like, Rodimus only led a ship of about 200+ people. This means that the scale of his leadership responsibilities and the risks/consequences/stakes of his actions as leader were much smaller in scale. However, it also means that just because he only led one ship of people doesn't mean that his choices weren't important/weren't indicative of his personal character (that is to say, just bc it was only one ship doesn't mean that it had no meaning or significance at all).

On the other hand, Optimus led an entire freaking army over a 4 million year war that arose from political tensions that began even before he/most of the people in the war were born. That means that the consequences of his leadership had extremely far reaching consequences no matter what he did, which grants him a large degree of culpability/blame for his actions. HOWEVER, it must also be said that under the pressure of fighting an impossible war, just because OP wasn't able to "stop it sooner" doesn't mean that he was a morally bad/incompetent leader, because a whole galactic war is such a huge burden that one person can't possibly stop it or influence/control everything to make the most morally correct and peace-causing decisions.

TLDR can we please stop pitting Optimus and Rodimus against each other when the contexts of them being leaders was so vastly different (and they had such different leadership styles in general) that you can't really say "who's the better leader" without minimizing either of their accomplishments/magnifying their respective flaws.

Also, canonically speaking the Matrix can be wielded by anyone who's confident/at peace/self-righteous enough to believe they're worthy of it, which was shown not only by the ending of LL where a bunch of regular ass crewmates were able to use copies of the Matrix, but by the fact that the first Prime/ruler of Cybertron Nova Prime was a massive piece of shit who colonized people, yet was still a Matrix bearer who wielded the true/original Matrix.

And also Primus is literally Just Some Guy and not some omnipotent god who's an objective arbiter of morality that can point at a guy and go "YOU are the Specialest Boy Ever and are Divinely Mandated To Be A Good person"

So the entire premise of why ppl even make theories and debate about this is beyond me lol. In IDW1 the Matrix is more of a social/cultural symbol than it is an actual measurer of morality, which is in line with IDW1's consistent themes of challenging the inherent rightness of authority

#squiggposting #like frex i wouldn't say rod is inherently a worse leader just bc OP was a general and he wasn't #not every good leader needs to be The Top Leader In Charge and small scale impacts are important in their own way #likewise i wouldn't say that OP is inherently a worse leader because bigger and badder things happened under his leadership #bc the problem is that when you're a leader of a whole ass army the scale of all of your actions is much larger #so just as your heroic deeds and victories will be larger. so too will your fuckups and flaws #OP and Rod are also both good people with good intentions so like #which one of them is a 'better person' is generally subjective and more up to how you individually measure their virtues/vices #meta #i mean literally one of the central sources of conflict in idw1 (functionism) was put into place by a religious body #sooooooo why is it ppl are using the matrix as a religious justification for who The Best Prime is? #like bud the last time cybertronians used religion/alleged godhood as justification for their leader/government #they invented a fucking caste system and colonized the galaxy #even if the matrix had some divine power to objectively decide on Moral Goodness it's kind of a shit judge of character

[thewitchfarhan]

I am currently working on developing my own religious/spiritual practice that is a syncretism of Hellenism, Hinduism, and my own independent beliefs.

It’s called Kaênaastha and I’m really happy with how it’s turning out atm. If anyone’s interested I can share more about Kaênaastha and how to go about inventing your own practice 🥰

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#thewitchfarhan #Kaênaastha #Kaenaastha #textpost #inventing religion #witch #personal practice #NRM #new religious movement #new religious movements

[tearlessrain]

my favorite way to play minecraft in survival mode is to pretend I’ve been stranded on an alien planet as the sole survivor of some kind of horrible spaceship explosion. it adds so much internal drama and pulpy scifi gravitas that the game does not warrant in any way and I love doing it so much.

#an alien planet that has regular ass wolves on it for no adequately explored reason #sorta like elfquest #except instead of some ethereal shapeshifting trans-dimensional being I’m some guy who punches trees #I also invented a whole religion for the villagers that was fun

[sais-12-blog]

And I'm only watching it because it was mentioned in the Good Omens fandom of course. Why else would I watch another piece of fiction inspired on the bible if not for my ineffable idiots ?

#hazbin hotel #good omens #the word of the lord is everywhere and we cannot escape it #you know in every piece of biblie fanfiction at the end we all realised that God isn't the one in the wrong #but the whole organized religion the humans invented to control each other and that sucks

[wayti-blog]

Anything considered spiritual or metaphysical is generally just the physics we do not yet understand.

Nassim Haramein

#spiritual science #greater reality #big picture #spirituality #physics #religion #philosophy #metaphysics #understanding #science #technology #inventions #discovery #thinking #feeling #learning #connection #attunement #energy #source

[wayhavenots]

I want to make a dragonborn tav for bg3 and since I'm lazy I'm going to make it my current dnd character's sibling. (He is a bard and was always the smallest in his family; he left home in part because he wasn't strong and didn't fit in with his siblings.)

But I have now brainstormed too many siblings, so pick one for me! If you want lol. No pressure because I probably won't finish my Apology playthrough for a few months. More info under the cut.

Ophiwophyl (she insists on the full name, do not call her Waffle) is the oldest at 42. She is closest to the stereotypical knight in shining armor, sworn to do good with the gifts bestowed upon her by the dragon god of strength (those gifts being her massive muscles). She is very serious and solemn in her oath.

Jaxi is the youngest at 25. She likes to have fun! And smash things! She is very uncomplicated and likes it that way!

Dazzak (Daz) is 40, charming and handsome. His main concern is looking good while he's adventuring. And he does. He's been married four times, but who's keeping track?

Rhogar is 37. They joined a monastery fifteen years ago and are devoted to the dragon gods. Among other things, they heed the dragon gods' calling by offering all of their gold and, on occasion, adventuring to find more.

#feel very free to ignore this #the dragon gods/their religion is invented by my friend so i won't give too many details #imagining a little novel with them grouping up and adventuring together on the way to a wedding or something #but anyway for the purposes of bg3 i would just want to pick one #but i love them all now unfortunately

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing 'compassion' for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about." -- Thomas Sowell

#Thomas Sowell #industry #free market #capitalism #inventions #religion is a mental illness