Can’t deny the sun…pretty sure I read someone on the internet who didn’t seem to believe in it. Suppose they thought it was a big lightbulb. All mad on t’internet
Well, most of the ancient Druids were massacred by the Romans when they occupied Britain, and when the Romans adopted Christianity, many of the survivors simply went under cover and became monks. This might explain why so many of the pagan deities ended up being celebrated as saints by the Christians. Brighid is a good example, she was the Goddess of hearth and home, of wells and smithies, and the common place name Bridewell is derived from her. The fact that all the cross quarter days have Christian equivalents might also be explained by those sneaky undercover druid-monks.
Found it. Crazy woman (looked 20, sounded 11) thinks the sky and nature looks like screensavers (stick with it, gets better)…sunsets, especially extra pretty ones, are signs that the sun is changing and our world is going to be reset. She doesn’t think clouds are real because they come in different shapes. I gave up at that point because I was beginning to gibber.
It's a similar set of reasons as Chilco listed except I don't do the actual ceremonies with actual people (not really a joiner). I've always had an interest in mythology and folk tales so it was an interest even when I was a kid. I've never been involved with an organised religion, and am turned off by the idea of a 'superior' being dictating my behaviour and morality etc so Paganism for me is an opportunity to experience some of the elements of a religion without being beholden to a way of life. My beliefs are as valid as anybody else's, so it allows a certain amount of society without the restrictions of group think. It's as close to spiritualusm as I get, and it can be whatever I want it to be. Mainly just thanks that I'm still here on our wonderful planet. It appeals to the primitive in me too, that atavistic relic part of my soul that is only a step away from savage, and I've always tried to maintain that wild, instinctive part of my makeup.
I knew someone who would often talk about a distant man-made waterway. His most frequent statement was "Far canal"
It's horrific mate. I feel like this is only the start too and has been bubbling under the surface for a few years. Could do with a week's worth of thunderstorms tbh.
There was a man named George who got a new job. His fellow employees always met for a round of golf every Saturday. They asked George to meet them at 10:00 Saturday morning. George replied that he would love to meet them, but he may be 6 minutes late. On Saturday morning George was there at exactly 10:00. He golfed right handed and won the round. Following Saturday rolls around, and George says that he will be there, but he may be 6 minutes late again. He shows up right on time, golf's left handed, and wins the round. This continues for the next few weeks, with George always saying that he may be 6 minutes late, and then always winning the round golfing, either left or right handed. The other employees are getting tired of this, and decided to ask him what the deal was. They said, ''George, every Saturday you say you may be six minutes late. You never are. Then you show up and golf with either right handed or left handed, and always win. What is up with that? George replies, ''Well, I am a very superstitious kind of guy. Every Saturday when I wake up, I look over at my wife. If she is sleeping on her left side, I golf left handed. If she is sleeping on her right side, I golf right handed.'' ''Well,'' one of the employees questioned, ''What happens if she is laying on her back?'' George replies, ''Then I am 6 minutes late.''
A Husband and Wife at Custody court. The judge looks sternly at the ex wife. Judge: "Why do you think you deserve custody of the child?" Ex wife: "I brought him into this world so I should have custody of him." Judge: "That is a simple yet good reason." Then the judge looks towards the ex husband. Judge: "Why do you think you deserve custody of the child, sir?" The ex husband thought long and hard about his response, after a brief moment of silence, he replies, "If I put money into a Pepsi machine and a Pepsi comes out. Is it mine or the machine’s?"
A turtle came up onto the Poniente beach at Benidorm and laid its eggs. Couldn’t have picked a much busier beach to visit, but the eggs are being safeguarded whilst waiting for the experts from Valencia to arrive and relocate them to a quieter and safer beach . This is the third report of turtles laying eggs on local beaches, with Los Locos (Torrevieja) and La Mata (a few kilometres north of the Los Locos beach). https://x.com/POLICIALOCAL/status/1821083435592487278
I don’t know if it’s a national initiative, or just a Valencia region one, but police have been carrying out checks on those irritating electric scooters that are starting to gain a foothold over here. They have been setting up road checks to ensure that the scooter rental companies are licensed and ensuring that the speed is limited to the legal requirement, by using roller machines to determine the speed capabilities of the scooter. Failure on either count is seeing the scooters impounded. On my Urb, a week ago, I was driving up the main road and just as I was about to accelerate onto roundabout, 2 electric scooters (presumably ridden by Brits) came hurtling towards me having taken the roundabout as you would in the UK - clockwise instead of anti clockwise. Had I been going at any real speed, as many visitors to the golf course do, I could easily have smashed into the first rider and maybe the second too. Neither were wearing any form of protection, including helmets. So instead of writing about what the police are doing with electric scooters I could have been writing about how I had killed somebody.
