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Another Ravan Perch: A is for Ancestors, Before Us They Came
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-is-for-ancestors-before-us-they-came.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. A is for Ancestors, Before Us They Came. Many pagan traditions pay at least lip service to ancestors. But very few realize that we inherit more than our dashing good looks and health problems from them. We also inherit the society that they built, warts and all. Then, therefore, comes the question: If your tradition has an ancestor reverence component, how do you honor them and. This comes into play for everyone...
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Another Ravan Perch: H is for Homelessness
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2014/05/h-is-for-homelessness.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. H is for Homelessness. How would I cook, what could I eat or drink? I had no one to turn to, just my own skill and magic. I had to make some luck, and fast. But I will never forget, staring into a dingy bathroom mirror on a soon to be overpriced slum apartment (complete with roaches), telling myself I would never let myself get that desperate again. Another "spell", and one I remember and reinforce every tim...
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Another Ravan Perch: G is for Growth
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2014/04/g-is-for-growth.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. G is for Growth. Hey, it's spring! Shit is starting to bloom, people are putting in gardens, pollen is making people miserable. Stuff is growing. The question is, are you? No, I don't mean gaining height, or even girth. I mean inside. Sure, it's easy to vow to meditate more often, or do yoga, or make more frequent offering to our gods, but that actually involves no introspection or inner change. So the process o...
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Another Ravan Perch: White Person's Guide to Dealing With PoC.
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2013/06/white-persons-guide-to-dealing-with-poc.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. White Person's Guide to Dealing With PoC. Hopefully I don't stick my foot in it, but I have seen enough asininity on the net to choke a horse. I also don't believe it is the PoC's (Person of Color's) responsibility to teach white folks how not to be bigoted assholes. This is my attempt to teach politeness to the rude. Do not expect to be praised for talking to a PoC. Really. You don't get brownie points ...Is mo...
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Another Ravan Perch: Dear Stupid Republican Teabaggers
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2011/04/dear-stupid-republican-teabaggers.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. Dear Stupid Republican Teabaggers. When will you get the point that Social Security and Medicare are not "entitlements"? Entitlements" implies that somehow they weren't paid for, that people just feel "entitled" to them, something for nothing. You assholes. I've worked since I was 18, paying taxes into Medicare and the Social Security Trust Fund. With a puny voucher. What sort of fantasy land do you live in?
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Another Ravan Perch: Oh, Brother!
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2012/02/oh-brother.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. Here, PantheaCon 2012: Politics and the controversy over women’s rituals. Gus DiZerega mansplains away Z Budapests hate speach, and then further down in the comments refuses to use "cis-" - he uses "trans-women" and "women" because he feels that tras-women aren't "real women", and therefore abnormal:. From a person responding to Gus:. 8220;hvars þú böl kannt. Kveðu þat bölvi at. Ok gefat þínum fjándum frið”.
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Another Ravan Perch: D is for Dangerous
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2014/02/d-is-for-dangerous.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. D is for Dangerous. Last weekend I spent a day at PantheaCon. I couldn't afford to go to the whole thing, with having to work and all, plus I was feeling rather ambivalent about the "community" as present at the con, and running it. How dare you be angry! No one will listen to angry people! Fuck That. Shit. If that is now our community standard, the silencing of the aggrieved and marginalized until they learn to...
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Another Ravan Perch: The True "White Man's Burden"
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-true-white-mans-burden.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. The True "White Man's Burden". The white man's burden is his (her) privilege, racism, and unwillingness to stop others from acting on these things. Whites, including me, have the burden of a great weight of history to shed, the habits of generations to unlearn. We do So fixing it is our responsibility. We have to bear this burden to:. Undo our own racism,. Unmake our automatic, assumed privilege,. Practice empat...
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Another Ravan Perch: F is for Fear
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2014/03/f-is-for-fear.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. F is for Fear. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear" (Frank Herbert, Dune. Let's take a closer look. The final th...
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Another Ravan Perch: All FITB do X - NOT!
http://ravanoid.blogspot.com/2010/08/all-fitb-do-x-not.html
Yet another blog for spewing. This one may end up with a lot of religious and social content. All FITB do X - NOT! So, I've been following the snark that occurred when a wannabe anthropologist at Slate wrote How Black People Use Twitter - The latest research on race and microblogging. It, and the jingoistic graphic that went with it, spawned the cute and snarky hashtag. Posted a fantastic mixup of graphics and pointed snark. Shall we get really jingoistic here? See, social clusters happen in social media...
