Question for all our pagan friends on his board! Do you consider things like wights, the aelfar, the fair folk, nymphs, dryads, kitsune, elementals and the like to be beings, gods, spirits, or something else? Why?
I've known people who have children because they desire unconditional love, I've known people who get dogs for the same reason. There are people who the only 'happy' spot in their lives are when their pets are begging them for food or pets and they are being rewarded with companionship and...
Being a former Christian, I don't think I ever could or would go back to that, even if I knew it was real. I don't think 'exists,' should be the ticky box that matters. That said, I have issues with any deity who claims to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.
I think worldwide there are varied beliefs in the ideas that words, especially names, have power. Romani have names they don't share, some Native American tribes don't choose their name until much later in life, or never share true names with anyone but their spouse, if at all, in Celtic belief...
Amish communities, like the ones near where I live have shunning. It means once an Amish person has taken baptism, their tied to the laws of the ordnung. If they commit a major sin and refuse to repent (usually publicly) they are 'shunned.' This is called Meidung. It can vary in severity from...
Because there are multiple Houses that are inherited by females in the series, several with brothers?
I think some of the characters are misogynistic, and that the culture of the books has obviously come from a misogynistic place in the past, and that the Dothraki are misogynistic, but I think...
So, is the problem the Lannisters, or children inheriting? Is it inherently misogynistic, or is it misogynistic because Tywin is a pig's posterior? Because women can and do inherit across the Kingdoms. Is the problem the House involved or the laws? No law says Cersei can't inherit, obviously...
I'm glad that didn't come across as 'Wah, poor me,' or just plain bratty. It was an honest question. I've talked with people in the past who feel that because God (in their view) created us, he therefore has the right to do whatever he wants with us, and we are supposed to worship him because he...
So because she doesn't have a country of her own, it's misogynistic? She doesn't lose her land, her money, her possessions, she just doesn't get to rule as queen in her own right. Why is that misogyny? She didn't fight a war.
And you still haven't said whether you feel children inheriting is...
I like my Jewish Study Bible. One of the best presents I ever got. It really helped with parallel readings, and trying to learn Hebrew. (And no, I've sill not learned enough to be confident about anything except I need to learn more.)
But why do you consider them misogynistic? The queen did not win the throne, she married it. Why should she get to inherit the throne over their children? Especially if (as in many historical cases) she had conflicting interests, due to being from another country or having a country of her own...
I did read the thread, and I don't have issues with most of it, I just have issues with the idea you stated not too many posts ago that if the laws were not misogynistic, everything would have gone to his wife. That's all. Why such a thing is misogynistic. Not is it proof of misogyny, but why...
I do think the medieval world was misogynistic, I just don't think laws that have one's children inheriting over one's spouses automatically mean misogyny. I don't think we can look at the fact that Cersei didn't become queen (something she had no right of blood to) and use that of proof as...
Why? If Joffrey and Myrcella's birth order had been shifted, and Joffrey still inherited, I would understand the argument, but that didn't happen. When my mother died everything she had went to me, not my father, is that misandry?
Romani have a higher rate of phenylketonuria than people not in our ethnic group, across clans. So if we screen for nothing else, we screen for that, is that racist? No.
Why? She was not of his House, she repeatedly rejected his House interests for her own, and he (believed) he had a son by blood. Why would she inherit?
I think polytheistic concepts of sin are varied because the cultures are varied. Monotheism is, by it's nature, obsessed with absolutes. This often puts it in an uncomfortable place when absolutes are unexplained or illogical (ie: if God is all powerful, Biblically why did a pagan sacrifice...
I know, right? I'd write it off, except it happened four times.
Yep. Wear what you like, screw what everyone else thinks. :)
Molly Weasley syndrome. "Oh, you're looking a bit thin, dear." "Oh, that dreadful earring!" "Just let me take a bit off of the top, you're hair's gotten so long!"
I'm used to being stuck in the middle. :) I think if you're not ******* off someone, you need to reevaluate why you're doing what you're doing -- not because it's a good thing to brass people off, but because people tend to eventually fall into inertia in our own lives, taking the path of least...
I think I would want to, but for me personally, having been molested when I was young, I don't think I physically could, at least not willingly. Body would overthrow brain and go into survival mode too much.