We wouldn't, I would consider myself a nice person all round but I think online I can sometimes be a bit more straight up which sometimes comes across as rude. I think the problem is the lack of non-verbal communication, you can't really tell what someone's writing really means and so...
Online people don't have to filter their thoughts, so the 'real them' can come out, but I think the truth of the person really lies in the mix of both the internet persona and the real life persona.
They haven't really perfected their understanding and hence treatment for it, which is why for some it doesn't work. But I can see a future where biologically it is more understood and then actually cured. It is a condition/disease of the mind. Just because antiretrovirals don't cure HIV, they...
I wouldn't say it's primarily anyone's fault, suicide is usually a result of complex biological wiring going wrong. Even in the case of abuse and trauma some people are just not physiologically disposed to depression and suicide and continue their lives fine. There's shown to be a certain gene...
A shaman is usually called by the spirits, and it's usually a dangerous calling. If you are called to indigenous spirituality under the name of shamanism then that is fine, but it is different to being called to the role of the shaman.
It's just how it is with online forums... I've been on a few and usually there are the pot stirrers and then there are the people who are genuinely interested in the topic.
I wish my mum didn't marry her abusive ex husband. That set me up with difficulties for life. It's triggered numerous autoimmune conditions in me. She was with him 16 years, I'd rather she'd have been a single mum distantly supported from my dad who was/is friendly and rich. That's it really...
I don't know, but I live as if there isn't an afterlife. Also I ask myself, since I am an eclectic polytheist, if there was an afterlife, where would I go? Christians go to Heaven, Heathens go to Valhalla, Hindus eventually reach Moksha, and me? I have no idea. Or maybe there is all one place we...