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| Saturday, July 26th, 2008 |
therianthropy
[ strill ]
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9:12p |
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| Friday, July 25th, 2008 |
inner_worlds
[ falco ]
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10:03p |
Things...
Wondering what's y'alls favorite thing. Ours are paperclips.
quorum |
| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 |
baxil
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3:28p |
Decisively devising derisive divisions And here it is, today's moment of zen: ![[The Decision to Decide]](http://www.tomorrowlands.org/images/lj/decision_decide.jpg) ( Source) Current Mood:  wtfCurrent Music: Mozart, "Andante (from Piano Concerto No. 21)" |
| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
starlightforest
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5:32p |
I think I am unfriending a few people and moving some others to the "friended but not commonly reading" list. Sorry guys, nothin' personal, but I am just getting deeper and deeper in time-debt and need to scale back my reading commitments. As it is, if I don't read LJ like twice a day I get seriously behind, and, uh, I just can't get behind that. Between three journals I have 631 friends and communities (albeit some skim-over overlap between LJ and IJ) and it's just overwhelming me. |
starlightforest
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5:07p |
PSA
Making snide, entitled-sounding comments about how "I could have texted you all this if I had your phone number" is not a good way to get me to give you the number of my still-nonexistent cell phone (I know, I know, I am the last dinosaur on earth), especially when the other major reason you don't have it, which I have told you repeatedly, is that I wouldn't give it out to most people even if I did have one. People like you are a major reason I resist giving out any phone numbers at all, in fact. |
silussa
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6:01p |
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totem_animals
[ singinbutterfly ]
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1:08a |
Visit from spider A little black wolf spidey came to visit me on the arm-rest of my chair as I work on my assignments for grad school (as you can tell, I'm lacking focus since I'm on here!). I took him outside in a little container, and as I tried to let him go, he started crawling on my finger. It gave me "the willies" a little bit because I felt like I had spider webs on me afterwards, but I know it was a magical sign. I have heard that spiders symbolize creativity. I'm about to graduate with my Graduate Degree of Music Education in December (and soon move out of my parents house when I get a good job), and my classes are almost completed for my internship next semester. Do you think the little visitor might be indicating success with these pursuits? I'd love to hear other viewpoints. :) (Maybe he was telling me to get back to work! Haha!) Thanks in advance, Vanessa Current Mood:  tired |
silussa
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12:33a |
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| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
kinkyjesus
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9:42p |
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kinkyjesus
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4:28p |
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pocketshrines
[ outlaw_jesus ]
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12:09a |
Faith i'm not sure how it fell together, as my head was overflowing with all sorts of things i wanted [want] to do, but it came out pretty near to what i had in mind. there were a few inspirations along the way, and i gladly incorporated them in. i didn't realize how much this would take out of me. i want to start another, but sheesh, i'm sorta back at square one [unfocused]. for an idea of size, the wooden bases [there are three, tiered] each measure 2.5 x 3.5 inches [though i'm not sure this would actually count as an ACEO. lol.] 
materials: ( .... ) |
| Monday, July 21st, 2008 |
baxil
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5:28p |
A radical thought The hippies used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." But, being hippies and not computer programmers, they left a surprising amount of syntactical ambiguity in that statement. Even if we don't challenge the assumption that "thirty" refers to the number of Earth solar years since the target's birth, this still leaves the question of what the exact cutoff is, and to hold any sort of rational discussion about the topic, it's necessary to find a rigorous answer. Linguistically, "over" implies strictly "greater than"; if "greater than or equal to" were intended, a phrase such as "at least" would have been more appropriate. So if we were writing pseudocode for a trust routine, it should look like: if ($person.age_in_years > 30) then { $person.trust = 0; }Even this doesn't answer the question: What is the precision of the comparison? Is someone "over" thirty when they are 30 plus a month? 30 plus a day? 30 plus an hour, a minute, a second, a nanosecond? Tests of arbitrary precision could easily be constructed and executed, but this would then create a secondary dilemma: platform differences would not guarantee consistent trust results across runtime environments. For full RFC compliance, and to prevent security exploits in applications implementing trust webs, we must ensure that all interpersonal relationships are calculable in replicable ways regardless of native hardware. Removing the question of precision is recognized as the canonical response to this issue: if ( int($person.age_in_years) > 30) then { $person.trust = 0; }Which is a lengthy way of saying that, as of yesterday, you can no longer trust me. -- Edited to add: No, I didn't just turn 30. ];=8) If int(baxil.age_in_years) needs to be strictly greater than 30, then 30 > 30 fails. Besides, I already turned 30 last year. Current Mood:  olderCurrent Music: "Spy", Cowboy Bebop OST 'Vitaminless' |
therianthropy
[ wolftun ]
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12:06a |
Developing One question that has bothered me is that when one is meditating what is it that one should focus on to develop your therian side. I'm sure that most therians have a technique to do help induce mental shifts and other such things but thats not quite what I'm after I'm trying to develop the therian state of mind that is simply part of your daily existence. i feel quite sure that if i don't take steps to developing my therian side it could be lost to the clutter of life much the same way a person can loose a small jewel amidst the clutter of an attic. For now i want to make sure this is not the fate of my therian side so if any one has any ideas, or if i am totally off please let me know. Current Mood:  busyCurrent Music: the ringing of my ears :) |
| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 |
silussa
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8:52p |
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silussa
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2:43p |
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| Saturday, July 19th, 2008 |
therianthropy
[ kitfallen ]
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12:36a |
Playing Nice With Humans Another little therian-related drabble about a random happening today involving me threating to throw one of the CounselorInTraining kids into the lake for getting my book wet. (I work at a summer camp currently) People around me learn quickly that I follow through on my threats. -- ( Oftentimes Playing with humans is strange. )-- I often find that fellow humans tend to Sense therians and 'kin on some level or another. I'm wondering how many others get this feeling and/or use it to their advantage like I did today. -kit |
| Friday, July 18th, 2008 |
therianthropy
[ koraoah ]
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4:41p |
Introductory Post My name is Koraoah. I meditated to find out this name, and believe I was given it by a cat entity of some sort. I have been known on livejournal and IRC by various names, but this one is *mine* at last.
I was "called" by the goddess Bast(et) at about age 16, and have been close to her ever since, although my Christian beliefs for quite some time prevented me from devloping any sort of deep meaningful spiritual relationship with her. Recently I've been able to rectify the two, combining my own form of Christianity with faith in Bast. I pray to both the God of Christianity, as well as to Jesus and Bastet and am devloping my own relationship with Sekhmet as well. As another feline Goddess, she calls to me also. I've collected statues of Bast since I was in my teens, and each statue means something to me, in a different way.
I have long known myself to be a therian. I intially had settled on wolf but have had some ... discrepancies with my wolf-ness, such as a phantom tail and other characteristics during shifts that are much more feline than canine, but I've tried to fit myself into the canine "box". I am opening my mind at this point to the possibility I have misinterpreted my therianthropy - I'd rather know the truth than try to force myself into something that isn't me.
I don't have the slightest idea what type of feline I am inside. Right now I am studying Otherkin races of cats, as well as those from this earth, and the possibility of ancient hybrids of "other" feline and human species. As I discover myself I hope to learn more. I'm definitely not a "newbie" - I've known of otherkin and vampires (some may say the same thing some may say two different things!) for almost 10 years (I am in my late 20s).
I was a psi-vampire for approximately 10 years until my second Reiki attunement, after which I have no need to take in external psi energies. It is quite wonderful! I know it doesn't work for many, but I am thankful it worked for me. Whatever was going on with my energy system I believe has been shifted into a non-vampiric one.
I'm also learning about energy work. My first true energy construct was a cat - unfortunately when my fiance and I adopted a dog, she moved out, and I later found her living with my parents. She is quite happy there with the other cats! I do not think I am up to the responsibility I feel to construct entities to create another one at this time.
Life is a perpetual discovery :)
Koraoah
PS - I am not faerie, but I love faerie art, so many of my userpics will often be faerie in nature :)
Cross posted to any and all otherkin or therian related journals to which I belong because I want to say hi and see what people have to say!! :) Current Mood:  contemplative |
the_animist
[ coldironkiss ]
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1:27a |
introduction Following in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cutiexbunnie's footsteps... :) I'm a member of a multiple system - simply put, several people in one body - and I'm not sure if I'll be the only one of us posting here or not. We'll all sign our names so that you know who you're talking to. All of us who've declared a stance on the issue are animist. I use shamanistic techniques in my religious practice and consider my relationship with the local spirits important. I'm also teaching another system member, my son Cai, who knows as much as I do (shared memory is great ^^) but doesn't have as much experience. We mainly work within the Germanic culture but borrow from outside for techniques. If it works and there's no reason why it would be considered disrespectful to appropriate it, we feel we may as well use it. -Val |
the_animist
[ cutiexbunnie ]
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12:14a |
Introduction Well, hello. I never thought I'd end up here, but spirituality takes you to interesting places. :3 I was directed here via lupabitch , though I know moonvoice as well. Hallo! My spiritual interests first guided me in the direction of totemism, and I met my totem four years ago. Through totemism, I became interested in the idea of working with animal pelts. Now, I actually do not consider myself an animist. Currently, I do not believe that inanimate things have souls, fragmented or whole. So, initially the idea was to symbolically wear rabbit furs and invoke Rabbit as a totem, but I'm not quite sure if I'm going to that stage yet. See, I got a nearly full rabbit pelt the other day, and we quickly bonded. Long story short, I'm actually quite astounded to feel a lot more in Lucy (what the pelt chose to be called), than what I believed would simply be remnant energy. So, I think for now we will just be working together, but I will definitely be trying to invoke Rabbit and dance that way. This is the most recent and final happening which has guided me here. My interests still lie in animal remains and shapeshifting dances, but I will definitely be reading nearly everything posted here. :3 And even though I do have my set of beliefs, they are always inclined to change as I grow and experience spiritually. My experience with Lucy is fine proof of that. Questions are most welcome. And please, poke around in my profile, as you can see what communities I belong to and there's also a link to my website there. Thank you! Current Mood: tired |
| Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
therianthropy
[ kitfallen ]
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2:16a |
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| Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 |
therianthropy
[ xeans ]
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11:22p |
A real Intro.
I realized my first post wasn't really an introduction (It was more me asking a lot of questions), so I thought it'd be a good idea to put a real introduction up.
Hi, I'm Xeans. My therioside is a wolf, north american grey wolf as far as I can figgure out.
I can't really say I had a moment of 'awakening', I've really been therian all my life. In second grade I had dreams where I was a wolf. Years later I was away from my family for the first time for a while and a gave a very dog-like whimper totally reflexivly. I also have a few other wolf-like mannerisms and attributes.
I never knew anything about therians untill about four months ago when I encountered the furry fandom. When I found out about them I almost freaked out, I was thinking 'hey! other people who are like me! I'm not crazy!'. Of course I found out very quickly what the furrys were actually about, and I joined up any way, furrys are a fun bunch. Yes, I'm a therian and a furry, the two communitys are so close together I really don't see why there aren't more furry/therians.
After finding out about furrys I poked around on the internet a while and I found the theriomorph community. I'm the sort of therian that dosn't really have two fighting halves, I'm just a human who has a spirit that is part wolf. Emotions tend to puff up my wolfy aspects, mostly sadness and lonelyness makes me feel wolfy, when I'm angry I feel, as I term it, 100% human.
I've never really mentally shifted except for two events I can think of. However It's not uncommon for me to have some sort of phantom limb sensations infrequently. I have the occaisional urge to howl but I never do. |
starlightforest
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4:27p |
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shamanism
[ lupabitch ]
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12:13p |
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the_animist
[ lupabitch ]
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12:12p |
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totem_animals
[ lupabitch ]
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12:11p |
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