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I have lots of crystals pretty shiny rocks ??
Charging them tonight. Flower moon.
:)

I have many shiny rocks but I don't know what they are

I too have my fair share of pretty shiny magical rocks.

Why do yall like pretty shiny magical rocks so much

It's a witch thing I think. I'm not one but I'm down for those pretty sparklies.

:O

I FORGOT IT WAS THE FULL MOON TONIGHT

Mmhmm!

Wait! Eris do you have pretty magic rocks?

I do. They are so pretty.
There's a picture of them on Discord

or wait–maybe I just sent that to Lee….

They all lay in the dirt of my Wish Bonsai Tree.

I should post some pictures of mine. I mean, half my camera roll is my cat, and the other half is my crytstals.

Wait! Eris do you have pretty magic rocks?

I do. They are so pretty.
There's a picture of them on Discord

Boom. Miri doesn't want to talk about the magic rocks. So why do you believe in the pretty magic rocks?

I have a debate issue that recently appeared for me ten minutes ago.
Required readings in English classes that have explicit content. Thoughts and opinions?

I have a debate issue that recently appeared for me ten minutes ago.
Required readings in English classes that have explicit content. Thoughts and opinions?

Depends. Is it at a high school level or a collegiate level?

In Druidry–or any other craft–it is believed that everything in this world contains energy, or has a life. Everything.
As a practitioner, we 'have access' to the energies that flow through the world and can use it to guide us, strengthen us, provide comfort, heal, cast spells…etc. We use it to ast our intent into the world to shape reality to our desire.

Now.
The stones.

They are naturally occurring….springs, if you will….that hold onto that energy given to them by the universe (or which ever deity(ies) one believes in) that we practitioners can use over and over again for pretty much anything. It helps us hone our craft, talk to our deity(ies), extend our energies to other people.

Is kind of a loaded question–it's like asking why a Christian believes in the cross.
We believe because it makes sense to us in our hearts, our souls. This is how we connect to a greater ''''''consciousness''''''

kind of a weird roundabout way of explaining but I added in some additional info.

Is kind of a loaded question–it's like asking why a Christian believes in the cross.
We believe because it makes sense to us in our hearts, our souls. This is how we connect to a greater ''''''consciousness''''''

Well I wouldn't believe in Jesus these days if I didn't have reasons to consider Christianity pretty logically stable.
Are you saying you believe in it because feelings?

I have a debate issue that recently appeared for me ten minutes ago.
Required readings in English classes that have explicit content. Thoughts and opinions?

Depends on the content. Some uses of "fuck"? As long as you're not giving it to middle schoolers, go ahead. Long explicit sex scenes? Maybe in an AP course, but I wouldn't hand it to a ninth grade english class. I also think that the topic of the book should play into it, because if you're refusing to teach a book that could really impact kids because the narrator swears, drinks, or mentions sex, that's sort of ridiculous. For example, banning The Hate U Give because Starr sometimes swears, and mentions sex (which is ironic, since there's no sex scenes in the book, and when Starr asks Chris to have sex with her, they discuss the possibilities of pregnancy and that she's not in a good state of mind at the time) when it covers such an important topic. Or banning The Catcher In The Rye because of the scene with Holden and Sunny, when the whole point of the scene is that he doesn't have sex with her, are you jackasses even reading the books you ban?! but anyways you could maybe make a case for not teaching Catcher to ninth graders (though I'd vehemently disagree based solely on its impact one me) due to other content, but you absolutely cannot make that argument for THUG.

And all practitioners find their craft logical.

Are you saying you believe in it because feelings?

what Eris said explains everything tbh

College level? Go hog wild. Give them Titus Fucking Andronicus if you want (oops I read that in 9th grade), there are no rules here.

Another case of really stupid challenging is This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, a book I ironically actually really dislike, mainly because I think the main character never grows out of her "not like other girls"/slutshame-y behavior. But challenging it for "mature themes" (aka discussing divorce, teen pregnancy, and growing up) and "LGBT content" (aka one of the characters mentioning having an aunt who's a lesbian and literally mentioned once) is ridiculous.

I have a debate issue that recently appeared for me ten minutes ago.
Required readings in English classes that have explicit content. Thoughts and opinions?

I have such mixed feelings on this because on the one hand I'm like "I think that older high school students could probably handle it" but then I immediately remembered being in a vet assistant class with a bunch of 20+ year olds and no one could keep a straight face when the teacher said "bitch" (as in an actual female dog).

I guess if I were to make a case against this though, it wouldn't be because I think it's not appropriate for the age level and more just because I think that some kids are super immature. Once you get to like grade 11/12 (maybe even grade 10?) most students are going to be at least somewhat familiar with explicit content. Like, maybe they've seen a sex scene in a movie or tv show or something like that. At the very least, they know what it is, so guess I just don't really see a need to "protect" them (for lack of a better word) from that kind of content.

Although, when I think back to some of the kids in my English classes, I kind of just know that certain kids would just absolutely be losing their shit if we had to read through an explicit scene.

I'm just now realizing that if I ever publish anything, one of them would definitely get banned. A little weird to think about.

Well
Doing research into banned books, TIL that Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson–you know, that famous book about

–was banned for being "pornographic", and my faith in humanity is now lost.

That's just terrible. Humans suck.