The 8th Principle Of Unitarian Universalism

Back with the UUs...probably?

Back with the UUs…probably?

So I went to church today. No, my faith didn’t change, but my interpretation of it did somewhat.

Longtime readers of this blog – all three of you 🙂 – will remember that I left the Unitarian Universalist Church in Tallahassee because they seemed overfond of the word “blessed” for my taste. I wasn’t convinced that my faith, Kemeticism, really involved that particular word. It sounded too Christian…

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The real reason for the season (2024 edition)

It’s a little weird to talk about love being the reason for the season when so many of us are surrounded by not-love. Especially for those of us in the US (but soon perhaps, elsewhere too, regretfully), we have been pummeled and badgered by the results of a brutal election – not brutal physically, not brutal with street riots (I don’t think), but brutal in the promise of a government that…

The real reason for the season (2024 edition)

The real reason for the season

The real reason for the season

We’re between Hanukkah and Christmas, so you know what that means: It’s time for my annual holiday message. Reblogged from a 2016 post: I was doing rite to Hathor, the Lady of Love, today (i.e. December 16), and something came to me. Maybe it isn’t earth-shattering, but I wanted to share it with you guys. Let’s not lose sight of this during the holiday season. Whether you think the reason for…

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Matt Dillahunty: "God's a pr!ck"

Matt Dillahunty: “God’s a pr!ck”

Okay, those weren’t his words as I recall them, but let me explain all this. Screenshot of an Atheist Experience video with Matt Dillahunty (probably not the one with the quote). So as I’ve said before on this blog, my husband is an atheist. We both have YouTube running almost constantly on our TV (because we don’t have cable so we don’t have the Weather Channel [wah]). In my husband’s case, he…

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Getting over guilt

Image by Pexels from Pixabay. Enhancement by me in Luminar 4 and Paint Shop Pro 7. I’ve had a rough time with this one lately. Anyone else? I don’t know if it’s the “obsessive thoughts” part of obsessive-compulsive disorder or the fact that I’m still kind of a recovering Catholic, even though I’ve partly returned to that faith, but either way, I am just haunted by guilt. Maybe the word…

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DUA SOPDET!

Today you rise before the sun, ushering in the new year!  We give you offerings of bread, beer, cool water, sweet scented oils, and praise!

Harbinger of the Nile Flood, we salute you!

Bringer of the New Year, we rejoice in you!

[[Those following along - reblog this and add your own prayers or pictures of offerings.]]

HAPPY WEP RONPET, EVERYONE!!!

A prayer to Aset in the Unyear 2020

A prayer to Aset in the Unyear 2020

In my locality, the Unyear started on Saturday, but I have been singularly unmotivated this year to do anything for it. I did rite on Wesir’s Day (Saturday) and that’s about it. But I did find the energy to write this prayer to my patron, on Her birthday.

  A Prayer to Aset in the Unyear 2020

Dua Aset

Lady of Gold

Great and Gracious Mother

Guide us through this liminal time

within a liminal…

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Be well, Matt Dillahunty

Be well, Matt Dillahunty

A screenshot from an old video that has little relevance except that Matt’s the guy I’m posting about tonight. At the beginning of tonight’s Atheist Experience, Matt Dillahunty announced that this would be his last show. “Well,” I thought, “if I’m going to call in, it’s now or never.” You see, in an earlier video, I had heard Matt say that he had never had a believer tell him, “Yes, I believe,…

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"A problem for the theist"

I’m going to go somewhere a little risky in this one. This is just stuff to think about. Screenshot of episode 28.12 of The Atheist Experience, which aired on YouTube March 24, 2024. I was watching The Atheist Experience with my husband a few weeks ago. (Okay, I was tuning in and out because my interest waxed and waned.) And my brain caught on a phrase that, when I went back and watched that…

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A Kemetic and an atheist mourned a Catholic...

A Kemetic and an atheist mourned a Catholic…

Sounds like the setup to a bad joke, doesn’t it? “A Kemetic, an atheist and a Catholic walked into a bar…” (Even my saying that is a bad cliché. But I couldn’t resist, sorry.) Robert Pare, Jr. My dad. My dad died on July 27. He was a devout Catholic. The funeral was on August 5. It’s been rough. Losing my mother last year, only 14 months earlier, and now losing my father…yeah, it’s not been…

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