Our laws don’t compensate for “chemical trespass”, but I would rather have someone walk through my yard than spray Roundup that drifts onto my yard. Roundup’s carrier chemical—which allows glyphosate to penetrate living tissue and is in some respects more dangerous than glyphosate itself—ma...
Give your new disciples rituals to perform, ask them to make sacrifices on your behalf. In the absence of organized religion and grand causes, your new belief system will bring you untold power. Law 28 Enter Action with Boldness If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt...
To express a serious tone, we might choose words such as sober, grave, or somber. These terms suggest a level of seriousness and a lack of frivolity. Which word can I use to describe a ‘serious problem’ in a similar context?
Forgettings are a must for an alchemist. You have room for only so many memories before the mix and start to still your sanity. Any alchemist who finds the Stone or the Exilir has to learn rituals of forgetting. Continue readingImpromptu Sharing Sunday Reading – 2020/07/12 Published by...
People around the world celebrate the summer solstice with rituals and festivals. As one writer observes, “The summer solstice speaks of love and light, freedom, and generosity of spirit. It is a beautiful time of year where vibrant flowers whisper to us with scented breath, forests and woodl...
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hunting knives and bamboo houses. To return kamuy to the spirit world, the Ainu performed rituals, with gifts of food and prayer. Their central ceremony honored the bear—provider of food, fur, and bone for tools. They called Asahi Dake peak Nutap-kamui-shir, which means "the god mountain...
people become concerned about passing-on their faith heritage to the next generation. In stage two, beliefs are written down, sacred scriptures (like Paul’s letters and the Four Gospels) take a set form, and specific rituals, like baptism and the Lord’s Supper, are more uniformly ...
Despite all our rituals, our harkings back, our nostalgia for the steady, rooted assurances that we think used to exist, it is impossible to say whether the world was ever more enchanted than it is now. Today, a longing for wonder—for a reenchanted world—is the bad mood of ...
( https://youtu.be/F_rkjjCkxGo ) I had a contest with my staff challenging them to come up with other songs or rituals to accomplish the required soaping time (“Staying Alive,”“I Will Survive,”“The Final Countdown,” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”) News, reports, statistics...