It’s weird, but spending a week reading about neo-pagan beliefs and holidays seems to have given me a greater appreciation for the Christian holiday of Christmas. In most pagan religions, Yule is a celebration that the shortest day of the year is over and done with and the days will begin to grow longer. Sometimes… Read More
An exoself, as defined in Mind Performance Hacks (which itself bases the idea on some novels by Greg Egan) is basically a little stack of notecards and a timer reminding you to look at the top card every so often, with the intention of training yourself in certain ways (like little mental exercises). I’m going… Read More
Apparently i’ll have quite a bit of trouble spending a whole week reading about a religion as poorly documented as the Druids. But there is a religion of Neo-Druidism, yay! But only loosely (and in at least a few areas, incorrectly) based on original Druidism, boo. But it’s a part of Neo-Paganism, which is interesting… Read More
Water-only for 19 hours, and tea-only for five hours before that, so i guess this counts as a successful twenty-four-hour detox. Cushioned on one side by a ‘last meal’ of ice cream and on the other, a ‘first meal’ of pizza. I don’t normally eat so unhealthy and it seems extra-odd to put a water… Read More