I’m a little upset with Boreas today. Snow is too wet and trees are down all over the property. Hoping all of my Dryads are safe and sound. I checked my Yggdrasil and it is doing ok. Yggdrasil is my immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.
And the turkeys came for a visit while I was cutting two trees off the road to the house. They love dinner rolls.
Thank Artemis they are good. Today I am a god. The god of snow shoveling.
Are you referencing ancient mythology to demonstrate a point or are you just being silly?
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I think both. How do you not do silly when there are 3000 gods to choose from? That’s the point too. Good morning John
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All 3000 gods are not equal in their explanatory power. It is silly to act as though all theology is the same.
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Well someday we’ll look back on modern religion the same way. Unless you guys come up with something more. Like evidence.
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That’s a very succinct statement of faith, Jim.
And you need to explain what you mean by “modern religion”.
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Abrahamic religions mired in philosophy and variable interpretations mixed with astrology and mythology and pseudo archaeology
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Religion isn’t “mired” in philosophy. Philosophy is necessary for finding truth.
I agree that pseudoscience will ultimately be exposed as false.
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Hey how’s winter at your place? I lost about 20 trees last night. Just young ones though. Aah life in the mountains!
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Ice storm last night. No extensive damage though. We live in Indiana.
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But really it was a post to share pictures of the storm last night and mix it with a little religious silly. Super wet snow last night.
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Alright Jim. I am now convinced that you are either in the Witness Protection Program or you are in the CIA. I am totally confused as to your location! LOL 🤣 Or should I say your blogging location versus your literal living location… OR your various mirroring sites that seem to pop-up on various continents bi-weekly!!! 😮
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I am living in Washington right now. I also have a house in Panama. This is our first winter here in several years. Me no like it. But I am building a house down the way for my daughter and are in the snow this winter. I go back and forth. But don’t tell anybody!
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Don’t tell? Hmmm… how much is your elusiveness worth? 😎
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Two turkeys 🦃 and a Johnny Walker
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DONE!!! Cheers! 🥃🍸
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Not that I MUST know where you are located cuz I’m not hunting you down for the Pope, or the KGB, or the Fellowship Association to Exterminate Atheism. 😛
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You’re always welcome to visit. I got nothing to hide. Except atheism around here is a big Nono. I keep that a bit quiet
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In Washington state it is a no-no!!!??? 😮 Really!?
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Washington is a big place. The west side is very liberal. My area is very religious. JW SDA Mennonite LDS Evangelical and some anti government whacks. But I have a quiet spot up on the mountain. And they are nice, but mention atheism and it’s a jaw dropper. I’m really close to the Idaho panhandle. Mucho más iglesias aquí
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Ahhh, okay. I do understand then. 👍
Though I am back in my hometown of Dallas, there are many, many pockets throughout Texas that are traditionally hyper-religious. Interestingly enough those pockets are typically found in specific demographics where you can ALSO find the distinguishing trademarks of income vs. education in two correlations:
1) — high income levels with restricted public education ISD curriculums and/or high enrollment in expensive private (Christian) schools = hyper-religious and wealthy.
2) — low income levels with low quality education ISD curriculums = hyper-religious.
Wherever there is tunnel-vision restrictions on educational requirements rather than a broad spectrum of curriculums — i.e. sciences and broader social studies — that is where you will find thriving churches and Christian organizations around every block! Wherever there are curriculums freely taught covering critical-thinking skills, all the sciences, and extensive social studies, you find very few churches and Christian organizations (if at all) and a thriving Humanitarian programs and centers, technology, progressive sociopolitical organizations and museums, public libraries, international trade, etc, etc.
“Things that make you go Hmmmmmm.” 🤔 LOL
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Hmmm. Weird how easy that is to spot. The Holy Ghost must be working in you.
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Oooooo… LOOK OUT!!! 👻
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I’d show you all the photographs of the snow we’re having this year. Or should that be I will hopefully show you a picture or two of some snow we might have come winter. Johannesburg is not noted for its inclement weather of the white fluffy kind.
However, be patient padawan, I have faith …. honest.
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I’m right by the Canada border. Every year I’m here I’m digging my way out.
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Perhaps nature is subtly trying to tell you something, Jim? Might be worth thinking about, yes?
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Oh I don’t think it’s subtle !
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You have an Yggdrasil? I am jealous!
Oh, if Skaði happens to drop by for a spell, would you tell her the Æsir want their snowblower back? Much obliged…
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I only have a plow on my four wheeler. This stuff is too heavy and I run out of room to move it. A blower would be good. I hear there’s a blow hard on Mel Wildes site this morning. I’ll have to check. Lol
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I don’t know much about winters out in your neck of the woods, but it might be a wise investment all the same!
When I was a child, pulling “That wretched Boeing 747” (mother dearest) or “My Little Helper” (dad) out of the shed to check the oil was a pre-winter ritual. Meaning, around late September 😛
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😂 Loved this post. Perhaps it is because my husband and I have been reading about Norse mythology. You crack me up.
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We have been reading it too. And with the storm last night it just fell from a scroll in my mind delivered by Hermes. I think he and the Norse must talk a lot. And thanks.
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I also do some poetry. Through the you might like this one https://mrhaikuman.wordpress.com/2017/12/22/mythical-holiday-matters-a-toast/
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You have a tree of life in your yard? Help me plant it if you do.😀
Oh god of shoveling!
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Lol
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You get much snow?
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Never seen snow in my entire life except in an amusement park, it’s artificial though.s
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¿No verlo nieve nunca? That’s interesting.
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Well, where I live, the climate is mostly hot except in monsoon and winter evenings.
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Same at my Panama house.
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How often do you go there?
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We try to live there oct -may but this year we’re in Washington. Me no like the winter here any more
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Haha! Why’s that? I hear it’s snowing more than ever there. I’d love to watch and play in the snow.
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It’s fun for a few days but gets old slogging around wet and slush everywhere
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But it’s soothing to see white colour everywhere. 🙂
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Not anymore. Lol
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Hehe maybe for you. 😉
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Take a quick trip up in the snow sometime. How far would you have to go?
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Himachal Pradesh!
Hundreds of kilometres and a lot of money.
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Better get a job
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I’m trying to.
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