The afterlife

Mornings,

I know, it's a stupid topic to even begin to try to tackle... there is no real proof there even is an afterlife and... ok, now I've smothered the atheist voice in my head, lets get down to business. (to defeat the huns...)

Well there are three views that I'm looking at, remeber I'm a kemetic pagan so I'm not going to look at heaven. *shudder*

1. The Field of Reeds, as described in the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts and the Book of Coming Forth by Day, (Zoe stop laughing) also called the Book of the Dead. Traditional Kemetic beliefs, you die, you go through the Duat, you get judged by Djehuty and you either go to the Field of Reeds or you get eaten by Ammet.

2. Reincarnation, borrowed from the Eastern religions by a lot of Wiccans, and interwoven with their beliefs on the Summerlands.

3. My old belief that the afterlife was like memories, so everything you did in this life you could play over again and try out different ways, but you could only expierence what you've experienced in life. And when you run out of memories, then you might get reincarnated if you haven't learnt enough or you just rest.

I now think its some combination of the three, I think there is some kind of judgment and reincarnation, and maybe Ammet is just a particually harsh lesson that needs to be learnt. I'd like to think the univese was overall fair. I'm not sure that it is, but heck it's a belief not science. I think I'd prefer reincarnation to just one time on earth, or even one time being alive, it doesn't necessarily have to be on earth, any life supporting planet, because there has got to be more than one... but I guess the subject of aliens is for another post.

I would try to explain my views futher, but I think I'd just confuse myself and anyone reading it.

For now,

-Ankh

New year

Morning all,

I know I haven't done any posts in a while, I guess I just ran out of things to say. Now I seem to have more than enough, a little update on my life;

 - Have all three sopio decks, woop woop.

 - Have a Slytherin tie, yay ebay :D (the tie makes me evil... just saying)

 - Have a top which says House Targaryen, fire and blood.

 - Am attempting to get a agate crystal out of a claire's ring... with nail varnish remover.

 - Am wondering if I should talk about my faith...

So, yer.

I think the first three points don't really need much explaining, but the crystal from a ring... sounds a little crazy I know. I collect crystals, and I use them, I'm a practising witch. No... throwing water over me won't kill me, I do shower. *sigh* Yes I probably have heard all the jokes, and half of them I indulge. But anything, I found a ring in claires, one of those large ones with a massive agate stone in it, heck £2, its work it if I can get the stone out, and if I can't it's two quid. Therefore I've placed the stone and metal holder thingy in nail varnish remover, I'll report back if it works.

My dear best friends, and far too interesting in politics, I don't really give a... I mean I prefer religion as the topic of choise if there is going to be a debate. I'm a... *inhale* Kemetic inspired eclectic wiccan/witch (pagan) *exhale* because I can't seem to find a one word answer that actually makes sense. And I enjoy mindfucking my rs teacther when I explain this :P

My beliefs are a bit confusing, but I think it would be useful to write a few blog enteries about what I believe... and would inspire me to do a bit of work... :D

Anyway, I have an interview in two days, wish me luck.

-Ankh

Week nine

Mornings,

This week has been interesting, and far too much of it has been spent on semeuke.com. Secret Circle the tv series is really annoying me, how dare they kill of Nick, he's a beautiful character, and I was starting to think he was the only one in the show that didn't annoy me. I quite like Faye, because she's pretty much accurate, but what have they done to Diana and Adam... it's actually quite depressing. And I'm not even going to start on Melissa... she isn't as awesome as the 6 people that were combined to create her character, particually not the Henderson brother.

I tried doing the 24 hour Nyan cat challange, and it was 6:54 before my head started hurting too much. But that could have easily been from the horrible flashing video clip. Looking away is cheating.

I put my UCAS application in today. Finally that's a weight off my mind... now I just have to get the grades, and darling Amenhotep III is getting on my nerves, well thats not true, it's the stupid library services and I'm running out of time to read it before it needs to get back, and I can only get through about 20 pages an hour. It's slow going, particually because I find myself getting distracted after about 45 minutes.

I'm also annoyed because I still can't get onto Pottermore, ffs it was supposed to be open start of Oct, then end of Oct... and I still can't get online!

For now,

Ankh

Week eight

Mornings,

A bit late this, as its actually now week nine, but still internet has been acting funny. This week (last week) has been half term. And friday, myself, Emily, Scarlett and Zoe when to Zoe's Tory Party Halloween Party. Oh yep, sad but true. Sadder still, is that it was actually a really good night. Zoe got a dance, and Emily got a kiss, I got umbrellered and Scarlett... got Leanne? I don't know, I couldn't think of an awesome way to end that line.

I also made a glowstick crown and that was epic!

I also watched Starkids MAMD for the first time, which was pretty awesome, even the cross dressing.

Sorry, its a little short.

But, for now,

Ankh.

Zoe, I hope you like your Tory Dragon xxx

Of dragons part three

Mornings,

Well I've started reading Game of Thrones again, gosh I love that book. Am asking for the rest of the series for Christmas. I'll admit, I'd never even heard of it until I saw the TV series, and after watching the Borgias, I understand the Guardian quote on the front cover.

I think I've probably already said this, but my favourite character is of course Daenerys Targaryen. Come on, Dragonlady! But even if she wasn't so associated with dragons I think I would still love her. Also second time reading it through, I've noticed the similarities between the Dothraki and the people of the Plains from the Warprize, Warsworn and Warlord books by Elizabeth Vargen... which is kinda awesome and adds to my ideas that all stories are mealy real events from parallel world.

But on my second reading, I've decided I also adore the Lannisters. My gosh, they are evil and awesome. They have a love/hate/ hate to love quality, that is almost reminiscent of the Malfoys from Harry Potter. Also check out the awesome quote to the left. Said by Tyrion the imp. I know the quote is talking about Jon and him being a bastard, but the quote spoke to me. I've been called some pretty mean and spiteful things in the past and hell, hasn't everyone? I like the quote, amour yourself with it and then it cannot be used to hurt you. That's pretty powerful if you can achieve such a state.

Talking about Jon Snow... him I don't like. I don't know why, but I just find him a bit whiny. But what can I say, at least there is a dragon on the wall. That makes my life better. The Starks generally annoy me, I think because they are trying to be the good guys and I have a lot more sympathy for the 'we're going to win and kick small children out of windows...' side. Not that I don't like Ayra, she seems to be the only one with any sense, and I love the idea of Needle. That is brilliant.

On the other hand, I think I love when Jon calls Joffrey a little shit to Ayra, just made me imagine Joff trying to sing about Pigfarts and the lights dying on him... and if he could have rolled on the floor a little more that would have been beautiful.

For now,
Ankh

Week seven

Mornings,

A day early or so, I know. But its that last day of term, (going by the new 6 terms in a year system, or the end of the first half term going by the old 3 term system.) And so much has happened, an alien space ship landed in school and beamed my friend up into the hold. I was left with Emily and Zoe on the ground and we formed a league of awesome people to get them back.

After arguing about which political party was the best, Zoe voting for Tory, Emily voting for all politicians are stupid and me voting for the Pretty Party, a political party that believes that they are all too pretty to go into politics. Heather turned up with her hidden narwhals and Heather and I formed a coalition of the Pretty Party and the Party of shoes and glitter. Anyway, the aliens were probing the others.

But back on earth. I had woken up from my day dream and found I was an alien and I was chasing all the people I didn't like into the hall and then I killed them...

Bazinga. http://instantbazinga.com/

Well, my actually week was far less dull, although there really was a coalition between the Pretty Party and the Party of Shoes and Glitter, and Heather got a shuttlecock stuck in the net in the gym and then we named our rackets Earnest and Roland respectivly.

I also drew three more politics dragons this week; the Tory Dragon, the Liberal Dragon and the Ecology Dragon, one for each of my topics that we've done in politics. Next we'll be doing socialism and I have no idea how I'm going to draw that dragon.

Also Zoe and I had an argument about if My fair Lady or Evita were better. Clearly she is mistaken when she says My Fair Lady.

For now,

Ankh.

A theory of the gods and the stars

Mornings,

As I was driving home from dropping my nan off this 'prevening' I was watching the stars coming out, thinking about how ridiculously old the light that was coming from the star light was. Then I started thinking about my history coursework, the Egyptian religion and Amun Ra, then a lorry drove a little bit too close to me and the two got mashed together quite nicely in my head.

Therefore, what I concluded from my drive home was that, if you look at the properties of a solar deities, some of them are actually proven by science real. For example, a creator god; stars convert (for want of a better word) Hydrogen into bigger and more complex atoms, and therefore everything is made up of things that have been formed in a dead star, therefore stars literally allow life, because they create the building blocks. Carrying on with the theme of life giving, sunlight allows photosynthesis which gives oxygen as a by product that we breath.

Then I started thinking that monotheism was like looking at the sky during the day and seeing the sun and thinking that was god, but ignoring the night and the other gods. Just because the stars are far away, doesn't mean that they are not gods.

And then, my final thought on comparing stars to god, was thinking about the American Creationists... from a video that we watched in RS, they believe that carbon dating in incorrect, but we know that sunlight takes millions of years to come from the centre of the sun to the surface of the sun, and then eight minutes to get to earth... if we know that the sun must have been around for millions of years... therefore the ideas of young earth creationism, must be incorrect.

But heck, I'm not a scientist, I'm just a light nerd.

For now,

Ankh