Tuesday 24 January 2012

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


Monday 23 January 2012

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