Amidst the prevailing trials of life some light has been shed.
I have finally achieved the recognition I deserve. Its official: Sweffling is a goddess.
If you do not believe me, click the link on the right hand side to redriverpak’s blog – The Idiot Speaketh. There you will find me in all my glory!!
While you are there you should read about the upcoming trip to South America that he and his comrades are making in the cause of Charity: quite inspirational. Especially since redriverpak has serious physical disabilities under which another guy would crumble, but not this chap. No way. He just gets out there, has fun, and helps everyone on the way.
No blogging tomorrow or perhaps the next day: we’re biting the bullet and going south for a consultation at least. So, it is off to Cambridge University Vet. school to see a neurologist. Whilst typing up a chronology of symptoms to give to the vet tomorrow I have remembered that our other dog displayed the same initial symptoms at the same time as our ill dog, but recovered fast. I forgot about this as our focus has been so much on the one who got worse. So perhaps there is some kind of virus involved. This makes me feel more hopeful. Depending on the outcome of this initial visit and our financial cogitations they may keep dog in overnight for further tests: so I may have to stay down at a travel lodge while husband comes home to keep things going here. Obviously we will hope that any further tests can be done on the day or the bills will mount up and up.
A sunny day here, with blue skies for once: after days and days and days of rain. So, with a plan in hand for dog, a summery day and celestial status things feel a little less strained.
Mazel Tov on your elevation to Goddess! I always knew you were someone quite special! And now that I finally have a Goddess close at hand, I have some questions for you, like why Goddesses receded to the background so that we of the monotheistic religious traditions are stuck with mostly male images of God? Can’t you do something about that? I know there is likely the traditional women’s maneuvering behind the scenes where the man thinks he’s running the show but the woman gets what she wants from the deal, which I do this is great, however….I really would like to see some flashy kicking his behind and stomping him to the ground now and then! The Goddess reigns supreme. The O mighty Sweffling standing with her foot planted firmly on the back of the neck of that annoying, arrogant male god! Now that is an image I could praise for all eternity, or at least for a week or so! LOL
Ah, I am too pious. One of my co-workers came up to me last night and said to me, “You’re religious aren’t you?” and I told him, “No, not today!”
I am glad to hear you are taking your dog to be looked at and that you have found a less dire explanation for what might be going on. Hope is a good thing and I hope you are indeed right! Positive thoughts coming your way, not sure if they do any good for your dog, but from this distance that is the best I can do, letting you know I’m thinking about you and your dog and hoping for a happy outcome.
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Show me the back of the neck of that annoying, arrogant male god, and I’m your gal!
You raise an interesting point, I would love to know at what stage in history the female aspect was subjected to demotion and why. Of course this did not happen in the old pagan religion still extant in the UK – Wicca, witchcraft. This has had such a resergence in the last twenty years and I have several friends who practice it in the White Witch form. I have also been to a wedding in a local stone circle which invoked the female spirit of Wicca: actually it was quite moving and beautiful although I went with some rather ‘anti’ preconceptions. There is so little choice today, you either go for the unreal ‘Virgin’ role or the strong, earthy Wicca role. I do not know anything about the Druids but seem to remember that they have female druids as well as male. Now, you have really got me intrigued!
Thank you so much for your support in the matter of my dog worries: I know not everyone likes or appreciates domestic pets, but for those of us who do they are very important members of our household and we do suffer when they suffer.
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I began reading a book on goddesses not long ago, but I got sidetracked and didn’t get to the part where goddesses began losing their status in the ancient world. I am intrigued as well. Perhaps after the High Holy Days, when I have repented of my apostasy for another year and am free to indulge once more, I will have to revisit this topic!
I don’t have pets these days, enough for me taking care of my sons, but I have had them in the past. I haven’t had a dog in over 20 years, the lose of my last one was too devastating for me. I hope all is going well for you and your pet.
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Didn’t Druids also do some human sacrifice? For my money, any time you bring in gods/goddesses, you get into some trouble. But then I’m a stalwart nontheist, so I can’t be trusted on these things.
Good luck with the consult!
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True, true, but some of us enjoy a bit of trouble now and then; as long as it’s all taken with a grain of salt and good dose of humor. I just don’t think it was all meant to be taken so seriously. But, as a religious person, it could also be said that I cannot be trusted on these things either. IMO, however, the ones not to be trusted are the strident ones, whether theist, nontheist, monotheist, polytheist, or none of the above.
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