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| User: | brigidsblest (37338) |
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| Name: | brigidsblest | |||||||||
| Location: | Whiting, Indiana, United States | |||||||||
| E-mail: | brigidsblest@yahoo.com | |||||||||
| Bio: | Labels: Woman. Pagan. Liberal. Intellectual. Scholar. College graduate. Daughter. Writer. Bookworm. Gamer. Feminist. Brainiac. Ailurophile. Chocoholic. Diabetic. Geek. Herbalist. Comic book fan. Arachnophobe. Mother. Domestic abuse survivor. Teacher's Pet. Freak. Pantheistic solipsist. Happy. Did I forget anything? I have one husband (Doug), one son (Brandon, 13), two daughters (Sarah, 15, and Ali, 18), five cats (Cara, Wednesday, Houdini, Nicodemus, and Minerva), a dog (Cafall), and a huge garden. I make my own candles and jewelry. I am a passable cook and a patient teacher, an eager student and a loyal friend. I was raised Catholic but have been Pagan since I was 17 years old (or thereabouts). Twice married, once divorced. Open-minded but not stupid. Flames not welcome, but honest, intelligent discussion is. As evidenced by even a casual perusal of this journal, I am about as anti-Bush as you can get. I won't flog it around in other forums or on other peoples' journals, but I do post about it here because, after all, this is my journal. I am waiting (probably futilely) for him to go down in the big fat metaphorical flames of impeachment, which I doubt will actually happen, because everyone knows that the people, courts, and Congress of this country only care about impeaching a president if he's had sex with someone who isn't his wife. However, I reserve the right to delete comments here if people start getting abusive to me or other commenters on my f-list. I will support your freedom of speech to the death, but I won't put up with trolls. Fair (and only) warning. If my username suddenly shows up on your friends list, it generally means I've friended you for one of two reasons: I know you from somewhere else (Yahoo discussion group, Black Bayou, etc.) or I ran across one of your entries while meandering here (pther journals, someone else's friends page) and decided I liked your writing. Sometimes I'll actually ask if I can friend you, but sometimes I don't. However, I'll take you off if you ask me to. :) Also, feel free to friend me back, but no pressure if you don't wanna. If, on the other hand, I notice one day that you've friended me (I hope you'd drop me a line, but it's not necessary), be warned, I counter-friend at the drop of a hat (as soon as I've noticed...some times it takes a while). Quotes: Vita sine libris mors est. Life without books is death. "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." --Thomas Jefferson "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -- Isaac Asimov "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear." -- William E. Gladstone (British Statesman) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead "You must be the change you want to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi "Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men." -- Edwin L. Cole "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." -- Sen. Carl Schurz The last time we mixed religion and politics, people got burned at the stake. (author unknown) As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses. - John Kenneth Galbraith The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. - Aldous Huxley (or George Orwell, I've seen it attributed to both) The most violent element in society is ignorance. - Emma Goldman A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny! - Thomas Jefferson All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? - Edward Abbey All war is based on deception. - Sun Tzu I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai Stevenson Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. - Freda Adler Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics. - George J. Mitchell In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. - Edward Dowling Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. - Lily Tomlin. The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. - Paul Wellstone When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. - Sinclair Lewis I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. - Thomas Jefferson (applies perfectly to the Supreme Court question of whether the Constitution is a living document or not) More interests than the measly 150 they allow: Addams Family, Adult Swim, Alan Moore, American Gothic, Amy Brown art, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Annie Lennox, anti-hate speech, Aurora, Baudelaire, Bauhaus, Bel Canto, Beowulf, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, bodhran, Boiled in Lead, botany, Brian Eno, Brian Froud, Brisco County, Bruce Campbell, Bryan Ferry, Bubba Ho-Tep, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Caitlin Kiernan, candles, Celtic knotwork, Celtic mythology, Celtic paganism, chanting, Charles de Lint, Christopher Marlowe, circle of the year, Clan of Xymox, classic monster movies, comparative religions, Concrete Blonde, cooking, cryptozoology, Cthulhu mythos, daemon lovers, Dagda, Dalai Lama, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Danu, Dark Shadows, David Bowie, David Duchovny, David Eddings, Demeter, Diana Paxson, drumming, Edward Burne-Jones, Egypt, egyptian mythology, Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kushner, Emerald Rose, equality, Estampie, F. Paul Wilson, fables, Faith & the Muse, family reunions, family, fantasy, feminism, Foamy the Squirrel, folk tales, Frank Miller, Gamera, George Carlin, George Romero, Godzilla, goth, Grant Morrison, Grateful Dead, Greece, Greek mythology, Greek paganism, Green Day, Gregory Maguire, Grendel, gypsies, Halloween, Heather Alexander, Heather Dale, Hellsing, Holly Black, incense, Indiana Jones, Inkubus Sukkubus, Invader Zim, Irfan, James Hetley, Japan, Japanese culture, Jim Henson, Joe Lansdale, John Lennon, John William Waterhouse, Julian May, k. d. lang, Kevin Smith, King Arthur, Leah Andreone, learning languages, legends, Leonard Peltier, Lewis Spence, Lilith, Little Shop of Horrors, living well, London After Midnight, Lone Gunmen, Lord of the Rings, medieval studies, Mercedes Lackey, Millennium, Mircea Eliade, Mission U.K., Nancy Collins, Narnia, nature walks, Neil Young, Neurotically Yours, Nosferatu, old Hollywood musicals, Ordo Equitum Solus, packrat, pagans, Pan, Peg Kerr, Pirates of Dark Water, Poe, Poppy Brite, psychology (especially abnormal psychology), Puck, puppies, Qntal, Rancid, Fiona Apple, Record of Lodoss War, recycling, Repo Man, Roald Dahl, Robert Asprin, Robin Goodfellow, Robot Chicken, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ronald Hutton, Roxy Music, Rudolf Nureyev, Sandman, SCA, Scotland, Seamus Heaney, self-esteem, Seth Green, Sex Pistols, sex, Sinead O'Connor, Siouxsie & the Banshees, sociology, something I can never have, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Sting, Susan Cooper, swimming, swords, Tales from the Crypt, Tam Lin, Taoism, Tara, Tempest, Terri Windling, Terry Gilliam, the Cramps, the Dark is Rising, the Doors, the Misfits, the Morrigan, The Outer Limits (the classic original series, not the modern one), the Ramones, the Tick, the Twilight Zone, the white stag, the Young Ones, This Mortal Coil, Thomas Burnett Swann, Thomas the Rhymer, thunderstorms, Tir Na M'Ban, Tir Na N'og, Tolkein, Tom Waits, Tony Hillerman, tropical island getaways, Tuatha de Danaan, Underhill, vacations, Vampire Hunter D, Weird Al Yankovic, Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics, werewolves, West Memphis Three, Wicca, William Holman Hunt, wordless yearning, Yeats, zombies, ethical religion, evolution, expressing my own beliefs, fighting moralism, freedom of religion, freedom from religion, freedom of speech, moral relativism, offending moralistic asshats, pursuit of happiness, resisting censorship, resisting theocracy, respecting differences of opinion, secular humanism | |||||||||
| Interests: | 150: alternative medicine, angels, anime, anthropology, anti-bush, apollon, arcadia, archaeology, aromatherapy, artemis, arthurian legends, athene, ballet, baryshnikov, beowulf, black bayou, body modification, bpal, brigid, buffy the vampire slayer, call of cthulhu, camelot, candlemaking, cats, celtic music, celtic studies, cemetaries, chaucer, classical studies, comic books, criminology, d&d, dante, dante gabriel rosetti, danu, dark fantasy, dark shadows, david bowie, dead can dance, demons, dionysos, dracula, drawn together, edgar allen poe, egyptology, elfquest, elves, emma bull, environmental activism, faeries, fairport convention, fairy tales, family guy, fanfic, film noir, folklore, forensic science, forteana, fossil hunting, futurama, garbage, gargoyles, ghosts, goth music, h.p. lovecraft, halloween, harlan ellison, harry potter, hawk the slayer, hellenismos, herbalism, hermes, herne, hestia, history, horror movies, ireland, james randi, joe bob briggs, joseph campbell, jungian symbolism, justice (the real thing), keats, kolchak the night stalker, labyrinth, lord byron, loreena mckennitt, lugh, mabinogion, martial arts, medieval literature, middle ages, monty python, muppet show, muses, mysteries, mystery science theater 3000, mythology, native americans, necronomicon, neil gaiman, nick cave, nine inch nails, nursery rhymes, paganism, paleontology, paul riddell, percy shelley, poetry, politics, poseidon, pre-raphaelite artists, princess bride, ravens, reconstructionist religions, renaissance lit, renfaires, robin hood, robin pen, romantic poets, romany, rpgs, s*p, serial killers, shakespeare, sherlock holmes, simpsons, sisters of mercy, smallville, south park, star trek, steeleye span, stephen jay gould, stephen king, superheroes, t.s. eliot, tanith lee, tattoos, terry pratchett, the 60's, the sidhe, themis, theology, toxicology, urban legends, vampires, webcomics, white wolf games, x-files, x-men | |||||||||
| Schools: | Dubuque High School - Dubuque, IA Truman State University - Kirksville, MO (1985 - 1986) Calumet College of St. Joseph - Whiting, IN (1999 - 2005) | |||||||||
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| Member of: | 6: 07refugees, dark_christian, dot_pagan_snark, mixed_music, pagan, paganbooks | |||||||||
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