Yeah, regarding that suicide hotline post I reblogged: I genuinely worry, with the number of mentally ill people on this site trying to live with and/or ease their mental illness, that some of these people are going to get tricked by Scientologist anti-psychiatry propaganda. I mean, that’s how cults lure people in; they pick people who feel there’s something missing or wrong with their lives and take advantage of them by claiming to have the solution to all their problems.
I’ve joked in the past about “What if the Church of Scientology got a Tumblr?” but there’s a part of me that’s worried that there are Scientologists on Tumblr trying to spread dangerous misinformation about mental health.
I hope that part of me is wrong.
UPDATE: So, uh, turns out a branch of $cientology technically HAS made Tumblr blogs. Several of them. If you see any blogs promoting a drug rehab facility called “Narconon”, please be aware that they ARE associated with the Church of $cientology, and they have a rather troubling history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narconon
Reform: Criminon, Foundation For A Drug-Free World, Second Chance Program
Education: Applied Scholastics, Cadet Org, Association For Better Living And Education, World Literacy Crusade, Delphi Schools, Athena School, Greenfields School, New Village Leadership Academy, Progressive Academy, Mace-Kingsley Ranch School, Hubbard College of Administration International
”Charitable” or “Activism” groups: Concerned Businessmen’s Association Of America, Citizens For Social Reform, New Cult Awareness Network, Safe Environment Fund, International Foundation For Human Rights And Tolerance, World Literacy Crusade, New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project….
Press and media groups including Heron Press, Galaxy Press, Golden Era Productions, Bridge Publications, Author Services Inc, Writers Of The Future,
And yes, yes it is very suspicious that they use so many totally unrelated-sounding organisation names to hide their involvement in so many areas of work, life and advocacy. Possibly because most people know damn well that they are, in the exact words of a British High Court Justice (Judge Latey), “Corrupt, sinister and dangerous” as well as a “cult”, and “both immoral and socially obnoxious”. Avoid them. People quite literally die under their involvement.
To sum up this book in a single sentence – “What would happen is Deadpool wrote a mythology book.”
Yeah, this guy-
Wrote a book. Here are some examples of why I think this.
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
The Greek creation myth.
The story of Hephaestus god of Blacksmithing and Aphrodite Goddess of Love.
The story of the Minotaur.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY
Norse creation myth.
Odin orders Loki to steal Freyja’s necklace. He does. This is so in character for both of them Freyja instantly knows who to blame.
EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
Ra gets mad at humanity and creates Sekhmet Lion Goddess of Killing Stuff.
How Isis retrieves her huband’s coffin from the support pillar it got stuck inside.
MAYAN MYTHOLOGY
How to try and kill the god Zipacna and fail.
CHRISTIANITY MYTHOLOGY
How God made Eve from Adam’s rib.
The story of how King Solomon judges proper maternal instinct.
HINDU MYTHOLOGY
Men ask Shiva to stop Kali’s murder rampage.
And this is how he does it.
JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY
The Goddess Izanami gives birth to the whole island of Japan.
A story about Tanuki.
AFRICAN MYTHOLOGY
Creation myth
SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY
Creation myth
The Epic of Gilgamesh: Being born
The Epic of Gilgamesh: Meeting his best friend.
NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY
Do I really need to explain why I feel the Merc with a mouth was involved in the retelling here?
Listen I will never stop stanning this fucking book, especially because these stories are SO FUN to read aloud.
source: I used to read them aloud to birdie and also did video recordings of a couple, at least one of which you can find linked on the appropriate myth on his blog. SO FUN.
hello. i am writing to let you know you did good job on the stars, and also on cats.
yours respectfully, me
dear universe,
in the original post of this, it says “dogs” where it now says “cats”. i do not know when (or how) it got changed, but i am glad that someone loved cats enough to do that, because i love my dog and i also love my cats and i felt bad about not mentioning it that first time. i’m also glad for all the tags where people told me what i should have added (like libraries and waffles and maple syrup) and i am glad for all the comments about how much they love their pets (and some people have such cool pets!)
i kind of think, universe, if we are your children, this is our macaroni art. see, see, see, you gave us a little bit of the stars, and we’ve made our own constellations. we tried to give back to you by making art and music and books and bad poetry and our laughter and our love and our tv dramadies. we took pictures of the night sky and pictures of sunsets and pictures of dew, we fell in love with space and the rivers and the rain. i personally have my desktop background as a picture of one of your nebulas. your hair looked great that day.
i think…. you did a good job, universe, on the stars, and what the stars became, because you put us together and yes, yes, things might be terrible – but good gracious did we make so many things worth loving, worth writing to you about, worth telling you – thank you, i’m taking the spark you put in me and using it to be kind, to be alive, to be wildly fierce about our gardens and gentle about our pets.
so hello. i amend my previous memo. i am writing to let you know you did a good job on the stars, and on my dog and my cats and the lizard i kept illegally in my apartment. and universe, i hope you’re watching, because some of the people you made? they’re great, universe, and they’re full of love, just endlessly capable of loving. and they give me hope.
and through them, universe, that’s you. that’s how the stars sing.
u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit
i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall
Nominative: der Mann Der Mann ist krank. – The man is ill (Who is ill? – Subject) (The subject of a sentence is always in nominative) Accusative: den Mann Ich sehe den Mann. – I see the man (Who do I see? – Object) Dative: dem Mann Ich spreche mit dem Mann. – I talk to the man (To whom do I talk?-Object) (mit (with) always requires the Dative) Genitive: des Mannes Das ist die Tasche des Mannes. – This is the bag of the man (Whose bag is this?-Object)
Neuter: das Fenster (window)
Nominative: das Fenster Das Kind ist zu Hause. – The child is at home (Who is at home? – Subject) Accusative: das Kind Ich sehe das Kind. – I see the child. (Who do I see? – Object) Dative: dem Kind Ich gebe dem Kind das Buch. – I give the book to the child. (Whom do I give the book to?-Object) Genitive: des Kindes Das ist das Buch des Kindes. – This is the book of the child. (Whose book is this?-Object)
Feminine: die Frau (woman)
Nominative: die Frau Die Frau ist jung. – The woman is young. (Who is young? – Subject) Accusative: die Frau Ich sehe die Frau. – I see the woman. (Who do I see? – Object) Dative: der Frau Ich spreche mit der Frau. – I talk to the woman. (To whom do I talk? – Object) Genitive: der Frau Das ist die Tasche der Frau. – This is the bag of the woman. (Whose bag is this? – Object)
Plural: die Frauen (women)
Nominative: die Frauen Die Frauen sind jung. – The women are young (Who is young? – Subject) Accusative: die Frauen Ich sehe die Frauen. – I see the women. (Who do I see? – Object) Dative: den Frauen Ich gebe den Frauen Bücher. – I give books to the women. (Whom do I give the books to? – Object) Genitive: der Frauen Das sind die Bücher der Frauen. – Those are the books of the women. (Whose books are those? – Object)
Plural: the same articles for masculine, feminine, neuter.
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