Invasion of Religion

 Last night a salesperson came to our house, trying to sell us a vacuum cleaner. I thought that the door to door trend went extinct in the late 90's, so it was very weird for me. He was friendly, a little too friendly...but what ever he thought would score him a sale, right? Honestly, I think that door to door salespeople are invasion of privacy. I would never let one in. In fact, the only people I would let into my house was people I already knew from school or work, or people from businesses like a cable company or a gas company that had an appointment to come over. This is because I am a very private type of person. Partly because my spirituality tends to make people so uncomfortable that they feel the need to talk about theirs, and partly because I don't like dealing with bullshit.
 So, he was invited in to talk about the product he was trying to sell, and then he began to try and sell his religion on top of it....
 "What are two things you don't want in your house?" he began to say.
 "Dirt and dust," my sister said.
 "Close, but it's dirt and the devil." and then he laughed. Yes, it was a clever line, but it was completely unnecessary. Not only did that line offend me, and make my sister look at me with worried eyes, but it kind of put a damper on his sales chance. Yes, we live in the bible belt, but that's just a name. There are Pagans in the south.
 I personally don't believe in the devil, I believe that the concept of the devil was made up by Catholicism when they were converting Pagans to make them afraid. The "devil" is 5% guilt trip and 95% bullshit. If anything were to be a manifestation of the devil it would be mankind. Mankind is what is causing all of these bad things to happen, not some made up "astral" being that lives in a lake of fire.
 I was about to tell him a few things about religion....but I just kept my mouth shut and tried to leave the room. To whit he tried to keep me in the room by blocking me and petting my dog that I was trying to take back to my room.
 I have a strong dislike for salespeople. If I want to buy a product, I'll go out and buy it. Leave me alone, leave my door alone....and you better be sure to leave your religion at home, if you're not a pastor don't preach to people at work. You never know what their religion or spirituality is, and you could be really offending them.

Thoughs of Society

A few nights ago, I went onto Chat Roulette, just for the hell of it. I only talked to one "partner," it happened to be a group of teenagers surprised that they were having an actual conversation on there; considering most of the people on the site are just jerking off. They didn't know me, and yet they failed to treat me with respect like what would be normally acceptable in society. They were very rude, and kept laughing. Asking me if I was a dude, and what colour I was. Asking me if I just shit on myself. It disgusted me. I thought that people had more respect for strangers. What is society today anyway? Darting eye contact just to make sure that people aren't watching you, small smiles to feel polite. Society is a joke, in my opinion. The human race likes to think that we have respect for things, when we actually don't. There's always bound to be a few things that we disrespect, a child that is annoying, an elder that you think "won't remember it," an animal that you don't like because it's annoying. I have faults, too. Everybody does. What is the point in us all being here, if we can't all get along. We go into Elementary school with high spirits, come out of it with broken or condescended spirits, depending on how we were treated according to our clothes we had, and our weight, sometimes even our last names, or first names. From the start we are poked and prodded by society, told that because we dress this way, look like this, or came from this lineage, we are crap, or we are better than the rest. It's disgusting. Then, we go into Middle School, and the pain stays with us. The teachers accuse us for what Elementary School bullying made us become, or praise those who fucked up kids in Elementary School. By the time we are in Junior High, or High School, we all are divided into our little groups that we are accepted into, because of the way we dress, act, look, or our neighborhoods. Society is a nasty system of grouping, but what is it all for? College comes, and we all are supposed to have respect, and get to know people out of our bubbles, but deep down, it's still in our program. Don't talk to her, she has dreads. Don't talk to him, he smells like pot. Don't sit next to her, she's fat. Don't talk to him, he's a surfer, he'll never reply. Deep down, we all feel like there are groups we don't belong in. Then there are the people that I met on Chat Roulette, the people who are so comfortable with their social group, that they feel the need to poke, prod, and joke about other people. I don't get it. Society makes me sad. Why did we even come up with such a horrible system anyway?

Introduction

 

 

Introduction

 

Hello readers and welcome to my blog. I am a witch, on her path to being a high Priestess. I have chosen the Green Path, and this is my very first blog. I am 20 years old, and I'm from Northeast Ohio. In my life I have explored several paths. I attended Catholic churches, Baptist churches, Lutheran Churches, Christian and Nondenominational churches, none of which would ever live up to what I was introduced to at a very young age: Paganism. When I was only five I can remember my mother and father having an altar set up in our living room. It consisted of a piece of dry drift wood, an abalone shell and sage bundles, sweet grass, candles, an incense bowl filled with sand that smelled like all of the incense ever burned in it, and a wooden incense box that they kept their incense in. My mother, sisters and I would all meditate together, practicing the calming meditation because we all often were excitable. Smudging our new homes was a regular act in our home, and once a month we all were smudged, even the house was twice a year. Those times were peaceful.

 

 When my family moved to Arkansas those things quickly vanished. Mom no longer meditated with us, Dad no longer smudged the houses, or us. Incense was downsized to just an air freshener. I was confused. They forced me to go to a Baptist church, next was the Salvation Army. I just went with the motions, all of this seemed so funny. They were copying Pagan traditions and claiming them as their own. I was only 14 at this time, so I went with the flow. My parents changed, they became boring and acted like grandparents. I missed the way my parents used to be. Eventually I met a friend who had a mother who was a High Priestess, and I went back to my original path. Now, I am called Salix Moonchild, and this is my journey.