Call me Lenny/Leni @ shinigamiookamiryuu @lemm.ee

It's nice to meet all you. I am she/her, can speak Toki Pona and English (n

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I've had what many would call anhedonia for so long that often I question myself when I am happy. I ask "what is this feeling about" and the happiness realizes itself for what it is.

Thanks. I tend to use a mix of different drawing and coloring techniques to get the results (some aspects are traditional while others are digital).

I'm also just learning now that there's a term for those kinds of sun rays. I did not know that before, I thought they were just "sun rays".

So you're not aware then that this is someone whose descriptors match someone accused of constant returning/evading and who has been proven wrong.

So you're not aware then that this is someone whose descriptors match someone accused of constant returning/evading and who has been proven wrong.

So you're not aware then that this is someone whose descriptors match someone accused of constant returning/evading and who has been proven wrong.

So you're not aware then that this is someone whose descriptors match someone accused of constant returning/evading and who has been proven wrong.

So you're not aware then that this is someone whose descriptors match someone accused of constant returning/evading and who has been proven wrong.

Maybe it's worth acknowledging you're an exact copy of someone who keeps returning.

Maybe it's worth acknowledging you're an exact copy of someone who keeps returning.

Maybe it's worth acknowledging you're an exact copy of someone who keeps returning.

Maybe it's worth acknowledging you're an exact copy of someone who keeps returning.

Maybe it's worth acknowledging you're an exact copy of someone who keeps returning.

I have been described this way before, even though I see what I am as one whole. You could even call it "trial faith" if you count "agnosticism" as a component. I say that because I don't think of myself as metaphysically focused. Sure, God may exist, and I do have those leanings, but metaphysical matters are, by virtue of their nature, left out of the strict equations of life, by definition. I see my specifications with God as being summed up with "for all intents and purposes" (as much as people tend to mock it, Jordan Peterson's "what is" speech comes to mind here).

This may be my Pacific Islander side showing, but adherence to "folk LDS" has to do with the first part of my alignment. It has often been called Hagothism. In the Book of Mormon, one might recall (or so I am told) there are a few random verses where a sailor named Hagoth goes to different places in the Pacific to spread the light of the Nephites. This is where the tradition would come in. There are those of us who hold all the main teachings of "Mormons" (who don't really like being called that) but who teach something that's Australianized instead of Americanized. So different story narrative and whatnot. "Hagothists" still, however, identify as LDS. You can be a "Mormon" but not a "Hagothist" and vice versa, though even "Mormons" who have been to places relevant to "Hagothism" have seen the signs possibly indicative of being visited by the lord, such as stories in native beliefs about heavenly visitors. Though I am not absolute, I definitely lean towards these teachings known as Hagothism, it's not as judgmental and best matches expectations and answers questions.

Along comes the Mune Shinri, a scripture whose "faith name" is "Aiken". I only had to read it once, and everything fits perfectly. Components such as the views on gods (technically henotheism but technically monotheism, one doesn't rule out other gods while the other is like "hey, the angels of old were gods in a way"), the views on the afterlife (Hell is not for the good-hearted; one says you have to try really hard to get into Hell, the other speaks of a man named Akuma who was the first to do just that and resides in a place where people who haven't repented serious things stay given they don't speak their heart out), the views on geography (Aiken's connection to Japan comes to mind, and a lot of people wonder how Japan fits in with the lore about Hagoth, which may have an answer here), and the views on human rights (both are LGBT-friendly for example, err, one suggests it's not God's plan but implies it isn't damnable while the other says he does not look down on any form of unity) all come together like a rope and a curtain. As many of us do with many things, I, at different times, may vocally identify differently and with different semantics, even though it's all there at all times. As for what church I go to, it's a mix between a non-specifically denominational group and a regular LDS one.

Three of my favorites from each classic category...

Animal photography:

Landscape/sky photography:

Chalk drawings, my favorite medium (aside from stop-motion/claymation):

Regular drawings:

Memes:

I survived to adulthood.

No. Neither one would change how universally relevant basic ethics are.

Put whoopie cushions in the door.

I have no doubt it can be done. I've seen something along these lines for myself. Many people have begun their life with destructive ideas only to realize what was wrong and shake that off themselves, which one might say is natural as the seekers of insight we are. I'd be lying to say this didn't describe me in a few ways, having thought in a more generalized, unthinking way in the past. Given enough time, it's hard to imagine that not all of us would become Uncle Iroh.

We are given a glimpse of this in history; we see the likes of Hirohito going from warlike to a pacifist, General Butt Naked converting from a genocidal warlord to a preacher, Dr. Seuss once being Japanophobic before making amends, the great Confucius himself becoming who he was after being disillusioned with his position of power, and if you are of my religious group, God himself.

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