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How much should I teach my children about veganism?
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- My name is Christina, I believe in law of attraction, I'm Vegan, I believe in Metta& Satyagraha. There is nothing that is impossible in my eyes, I've taught my mind to see the good in people, to love and accept things for how they are even if I dislike them, which is what Metta is. I love my creator, I love the life I have lived, I can certainly say it has not been boring. I believe in reincarnation as well. I meditate dailey, and live in the now.
Some things that do concern me are global warming, animal rights, fellow homosapiens who insist on being willfully ignorant, the decreasing morality of people, and our education system. LOL
I'm pretty fun and very crass in person (usually), as of late I am listening more than speaking because I feel I have forgotten how to listen.
Please spread this video around. We need to stand together as people, no matter what nation, race or size to fix this.
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Walking down the halls, with a soul bearly glowing, the life low in my eyes. People of happiness discern that look in people as anger, as insanity, as depression. I remember looking into their eyes, and seeing ignorance. The cigarette smoke in my lungs, was not painful, but that of a tainted breath of god, entering me. Reading old journal entires, looking at old photos, seeing old faces. I see both now, what it was to look with the embers of my tattered heart showing the only love and compassion… Continue
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Bahaha..... boys can be ballerinas to thou ^^ uhoh for them!
Thanks for that idea. There are Beeeuatiful parks all near my house, I'll hafta give em a try! You know those trees that have the white outter layer!? idk how to explain them haha But this kid was like unwrapping the white bark from it and Im like dood. That's it's freakin skin...how'd you like that?! ugh!! Kidsssss.. NICEE!! What kind of colours?! Well, Im going to try Hot topic, (ina bout a month I'll be 18 so It'll be easier for me to get a job i like) Then there is a grocery store near by that hires more mmm.... idk what's the word haha people with dreads and piercings. So i might try there =D
bahhaha Forseriously?! Ugh! You know how like in Pretty in Pink she had that badass job at that record shop. THATS WHAT I WISH REAL LIFE JOBS WERE LIKE!!!!!! bahaha pot head gamers >_< mmm.. I jus want a cute nerdy boy not all stoned out! Though it was hella funny, at blockbusters the dweeb boys that worked there were like..."Oh yea, we only hire boys" my mom replied.." She can get a sex change then to work here" boy, " we were just kidding!!!" oh my! How is WOW?! My brother wants to start playing.... Dude thats abunch of crappp... i mean, working all de time..wth. WTF!? Forserious?! What did you to him after that?!!!!!!
hahahah toooo funny!
Idk, I'll try to keep my end of the dealio.... ^^
Yea, that would be hella awesome if i did. ;) Eermm My day was fine!! Slept, had tap today, ate alot of carbs, getting applications tomorrow, That way I'll have something to keep me from not getting so bored. blahhh NO SNOW!! Now its flooding!! yay* ;) bahahahah what about you?! Havin an awesome week so far!?
for realz? well, i'm gonna check it out then.
i haven't looked through the whole book, but i saw the baking section, and oh my gosh, the recipes sound delicious!!!
I feel like way old compared to some of me friends... Im like !shit! if i was a guy Id be totally creepy right now lol Nice =D Meditating = awesomeness (thou I haven't found a perfect spot to meditate at thou) Reading is fabtastic! writing, i love to attempt at it hahah You know what, I haven't climbed a tree in so long :( I've kissed a tree. But haven't climbed one lol
Dood I so need a job, But idk where to work, plus the whole "PINK HAIR DEAL" grrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... how was gamestop thou?! any hawt gamer nerds?!!?
hahahah HEY! Just cuz I am an Oregonian doesn't mean I bitch at the heat!
WAIT, i did this summer. ONLY when it got up to 95+ lolz.
Okay DEAL!!! =DD
YEAH! Wristcutters was reallyyyy good i though!! =D
Downside to Joy luck club.. (fur coats:*( ) bbut good movie minus that.
The machinist twas good cuz it wasn't all like HOLLYWOOD out.
Umm kinda sorta. started to snow the other day and I was like HELL NOOO!
It stopped whoooo.. POINTE ISSS THIS>>
(Not my picture btw lol) HELLA FUN THOU =] I WUV IT!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, DEFF don't want to get stuck in the ice >_< very suckyyy.
hahah Whenver it gets like 75+ Oregonians think its way to hawt.
bahaha made me laugh thou =D
Shit, okay, by next year we will haft to kiss a stranger then.
I watched...
Wristcutters.
Punk-Drunk Love.
The Machinist.
Joy luck club.
Gone baby Gone
and i can't remember what else lmao.
i want that one though.
the one that i bought was "an idiot's guide to vegan cooking" or something like that lol
i got it at borders
i have a cookbook, and i was like "why haven't i tried to master this recipe?" lol
yeah i was watching some guy baking vegan sweets on youtube.
so i will make that a new years resolution lol
i didnt do much. just on the internet most of the time and talking to my friend till midnight haha
Well, no, they got stuck cuz either the wire things got frozen or if a car blocked the crossing lol Nice! I so need some hot weather right now hahah
uhhh... I slept. with all 4 of my cats piled on me. Then at 12:01am some fireworks woke me up. THen I watched a movie.
and naww.. I was all by my lonesome. No kissin strangers lol
Father Time (known as Pakiž in some countries) is a personification of time. He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying a scythe and an hourglass or other timekeeping device (representing time's constant movement). This image derives from many sources, including the Grim Reaper and Chronos, the Greek god of time.
Father Time
Because of their similarity in name as pertaining to parental figures, he is sometimes paired with Mother Nature as a married couple.
In various New Year's Eve customs, Father Time's image is used as the personification of the previous year (or "the Old Year"), who "hands over" the duties of time to the Baby New Year (or "the New Year"). In this case, his old age is emphasized (in particular, he may be depicted walking with the aid of a stick).
In Popular Culture
Time is one of the Incarnations of Immortality, human beings who perform mythological offices, in Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series of fantasy novels. The book specifically dealing with Time, Bearing an Hourglass, details the cloak worn by the Incarnation, which will instantly age-to-oblivion anyone which tries to attack Time, and the Hourglass, a potent magical device and badge of office which allows Time to move backwards and forwards temporally as well as to affect the temporal (and physical, by analogy to space-time) motion of others.
In this series, Time is a human being who ages backwards from the moment they assume the office until they reach the point in time where they were born, at which time they go on to the afterlife, the Hourglass appears unattached in the mortal world, and the first human to touch the Hourglass becomes the new Incarnation of Time. Thus from the point of view of the rest of the Universe Time gets older and older, but knows less and less about the future, and is periodically replaced by a younger but much more experienced and knowledgeable entity. Alone among the inhabitants of the Incarnations universe, Time has a partial immunity to paradox and is allowed to be in the same place at the same time more than once, although there are still limits to what can be changed with this power.
Time is an anthropomorphic personification, like Death, in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, specifically Thief of Time. Originally a creature of spirit, Time eventually came to occupy a body appearing to be that of a female human who loved the first History Monk, and had a child with him who became the new personification of Time while his mother and father "retired."
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Old Father Time
Chronos (also known as Chronus) is the personification of time itself. Indeed, the word means "time" and is the root of "chronology" and other modern words. It was, however, originally employed in a purely poetic sense. There is no God or Goddess directly associated with time per se in the annals of Greek mythology, but there may have been a Titan of Time.
Saturn (referred to by the Greeks as Cronus or Kronos) was the Roman Deity of Time and an ancient Italian Corn God known as the Sower. Male ruler of the Roman Gods prior to Jupiter, Saturn's weapon was a scythe or sickle. The Romans honored Saturn at a MidWinter festival called Saturnalia, which lasted several days and at which there was much feasting and making merry. All business was suspended and schools were closed. Parents gave toys to their children and there was a public banquet. Saturn may have been worshiped by the pre-Hellenic population of the country but probably not widely revered by the Greeks themselves. His functions were concerned with agriculture and his festival, held in Attica and known as Kronia, resembled the Roman Saturnalia in that it was a celebration of the harvest. In art, Saturn has always been depicted as a old man holding an implement which has often been interpreted as a harpe or curved sword, but which appears likely to have actually represented a scythe or a sickle.
Since ancient history, time has been identified with Saturn. In mythology, he was the son of Uranus (Heaven or Sky-Father) and Gaea (Earth-Mother) and the youngest of the Twelve Titans. Upon the advice of Gaea (who understood the changes of life and knew that Uranus would never, of his own accord, yield to the younger generation), Saturn castrated his father and thus separated Heaven from Earth. Gaea created out of flint...a mineral of her own substance...a sickle with which to complete the deed. It was the tool by which life was cut down at the time of harvest and was crescent-shaped like the moon, symbolic of cyclic rise and fall. It was believed that the spilled blood of Uranus formed such creatures as the Giants and the Furies, and that his genitals (which were tossed into the sea eventually produced the beautiful Venus/Aphrodite). Saturn's emasculation of Uranus now made Saturn King of the Titans and the rotation of the generations was thereby effected. Consequently, the sickle (and later, the scythe) became representative of the cruel and unrelenting flow of time which, in the end, cuts down all things.
After the demise of Uranus, Saturn took his sister, Rhea (Goddess of Necessity), as consort and together they ruled. She bore him five children: Vesta, Ceres, Juno, Pluto and Neptune...all of whom he swallowed because it had been foretold that he would be overthrown by his own child. When Jupiter was born, however, Rhea hid the baby in Crete and tricked Saturn into swallowing a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes instead. When Jupiter reached adulthood, he forced Saturn to disgorge his three sisters and two brothers. United, the siblings waged war and defeated their father. According to variations in the legend, Saturn was then either imprisoned in Tartarus or banished to Latium in Italy where he took refuge. According to some folktales, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto were representative of Air, Water and Death...the three things that time itself cannot kill...and the overthrow of Saturn symbolized the demise of the old culture which worshiped this ancient God.
Alternative legends maintain that Saturn became King of the Lost Golden Age and turned his attention to gardening, thus applying his sickle to less violent ends. A statue of Saturn holding his sickle once stood in the temple erected to the God on the road leading the Roman Capitol. This much wiser Saturn was an incorruptible deity and reigned supreme during a time when there were no wars or hardships. He depicted fertility in its most exalted sense. Having learned his lesson, Saturn is said to have eventually stepped down in favor of his son, Picus (also known as Woodpecker) and retired altogether from human company. Some say that he now rules Elysium, the Isle of the Blest...others say he lies in a magic sleep, tended by nymphs, on an island near Britain and that he will one day return, bringing yet another Golden Age.
Saturn symbolizes the inexorable flow of time in both its destructive and constructive effects. His decrepit body is a reminder that time is the devourer of all things and that, like the substance in the hourglass he often carries, his physical vitality will run out until it is totally exhausted. However, just as the hourglass can be inverted, so a new generation restores the font of physical vitality. Nonetheless, time is not wholly destructive, for the gift of time is the serenity and wisdom that are attainable only through the experiences of a long life. In addition, the white beard with which Saturn is frequently depicted indicates that age has given him a new purity and innocence.
The downward flow of the contents in the hourglass is balanced by an upward flow of spirit. Thus, the loss of vitality in the body is balanced by the increasing spiritualization of the mind, which gradually becomes filled less with earthly matters than those of the spirit. Saturn's flint sickle represents the harvest... cruel destruction for last year's crop, but nevertheless necessary to make room for the new crop in order to reap the fruits of the current harvest. In a similar fashion does the old crescent moon bring to finality the old cycle while being harbinger of a new one.
A modern notion of the relationship of time with Saturn or Kronos is that the association may have originated due to the confusion created by similar-sounding words ("Kronos" and "Chronos"). The image of the Grim Reaper bearing a scythe is believed to have derived directly from Kronos. Both of these modern figures...Father Time and the Grim Reaper...are sometimes accompanied by a crow and there is speculation that the word "Chronos" and the subsequent associated God may have actually been representative of this bird, which was symbolic of both fertility and death. However, this hypothesis could again be as a result of confusion concerning similar-sounding words since the Latin for crow is "cornix." By the Middle Ages there were many engravings of the Grim Reaper which depict a skeletal figure holding a scythe and hourglass with a crow nearby.
Later, three Greek words added to the confusion of symbolic time: Chronus, which meant "time" itself; Kronos, the ancient Roman God of the Harvest; and Corone, the Greek word for crow. Whether these three were connected due to similar roots, or whether they were connected simply due to their similarity in sound is something which has yet to be proven. As with most mythological lore, the concepts tend to reach so far back into history that the origins cannot be reliably traced to any definitive conclusion.
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Cronus: Titan, Reaper, Father Time... Crow?
Chronos (or Chronus) is the personification of time, which is what the word means. It is used in "chronology" and other modern words. It was used originally in a solely poetic sense. There isn't a god or goddess directly associated with time per se in Greek myth. But there may have been a Titan of time...
Cronus (or Kronos) was the father of Zeus and his siblings. He was part of a group of beings called Titans that existed before the Greek gods.
His parents were Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). They had many children, but Uranus was fearful of them and kept them confined inside of Gaia. She didn't like this much. She gave Cronus a sickle, and he castrated his father the next time he came near. When this happened the blood that was spilled formed creatures like the Giants and the Furies, and the genitals of Uranus were thrown into the sea and would eventually produce Aphrodite.
With Uranus out of the way, Cronus married his sister Rhea and ruled the Titans. Cronus was afraid that one of his children would overthrow him as he had overthrown his father, so as each child was born he swallowed them one by one. He had already disposed of Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter in this fashion before Zeus was born. This time Rhea had Zeus hidden and tricked Cronus into swallowing a stone instead.
When Zeus was old enough to take care of himself, Rhea got Cronus to release the children he had swallowed, either by talking him into it or by giving him a potion that induced vomiting. When the other gods were free they joined Zeus to fight the Titans and overthrew them.
From these stories and other facts it is believed that Cronus was a harvest god from long ago, worshipped by a culture before the Greeks. His sickle is a tool used in harvesting grain. Many people believe that the story of his overthrow by Zeus represents the overthrow of the culture that worshipped Cronus and the old gods by the people who worshipped Zeus and the other more familiar Greek gods.
The Romans identified Cronus with their god Saturn. Saturn, the Sower, was also a god of agriculture. The Roman god's festival, called the Saturnalia, was held from the 17th to the 19th of December and was quite popular.
Cronus and Saturn were also identified with time. Harvest and time might be related in the first place, but some suspect this relationship may have happened because of a confusion between the words Cronus and Chronus.
Harvest was also associated with death because of the end of growing season. Kronos eating his children was used in a poetic sense for time devouring all things, as in the old saying "nothing lasts forever."
Our concepts of Father Time (usually found in cartoons around New Year's Eve these days, but historically found as part of the Saturnalia festival when it was pushed to the first of the new year to avoid conflict with Christmas) and the Grim Reaper carrying a scythe are directly derived from Cronus. Both of these more modern figures are sometimes accompanied by a crow. Robert Graves wrote that the word Cronos and the god may have actually meant "crow," but once again it could just be a result of confusion with the similar-sounding words for crow (Latin "cornix" or Greek "corone").
The three Greek words that were either related originally or related through confusion later were: Chronus (meaning "time"), Cronus (the god of harvest before the Greek gods took over), and corone (meaning "crow"). Sometimes just having words similar to each other is enough to mix stories up with one another. Whether they are connected because they sound similar or because they have similar roots is unknown.
All three words are definitely now linked in some fashion. Images of the Grim Reaper in engravings in the Middle Ages that show a skeletal figure holding a scythe and hourglass with a crow nearby show this connection. (You can go to the Grim Reaper picture page to see some of these images.)
Also note that the origins of words in Ancient Greek are uncertain. It could be that Chronus and Cronus were supposed to be the same thing originally, or that Cronus originally did mean crow. We don't have enough information on the beliefs of the pre-Greeks to know if Cronus was intended to be a crow or not. Many people think the three words coming together was just a silly coincidence, but there's no firm proof one way or another.
Crows were sometimes associated with fertility figures in other cultures, but that doesn't necessarily prove anything. Also, crows could be associated with death (by going after corpses) as well as harvest (by going after grain).
Like most things in mythology, the concepts go back so far in time that we can't trace the origins reliably.
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