'War Stories'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I take ibuprofen like they're M&Ms, so do as I say, not as I do.
I absolutely give Benedryl advice like this. I will tell *you* actual medical advice and then *I* swallow little pink things like they are candies that will stop the evil tree sex from making me miserable.
Kristin, a quick Etsy search turned up these:
Rose and crystals: [link]
Pearl and garnet: [link]
Resin crystal and a rosebud: [link]
I was taught that some types of Buddhism are explicitly atheist in that once you peel all the illusion away there is, in fact, nothing, and gods are just more illusion, but my understanding is purely academic and grounded in a course I took a long time ago.
What kind of style are you looking for, Kristin? Something simple like this? Or more complicated like a big red octopus?
With silver or ooh, I like this circular one or a tree of life or red coral heart?
Oooh, Belle Epoque dragonfly and ruby crystal! [link]
I don't think many Western atheists think that one can become a Bodhisatva, though, which is why I think that the description of Buddhists as atheists is fraught. If atheism is not believing in a god, perhaps. But can one achieve nirvana without some sort of science-unexplainable power thing happening? What is enlightenment? Also, can you hear my one hand clapping?
Aaand more pearls and ruby crystals: [link]
If atheism is not believing in a god, perhaps.
Yeah, I think that was the specific definition of atheism we were talking about in that class. But Buddhism can be a very rational religion in which enlightenment is just knowing the truth, nothing supernatural about it, you can get there with deductive reasoning. And the non-existence of the soul is an important doctrine, very rationally presented, that I think is common to all the major branches though I am not sure about that. There are ways of being Buddhist that are more faith-based and mystical and may involve magical thinking, definitely.
and that masturbation causes arthritis in the hands
carpal tunnel, maybe, but not arthritis.
This is why you need to change things up a bit. To avoid repetitive motion injuries. And boredom.