Kristin, a quick Etsy search turned up these:
Rose and crystals: [link]
Pearl and garnet: [link]
Resin crystal and a rosebud: [link]
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 6:59:00 pm PST #3206 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
-t - Dec 10, 2009 6:59:32 pm PST #3207 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
meara - Dec 10, 2009 7:00:02 pm PST #3208 of 30000
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?
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 7:01:14 pm PST #3209 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh, Belle Epoque dragonfly and ruby crystal! [link]
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2009 7:02:16 pm PST #3210 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Atropa - Dec 10, 2009 7:02:45 pm PST #3211 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Aaand more pearls and ruby crystals: [link]
-t - Dec 10, 2009 7:10:41 pm PST #3212 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Vortex - Dec 10, 2009 7:13:34 pm PST #3213 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
and that masturbation causes arthritis in the hands
carpal tunnel, maybe, but not arthritis.
Cass - Dec 10, 2009 7:17:58 pm PST #3214 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
This is why you need to change things up a bit. To avoid repetitive motion injuries. And boredom.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2009 7:18:15 pm PST #3215 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not sure if all branches of Buddhism disbelieve in the soul, but there are certainly ones that also believe in gods. It's just nothing Buddha brought up. If you thought the trinity was a big diversion...
And then there's reincarnation. I'm not sure about the mechanism of that without a soul, but although Zen and Tantra might not, other branches do think you persist through death.