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I had the worst time sleeping last night. I went to bed shortly after 11 and fell asleep pretty quickly. A fairly deep sleep at that. And then around 130 or 2, I was suddenly *almost* awake, and while it hadn't happened yet, I knew that I was about to have a muscle cramp in my leg. I snapped awake and about 5 seconds leter it hit me and for about a minute- but what seemed like hours- I was in agony. Any way I moved, it just seemed to get worse. I didn't know what to do and all I could think was whether I tried to work it out or not, somehow I was going to end up with muscle damage. (Yeah, I was awake but I was in pain and not thinking completely clearly.) I felt the spot of the cramp- it's so weird to feel this one spot on my calf just pulled into a knot. I massaged it a little...no effect. I tried straightening out my leg....that only made it worse. I bent my knee to pull my foot closer to me...that made it worse again. I straightened it out a little....that didn't help but didn't make it worse. Then I bent it again and for a few seconds, it didn't do anything, but I finally felt the cramp releasing...and it took it's sweet time letting go, but it finally did.

It didn't happen again, but I kept waking up on and off all night, every hour or so. I woke up this morning, and my leg still hurts. Not unbearably, but when I walk, it feels like my left calf muscle is...I don't know...shorter? than the right, and it feels like I have a really really really bad bruise, or like I'd just been kicked really hard square in the calf...you know that dull combination of pain and pressure?

I'm trying to stretch it out, just a little here and there hoping that will help. That never happened to me before and damn, I hope it never happens again.

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http://godmotherascending.blogspot.com/2007/02/peaceful-protests.html

This weblog is dedicated to THE GODDESS and to SAVING THE PLANET -- by gently replacing God the Father with God the Mother by the year 2025. Too simplistic? Nope, I don't think so. Male gods are dangerous, to men as well as women. Female deities are ROLE MODELS for UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. People are biologically programmed to need religion of one kind or another. (BTW, "thea"=Goddess, "theo"=god)


Okay...so...one of those things I struggle with sometimes is repect for other folks' beliefs, religions etc. Where do I draw a line between what I find acceptable and what I don't? I want other people to respect my beliefs, or at least my right to have them, so I should respect theirs. I don't really have a "line" per say...it's more like different case by case issues, with certain trends.

This is one of those that's well on the other side of the line.

Male gods are dangerous, female deities are role models for unconditional love. Totally blanket statements there. In this entry, I commented mentioning war goddesses...and suddenly we have an exception. War goddesses are the evil spawn of war gods. And of course, it seems that all gods are war gods. All goddesses before 3000 BC were "Great Mother Goddesses", those afterwards are just "wimpy war-god makeovers" (http://godmotherascending.blogspot.com/2007/01/goddess-worshippers-whistling-in-dark.html)

So she's "peacefully" protesting churches. Not, it seems, because those churches have done anything wrong in particular...but for their mere existence:

We need to march outside all War-God churches, colleges, seminaries and other institutions. What would our signs say? “Mothers, Protect Your Babies from War Gods.” “Jehovah Admits he’s a Warrior: Exod. 15:3.” “To Stop War, Stop War Gods.” “Christianity’s a Cult, Not a Religion.” “Christians Kill.” “Protect Yourself from Christianity.” “Abolish War Gods, Abolish War.” “The Bible Contains ’Warrior’ and ‘War’ 300 Times.” Similarly for Vishnu’s and Yahweh’s temples and Allah's mosques

*sigh*

Well, I've got some news for you...come 2025, I'll still be worshipping both goddesses and gods.

Wonder what she does when Christians try to proselytize to her?

Being a pagan, I get lumped in with folks like this from time to time *sigh*

I think my brain hurts.