Relationships are tricky

[precision grace]

 

[precision grace]

as are job applications..

 

[precision grace]

and my personal favourite (today)..

 

[goddessliss]

So......are you cuz, Candy, Becky or Brooke?

 

[dancing white ferret]

... And I thought I was the only one with a collection of dismembered penises!

 

[charly]

That's the scary face of matriarchy!

Ch.

 

[precision grace]

Please, can we just have some space to talk in peace about how men are penises..

 

[charly]

Sorry, I apologize!

Ch.

 

[precision grace]

It's ok. I wasn't being serious. Not taking self seriously is about the only thing I am super serious about

 

[charly]

It's ok. I wasn't being serious...

Hi, Grace:
Maybe a little frivolous but it doesn't lack of seriousness.

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"The Thai saying, 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat,' is therefore a common joke and immediately understood at all levels of society".

"Women publicly encouraging and inciting other scorned women to commit this act worsened the epidemic. The vast majority of worldwide reports of penile replantation, to this day, are a result of what became a trendy form of retribution in a country in which fidelity is a strongly appreciated value."

Source:
Why Thai women cut off their husbands' penises
An epidemic of penile amputations in Thailand led researchers to inquire into what was going on

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/19/improbable-research-thai-women-cut-off-penis

Brrr!

Yours,

Charly

 

[precision grace]

Hi, Grace:
Maybe a little frivolous but it doesn't lack of seriousness.


Brrr!

Yours,

Charly

"Interestingly", the physicians remark at the very end, "none of our patients filed a criminal complaint against their attackers."

Why so scared Charly? Are you a philanderer married to a Thai woman? If so, you only yourself to blame

Perhaps cutting off fingers should be also practiced? At the weekend, I was at a party where a drunk stranger felt moved to touch my face for no reason. Now, what I thought was " Aww, he thinks I am pretty" followed by "Eww gross, old drunk dude just touched my face", because, to be honest, whenever I see a cute kid, I want to touch them..not in a creepy way, just because they are cute. But still. It seems wrong to go around interfering with innocent bystanders

 

[charly]

"Interestingly", the physicians remark at the very end, "none of our patients filed a criminal complaint against their attackers."

Why so scared Charly? Are you a philanderer married to a Thai woman? If so, you only yourself to blame

Hi, Grace:

Goddesses have a scary side:

Source: Offering Flowers, Feeding skulls
at: http://www.amazon.com/Offering-Flowers-Feeding-Skulls-Popular/dp/0195167910

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Take the preview for seeing the garland of MALE HEADS (*) that bears the Goddess. I don't know to whom belonged the skulls. The Changes sometimes advices DON'T LOSE THE HEAD!!! Because of LOVE, be said.

Yours,


Charly



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(*) Maybe an euphemism for penis.
Ch.

 

[precision grace]

thanks charly. I may need to channel the fearsome goddess thingy soon, two car mechanics came through my house today and now one of my house keys is missing. (both male obv and worse, I thought friends!) Third mechanic arriving first thing in the morning with, I hope, solutions rather than more problems..

*bloody men and who bloody well invented them*

 

[charly]

Hi, Grace:

Did the Third Man come with solution?
Did you find the Lost Key?

Yours,


Charly

 

[precision grace]

Yes and Yes

Third Man implemented the solution I originally suggested was going to be needed and then had to listen to an hour lecture saying how I and the internet are not expert enough to make that assessment only for it to turn out to be the solution needed.

Thankfully I found the key in my own bag. Phew.

 

[charly]

Yes and Yes

Third Man implemented the solution I originally suggested was going to be needed and then had to listen to an hour lecture saying how I and the internet are not expert enough to make that assessment only for it to turn out to be the solution needed.

Thankfully I found the key in my own bag. Phew.

Hi, Grace:

If you said that got your idea consulting the Changes... At least the Third Man is a man and men are not perfect.

Maybe you already know that THE KEY is the name of Hex.1 in the Mawangdui manuscript, I always believed that there is some affinity between keys and bags. Not strange that the key be there.

Yours,


Charly

 

[charly]

Hi, Grace:

Goddesses have a scary side:
Source: Offering Flowers, Feeding skulls
...
Charly

For those interested:
The image of the broken link belonged to the Amazon's preview, can be seen in a page of Amazon.
The book is now availabe in Goofgle Books.
Also as free pdf in Semantic Scholar serching «Offering Flowers, Feeding skulls» [click in «View PDF»]

Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls: Popular Goddess Worship in West Bengal

• June McDaniel
• Published 2004

The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.

View PDF​

Source: https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Ch.