I missed the meaning of the gif, yes. That's why I asked about it. I'm fucking autistic, which is why I was trying to clarify and understand to improve communication which was lacking.

I got into wicca when I was about eleven, and branched out into other pantheistic religions at about thirteen. Holy Blood, Holy Grail was my study at 14, and the first summer I started reading the Dead Sea Scrolls. :D Strega is fascinating, but I don't think I could work skyclad that way, I'm too self conscious. I…

Santeria's one of the religions I know the least about, actually, as I haven't gotten to it yet in the list of religions to devour all the knowledge I can on them yet. Someone told me that yesterday and it wasn't much surprise given the tradition of such in so many belief systems. I was under the impression that under…

Fair enough. I love the sort of in-between hybrid belief systems that pop up throughout history. They're usually more interesting and nuanced than the traditions they borrow from and thoughtful in how the pieces of their source religions are applied.

It's the same with most people, I just know the vaguest things about it myself, but I'm thinking about looking further into it now, as it's one of the few I do know little about, most religions I've researched pretty extensively (I've got Asperger's and have spent 10 years focused on religion as it's such a diverse…

Been a while since I've seen voudon spelled that way, rather than people just calling it voodoo, but in any case, I still don't see the big deal, and think it'd be really hypocritical for anyone to make some huge deal of someone killing a chicken. How do people think they get chicken at the store? It's not like it's…

That's kinda my point. If you're someone who eats chicken when you could be eating something that doesn't require an animal to die, throwing shade at someone for killing a chicken for spiritual purposes (which in my eyes at least is a much more significant reason than 'it tastes better than black beans or broccoli'),…

I never got to learn as much about Santeria as I would have liked (though I may wind up going out to research it now), but from what I understood that was it in a nutshell, yeah. It must have been fascinating and amazing to see stuff like that as a kid. I didn't get to go to my first religious rituals that weren't…

Florida Panhandle here, and agreed. Too much of the time people view each others differences as reasons to shun or alienate each other, rather than coming together to learn from each other and grow.

Fair enough, see, I never even got to know that much, though I was curious about it (I'm an avid lover of the study of any and all religions because of the diverse bridges they act as to show how we relate to the divine/that which is larger or more universal than us/etc), as we broke up not long after dating due to…

Aside from that, Santeria is an offshoot of Catholicism anyhow, from what I understand, akin to the way Kabbalah is an offshoot of Judaism. Is it darker and more mysterious? Maybe to some. I dated a girl about ten years ago who practiced Santeria. It's not that big a deal. It's not like there's a whole lot of…

Same, I use pansexual amidst peers who I think will understand the terminology, but tend to use the word bisexual when talking to others, just because it's easier than having to give that long speech about gender and attraction and sexuality as spectrums with their many nuances and variables.

I'm very much monogamous by nature, but my husband is not, so we both have the 'ability' to step out and explore, but it rarely actually happens... I kinda feel bad for bisexual men though (my husband is), if I had a dollar for every time I heard someone tell him that men aren't bisexual, he's gay and afraid to admit…

I've been out as bisexual/pansexual since I was 15, and 13 years later, my mother still refuses to believe me since she hasn't seen me with any women and I wound up married to a man. It's hard to get her to take into account the fact that I purposely didn't introduce her to any of the women I've been involved with…

I say pansexual, agreed though about the Kinsey scale. I prefer women like 80/20 despite the fact that I'm a woman married to a man. It just so happens that he was male, you know? And you know what's awful? Our sex life. But it's just one aspect of the relationship which isn't high up on either of our list of…

That's actually pretty fantastically funny. I don't have a pamphlet for that, unfortunately...

... what? Is he reading something? Is that the thing? Is it a joke? What... what is that?

I thought he was too busy surgeon generalling? Which is impressive for someone who's almost been through medical school. (also a million points for the 30 rock reference)

Hi, Doctor Nick!

I think one of the larger difficulties with this, that helps the dating up/down seem to remain so gendered in what qualities a person is ranking in the dating up/down is that it strikes me women have more diverse taste in what is sexy than men do. My friend Devon? She only like chubby guys, I only like lanky guys. My…