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Sanity and compassion

Well after my last blog post, and despairing completely and the rhetoric of some here, I stayed away because it was honestly getting to me. So I left, went away for Star Wars Celebration and only came back (signed off) to see if some measure of sanity had returned. Alas, it's not. If anything it seems to be getting worse. Between people thinking it's the end time, practically wanting a civil war or wanting swathes of the population unable to vote... it's honestly become crazier. And ye

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Ponderings

Sometimes I wonder why I still come to this place. I've considered leaving lately a few times. I mean honestly some of the people just seem borderline insane. How little they value human life. How much they care about religion. How much they value their guns. How they cry about freedom when they don't value it. Too many people just looking for a reason to start a civil war. Sure there are the occasional sane voice and nice person, but too often they get drowned out in the sea of madnes

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Thoughts on the last week

Not made a post in awhile, but the events last week, well they've made a lasting impression and I feel I should get the words out. When I woke up last week to the news of another shooting I was, well, I didn't think too much. At first I thought the trend was to do with the shooting a few days before, but then as more information came out I slowly became more and more horrified. And then scared. And angry. (I'm glad E3 was last week as the goodness of that helped settle me otherwise I'd

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Nature of the afterlife

I am often disturbed by the beliefs of the religious. Certainly throughout my adult life I have become more and more disturbed by what some will be believe, and what those believes lead to. Perhaps what disturbs me most is the whole christian view of the afterlife. Only recently (because of the Hitler in heaven topic) did it click that the christian idea of the afterlife has it'sown concentartion camps/gas chambers in the form of hell (depending on which version of hell they ascribe to). The af

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104 days of summer vacation

Well my studying's almost ended for a few months, withjust one assignment and one exam to do. Then I've got till october before it starts up again. That's a lot of time but I'm determined to be productive. I've a load of games, graphicnovels and books to go through and I intend on doing otherthings too. Namely sort upstairs out a bit, as well as make room for a new lot of shelves mum got from work (which I'll likely do first). That an I have an accoustic guitar I intend on trying to play somet

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Absence, illness

I've not been on in a big way in awhile. This has mostly been for two reasons. First mum picked up a nasty bug from work. she works with small kids, so she does pick up stuff from time to time, but this was horrible. It lasted for weeks and she got next to no sleep which made her cranky. I tried to help as best I could but it was hard. and now, as she's finally recovered I've caught something. My throat's sore so I've lost my voice most of the time and I'm having trouble taking my meds. Ugh Se

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Growing older

Well, tomorrow's my birthday. I dread it every year now, because it just serves as a reminder that my grandparents have gone. It was always the four of us, mum, me and them so since they've been gone... I've hated it. It reminds me that they're gone and how much I miss them. Christmas brings about the same emotions. It feels like it's getting worse now, not better. Time's not healing these wounds, though I wish it would. It doesn't help that all my friends are far away, so I can't hang out wi

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Guns

I am, once again, completely baffled by American logic on the issue of guns. I live in the Uk and I've never seen a gun much less handled one. I feel completely safe in my house without one and I don't feel scared to go outside unarmed. In fact I'd probably feel more scared with a gun than without. (Especially since when I get nervous/scared I get the shakes.) So when I see Americans say they don't feel safe without one I have to question why? To me if you need weapons to feel safe than there

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What is it about religion that makes people insane?

The world is a cruel place. Just watch the news and you'll see horrific acts being comitted. Often the worst offenders seem to religious. Christianity labels itself a religion of love. Islam labels itself as a religion of peace. Yet history shows how far from those words adherrents will go. Both religions ecourage deplorble behaviour in their followers. Both have killed in droves. Both have treated women poorly. Both have treated non-believers badly. And gay people. The question is why? What i

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This is my path

So, well I dunno why exactly I'm doing this post. But I am. Call it letting stuff out or therapy or whatever. Anyway, where to begin? Well I'm going to go over a few things. Most is, well. It can get pretty personal but here it goes. My tale starts back in high school. That was when I realised I was different to the other boys my age. Well, I already knew I was different in some ways. I was quiet and shy, and I didn't like sports at all. No, this difference came when a new boy started and I re

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Science to do

Well the weekend has seriously being tiring. I got offered the chance to go to my Universty student conference, but I only found out the week prior that I'd got the place. Cue rushing to sort travel and vastly overpacking (seriously i packed too much reading material and clothes). It was a weekend event, Friday-Sunday. Friday was registration and tours of the campus, plus getting free stuff from the library and having a go on a virtual microscope (and trying writing chinese). At the delegate r

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Summer and a question for pagans

So it's summer now. And, between the trinity of waiting for meds to fully kick in, waiting for my exam results and cursing paperwork for taking over a month to come, I'm considering what todo. There's a pile of books that's been sitting there since I got them around christmas (11 Doctor Who books and 2 Terry Pratchett's), a bunch of marvel stuff I've gotten since the same time, as well as a bunch ofstuff on the kindle (with Lovecraft beng the main thing to read on there). There's also a pile of

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The problem of christianity and homophobia

Well today the archbishop of canterbury announced an anti-homophobia inititive for church of england schools. On the face of it that'sa good thing, but let's see. ”The aim of this guidance is to protect pupils in church schools from having their self-worth diminished, and their ability to achieve impeded, by being bullied because of their perceived or actual sexual orientation.” Ok that sounds good doesn't it? Here is where it falls apart. Why? Well look at th big talk above being against se

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Music and space

Well this post is basically two things thrown together, not directly related (just being posted together so I'm not making two posts really). First is music. Well Summer is a big draught music wise. The only real shows are at festivals so I mostly don't have any between June-August. (Although tis time had a minor exception with a band called The Smoking Hearts who played a tiny gig in Birmingham.) This time of year is when gigs start up again. This time I have four over the space of a month. T

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Belief

(I apologise for any potential typos in advance, my keyboard seems not to like me and I never notice until it's too late) One of the things I look for in the posts here is trying to understand the mentality of belief. The main things being why people would believe in a god (specifically one that does horible things) and why people seem to value their guns (Americans especially).I think understanding the mentality of both of those things is important especially when they ignore the damage done b

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Unity

Well for the past free days I've been skimming a view different posts, but not contributing, just reading. Mostly that's because what I think about the topic's been said by someone, sometimes said better than I could. Life has few certainties. Are born and we die. The space in between is life. For some it's short, for some long, but the start and end points are the same. That much, we can all agree on. The trouble is what comes after? Honestly, we don't know. Know one really knows with 100% cer

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Music

Well I never intended to actually make a blog post here or even start one, but this thing got stuck in my head a few nights back. It came into my head while I was out actually. I'm not a person that goes out much at night. I'm not outgoing unless I'm with people I know and I'm actually quite shy and quiet around strangers so the idea of going out to bars/clubs is just not me. However what I do do is go to gigs. About once a month (sometimes more, sometimes less depeding on who tours) I leave my

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