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getting concerned. Warning: long post (maybe??) and like super conwinky-dink things. Like magic-y almost coincidences.

Okay so my bestie is no longer my friend. Told me over text that she was cutting ties with me permanently. (On Monday)

She changed all (most of) her classes. She had French the period after lunch. Every day for this whole school year I've walked past her classroom (since it's on the way to my next class) and see her and wed walk to science together.

Yesterday, I was just thinking "you know what I want? I wanna see her. Even just a bit of her face in the hallway. I just wanna see her." Guess what. Whole she was walking out, I SAW HER. Cawinky-dink. Right. Yeah.

Last night, before bed, and before dchool today, I was thinking "I wanna see her face in the morning." GUESS WHO JUST WALKED PAST ME. (Like from down the hall).

Can anyone tell me what's going on? This happens 24/7 to me, like the gods like me enough that they'll grant my requests no questions asked, but it's just weird now. If you can think of why I'd be greatful. Thank you <3

Side note: when we had a falling out in November, I was doing the same thing, just thinking "you know what's be great? If we've made up before 2026 starts."

We were texting all day long on Dec 24th, 26th, and she came over right before break ended in January.

I'm just confused. If anyone gets this too, lmk?

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If we believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we will too go through it and rise to the glory of God. Sounds discouraging, right? I get it, because we know how much the Lord had to suffer through to get it all finished (John 19:30), but it shouldn't be, since it is to the good prepared for those believing. God wants all of us to repent and believe in Him (2 Peter 3:9), but He won't force it upon us. Rather He will give us a chance until death to repent and start following His Will. Some believe that it is by going to church, reading the Bible, and praying, that one becomes a believer; but it is not the case. Some can do all these things and still not be the believers Hod calls us to be. If we are to follow Him, it must be in Spirit and Truth (John 4:24), which is through having a personal relationship with Him. This is how we get to knowing Him personally, and in this way can we be assured that we have eternal life. Let us turn to Jesus Christ today and start our walk with Him into the promise He keeps for all. Bless you in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour! Amen. :)

I guess what I mean is... if so many of the old gods of Europe were only mentioned by iffy sources (i.e. Christian monks), then how do we know what IS written about them isn't just Christian nonsense?

Well the short answer is heavy scholarship.

The long answer is that through scholarship we can actually glean a lot about the pagan practices from the written sources. The monks (generally) weren't interested in being deceiving about the myths and practices they were writing about. Some are obviously Christian influenced, like the book of invasions for example. They add the lineage to Noah (as a way of making the Irish peoples 'authentic' in the new church) but the other stories appear to be left more or less untouched and can therefore pretty safely be assumed to be from the pagan oral history. So in this example we can pick out the obvious Christian influence and continue on. Some Christian adjustments are reflections of the writers simply not understanding what they're recording anymore, most surviving manuscripts are from the ~11th-12th century but they have chunks of text from much earlier centuries. By the time the copiers of the surviving texts got to the sections of pagan information they generally had absolutely no idea what was being talked about anymore and just did their best to make it understandable to their readers.

Early Christianity in Ireland (and other insular Celtic areas) is also pretty fascinating because they pretty much were left to their own devices in the power void left by the collapse of Rome so they just adapted their existing faith beliefs to the new god. Later in around the... I want to say 11st century... When the Roman Church really started gathering them back into the orthodox fold higher ups were VERY concerned about a number of "blasphemous" teachings they were hearing about out of Celtic peoples. There are letters from various Roman officials voicing these concerns to leaders of different diocese in the British Isles and basically being told back "look... its unorthodox but I promise they really DO believe in God and the Church, they're just... weird out here..." and I know of at least one missionary that was excommunicated (I want to say someone petitioned to have it reversed) because of their "heretical" teachings. So there is actually a lot that can be gleaned about pagan teachings by looking at the early church in that area as well; which can always be cross referenced with the literary and law practices for continuity.

Lastly there is archeology which can sometimes back up the information we know from writings or bring new light to various practices (like human and animal sacrifices or what areas saw routine festival practice)

I hope that clears things up some. Obviously other areas of pagan Northern Europe have slightly different transitions and writing histories but generally speaking these kinds of scholarship and cross referencing can be applied in each

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It wasn't that long ago when my BFF referred to me as a Wiccan and a Norse Heathen coworker as an Odinist.

There are still things that the average layperson will get wrong about witches, Paganism, and polytheistic religions. They're not being malicious. They simply don't know. Let's be patient and educate, rather than hold grudges against people who mean no ill will making innocent mistakes.