Hi there, I'm Ashe.
Ashe de la June


After many years in IT tech support and web dev, I unexpectedly ventured onto a new path. Now I'm in my thirties and have a double degree in Earth Sciences! I am raising fowl, a goat, a horse, four cats and a husband. I spend my free time in the garden and with my animals. Currently, my long-suffering husband and I sleep with one of our cats in the bedroom with a young pullet in a cat cage on a shelf who refuses to sleep with the other chickens! It strangely works out. My husband is an aspiring author writer and often blogs a story about our lives on the farm etc.

I am passionate about chickens, cats, web design, blogging, Pinterest, sprouting seeds, taking cuttings and other gardening, trialling make-up and hair products, baking, writing stories, spinal disabilities, making things and offering all kinds of advice to people.

Being one who loves to read, TaintedBlood.org is an old URL I purchased in 2002, inspired by the Margaret Weis science fiction fantasy Star of Guardians series of novels. Jazhiaran and Ashe are the names of rpg characters I created in the 90s inspired by the Raymond E. Feist fantasy novels following Pug the magician.

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Religion, kindness and compassion



Of every post I have ever written, this is the one I wish the entire world could read, understand and accept.  It doesn't flow that well though, as it was in fact a response to a Christian indicating that Mohammed was worthless and untrue.  You could call me agnostic, as I believe in something - just something I don't ever talk about, and not something that is written in some book which preachers tell you to believe.  As an archaeology and ancient history student, I have studied theology and mythology alike, and the different ways cultures ancient and historic functioned.  it is quite clear that all religion stems from the same place regardless of the truth of the matter:  a necessity to understand we are here for a higher purpose.  And the only thing truly different about each peoples' belief system regarding Faith is in their cultural base itself.  How we function as a people where we live, the values our government sets, the level of education in that country, etc., indicates where we will place our beliefs and faith and over time, belief and faith shapes the cultural intelligence and interaction.  

Why do people who follow religion have to be such a warmongering, argumentative type of people?  I wish that the Faith that they indicate makes them above others in kindness and charitableness actually were true.  


Many things in the Bible cannot be backed up archaeologically, thus a lot of stories are likely as exaggerated as a Hollywood rendition of a true story.  Besides that, the sacred men who roamed the Earth preaching what is right and what is wrong were in fact more likely than not the same man, considering the values are very similar, the stages and scenes of the stories are similar only differing in location, and the lessons are similar.  

The Bible itself was first a Judaism ideology, then split into Muslim and Christianity as different peoples interpreted the words differently, and rewrote the Bible in their own words in their own way.  Let none of us forget that it was Mankind who wrote the actual text of the Bible, not god himself.  And in the Old Testament there was not one god, but many.  Catholicism later changed the other gods instead into angels, as that was the way they interpreted it.  

Just like a journalist will spin a news article in the favour closest resembling their own beliefs, religion, whether it is true or not that a higher being of rulership exists, each and every man and woman will interpret words of faith differently, and each will place their own values and cultural context on every word also.  

In so saying, Mankind are the ones who created "blasphemy" and hate against other religions, not some higher power. If there is just the one god, or if there are many, it is doubtful that it or they would take offence to being named differently in other countries nor in other races in the world following a different religion.  

If religion is supposed to grant Mankind a fairer, more charitable way of behaving towards others: why on Earth does so much hate come out of those religions towards those who do not follow it?  Be-it Catholicism against Prodestant, Christianity against Judaism, or Islam against /everybody/, including their own women in the most extreme forms: why can people of these religions and countries not realise that they're worshipping the same entity, just in their own way?

I have my own beliefs, but after studying religion through the ages for so long, I will not follow someone else's set rules for what I should believe - but that does not make what they believe in wrong, bad, unacceptable - unless of course they push their beliefs onto others and indicate loudly that "I'm right and you're wrong, and you should die". Aka, some southern US Christians against those who do not believe in a deity.  I believe that to be the best person I can be, that being kind, compassionate and accepting of others no matter what they believe in is the most important thing; of course, so long as they are similarly kind and compassionate. Disdain often follows those who express a "knowitall" attitude in one's religion when religion is simply a faith of something that is not quantifiable.  

I'm not looking for an argument.  I'm simply trying to express that religion or not, be kind to others.  Racism often stems purely from religion, which to me says little of the person and the religion.  

Then there was an argument about Jesus' birthday.  So, I say:

If Jesus did indeed exist, he was not born on that date.  It was much earlier in the year.  As with all things of religion, Mankind changed the date to suit the government's holiday model. :-P  Seriously though, this is a prime example of my point.  We will believe what we are told to believe or what we get used to  believing (most people believe that if there was a Jesus he was in fact born at that time - because they are told to believe it, and do not read into the truth as they have no interest and if too many people questioned that date, employers would begin to question that date, which would mean no holiday time. ;-)  

Truly seriously though, the date of Christmas is an extension of the Roman Saturnalia holiday, which coincides with the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere.  In reality, it is a perfect time to hold a holiday like that, what with the Winter Solstice landing on peoples (a very important time in the revising and storing of crops, etc.) and then that the ancient Romans held that 25 December was the start of the new year, and thus celebrated this day after the solstice as the "Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun".  Thus, Saturnalia went from  17-23 December to the 25th. Hmm, Sun.... son.  This is where Christianity comes into it.  who would be the unconquerable son in the eyes of Christianity?  Jesus.  Perhaps the date of Jesus' birth was simply some scholar's misinterpretation of the word "sun", just like the Americans spell "aluminium" as "aluminum" due to a professor's typo.  It happens.  We are all.... only human.  :-)  

On a less serious note:  Americans, please... It is AntarcTica.  There is not a silent "t" in the word!  :-(  

 




 

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