my 18 year-old daughter just started wearing soft contact lenses.
she tried to put them in about 45 minutes ago and for whatever reason the lens ripped when she put in in her eye.
half of the lens is still in her eye and we can not see it or find it.
Hiya!
Another top tip:
Make sure you are sober enough to remeber that you have removed the things before bed.
This way , you will not spend a painful drunken half hour in the wee small hours, getting up and trying to remove your cornea! Ouch!
Tefcat
ps My lenses seem to self destruct, being so careful, no long nails etc, and they appear to rip in mid air from case to eye, grrrr
i'm having a really wierd day today.
for some reason i've been sitting at my computer for about an hour with a strange feeling of needing to get something out of my head and onto the page.
normally i can type it out and feel great relief, but today i can't seem to identify what it is.
Hi Rabbit!
lol this is a whole discussion on its own!
In short, you may be a Witch but not a Wiccan, or a Wiccan and not a Witch , as explained by the definitions of the words below.
A Witch is a person who practises the crafts of the witch, "Witchcraft", (see below) and may or may not follow a religious path. Theoretically, you can be a witch no matter your religious beliefs, IF that religion doesn't prohibit it. Mainly though, Witches work with Pagan deity, in my own case with the indigenous Gods and Goddesses of Britain, but certainly not of a Wiccan lineage from Gerald Gardner as this predates that.
A Wiccan is one who practises a system of worship of Pagan deities stemming from the practises of Gerald Gardner, who claimed to have been initiated into a Coven of Witches, and promoted his ways of working and worship from the 1950's when the Witchcraft Act was repealed in Britain.
It was he who used the term "Wicca" to describe the people who took part in these rites, and the system of worship itself. Simply put, Wicca is mainly a nature revereing religion, that recognises the Goddess as well as a God, has no sacred texts and no dogma. It is highly ethical with the importance of causing harm to none being paramount.
The title "Wiccan" is hotly debated, with "Traditional" Wiccans claiming that a true Wiccan is only one of an initiated lineage back to Gardner or Alex Sanders ( Who also propounded a form of "Wicca"). This is hotly denied by a huge amount of self dedicated solitary Wiccans, who may choose to work alone and so not become initiated in to a Coven.
Confused yet?
" Traditional" can be used two ways, in my own case Traditional British Old Craft is used to describe a tradition that pre dates Gardner. However, seeing as Wicca has now been around for a couple of generations, it too could also be described as "Traditional" .
Now, a Wiccan may soley concentrate on religious ritual and worship, without ever using the crafts of the witch such as spells, herbology, and divination, because thse things are not part of the religious practises. Though many Wiccans do, as a form of helping others, and so are both a Wiccan and a Witch. But if they don't they are not using Witchcraft, and therefore are Wiccans only.
Technically, you can only be "Born "Wiccan" if your parents are Wiccan, but most Wiccan parents that I know let their children choose their beliefs, by bringing them up in a Wiccan environment without imposing their beliefs on the child. Mostly this type of claim is a form of bragging, or the mistaken belief that Wiccan means the same as Witch and it is the attraction of Paganism is what appeals from a young age and is meant by the phrase.
I hope I have made this sufficiently clear, lol!
Best Wytches,
Tefcat
i'm having a really wierd day today.
for some reason i've been sitting at my computer for about an hour with a strange feeling of needing to get something out of my head and onto the page.
normally i can type it out and feel great relief, but today i can't seem to identify what it is.
<<(e.g. you don't find people saying "hey guess what, Aphrodite came to see me the other day!" >>
ROFPML!
In my experience this is the sort of thing you come across in Pagan Moots quite often - usually uttered by the one dressed in head to toe black , carrying a staff and sporting a Pentacle the size of a serving plate!
This is something of a modern phenomena, probably because of the culture you described as something like (can't remember exact words - having a senior moment!) reading one $ilverravingwolf book and deciding they are a natural born witch, initiated in the womb,and casting their first spell at two months old (yawn)
Most of the most spiritually and magically advanced witches I have known in the 20 odd years since I was initiated, you could pass in the supermarket and never have a clue.
Best Wytches,
Tef
i'm down at my brothers for another big party, and i've ended up getting my hair peroxided............ i keep looking in the mirror and not reconising myself!
i've got a pic, but i'll have to wait til i get home on monday to be able to upload it and show you.
i'll see if i can get some funny pics from the party too, it was so wild last year and this one is meant to be even bigger!!!!!!
Hey Gadget!
What hair????
Last time I saw you, four days ago, it was about .005 mm in length!
Tefcat
i'm having a really wierd day today.
for some reason i've been sitting at my computer for about an hour with a strange feeling of needing to get something out of my head and onto the page.
normally i can type it out and feel great relief, but today i can't seem to identify what it is.
Hi,
Just my sixpence worth:-
It is perfectly possible to be a Witch who follows a religious Pagan path without being Wiccan.
Wicca is Post Gardnerian, (1950's) whilst Witches have been around in one form or another for quite some time although never in a "long unbroken lineage going back to Matriachal Stone Age Times ";-).
Best Wytches,
Tefcat
i've been thinking of modifying my motorbike for a while now, i like the shape of the front end but the back is just so boxxy and angular.
i got talking to a friend who know somebody who works in a body shop and had a tailpiece for sale from somebody who never bothered returning to pay for it..... it totally changes the look of my bike!
i've still got to make some brackets so it fastens to my subframe properly and paint it, but what do you think?.
Cool! What more can I say?
Tefcat
the family of my partner (beaker) have been telling everybody that they come into contact with that he left his wife for me.
in actual fact his dub wife left him because she was having an affair with his best friend.
she left beaker in early december & we met in march.
Hi Catlady (Nice name!)
I can't offer advice, but can offer sympathy. I too am the "Scarlet woman" in the relationship and bugged by my partners family. Not because he left anyone for me, but because I don't share their religious beliefs, so there is nothing concrete to fight there!
I wish you well, and hope it all works out in your favour, it is such a shame that your relationship is blighted by all this.
Tefcat
please welcome my friend tefcat to the board!.
although never a jw, me and her have talked a lot about religion/faith and such, and i'm sure she'll be able to contribute a lot to some of the discussions on here.
and she's helped me out a great deal too..........
Oh, and Valis....
Cool avatar!
Tefcat
please welcome my friend tefcat to the board!.
although never a jw, me and her have talked a lot about religion/faith and such, and i'm sure she'll be able to contribute a lot to some of the discussions on here.
and she's helped me out a great deal too..........
Hiya!
Thanks for the warm welcome, its good to be on here, if only to bug Gadget muwhahahaha!
No he is a canny bloke and ikts a pleasure to know him.
Sometimes.
(Only joking!)
Tefcat
what is a cat?.
1. cats do what they want.. 2. they rarely listen to you.. 3. they're totally unpredictable.. 4. when you want to play, they want to be alone.. 5. when you want to be alone, they want to play.. 6. they expect you to cater to their every whim.. 7. they're moody.. 8. they leave hair everywhere.. .
conclusion: they're tiny women in little fur coats.. .
Blooming 'eck, Gadget!
You have only just cottoned on to this???
Tefcat
ps . Note the name
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