KJ Thomas

Joined June 2017

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I'm chasing after whatever this whole thing is building to. You can talk back to me here: https://agnostic.com/member/KJThomas and my profile artwork was made by my good friend Tabitha: https://www.instagram.com/tabithaslander/

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What to Expect on Your First Day in Therapy
One of the biggest regrets of my life is all the time I’ve wasted in therapy waiting for my therapist to explain me to myself and not get it all totally wrong. It’s strange, looking back, how obvious it the answer was, and I’d really like to save a few other people from making the same mistakes I’ve made.
By KJ Thomas5 years ago in Psyche
I Lost My Shit in San Francisco
I found myself inexplicably crying while I read the verdict in the Ghost Ship fire. I didn’t know any of the victims but I’ve been to parties like that in San Francisco, held in illegal warehouses, not up to code, people living there illegally.
By KJ Thomas5 years ago in The Swamp
I See My Own Funeral
When I die, I think my children will know the right spot in the forest for me. They will invite everyone they know. People they don’t know will appear, some of whom I haven’t seen in decades. They will all join together in digging a great pit. It will not be easy, but they will take turns.
By KJ Thomas5 years ago in Longevity
Book Report: 'The White Goddess'
This is part three of my review series on The White Goddess. You can find part one hereand you can find part two here. Here’s a problem that I run into when reading The White Goddess, and I suspect it’s a problem other people run into also. Robert Graves is really speaking a language that has become ingrained for him through his thinking and his reading, but that doesn’t necessarily translate automatically to a general audience. Am I wrong about this?
By KJ Thomas5 years ago in Poets
Book Report: 'The White Goddess'
If you haven’t read part one of my series analyzing this great masterpiece, here is a link to the first chapter. This chapter takes the literary analysis further into the substance and content of folklore, continuing on the themes introduced in the first chapter.
By KJ Thomas5 years ago in Poets
Book Report: 'The White Goddess'
I’ve read The White Goddess so many times the lines evoke memories and emotions to me like bible verses or Princess Bride quotes. Over the years I’ve tried to get dozens of friends and lovers to read this thing so I will have someone to talk to about it, but apparently the wordy obscurity of it is a bit too much for most people. Personally, the prose is dense in a mesmerizing way, like a holy text somehow engineered to plug into my individual neurological DNA. I would blindly offer my hand in marriage to anyone who reads this thing and forms some interesting opinions about it, but so far no takers.
By KJ Thomas5 years ago in Poets
Opening the Vortex
I am a member of The Satanic Temple and an active member of Satanic San Francisco. My defense of the Seven Fundamental Tenets is based on my knowledge and my own reasons for joining and participating. I am not acting or speaking on behalf of either The Satanic Temple or Satanic San Francisco by writing or publishing this article. I am simply explaining.
By KJ Thomas6 years ago in Futurism
Up With Aliens and Down with Zombies
I still remember how hard I believed in UFOs back in the 90’s. In retrospect it’s actually unclear how much of this was caused by my mid-pubescent slavering over Mulder and Scully, but that hardly matters. I plastered my walls and study notebooks with images of aliens and flying saucers, not all of which were explicitly X-Files branded. I dreamed of being abducted. It became like a little religion I made up for myself, staring into my lava lamp and listening to Dreamland with Art Bell. Once in a while I branched off into the loch ness monster or whatever. This was an innocent time for me, before I got into Wicca. I found plenty of reinforcement around me. Contact came out, and then Men in Black. One of the first ever stories I wrote for myself was a blatant ripoff of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I integrated The Rocky Horror Picture Show into this aspect of my identity. It made perfect sense at the time. It has aliens.
By KJ Thomas6 years ago in Geeks
Brain Scan
I halted all medical treatments for Attention Deficit Disorder in the year 2000 when I was sixteen years old. My grades had never shown any improvement, and each drug seemed to come with a worse side effect than the last. When I was on Luvox, I couldn’t sleep or have an orgasm for weeks at a time. When I was on Desipramine, I started hating all my friends, hating my favorite foods, and hating the movies I knew I loved. Both my mother and my psychiatrist tried to convince me that this new, miserable version of myself was the real one; that I was seeing the world more clearly as it is and should continue. I was sleeping 16 hours a day. I ended up having to leave home and go live with my dad in order to escape that situation.
By KJ Thomas6 years ago in The Swamp
Bow Down Before the Gun God
Ritual human sacrifice has played a wide range of roles in history. Some cultures have believed that a god would simply trade favors for an offering. Some cultures dispatched their offerings as messengers, to carry requests into the afterlife addressing a god or gods directly. The Druids performed ritual human sacrifices as part of divination ritual. In any case, these examples describe a moral system wherein the religious needs of the group outweigh the value of human life. A victory over a neighboring tribe, a bountiful harvest later on in the year, or the successful births of enough babies to keep the group populated all necessary at any cost.
By KJ Thomas6 years ago in The Swamp
I Love Animals to Death
Cooking for myself is a spiritual practice I have. I subscribe to one of those produce delivery services, “Imperfect Produce” and it’s one of those environmentally sustainable services where they take items rejected by other companies and offer them at a reduced price to reduce waste. Being able to create what you want for yourself is a powerful source of independence and happiness. And lately I’ve been challenging myself to cook more meat.
By KJ Thomas6 years ago in Feast
What's Capitalism Got to Do with It?
I don't like talking to strangers, but today, some lady approached me. "Do you have a cold too?" Well yes. I'd prefer to huddle in the corner and sulk, but if someone wants to commiserate, I will relent. We don't ask each other's names, so I'm going to call her Jill. Jill says she's been sick for over a month. The entire month of January, she was out like a light. Now she walks around with this leftover migrating bug, trying to function, trying not to give everyone cooties, trying not to end up homeless or some shit like we all worry about.
By KJ Thomas6 years ago in The Swamp

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