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Day 25: 10 Ways to Win Your Heart

1. Play video games/D&D with me.
2. Invite me to go to Comicon with you.
3. Give me anything you handmade/is an inside joke.
4. Surprise In-N-Out.
5. Showing me things that remind you of me.
6. Hugs.
7. Asks on my Tumblr.
8. Making me anything that has bacon in it.
9. Quoting Lord of the Rings or Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to me.
10. Any gesture of generosity where nothing is expected in return.

Day 26: Your Religious Beliefs

If you’re looking for a specific title then I’m a Wiccan, but I’m not really a typical Wiccan.  Usually when someone thinks of a Wiccan they see some hippy dippy moon child dancing naked around a fire, I honestly find those people kinda annoying.  I rarely practice but when I do it’s just me meditating as I burn candles and incense.  But maybe I should actually explain what I believe by being a Wiccan, I believe that everyone is capable of performing magic, keep in mind that I don’t mean stuff like manifesting fireballs or something, more just that through focused thoughts and meditation you can cause certain things to happen, usually very subtle things.  I know that most scientifically minded people might scoff at such a thing and I don’t expect them to believe in it, but it’s also important that they know that my religion never makes me disbelieve some scientific discovery. I don’t believe in a one god, I believe in the god and goddess, represented by the sun and moon. I know that the sun is a large ball of burning gas that the Earth orbits around and not some chariot being drawn across the sky, but the deities I believe in are the spiritual representation of the sun and moon.

I used to also identify as a Unitarian, but now I just consider myself a part of the Unitarian community.  All through high school I attended Unitarian church, but I eventually had my falling out with the religion because I got tired of how integrated politics was in the religion.  I feel like your spiritual beliefs and your political beliefs should be independent of each other and I got tired of coming to services only to hear about various people’s political agendas.  I still consider myself a part of the Unitarian community because I feel that Unitarians are some of the most amazing and unique people you can meet and I still want to be around them, I just don’t want to get into any political discussion with them.