Pleasant Weather Witches
Which weather requires you to prepare the most?
When does weather seem good to you?
When does weather seem harmful?
How do you prepare for seismic events?
How do you prepare for diseases?
How do you prepare for failing crops?
How do you prepare for government lapses?
How do you assess the reasons for violence, whether in the weather or human behaviour?
Violence, of any type, is damaging.
The damage may be minor or severe.
Whether minor or severe, the damage may be easy or difficult to repair.
How do you usually assess damage and difficulties, and their causes?
You may have experienced or witnessed or studied various types of severe weather.
You may also have experienced or witnessed or studied various types of human violence.
How do you assess the causes of human violence?
How do you assess ways to prevent violent weather from happening?
How do you assess ways to improve human preparedness for all sorts of natural disasters?
How do you assess ways to prevent human violence?
How do you assess ways to improve human preparedness for various unnatural disasters?
What do you know about weathering?
What do you know about religious exclusivism and religious pluralism?
How do you account for the aggression of religious exclusivists, particularly their hostility, hypocrisy and hubris?
For several years now, evidence has linked a rise in aggression with severe and extreme weather events.
Aggression tends to have a cumulative effect.
Previous experiences of violence, and assumptions about its prevalence, influence hostility and perceptions of threats.
Whether perceived threats are associated with nature or cultural practices, they influence assumptions.
What makes people feel strong?
What makes people feel weak?
How do you respond to severe weather, extreme weather and aggressive persons?
What do you know about the history of human responses to weather events?
How do you attempt to clean up governments and environments?
What is your acquaintance with soil contamination and water contamination?
What is you acquaintance with political contamination?
How do you define pleasant weather?
If you regard sunny weather as pleasant, you are unlikely to do so during a drought or in the middle of a desert or if the air is very hot.
If you regard a gentle, steady rain as pleasant, you are unlikely to do so in a flood or during a picnic or when unsuitably dressed for the circumstances.
What have pantheons taught you about the diversity of experiences in the world?
What have pantheons taught you about similarities in human responses to particular situations over many centuries?
What do you know about the preparations associated with the committee and its ongoing activities?
Perhaps you have even been paying attention properly to environmental sociology and/or climate ethics and/or energy policies.
Perhaps you have been comparing the 3rd millennium AD with the 4th millennium BC.
What do you know about the mysteries of Isis?
What do you know about the Eye of Horus?
How much do you know about ancient Egypt, including prehistoric Egypt?
What do you know about cosmetic palettes, including the Narmer Palette and the Battlefield Palette?
What do you know about Maat?
What do you know about Nu and Benben?
What do you know about cosmic oceans and celestial rivers?
What do you know about sacred baetylus stones?
What do you know about pyramidia?
What do you know about Set and Set animals?
What do you know about Anubis?
How do you interpret climatological reality?
Most people are apparently comforted by familiarity, at least until they realise that they have deluded themselves, or until the familiar disappears.
Yet the familiar can also be harmful. It can be impractical. It can be deceptive. It can quickly disappear.
How do you assess your attitude towards familiarity?
And how do you feel when the familiar is no longer familiar or no longer there?
You may not associate pleasant weather with terrible storms, raging floods and widespread wildfires.
If you feel pleasantly excited by such events, especially when they happen at a distance from you, perhaps the familiar in your life is mostly boring to you.
What is your acquaintance with the curse of knowledge?
What is your acquaintance with the curse of the mortality?
What is your acquaintance with the curse of ideology?
What is your acquaintance with the curse of superstition?
You may, for example, by familiar with the hamsa and/or the abhayamudrā and/or various peace symbols.
You may associate pleasant weather with peaceful weather, and even peaceful societies.
How do you interpret the meanings associated with weather deities in various cultures?
Why was Set often associated with Nephthys in ancient Egypt, or Anat, or Astarte?
Why was Nephthys also associated with Osiris, Horus and Anubis?
Perhaps you mainly associate Horus with Hathor and pleasant weather.
Perhaps you mainly associate civilisation with pleasant weather.
What do you associate with legitimate political power?
- Holding Powerful People Properly to Account
- Hot Air, Hopeful Heirs and Horrible Hotels
- Preparing for the Long-Term Future Appropriately
- The Quest for a Civilised Atmosphere
- Why COP26 will Inevitably be Crap
How do you try to ensure you always do your best to make the world a much better place than it would be without you?
- From the Glorious Revolution to the Climatological Revolution
- The Butterflies are Dying
- Prickly Processes
- Damage Control
- Climate Justice
This grimoire is only briefly available for ordinary members of the public to peruse, and so is official information about the Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee.
All the necessary documentation for advancement to the next level will require access to an important attic and a mysterious cellar if the prospective initiate is to make progress.
What do you know about Ra and other solar deities?
What do you know about the Eye of Ra?
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