Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the party in the poster behind me.  

Willpower is a source of great might. And yet it can only take you so far against the biology of time. 

I'm not a religious person. I've traversed the biblical courtyard starting way back in childhood and into young adulthood, settling on spiritualism instead of organised religion. I've read the bible though, and still have scraps of childhood prayers floating in my subconscious. I do feel a divine tranquility walking into some churches (not all). Some of my old-soul friends would say my nature is witch-like, others just serious. Having chosen the Gothic subculture as opposed to any other during my teenage years says a lot about my leanings though. There's beauty in darkness. 

If there were a mental and not physical treatment to successfully treat or significantly diminish gender dysphoria, would anyone opt in? 

Photo model: Jade (Wolf Clothing)

Most of us have read Marx... it's done and dusted. Shamefully, I haven't yet. A professor, the name of whom I unfortunately do not recall, once stated in an interview that the communist ideology, much like many different and often opposing ideologies, was born from the union between intellect and decadence. By that he meant that it was conceived from within the safety net of a university lecture hall and not from a position of abject poverty. One who is in the pit of suffering often has no time to write about it! Intellectuals and academics have paved the way for many social movements, for better and for worse.