Today I planned on doing the ritual. I got home from work and showered, then wrote out the dedication and lit the black and red candles.
When it came time to pin my hand to get blood, it hurt so much I couldn't do it for while. I focused intently on puncturing my skin, but the needle started bending almost in half. I could not get it to puncture. I only got a fleck or two of blood out which I swiped onto the page, but it was tiny.
I then read the dedication.
It has been said that if your heart was in it, then it doesn't matter how much blood you got out. But my heart was NOT in it because it hurt my finger so much trying to puncture with the needle, and then I got hardly any blood out. I FELT like I failed.
Then afterwards my finger was just throbbing and I wanted to clean up the ashes that were all over the place from the burned paper I wrote the dedication on. It made quite a mess. I also had to clean up the wax that blew all over the kitchen table when I blew out the candles.
So, it feels like a major fail. I don't know what the point is of blood-letting. Can anyone explain? It hurts like crazy. I've cut my hands tons of times from kitchen knives, and I've never enjoyed it.
I feel like a lost soul. I am no xian because that whole thing is devoid of spirituality, rationality, and meaning, and it is a slave religion. I'm no satanist because I'm not strong-minded enough to overcome the pain of making myself bleed.
What should I do?
When it came time to pin my hand to get blood, it hurt so much I couldn't do it for while. I focused intently on puncturing my skin, but the needle started bending almost in half. I could not get it to puncture. I only got a fleck or two of blood out which I swiped onto the page, but it was tiny.
I then read the dedication.
It has been said that if your heart was in it, then it doesn't matter how much blood you got out. But my heart was NOT in it because it hurt my finger so much trying to puncture with the needle, and then I got hardly any blood out. I FELT like I failed.
Then afterwards my finger was just throbbing and I wanted to clean up the ashes that were all over the place from the burned paper I wrote the dedication on. It made quite a mess. I also had to clean up the wax that blew all over the kitchen table when I blew out the candles.
So, it feels like a major fail. I don't know what the point is of blood-letting. Can anyone explain? It hurts like crazy. I've cut my hands tons of times from kitchen knives, and I've never enjoyed it.
I feel like a lost soul. I am no xian because that whole thing is devoid of spirituality, rationality, and meaning, and it is a slave religion. I'm no satanist because I'm not strong-minded enough to overcome the pain of making myself bleed.
What should I do?