I just found this forum the other day and i like it so far, but on some of the threads i have read the text looks strange. I think it is bb code, which is to format rtf styles like puntuation, and typeface and that. I can still read some of it. It seems to be on page two of posts i have seen.
Is this a setting? I am a primitive man in terms of technology, nearly luddite for many years. I bought this phone last summer, it is all the internet i have. I am not complaining, i just dont understand.
Like many in this section I am seeker of knowledge here. I wonder if this is the right place to learn. I like the forum style, it reminds me of the old days with the bbs and all that. Its a rare familiar thing in a modern world that is perplexing to me.
I have so many questions, i feel like a ball of jumbled yarn, all tangled with chaff and burrs. I think much of my inspiration came from fantasy stories that were fictional. I still wonder about some of them, that perhaps the author was sharing some secrets or something.
At present i can read text sites and see pictures but its very slow. I binged on disney plus movies and now i have no data left. I liked the marvel movies alot, but then i liked harry potter too. Some one very uptight once said that "h potter is as offensive to a real pagan as jesus christ superstar would be to a baptist" we were drinking at the time, so i thought it was funny then. I threatened her with mispronouncing words in latin and waving about a special stick.
I feel drawn to the Old Ways, to primitivism in general, to ancient american culture, to the music of Heilung, and the names Norse Pantheon. I feel a deep kinship with Our Lord, Our Lady, and thier childe, me. I am drawn to threes and diagrams of trefoil design, boromilian rings, boro something. There is a sigil of the old norse with triangles that is similar. I think about the goddess alot but dont like the word at all, as it implies that first there was god(male) then there was goddess(its a longer word) thats proly unclear. I just say Her or Mother or Oma or Nanna, or things like that. Jan Jan sometimes, she was the femdios of an old woman i knew as a boy
I worry about neopaganism being a patchwork quilt, and never heard of eclectic pagan before coming here. It seems like a buffet dinner spirituality, which is mostly how i have been before i guess. I dont often speak aloud. I have a small altar, undedicated to any specific diety. How can guidance come from an unnamed source?
I understand the horned god to be older, that Pan had horns as did Wodan, and others too i think it used to be a theme in art and that they used to denote nobility in humans or godsblood. I believe jesuits altered and abused an older faith that they were in competition with, and invented a boogy man to get people to build the new god temples out of stones. I cannot hear the Song in those places, only silence. How can they worship the allgood without flowers and crikets and birds and butterflies and clouds and trees and all that?
I have read some texts on witchcraft, more history then modern practice. Farrar wrote about gardner, and his path and some of it echoed and some rang false. I seem unable to say the name cerrunos aloud, it is difficult to even write it by hand, dont know why.
I understand the pentacle and its derivative the pentagram to be holy, as is the circle which i have worn around my neck on a string for thirty years. I believe the star symbolizes a group of people, that together form a wheel witch is symbol of time and civilisation. I dont believe in the devil, not that there is one big bad one like a military commander or something. I believe there are devils, and that they mostly are territorial and somehow related to ifrit, not sure why.
I despise christianity, and believe it to be based on lies. I admire christian culture as charity, literacy, cooperative socialism, and a sense of belonging that encourages civil discourse and forgivness.
I do not honor all paths, nor do i believe that all roads lead to the temple eventually. I think many religions are foolish and wrong headed, basically uninteresting. The eclectic business appeals to me, like a jewel that broke and the little pieces are scattered all over
I believe the world is very old, and humanity is as well, that periodically we rise up, then overpopulate then die off and that cycle goes on forever.
Somehow i have to weed the garden of my heart, i need accurate information. I promise not to pick fights, i feel that this is a formative time in my spiritual development, and i want to learn more. This is getting long winded
One specific question if i may
Is there one of the modern paths that holds the Craft as being exclusivly for wymyn? That men are allowed to serve as guards and carry water, and "ward against the without" but not participate in rituals?
Is witch a gender specific term? I was given the teaching that warlock is both mis spelled and mispronounced and it is rightly said as "were_loch", and that means "to change the water or to move or guide the water". It means something specific i believe it has to do with science or alchemy
Is this a setting? I am a primitive man in terms of technology, nearly luddite for many years. I bought this phone last summer, it is all the internet i have. I am not complaining, i just dont understand.
Like many in this section I am seeker of knowledge here. I wonder if this is the right place to learn. I like the forum style, it reminds me of the old days with the bbs and all that. Its a rare familiar thing in a modern world that is perplexing to me.
I have so many questions, i feel like a ball of jumbled yarn, all tangled with chaff and burrs. I think much of my inspiration came from fantasy stories that were fictional. I still wonder about some of them, that perhaps the author was sharing some secrets or something.
At present i can read text sites and see pictures but its very slow. I binged on disney plus movies and now i have no data left. I liked the marvel movies alot, but then i liked harry potter too. Some one very uptight once said that "h potter is as offensive to a real pagan as jesus christ superstar would be to a baptist" we were drinking at the time, so i thought it was funny then. I threatened her with mispronouncing words in latin and waving about a special stick.
I feel drawn to the Old Ways, to primitivism in general, to ancient american culture, to the music of Heilung, and the names Norse Pantheon. I feel a deep kinship with Our Lord, Our Lady, and thier childe, me. I am drawn to threes and diagrams of trefoil design, boromilian rings, boro something. There is a sigil of the old norse with triangles that is similar. I think about the goddess alot but dont like the word at all, as it implies that first there was god(male) then there was goddess(its a longer word) thats proly unclear. I just say Her or Mother or Oma or Nanna, or things like that. Jan Jan sometimes, she was the femdios of an old woman i knew as a boy
I worry about neopaganism being a patchwork quilt, and never heard of eclectic pagan before coming here. It seems like a buffet dinner spirituality, which is mostly how i have been before i guess. I dont often speak aloud. I have a small altar, undedicated to any specific diety. How can guidance come from an unnamed source?
I understand the horned god to be older, that Pan had horns as did Wodan, and others too i think it used to be a theme in art and that they used to denote nobility in humans or godsblood. I believe jesuits altered and abused an older faith that they were in competition with, and invented a boogy man to get people to build the new god temples out of stones. I cannot hear the Song in those places, only silence. How can they worship the allgood without flowers and crikets and birds and butterflies and clouds and trees and all that?
I have read some texts on witchcraft, more history then modern practice. Farrar wrote about gardner, and his path and some of it echoed and some rang false. I seem unable to say the name cerrunos aloud, it is difficult to even write it by hand, dont know why.
I understand the pentacle and its derivative the pentagram to be holy, as is the circle which i have worn around my neck on a string for thirty years. I believe the star symbolizes a group of people, that together form a wheel witch is symbol of time and civilisation. I dont believe in the devil, not that there is one big bad one like a military commander or something. I believe there are devils, and that they mostly are territorial and somehow related to ifrit, not sure why.
I despise christianity, and believe it to be based on lies. I admire christian culture as charity, literacy, cooperative socialism, and a sense of belonging that encourages civil discourse and forgivness.
I do not honor all paths, nor do i believe that all roads lead to the temple eventually. I think many religions are foolish and wrong headed, basically uninteresting. The eclectic business appeals to me, like a jewel that broke and the little pieces are scattered all over
I believe the world is very old, and humanity is as well, that periodically we rise up, then overpopulate then die off and that cycle goes on forever.
Somehow i have to weed the garden of my heart, i need accurate information. I promise not to pick fights, i feel that this is a formative time in my spiritual development, and i want to learn more. This is getting long winded
One specific question if i may
Is there one of the modern paths that holds the Craft as being exclusivly for wymyn? That men are allowed to serve as guards and carry water, and "ward against the without" but not participate in rituals?
Is witch a gender specific term? I was given the teaching that warlock is both mis spelled and mispronounced and it is rightly said as "were_loch", and that means "to change the water or to move or guide the water". It means something specific i believe it has to do with science or alchemy
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