Ooh, I just can't resist!
So, Renee directed me to the latest blog post of everyone's favorite Hellenic Evangelist.
He was once again discussing his favorite topic teh ebil self appointed oracles. Because when people decide they have a direct line to the gods that trumps tradition, well its like when Paul decided that the Christian god was talking directly to him and the ( Read more... )
He was once again discussing his favorite topic teh ebil self appointed oracles. Because when people decide they have a direct line to the gods that trumps tradition, well its like when Paul decided that the Christian god was talking directly to him and the ( Read more... )
Well, at least you're momentarily taking his attention off sannion.
Srsly tho, what is T.J.A. trying to prove?
I agree with you. Being on the fringe does not make one special. Being God-touched, God-bothered, whatever it's being called... is not special. When we discuss woo matters, we're not trying to brag. It's because it happens and as much as I've tried to make it go away to please others, it hasn't. And so I'm dealing with it.
For all the "threat" we are to our respective communities, I somehow don't see them all flocking in droves to trying to be oracles or shamans or whatever.
One of these days I have to tell you a little story. I thought I was pretty anonymous and a rather well-known Asatruar e-mailed me making some thinly veiled threats because apparently I am this big-ass heretic and will bring on the Ragnarok. TRU FAX. I was really afraid for awhile, and have just recently started poking my head out again.
Incidentally, although Frey is not as controversial of a Deity as, say, Loki, He doesn't have as many followers as Odin or Thor, and very few female devotees at all. And I've still had the "Vanic wackadoo" epithet applied to me, quite a few times, from the same people who will say "Hail the Aesir, Hail the Vanir," in their Blots.
People who want to play drama games on the Internet and threaten me online... they can come over here and say it to my face. Then maybe I'll stop.
What T.J.A. is doing is trying to intimidate you because *he* feels threatened, *he* feels uncomfortable. He feels uncomfortable because he knows he's not all he thinks he is. He has nothing important to say except for snarky attacks on sannion and other things like that. If he has anything important to say, maybe he should just say it rather than worrying about what other people are doing and how they're threats to the community.
I fucking hate drama, of any Pagan stripe. But I empathize.
Fuck 'em. You're better than that, and you don't need The Pope of Hellenismos to tell you who and what you are.
It is mildly hilarious, though. OH NOES I IS AFRAID PPL WILL NOT DO THINGS MY WAY. I HAS TO MAKE PERSONAL ATTACKINGZ NAO.
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I don't know how familiar you are with mainstream Asatru but it's pretty wanktastic. People have an allergic reaction to magick, mysticism, and Jotnar. Gods forbid the Gods actually talk to people and intervene in people's lives, and Heathenry is for something other than white supremacy. OH NOES. ;P
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And believe me, I understand. I know comparative mythology, like I do understand who different Greek and Celtic Deities are, but They really... didn't want me in my Wiccan days, and Team Norse snatched me up immediately, much to my dismay ("Do I have to become a nazi? Do I have to wear a horned helmet and steel tits?")
Basically I identify as Heathen but not Asatru: many Asatruar are badly racist, queerphobic, and so on. I know there's wankity wank wank no matter where you hang out within Paganism but at least most Hellenic folks won't get you on an FBI hate watch list. Srsly.
Anyway, no harm in asking questions, feel free to friend me if you want. :)
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You just don't pay attention, now do you? :-P
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Or the significance of being called a Vanic wackadoo by the same people hailing the Vanir?
The first is people who use "Aesir" as a catch-all term to hail Odin, Thor, Frigga, Those Gods, and "Vanir" for Frey, Freyja, Njord, etc.
The significance of the second is that I am Vanir-focused and I think it's odd that people who separate the Aesir and the Vanir in Blot-hails are then turning it around on me like I'm "doing it wrong".
Curiosity is fine. ;P
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It just seems odd that people hailing those Deities have called me a wackadoo for honoring the same Deities. But then these are also the same people who think somehow the Nine Noble Virtues came down off some mountain in Iceland on a stone tablet (being mostly sarcastic, but I do find some of the things Heathens insist are "strict recon" as being ahistorical).
Anyway, glad to answer questions. ;)
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He has a very big inferiority complex, he wants to be someone big and important. Maybe he thought if a god would claim him, then he could be special and people would listen to him. Only it never happened, and he was angry. So now he's striking back at people who have what he thinks he wants, saying we're all frauds and delusional so that way he doesn't have to feel so inferior anymore.
Possible, don't know for sure. All I know if as much as he rants about Sannion, a lot of what he accuses Sannion of doing I see clearly in him. Claims that his way is the only right way, won't listen to opposing views, assassinates the character of anyone who disagrees with him. He throws his ideas about reconstructionism out there and thinks we should all listen to him and do what he says same way he thinks god touched people are doing with their divine callings. I've never seen Sannion, or anyone else, stalk people through the internet for not taking their advice. And he's calling others a megalomaniac? Mr. Alexander, please allow me to introduce you to a mirror.
apparently I am this big-ass heretic and will bring on the Ragnarok
Haha! That's funny. I'd have that put on business cards: Sigrun - Agent of Ragnarok.
People are so stupid and have way too much time on their hands.
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Hells yeah! But then, I thought about finding the Gaelic for "Source of Ultimate Evil" & taking that as a Magical Name for a while, largely due to a similar situation, so I might just be warped. ;-)
a lot of what he accuses Sannion of doing I see clearly in him.
You know, I've noticed that to be a very common trait in trolls & other irritating idiots. Maybe we should pair your guy up with the whackjob we've got up here & they can try to out-special eachother. :-D (not serious about that- I wouldn't wish our whackjob on anybody)
Incidentally, it took me a bit before I realized that your hilarious new icon was meant to follow the tune of the Hallelujah Chorus, which made me laugh even harder.
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My email is set so that my name appears as "Gavin Porter - Scourge of the Universe" so I guess if you're warped, you're in good company. ;-)
Maybe we should pair your guy up with the whackjob we've got up here & they can try to out-special eachother.
I don't think the universe can allow so much specialness to exist in a single space. :-P
And you know, thanks to my new icon I've had the Shut the fuck up version on the Hallelujah Chorus in my head for like a week. I love it though.
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I am in all seriousness considering putting that on my profile. ROFLMAO.
And no, I've never seen sannion stalk anyone online either, but I have noticed... when I can be arsed to go over there... that T.J.A. pretty much rips apart everything sannion posts. That is one of the creepiest LJ users EVAR. D:
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