From last night's bullshit: Thoughts on Hermes and consumerism

[chironcentaur]

It truly is amazing what you can say that starts shit on the internet. Its also amazing the way two people can twist everything you say around until you sound like the biggest asshole on the planet.

It started when I made an innocent comment that, while I won't argue that Hermes is a god with connections with technology and the internet, I don't

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[chironcentaur]

Oh, I know you don't mean it to sound that way, but that's how some people are going to take it anyway, particularly those people that want to make the gods perfectly equally accessible to everyone and seem threatened by anybody that appears to have a closer relationship with them. All people on the streets have equal access to me in the sense that they can walk up and talk to me but that is no guarantee that you'll gain access to the parts of my personality that are kept more private, no guarantee you'll see anything more than surface bits. In fact, most people will only see surface bits, and that's true of me and everyone else out there, you don't share yourself with everyone. So why should the gods be any different, if we grant that they are individuals with personalities of their own? Most of the time it just seems to boil down to that's not the way you want it to be so that's not how you see things.

I'm not in the habit of making public judgments either, but privately there are people who smell right and people who don't, and there are patterns in experience that can be picked up on: worship Hermes very casually and expect him to be a pixie and a pixie he will be; work more deeply with him, let him come as he will and he appears as something *very* different (I wish I had a link to Sannion's entry with the almost demonic dream vision of Hermes readily at hand, if you're not familiar with it ask him about it when next you see him, that's something that would have the pixie people running in fear :-)).

Which doesn't mean seeing Hermes as I do is the sole basis for judgment, there is a lot more to take into account. Like you pointed out, where you're at in life, if you're ready for/can handle some part of them. Its always more complicated than that. :-)

It's what I expected, it's what I got. Why should they waste time with people who aren't receptive to what they *want* to offer?

Exactly. Though often people are so caught up in these ideas of theirs they don't recognize them for what they are. I'm glad I didn't know enough about Hermes when I started worshipping him to have formed much in the way of expectations (though I'm not sure I'd have had to do as much he way of unlearning, since I genuinely don't see where some of these ideas come from).

They can handle the idiots themselves. Better than we can, as we are vastly outnumbered

Very vastly outnumbered. Always good to remember. :-)