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14 years ago @ Copious Dissent - Your... - No Global Warming Sinc... · 0 replies · +1 points

Are you so ignorant you can't see a STATISTICAL BLIP when you see one?

Look at the hundred year trend: http://www.paganchaosmagic.com/pics/Temp.jpg

I suppose the Ice Caps melting is all photoshopped?

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - A Darker Shade of Paga... · 0 replies · +1 points

Eluveitie! Awesome pick! Evocation 1 is also my favorite album. If anyone is interested in their more metal aspect, I recommend their album, "Slania".

Looking forward to listening to the top ten selections I am not familiar with. Great work at both the Wild Hunt and A Darker Shade of Pagan!

Great to see some of your work acknowledged with the Podcast Awards Nomination. Next year, I predict you take it.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Haunted by the "Third ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Fair enough. I may have missed your point, but that is only because I have always felt that using magic of any sort to attempt to influence major world events is metaphorically pissing into the wind.

But I could be wrong.

Remember that just because ancient spell commands the spirits to do a specific thing, that doesn't mean that it will work as advertised. However, I am not disputing that you or anyone else can or has made the magic work. I have no experience with it.

My magic is more personally transformative than politically transformative. That makes me either very wise or a blind idiot who is missing the bigger picture.

I have been accused of both. :)

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Haunted by the "Third ... · 2 replies · +1 points

Rufus, I agree with your passion. But a single mage or even a group of mages trying to hold back a mob of fascists idiots will always fail. If spells alone are the only way you have to fight off an attacker, you will perish under a tide of mob violence if you are unlucky in this incarnation.

WWII was less than a century ago. Pagans and homosexuals are the new Jews. I will shoot both my wand and my rifle against anyone who comes to put me in a camp because of my religion. I hope you find your end as you wish it.

"have to fire a gun, my "spells" will already have failed and I would deserve to be burned. If there's anything to this stuff we believe, and I know there is, then there's no excuse for anyone who has an inkling of how magic works to end up in a situation where they will fall victim to witch burner."

You are not thinking there. Some of the finest mages in history (who could make you or me looking like a fluffy bunny) have be overpowered by the tide of human ignorance because they were as arrogant as your statement.

Tell me all about how powerful your magic is when the flames come licking up your feet.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Haunted by the "Third ... · 5 replies · +1 points

The Third Wave is yet another reason I own guns. Sooner or later they will quit praying and start trying to burn people out. Bullets work faster than spells.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The New Age Sweat Lodg... · 0 replies · +1 points

But you did do it without frothing and too much emotional content. Thank you.

"I too believe that the gods choose who they will, but they are as capable of teaching as they are of choosing. Being chosen by a First Nations god does not grant membership in a First Nations tribe any more than being chosen by the Morrighan gets you an Irish passport."

That is some great food for my head. Thanks.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The New Age Sweat Lodg... · 1 reply · +1 points

Not unless claims are made that a Native Ceremony is what they are performing. I cannot find anything like this anywhere yet. If you know of some hard data about this fool claiming his ceremony was in any way connected to Native American culture, I will join in condemnation.

Too many people here have seen the words "sweat lodge" and "spiritual warrior" and immediately started claiming infringement on Native Culture.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The New Age Sweat Lodg... · 1 reply · +1 points

"Him charging people for it and calling it a Mass would be ridiculous to Catholics, if not sacrilegious."

It's called Protestantism.

"Native ceremonies are sacred. Acting like just anyone can do them is silly and disrespectful. You have a right to be disrespectful."

Disrespectful of the asshat who ran the show or of the people who were killed and injured? (No snarkiness intended.)

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The New Age Sweat Lodg... · 0 replies · +1 points

I never thought that a sweat lodge was a sauna. When Lindy had questions about the right sort of rocks to use without poisoning herself, so I supplied the information. She mentioned she could not find information about Finnish saunas in English, so I supplied the information.

14 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The New Age Sweat Lodg... · 2 replies · +1 points

I respect that opinion, Sir. And since you are senior to me with more experience I will not debate the point. Perhaps I will come to a better understanding of it when I am your age. Thanks for disputing my points without hostility.

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