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Don't know much about him apart from his status as a Nordic deity...
What's he like and what's he offering?
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Well if I was to pick a belief then yes I'd lean towards the nordic deities/paganism...however at the moment I'd consider myself more of a pagan agnostic, as I am not sure I believe in deities or not...but if I did I'd go with paganism over monotheism.
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I see deities as emblematic of ideas, IMHO they do have real power and force just that I'm not quite as sure how many are self-sustained in identity vs. being forces adapted to symbols and human-ish enough likeness for a while before they go back to being whatever incomprehensible thing they were before.
To that extent I have my own Tree of Life filled out something like this (to the best of my rational ability a few years ago - it might be subject to change one of these days but I'm still comfortable with it for now):
1 ) Kether - The Nameless
2 ) Chokmah - Christ Logos (of John 1)
3 ) Binah - Isis/Sophia
Daat - The Virgin of the Chaos, Celestial Mother of Christ
4 ) Chesed - Melchizedek
5 ) Geburah - Maat
6 ) Tiphareth - Yeheshua / Christ Jesus
7 ) Netzach - Hathor
8 ) Hod - Thoth
9 ) Yesod - this one I'm at a toss up between the Holy Spirit and Selene. I should just make it the Holy Hecate or Three Maries and call it a day
10 ) Malkuth - Demeter/Isis of Nature/The 'Mary' of Catholic Virgin sightings
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I tend to shy away from paganism.
This is a lot to do with my research into the causes of the second world war.
Hitler and the nazi's were known to be massively influenced by neo-paganism* and occultism that enjoyed a revival during their time. *(not to mention the countries, religions and cultures of where they believed was where their "pure" aryan blood came from).
I have read about other occultist writers of the time who also had an impact, and their belief systems. People such as Crowley, Madame Blavatsky and Von List.
Can't say i am massively impressed with their beliefs or life works nor the fruits of their labours.
Please note i am agnostic and not a religious nut who hates all who do not conform to their chosen religion.
I personally think that any religion that inflicts suffering on others (animal or human) as part of worship is delusional.
Now, watch the satanists on the forum target me (as the purer the victim the more power they delusionally believe they gain from inflicting suffering on their "sacrifice" to satan...lol)...
sad to know that that which partly caused so much pain and suffering in the world continues to flourish and be pushed by those in the entertainment industry. Being into neo-nazism isn't something i think is cool, but that's my personal belief.
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That's part of why people are much better off, if they're going to go in that direction, to find a system with a strong moral and ethical core. It's not to say that paganism without it will lead to barbarism, just that without virtue and moral and psychological integrity as it's core goals the resulting ethos is too liquid and pliable to circumstance - including terrible circumstance like a culture whose ready for anything.
Part of the problem also is that when people fish around in their subconscious minds they'll find both angels and demons. Angels in the sense of their most dear aspirations to what their life and the world around them could be, demons in the sense of a lot of the plenitude of animal instincts and repressed antisocial urges people have. if they don't have a structure that incorporates all with the demons subordinate to the angels they can end up in desperate trouble.
Hitler unfortunately had a country ripe for the picking. Twenty years being ground under the Treatise of Versailles, looking for another Kaiser Wilhelm to restore their face and dignity. Hitler promised all of that as well as an end to economic woes. Guys like Himler practiced a form of occultism that was centered around racial supremacy; that's also, as I'm sure you can see just looking at how tribe in politics works in the US even without white sheets and arm bands, of the more demonic side of human character. They sensed that enough of the German people were ready to trade in their morality for success and the rest is history.
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Now, watch the satanists on the forum target me (as the purer the victim the more power they delusionally believe they gain from inflicting suffering on their "sacrifice" to satan...lol)...

sad to know that that which partly caused so much pain and suffering in the world continues to flourish and be pushed by those in the entertainment industry. Being into neo-nazism isn't something i think is cool, but that's my personal belief.
Not sure that really describes most satanists...also not sure how the entertainment industry is encouraging neo-nazism what exactly do you mean by that? Also, Most pagans aren't neo-nazis.
As for hitler and nazis delving into occultism and paganism, that is true but they are hardly the best representation of paganism as a whole...and I think a lot of germans at the time where christian thus a lot of the nazis where also Christians. The occult delving was kept more among the high up officials not a common organized belief amount the public.
Unfortunately some neo-nazis like to display runic symbols, but they don't own them...and most pagans don't appreciate it since for obvious reasons, but its not like stealing symbols is anything new for nazis.
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Part of the problem also is that when people fish around in their subconscious minds they'll find both angels and demons. Angels in the sense of their most dear aspirations to what their life and the world around them could be, demons in the sense of a lot of the plenitude of animal instincts and repressed antisocial urges people have. if they don't have a structure that incorporates all with the demons subordinate to the angels they can end up in desperate trouble.
Hitler unfortunately had a country ripe for the picking. Twenty years being ground under the Treatise of Versailles, looking for another Kaiser Wilhelm to restore their face and dignity. Hitler promised all of that as well as an end to economic woes. Guys like Himler practiced a form of occultism that was centered around racial supremacy; that's also, as I'm sure you can see just looking at how tribe in politics works in the US even without white sheets and arm bands, of the more demonic side of human character. They sensed that enough of the German people were ready to trade in their morality for success and the rest is history.
Or trade in their morality as opposed to being sent to one of the internment camps as well, that is what they did with political dissenters as well at least when they caught them...that or executed them. Some certainly still did take risks hiding jews and other people that would otherwise be sent to the death camps and/or helping them escape and all that but of course not everyone is that courageous.
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It didn't go from 0 to 60 immediately though and that's my point. The Nazis were really good at testing the thresholds at which people would revolt, constantly inventing plausible explanations for what they were doing, one of the more well known examples of engineered crisis being the Reichstag fire.
The problem was that earlier on the people had the capacity to stop what was happening, but after a point they would be going to internment camps if they spoke up and everyone was so used to going with the flow at that point that they knew it would be an exercise in futility. Pretty much if a culture can't stop the slippage before that threshold is met they're pretty much screwed.
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