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Published On: Apr 26, 2006 10:02 PM
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Published On: Apr 26, 2006 10:02 PM
Is It Just Me?
Lately I've been looking around at the other
Asatru of the world, and I'm not really liking what I see. It's not just one or
two different things I'm not liking; it's many different
things.
Firstly, on the board, there's been an influx lately of.... alternative heathens. I'm basing their alternative-ness on myself, which is probably an error, but... There's a lot of different ways this is showing up. People who treat the gods and goddesses, not as real individual entities, but as some kind of Jungian thoughtwave avatar thing. How can you be faithful to an archetype? The individual I'm thinking of here is from Sweden, so of course there's the whole undervibe of "I know better than you do because I'm here."
Others are treating the lore like it's a fantasy novel. News flash: real life and its events don't follow modern literature logic. Just because it makes appropriate symbolic closure for something to occur doesn't mean it happens in real life (thank the gods). From a literary standpoint... yes, it makes more sense for Tyr to battle Fenris at Ragnarok (although the deeper you think about this, perhaps not so much), but that doesn't mean that the Lore is wrong and Fenris doesn't kill Odin. Other things along these same lines -- people asking what such-and-such "represents" in the Lore. I tend to take the Lore mostly literally, and I certainly don't take it all as allegory or a morality play.
We have people bound and determined to rip our heathen worldwide community into smaller and smaller bits by saying "You're not my kind because of X." And yeah, I realize I just hit the point where I sound like I'm contradicting myself. I'm not, to me. Y'see, I don't LIKE the above things. I question their conclusions and ways of worship. But I'm not going to say "You're not heathen." I'm not going to refuse to keep community with these people.
Just thinking out loud. Don't mind me. :)
Firstly, on the board, there's been an influx lately of.... alternative heathens. I'm basing their alternative-ness on myself, which is probably an error, but... There's a lot of different ways this is showing up. People who treat the gods and goddesses, not as real individual entities, but as some kind of Jungian thoughtwave avatar thing. How can you be faithful to an archetype? The individual I'm thinking of here is from Sweden, so of course there's the whole undervibe of "I know better than you do because I'm here."
Others are treating the lore like it's a fantasy novel. News flash: real life and its events don't follow modern literature logic. Just because it makes appropriate symbolic closure for something to occur doesn't mean it happens in real life (thank the gods). From a literary standpoint... yes, it makes more sense for Tyr to battle Fenris at Ragnarok (although the deeper you think about this, perhaps not so much), but that doesn't mean that the Lore is wrong and Fenris doesn't kill Odin. Other things along these same lines -- people asking what such-and-such "represents" in the Lore. I tend to take the Lore mostly literally, and I certainly don't take it all as allegory or a morality play.
We have people bound and determined to rip our heathen worldwide community into smaller and smaller bits by saying "You're not my kind because of X." And yeah, I realize I just hit the point where I sound like I'm contradicting myself. I'm not, to me. Y'see, I don't LIKE the above things. I question their conclusions and ways of worship. But I'm not going to say "You're not heathen." I'm not going to refuse to keep community with these people.
Just thinking out loud. Don't mind me. :)
Posted: Sat - August 7, 2004 at 07:16 PM