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Published On: Apr 26, 2006 10:02 PM
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Published On: Apr 26, 2006 10:02 PM
Clarifying "Friggin Labels"
Sometimes I forget that not everyone can read my
mind.
Particularly when it comes to my writing. I blather away as if everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about. Often enough, I'm not even sure what I'm talking about.
And so, I find myself with the need to clarify the entry "Friggin Labels." I had a specific thing in mind when I wrote it, and never bothered to explain that very well.
In retrospect, I realize that the way I wrote that article it could be assumed that I was saying something that I would never say: that we accept anything done by a self-professed heathen, no matter how ludicrous it might be.
Not at all. Read my other blog entries, and you'll see that I believe quite the opposite. We must clean up heathenism. We can't be taken seriously when we continue to accept anyone who does anything they want. We need standards, dammit.
So what's outside the standards I would set up? Well, for one thing, mixed pantheons. I've ranted that before -- those who have no issue with worshipping deities from other cultures, or even calling on other deities in a blot. It's just not Asatru.
How do I feel about modern seidhr and spae practices? Well, I don't know. Most of what I've seen isn't historical at all. It's just someone doing plain old boring magic, prophecy, or psychic stuff in a religious context and calling it seidhr. Or spae. Or whatever. News flash, folks -- none of that stuff requires religion. It's not NEEDED in religion. FInd a source. Prove to me its authenticity or stop claiming it's heathen.
I don't care whether you call it a culture, or a folkway, or a tribalist mentality. We have something worth honoring and protecting, and we have to find a way to work together to do that. If we don't take a stand against these people who are taking our beliefs and painting them into a wet-on-wet watercolor combination of every religion and philosophy ever known, there's going to be nothing left worth saving.
So, in "Friggin Labels," I was getting at the fact that all serious heathens, no matter what label they fall under -- Folkish, Tribalist, Universalist, whatever -- must stop trying to tear each other down and focus on our real enemy -- The Potpourri Heathens. There. I made a label.
This was the original point I was trying to make in "Friggin Labels." I wandered way off topic on that one. Sorry, guys. And thanks, Boars Heart (one of the few who actually read my blog) for pointing it out to me. He may or may not agree now with what I'm saying, but at least he made sure that I'm saying what I agree with.
Particularly when it comes to my writing. I blather away as if everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about. Often enough, I'm not even sure what I'm talking about.
And so, I find myself with the need to clarify the entry "Friggin Labels." I had a specific thing in mind when I wrote it, and never bothered to explain that very well.
In retrospect, I realize that the way I wrote that article it could be assumed that I was saying something that I would never say: that we accept anything done by a self-professed heathen, no matter how ludicrous it might be.
Not at all. Read my other blog entries, and you'll see that I believe quite the opposite. We must clean up heathenism. We can't be taken seriously when we continue to accept anyone who does anything they want. We need standards, dammit.
So what's outside the standards I would set up? Well, for one thing, mixed pantheons. I've ranted that before -- those who have no issue with worshipping deities from other cultures, or even calling on other deities in a blot. It's just not Asatru.
How do I feel about modern seidhr and spae practices? Well, I don't know. Most of what I've seen isn't historical at all. It's just someone doing plain old boring magic, prophecy, or psychic stuff in a religious context and calling it seidhr. Or spae. Or whatever. News flash, folks -- none of that stuff requires religion. It's not NEEDED in religion. FInd a source. Prove to me its authenticity or stop claiming it's heathen.
I don't care whether you call it a culture, or a folkway, or a tribalist mentality. We have something worth honoring and protecting, and we have to find a way to work together to do that. If we don't take a stand against these people who are taking our beliefs and painting them into a wet-on-wet watercolor combination of every religion and philosophy ever known, there's going to be nothing left worth saving.
So, in "Friggin Labels," I was getting at the fact that all serious heathens, no matter what label they fall under -- Folkish, Tribalist, Universalist, whatever -- must stop trying to tear each other down and focus on our real enemy -- The Potpourri Heathens. There. I made a label.
This was the original point I was trying to make in "Friggin Labels." I wandered way off topic on that one. Sorry, guys. And thanks, Boars Heart (one of the few who actually read my blog) for pointing it out to me. He may or may not agree now with what I'm saying, but at least he made sure that I'm saying what I agree with.
Posted: Mon - April 5, 2004 at 02:46 PM