Morbid FascinationFollow

Man if you were stoned, it's probably just the paranoia setting in.

But seriously, you have an altar, what are you worshipping or paying homage to?

btw you can get plastic skulls from games/joke stores.

Not sure how much clearer this will make things sound, but I'm pagan.

My Altar is like my church. I use it for meditation, inspiration for my divination, spellwork if need be.

No freaky stalker sh*t. LOL

Since that incident I have seen those fake skulls. Some are really ashtrays but have a wicked tribal design. I figure if I bless it, it should work all the same.

Pagans are what devout Chrsitians are if they're kids that don't fit in. They're pretty much identical to church going, abstinance pledging, date raping, promisekeepers.

But they wear black, listen to Bahaus, and have sex with fat chicks. Congradulations on being a cartoon character.

Which part am I wrong about, sport? Educate me as to your goofy neo-pagan, Tarot deck reading, half-Wicca ******** religion that you love because it's diffrent.

Just curious...could you elaborate on this:





thanks
cheers

Alot of pagans believe they can manifest their will through spellwork. Any true Wiccan follows the Wiccan Reed of "Harm none, do as you will."

Most generally craft spells of prosperity, blessings, wards against negativity. Some delve into deeper, darker arts.

I know it sounds goofy to some, but it's ok. Some think it's one big joke, others are like "hey, more power to ya," others are genuinely interested.

Excuse me, but are you posting & reading in the same OOT forum, I am, or are you in another dimension? Just curious.

Well, personally, I'd recomend you go that route to display your FTW conformity to the world. That'll show em!


Yes, as an ALPHABET.

You, as previously stated are using them as a DIVINATIONAL technique. While this was likely practiced in ancient times by the Germanic tribes who used the Runic Alphabet no one has any idea how it was done, nor are there any texts indicating how it was done.

When the new age movement first started to make some serious $$ in the 80's a guy named Ralph Blume thought to himself "Damn, I can't belive people selling Ryder-Waite Tarrot decks from the '30s are making so much damn money. I want me some of that."

So he invented something simmilar to Tarrot Reading, but with the Runic Alphabet. Arbitrarily, from whole cloth, off the top of his head, a system of divination using the Runic Alphabet.

He said to himself, "Let's see. People like Scrabble. How can I incorperate Scrabble into this?"

So he created a system using a bag, like Scrabble. Tiles with letters on them, like Scrabble. And he added a "blank" rune. Why? Because Scrabble had one.

So if you should loose your bag of "runes" just think you can go to any Target and just buy a travel edition of Scrabble and be on your way to fortune telling goodness in no time!

Serious historical study of Germanic Rune casters indicates that we have no written record at all of the meanings of individual runes or even runic "script" spells. None whatsover.

Did that stop Blume? Nope.

He just made em up! I mean, really, what's the diffrence, right? We're talking about selling soap to suckers here. As long as you're sufficently vague it really doesn't matter what you say each letter means. Little did he know that people would take it seriously enough to include it as part of their religion. He was just looking to make a quick buck.

Oh, and by the way, he did. He made just a metric ***-tom of cash out of it. He wrote lots of books about runes, just making it up as he went along. I mean, really who's going to argue with him? It's not like Icelandic scholars are going to the Occult section of Barnes and Noble looking to argue over facts.

And that's how we got to the modern practice of fortune telling with runes. Blume just made it up to make money. Pretty good move on his part, actually. If you're looking to blik suckers there's no better place to start than with spirituality. Ask Mel Gibson, or Jimmy Swaggert and on and on.


Yeah, as opposed to a genuine reason to claim to be wiccan like....what?

A personal experience with spellcasting? Just be honest, you got into because you wanted to **** some chick who was into it because she was between the Horses Phase and the Goth Phase and it was just easy to fit in for you. I'm sure that out in Idaho or wherever it is you are it's viewed as a strange and mysterious thing, but for the rest of the world it's just seen as a pathetic cry for attention.



you're right, it should have been taken much more seriously. I mean if we don't take people who claim to tell the future with Scrabble tiles seriously they might cast spells on us.

Light a black candle for me will you?


I'm not the one that posted about my altar and the "readings" I was doing and getting a skull, Skippy.

So, yeah, basically you are walking around all day long with a sign that reads "LOOK AT ME!!!" or the internet equivilnet of it.

You should have titeld your post "100k at m3!! I have a 1337 religion!" Because that was the point of it.



Yeah, I'll get right on that. I'll sit and think about my lack of maturity because a self described "pagan" runcaster who is deciding if he should have a skull or not sugggested it. Good idea.

Maybe later I'll take hygine tips from someone that swims in Ebola infected **** all day long too.

Or maybe not.


So was human sacrafice. Must be a good idea then!

"Fringe" means marginal, Edith Hamilton. It doesn't mean "new". It means "a small number of people practice it".


Yeah, like the people that take runecasting seriously. What a ******* joke they are. They need to be shot right after the clams.

Oh, sorry, but people in glass houses and all.



Right, because if I disagree with you that means I don't understand something, right? That's a lovely point of view. Must make it easy to never have to examine your beliefs.


I really couldn't give a fu'ck actually. I just think it's amusing that there's a 99.9999 percent probability that I know more about the religion you practice than you do. I also find it amusing that people who become "pagans" or whatever you want to label yourself as ***** about how silly Christanity is then do the exact same things Christians do.

That's the part that makes me laugh the hardest. If you had been born into Paganism and Christanity was the fringe religion, you'd be Christian. It's just a style thing. That's fine, but trying to make it seem deeper than that just makes you look like an ignorant pretentious moron.


True. I'm not your real father! Right?

Sorry, just wanted to get into the spirit of your rebellion there. You'll grow your hair long if you want to and I can't stop you!


You get paid to post?

You lost me there, sparky.

Druidic ones do though, right? Because I'm opening my collection of Llewellyn Press texts to private viewing by appointment for academic purposes.

...



You know...Naw...too easy, too easy.

On a similar subject had a friend who dated a pagan for awhile. She believed she could divinate the truth with a pendulum. Finally one night we forced her hand, had a deck of cards lying face down, spread out. Told her to use the pendulum to find the Ace of Spades. She said, 'sure', and, using the pendulum, picked the wrong card. Mocking her, I shot a rubber band at the cards and turned over the card it hit...Ace of Spades. Maybe I should write a book, too?

--DK