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None, fúck you very much.
Well, personally, I'd recomend you go that route to display your FTW conformity to the world. That'll show em!
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Whole cloth? WTF? Again, fúcking clueless. Runes have been around for hundreds of years. It's actually the earliest known language. The Ouija board is a game that has been taken too seriously.
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.
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They don't. Anyone who claims they are wiccan just to follow a fad or to fit in is as fúcking clueless as you.
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.
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When Christianity was the latest fad sweeping the lands (forcefully I might add), Wicca and Druidism as well as every other Pagan religion had to go underground. Unfortunately, it was underground so long, and christianity had taken such a root hold, that when there was a resurgance, it was mainly taken as a joke.
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?
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Right...I just walk around all day long with a big *** sign that reads MARTYR.
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.
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As far as "fringe religion," the fundamentals for Wicca and Druidism were around far longer than christianity.
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".
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Scientoligsts need to be shot. L Ron Hubbard has publicly announced he wrote that book as a joke, and people still follow 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.
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Obviously not for you to be spouting out the drivel that you are.
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.
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Listen. . .You are obviously going to believe only what you want to believe (probably because people told you to). If you don't like my way of life, or what I believe, oh fúcking well.
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.
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Nothing you can say or do is going to change me.
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!
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You are wasting your time. Certainly not mine. I get paid to post.
You get paid to post?
You lost me there, sparky.