about the Kemetic religious community that makes me want to die quietly in my sleep.

Or possibly never post anywhere again.

From: [identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)


Worse than Baptist Odhinists of limited neurological function?

That's exceedingly grim.

From: [identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)


Whence comes the necessity of a response?

I mean, ok, yeah, patriarchy, you're not allowed to just decide they're a waste of volume and ignore them because their social needs are axiomatically important, but patriarchy is way serious wrong about that.

From: [identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)


Well, bother.

I would suppose the next question is "how do you keep it from being an energy-expenditure/attrition contest", or, almost as good, keep an energy/attrition contest from being legitimate?

From: [identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)


Sounds like a good response.

Hope it works. (Meaning people are actually concerned with something other than being nuisances.)
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From: [personal profile] ivy


Oh for fuck's sake. My complete sympathy. If you can have black tea, I am more than willing to send you some blueberry anti-drama tea.
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From: [personal profile] ivy


Local tradition originally started among a bunch of my DC area pagan friends. Attacks of significant WTF out of the blue were, uh, rewarded by blueberry goods being gifted to the unfortunate recipient of that drama meteorite by sympathetic and understanding other community members. The idea was really something like "well, if you have to put up with that craziness, at least you get to do it with delicious blueberries". So it's not always necessarily tea, that's just what gets sent to me since I like tea. Other people have had blueberry mead sent to them. I think there were a couple of other variants as well.

From: [identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)


When I was paying attention to Asatru as a thing, you'd get a diverse range of folks.

Some subset of them were raised Baptist, or nearly, and had converted, generally through some kind of direct personal vision. They hadn't stopped being Baptists in their expectations of social norms around religion, but they'd read enough to have a (generally highly Wagnerian) view of ODHIN, CHIEF OF THE GODS and they were very big on insisting on things like the literal material existence of deity, the regular occurrence of miracles, and the necessity of a direct personal relationship with deity.

The degree to which this wasn't reconstruction, as such, almost instantly produced extreme heat and little light.

From: [identity profile] leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com


Wow. Glad I didn't run into any of those. I just ran into the racists and the anti-Lokeans. {:

From: [identity profile] shefytbast.livejournal.com


This whole go-round is so old, and it gets so tiresome. I'm sorry for any part I may played in sustaining it unreasonably, and for anything I might have done personally to upset you. :(

From: (Anonymous)

Ugh


For what it's worth: you are not responsible for other people's delusions.

If there's anything I can do, do let me know. *hugs*

--Chabas

From: [identity profile] sashajwolf.livejournal.com


Oh dear. I am reminded of that episode of Babylon 5 where G'Kar can't move for groupies following him everywhere waving statuettes of him, and he ends up leaving the station with Lyta to escape the disruption.

I am very amused by the Baptist Odinists, though. Our British ones are mostly Anglican, which turns out to lead to a Heathenism that looks oddly like Wicca, what with the taste for high ceremony.

From: [identity profile] meranthi.livejournal.com


*HUGHUGHUG* Online stupidity is rampant and stupid.

From: [identity profile] leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com


Having read through the comments, all I can say is ... oh good grief. *hugs* You don't need this garbage. You have all my sympathy and an offer of my goalie stick to beat people with, if that'll help. (;

From: [identity profile] boojum.livejournal.com


Oh yuck, I'm sorry.

I don't know if this is helpful at all, but the religious writings of yours that I've seen have always struck me as interesting, well-thought-out, and deeply personal. (Not in the private sense as much as the not-being-pushed-on-others sense and the not-being-assumed-to-apply-to-others sense.) I respect you for it and yet have no desire to set you up as any kind of guru or straw-anything.

(I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's not you causing the drama; it's them. Which you probably already know.)
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