I have just read and signed the online petition: "Freedom of Religion Means Any Religion" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition ...
There is a newish online peer reviewed journal on things Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Irish at: http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/homepage.html The current issue...
I sat down and made notes on the things I would want the various courses to convey. Then I tried to think of the central messages that those ideas pointed to....
... Thank you. I think this gives me enough to bite into, and be able to understand the point of the separate courses. I'll probably have some more feedback...
Arlie Stephens
arlie@...
May 10, 2002 2:54 pm
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... To me, religion is the part of the edifice that people built collectively. For that construction, what ever the gods do or say is part of the environment....
... I like it very much. But, ....all of the above emphasize that we actually know very little about "reality", or that there exists a higher reality from the...
I'm not sure this is the correct forum for topical debate, and please slap this post down if it's too far into what you're not looking for. ... From: "Manny...
Hi everybody, I am going no mail for about ten days while I take a vacation. Will be back June 3. Hope all had a good weekend and will talk to you then. . ...
A lot of the comments on the notes for the Intermediate courses, particularly "Gods", seem to boil down to the idea that we should be (somehow) conveying...
... Hmm...I'm a bit concerned about the emphasis on gods in modern heathenry. Granted, a lot of us seemed to get here by being recruited by one god or...
I concur with Lissa on both points. Don't forget the vaettir, and this is really a place where we should have a web site with personal stories which may or...
... Anecdotes. Lots of personal stories and anecdotes. Preferably from as wide a range of experience and belief as possible. This wouldn't be teaching how to...
Arlie Stephens
arlie@...
May 21, 2002 1:25 pm
1744
In a message dated 5/21/02 9:26:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ... I concur here, especially since I don't really know what the connotations of 'god-friend' are...
Here is the "central theme" notes I compiled when were were working on the Beginner's course. This is the basic message we wanted to convey through everything...
The vaettir are not all rural type landsvaettir. All things which have spirits (vaettir) are meant here. Rocks, steams, bodies of water, some buildings I...
From: "Manny Olds" <oldsma@...> ... Yes. I think it is imperative for each person to feel a connection with some level of spiritual interaction above...
... Whoops. You can have spiritual interaction without taking on commitment to a specific god. We don't want to encourage the phenomenon of newbies who feel...
Arlie Stephens
arlie@...
May 22, 2002 12:56 am
1749
... And traffic lights, and computers, and... anything that gets attention. Maybe even the things that don't get much attention, but things that get attention...
... should be ... god-friend. ... connection with ... discussing it. ... commitment ... Of course. Did I give the impression that one's spirituality had to be...
... Explain this more, please. Don't believe in it? Don't approve of it? Don't think it is desirable? Don't think we should cover it in the course? Manny Olds...
... I don't do either garb or amber, and I'm only a fireball-casting mage in computer games.... CYndy "The truth may very well be out there, but the lies are ...
Hello all, I am finally coming back up to speed and hope to become more active. I think we should stick to examples, lots and lots of examples, when discussing...
Ok, so if we are going to need lots of examples, which appears to be the concensus, 1) where do we put our two horns worth in, then 2) what sort of peer...
... Sorry, Manny, it seems the more I speak, the less I say. ;-) I don't think it is essential to an understanding of one's own spirituality to connect with...
Karl Donaldsson wrote: Much snipped...but aside as a youngster I too had said problem climbing rope until I took off my shoes and wrapped toes around rope and...
In a message dated 6/3/02 11:53:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... In this instance and for you as a learner, who would be more effective in helping you achieve...
... free-hanging ... Happy ... approachable. ... without ... only ... realize the ... Intermediate ... around in the ... effective in ... shape, and ... the ...
So, it sounds as if we need to start collecting a broad assortment of case studies, covering different types of heathens w/ different types of direct ...
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