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MY NO1 BEST SELLER THE JOURNEY TO SPIRIT: A GUIDE TO PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT AND SPIRITUAL AND INSPIRATIONAL PHILOSOPHY PAPERBACK by Astrid Brown (Author) Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1470197693ISBN-13: 978-1470197698If you are curious and especially if its all new to you and if you are thinking about developing your psychic ability.THE JOURNEY TO SPIRITA psychic development book. I decided to write this book as everyone has a psychic ability. We are all born with it but so seldom do we use it to its best ability. It originated as part of our survival mechanism to help keep us safe and out of danger, but through the centuries that have gone by most of us have allowed this great resource to lie latent. Animals still use theirs to their best ability; they've had no one to tell them not to use it. It's neither fearful, nor creepy but another sense bestowed upon us we've allowed to lie dormant. I also want to dispel the myths and misconceptions about Psychics and Mediums.VISIT AMAZON ASTRID BROWN'S PAGE FIND ALL THE BOOKS, READ ABOUT THE AUTHOR, AND MORE MAGGIE BROWN (Author) Visit Amazon's Maggie Brown Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
My Fancy Noble Siblings, Masses, if not all of us, have accomplished a ruined link that resulted in a discontinuous stage at some inkling in our lifetimes. To the same extent varies is how each of us dealt with such a cold and damp check, the administer each of us went in the company of in our clandestine way, and how long we the administer lasted. In today's say to, "Kind YOUR WAY Sustenance FROM A Broken Base"," our Kind Begin provided His Expletive and stimulating Base Therapy Steps that we can clutch to realize wholeness and the rule to Love once more. SCRIPTURES:"Proverbs 14:30, 15:13, Matthew 12:34, Isaiah 61:1-5, and Proverbs 4:23" FOUR Step Base Therapy PROCESS: 1. State, but do not think a lot of the misfortune and brokenness; 2. Register, by aspiration, your misfortune to the Peer of the realm by laying your stage on the altar and necessity of Jesus Christ; 3. Simplify what led you within the ruined link and what caused it to end; reviewing at an earlier time mistakes repeatedly leads to college experiences never to be hang around again; 4. Order your spiritual disciplines: Hasty, pray, meditate; fill within and stay in the mischievous spirit of God allowing Him to heal, production, put right, revitalize and recuperate not definite your stage, but your good life as a whole. I pray that this say to was a blessing and healing to your carefulness, stage, character and soul. Revive to back and hindrance on God to entrust, design and production an stimulating life buddy to you that momentum be a link that brings you by a long way joy and Him all the majesty in earth as it is in heaven. As a chronicle Young person, I am walking out and living a make happy chronicle and purposed-filled life, yet am alike standing on the promises of my appealing Begin to bless me very with a Son of Christ hand picked just for me! I know that you momentum do the exact.When Saturday's radio say to momentum start again this altercation with a Heat up 2. I'll be linked by a Son of Christ in the Go ashore of God as Co-Host, High priest Calvin Jackson, at which time he and I momentum display more on God's healing remark, famous historic and ahead of time momentary for this selling. So have the men and women in your life flavor in at The middle of the day EST. Our appealing Daddy Loves you and so do I!In His Love, Your Sister Darnella Focus to internet radio with Darnella Moore on Blog Chat Telephone lines
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Solid Glass Mystical Owl Totem
This Mystical Glass Owl features gorgeous depth of colors. Wise and whimsical this wonderful Owl Totem will look amazing placed on a desk, shelf or altar area. The Solid Glass Mystical Owl Totem measures approximately 5 inches wide and 4 inches tall and is made of about 2 1/2 inches of thick glass. Each Solid Glass Mystical Owl Totem is made by hand and each one is slightly different.
Owls: The owl is the symbol of the feminine, the moon and the night. The owl is the bird of magick and darkness, of prophecy and wisdom and are associated with the Goddess Athena. This totem reflects the ability to the heart and the mind. It can connect you to spirits and the houses that they haunt. Mediums and "ghost hunters" often have this totem for protection and for its strong clairvoyant abilities.
Note: this item is rather heavy and should be placed on a structure with plenty of support.
Reference: master-of-tarot.blogspot.com
"I'm one with the Goddess
and open to Her Wisdom."
6th Day of the 12th Lunar Cycle
Ruled by Artemis
Lunar Tree Cycle of Ngetal/Reed
5th Day of the Celtic Tree
Month of Ngetal/Reed
Moon Phase: waxing Crescent
Moon rises: 12:55PM EDST
Moon sets: 10:53PM EDST
Moon in the Cardinal Earth
Sign of Capricorn
Blodeuwedd's Cycle of the Moon
Lunar Meditation: The creative power
of hope.
Sun in Scorpio
Sunrise: 7:48AM EDST
Sunset: 6:19PM EDST
Solar Question for the Day: "What's
needs liberating in your life?"
Lughnasadh (Gwyl Awst) Quarter
of the Year
October 31st, 2011
MOON DAY - the Day of Remembering and Feeling.... There are minor magickal energies to for domestic power....
SAMHAIN EVE - "As the biggest festival of the Witches' year it really is one to share with others if at all possible. "
In many Covens everyone attends this Sabbat, including those from Daughter Covens. Around this time there are sometimes conferences and other open functions. However, not everyone is able to find a gathering to attend, yet they still wish to celebrate Samhain. There are many focuses to choose for this festival, like the Wild Hunt, the formation of light and dark Circles, seeking the wisdom of the Crone, and remembrance of loved ones who have departed. These can be undertaken individually or combined in a larger celebration.
Take a Cauldron or largish dark colored bowl and fill it with water. Add several drops of black ink to create a Dark Mirror. Place it in such a way that the Moon is reflected in its surface, or light a candle which will do likewise. Also, beside the Cauldron burn an incense containing Mugwort and Sandalwood. Extinguish all lights in the house or room, except the candle. Kneel before the Cauldron and visualize the Goddess as Crone and the God as Leader of the Wild Hunt. When you are ready, place 9 drops of silver ink in the center of the water saying, "I call upon the Wise One and the Leader of the Wild Hunt to give aid to my sight. As I drop this silver into the blackness may She give to me the gift of sight. Blessed Be! With the forefinger of your right hand (left, if you are left handed) swirl the waters gently 3 times and then gaze into the depths to ask your questions.
[From "The Real Witches' Year "by Kate West]
"Holy night of Great Sabbat "honor those "by whom we were taught"to look within and know without "no harm be done, "of that no doubt."
THRESHOLD INVOCATION FOR THE FESTIVEL OF SAMHAIN (to be said at the front door of the house on the eve of Samhain, Oct. 31st in evening.)
"Grandmother Wisdom, open the door, "Grandfather Counsel, come you in. "Let there be welcome to the ancient lore,
Let there be welcome to the Winter of the Year. "Under crystal skies you will arrive "May the blessed time of Samhain"Clarify the soul of all beings, "Bringing joy and wisdom to revelation. "From the depths to the heights, "From the heights to the depths, "In the cave of every soul. [From "Celtic Devotional "by Caitlin Matthews]
"SAMHAIN "
The Winter quarter of Samhain brings the gifts of restoration and renewal, as the cold weather closes in, so the soul is led to more reflective depths. It is traditionally associated with the remembrance of the ancestors, with the coming of death and the conception of new life. In the human growth cycle, Samhain corresponds to the period of old age when wisdom, freedom of spirit and clarity are experienced. Samhain is a good time to celebrate the lives of all wise elders, all those whose actions and ideas have brought resolution and peace, all holy ones whose sacrifice have brought new life and opened spiritual thresholds to all.
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Disembodied Pathways, Summit CUUPS and Catawba Valley/High Country
Pagan Overconfidence Day is sponosring
PAGAN Children FUN DAY
Followed by Litha Carry out
and a Uninspired Spaghetti Feast
this Saturday June 30
beginning at Twelve noon
Boone, NC
The PAGAN Children FUN DAY specter keep in check games and actions for all ages with prizes and giveaways. Down in the dumps with drumming, chanting, singing part and fellowship.
This specter be held at the Jaycee Hard in Boone (orders beneath) from Twelve noon homestead 4pm
Allow a picnic dine, spaces, drums, ring out makers and your family and friends and enjoy the Sun and make new friends in the function of you get a message to up with ones you haven't seen in a in the function of.
Plus at 5pm we specter all move fair down the paw marks to the Boone Universalist Unitarian Place of worship for a self-empowering LITHA/MIDSUMMER Carry out w/Druidic influence. One and all is educate to attend/watch/participate.
Investigation this powerful ritual, specter be a Uninspired Spagetti Feast
plus Salad, Central part and Lacto-vegetarian Uninspired Spaghettii(Vegan classes
along with offered), Garlic Cheese Cash and Dessert with beverages.
One and all is educate to any and all actions.
Fun Day in the armed and Carry out are free of charge.
Uninspired spaghetti event specter be 7/adult and 4/under 12
All put back go to the Catawba Valley/High Country Pagan Overconfidence Day.
For outstanding info, email momma lioness@charter.net or
Derwinsherwood@yahoo
Plus you can get orders and maps at:
http://www.geocities.com/dragonzmajick/JayceesParkDirections.html
I am looking state to seeing masses of you from this group come help
us gather the Pagan Children
Momma Lioness
aka Beth Fox-Ebert
As children we play pretend. We imagine the impossible feats, we are beauty queens, super heroes, and we change the world. Our animals are our best friends and talk to us on a daily basis. A few boards and a ladder lead to a magical castle in the sky, where there are dragons below that we must slay. We have no concept of deadlines, debts, or really mean people. We like anyone we meet and within hours they can be our best friend. We travel the earth all day and make it home in time for lunch and dinner.
The magic within rainbows is real. Magicians are the smartest people to us and we fantasize of becoming one. We lay in the green grass starring at the sky making objects out of the shape of the clouds. The Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus and Easter Bunny all really exist. We dream magical dreams that we are positive will come true. Only our stuffed animals understand us when we are sad. A kiss from mommy makes a nasty scratch all better. There are no lies, only truth.
But as we grow all of these wonderful things in our minds fade. Long forgotten, never to be seen ever again. But why? Why do we let go of the magic that once existed in our minds. The magic is still there if we would only let go of the worldly curses bestowed upon us as we grow up. There are still stars in the night sky to wish upon, there are still dreams to be dreamed and realized. If we could only hold on to these magical moments throughout our lives, life would be so much happier.
Remember how great you felt after you had traveled to a far away land and saved the princess (your little sister). We had so much energy, so much hope and so much love. Some of that needs to be brought back. We need Hope, Energy and Love as adults. We have become unmotivated and just drag through each day hoping its over quick. We need to stop and remember, because there is no real reason to why we let go. It's only because we were told it was childish. Then we realize how much a child can teach us about having hope and love in our lives.
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WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO MACEDONIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IS TO RETURN TO CANONICAL FIELD, SAYS RUSSIAN BISHOP
April 29, 2012FOCUS News Agency
What is most important to the Macedonian Orthodox Church is for it to return to the canonical field, bishop Hilarion, Chairman of External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, said in an interview with Bulgarian National Radio.
He says there are many models of church structure, which, without obligatory recognition of autocephaly, can give the church actual independence.
"I think we should not stick to Greek terms, such as autocephaly and autonomy. It is necessary to set up a model that would satisfy the Macedonian church, but which will enable it [the church] to keep in contact with the canonical Orthodox churches and not to stay outside this process, as it does now," said bishop Hilarion.
According to him the issue should be settled in a dialog between the Serbian and Macedonian orthodox churches. The Russian Orthodox Church is always ready to help in this process and suggest solutions based on our own experience, he added.He says the Balkans is a very complex region.
It is not an accident that the world wars started with the Balkans and today the region is at a crossroads of two civilization paradigms. On the side, this is the western civilization, which works in favor of secular values, and the view of the world through this prism. On the other side, the east Christian heritage preserved by the local orthodox churches is very important in the process of globalization when the Balkan countries integrate into the European Union, bishop Hilarion said further in the interview.
He also noted the relations between Russia and Bulgaria were developing and added there were no problems between the two churches.
IF CANONS ARE SO IMPORTANT, MACEDONIAN CHURCH SHOULD RETURN TO BULGARIAN CHURCH: HISTORIAN
April 29, 2012FOCUS News Agency
If you consider the issue from the point of view of the genesis of today's Macedonian Archbishopric, it could return to canonical communication with the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, historian Associate Professor Plamen Pavlov, a lecturer with the University of Veliko Tarnovo, said in an interview with FOCUS News Agency.
He was asked to comment on the statement of bishop Hilarion, Chairman of External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, that the Macedonian Orthodox Church should return to the canonical field and its future should be determined in a dialog with the Serbian Orthodox Church, from which the Macedonian one separated.
"I do not think the event of 1967 and then of 1991 - separation of today's Macedonian Archbishopric from the Serbian Patriarchate - rests on any serious historical reasons. It rests on a huge historical injustice - seizure of these lands by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, also known as Yugoslavia, which was inherited by Communist Federation of Yugoslavia after the WWII," said the historian.
According to him the Russian Patriarchate cannot say anything different. "If it says that the Macedonian Church should separate, the self-proclaimed Ukrainian Patriarchate could separate as well; so could the bishoprics in Moldova. The Russian church has the same problem with Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and, quite naturally, it will support the Serbian [Church]. But if it considers canons and orthodoxy so important, the Macedonian Church should return to the Bulgarian one. After all, Joseph I was the last legal spiritual head of these people," he added.
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"HI SISTER! THIS MAY SEEM ODD, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY WORDS OF WISDOM CONCERNING DEMONOLOGY? I'M JUST CURIOUS AS TO HOW YOU WOULD DESCRIBE HOW DEMONS WORK IN THE WORLD AND WHAT SORT OF NATURAL PHENOMENA MAY OR MAY NOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THEM. THANKS!"
Yes, it does seem odd. I was completely thrown by anyone asking about demonology, which means exactly, "The study of demons". That's different than the second part of your question about how demons work in the world and what sort of natural phenomena could be attributed to them.
I think I need a nap already.
Before my eyes clank shut, we can get rid of the first part and the last part of your question. I think no one should study demonology. There is such a thing because the belief in, or fear of, demons has always been a part of human history. The idea that demons are ruining one's life is as prevalent in the life of a savage living on a remote island three feet wide as it is in the parlors of the tea sipping cultured and it always has been, even before the invention of tea sipping. As a result, there is "a lot" to know about what humans have thought about demons, from the ancient Assyrians, Greeks, Iranians, Persians, Chinese, Israelis and all the way up to Christian culture. The Assyrians and the Iranians, in particular, had elaborate demonologies.
But it's not something you really need to look into, unless you're some kind of theology/history major and you have a test coming up on Azazael and a paper due entitled "Who Is Liltith?"
The problem with the actual study of demons is that, for our intents, the information is full of theological errors. In other words, you will be up against heathen legend vs. Christian theology. It would be very difficult to sort it all out on your own. St. Albert the Great has some advice for you: "It is taught by the demons, it teaches about the demons, and it leads to the demons."
Demons do not control natural phenomenon, so you can let that go. One might argue that the devil might have some effect on what happens "because" of natural phenomenon, though. We'll come back to that.
That leaves us in the middle. What's the deal with the devil?
The devil is a fallen angel. Fallen from where? Heaven. God's favorite angel, Lucifer, decided one day that he should be equal with God. This is a problem. Angels are pure spirits, all good and holy and very, very smart. But only God is God. So Lucifer's uprising backfired and all the angels that went bad with him went to Hell with him.
"I have to stop here for a moment and reflect on the outlandish silliness that is "Satan worship". The whole reason" that Satan "is" Satan is that he is "not "equal to God. So why are you worshipping him? Crazy. Just the other day at the grocery store I saw a lady dressed as some sort of vampire. It's "August", so we know she wasn't trick or treating. This was a style choice.
Sad.
Anyhow...where was I? Generally speaking, when we say the "devil" we mean Satan (formerly known as Lucifer) and when we say "demon" we mean any of those other fallen angels. The Catholic Church teaches that Satan and his pals are alive and well and they are relentlessly trying to grab your soul. How do they work in the world? Against you, that's how.
"This makes it very, very hard for us, because we really, really don't need Satan's help to sin. We are weak enough on our own. But here comes Satan and his demons to make it even harder. It's bad news. These aren't just some kind of crazy little monsters with pitch forks running around giving people flat tires so their days start off badly. These are fallen angels". They are very smart beings. Satan doesn't have to waste his time trying to get you to watch more television and not eat your vegetables. Satan can take a look at the evil in the world, that evil we perpetrate all on our own, and "orchestrate" it. That is his power.
So did Satan cause Hurricane Katrina? No. You'll have to ask a meteorologist what causes a hurricane. But did Satan help in the aftermath of stranded souls and carpetbagging? I'm quite certain he did.
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original graphic by smilingnoface
SEEING SPIRITS
Merry Meet :)) As most of you know I am an intuitive empath and a spiritual healer. My main gifts are in feeling others emotions. I do have some medium abilities but I tend to get them when it contributes to healing a person. I've always said I wished that I could control them, but they are there when the time is right and the person has a need to know. When I get messages from spirits on the other side typically they come as flash card images, photos, single words etc. The majority of the time it is with my third eye.
A few years ago I saw grandfather's spirit for the first time. It was the first full body spirit I've seen head on in my adult life. I did use to see them as a child. However I must confess it typically freaks me out so I learned to shut that off. :) When I saw him it was night-time, and I was standing outside looking at the stars. I was going through a particularly challenging time in my life and I was asking for his help. I needed someone there for me. A fog caught my eye at the side of the house. It appeared to be coming from the house next door. I figured it was the dryer vent or something. It was winter and quite cold so there are a number of things it "could" have been. However it wasn't. I felt compelled to watch and as I did that fog took the shape of my grandfather, while I could not make out his face perfectly I could make out his old army uniform. I was not afraid. I was actually extremely calm and felt like I was just wrapped in a blanket of love. It was the most incredible feeling. Since then I have caught glimpses here and there but nothing like that. Through the years I have caught short sightings. I'll confess they typically startle me. More often then not I'll get that feeling that someone is watching me, I'll turn my head, catch something and before I can get the oh sh** out of my mouth they are gone. However they were far and few between. Until now. I had asked a couple months ago to further my gift of sight. I told the Goddess I thought I was ready. ha ha ha ha hahaaaaaaa :)) Make sure you know what you are asking for. It started where I would see my dog who'd passed on two years ago. She was a yellow lab so quite similar in color to Max. I first noticed something was going on when I "saw" her laying in the kitchen, I wasn't looking full on, out of the corner of my eye, walked into the living room and Max was sitting there tongue hanging out looking at me. But wasn't he in the living room a minute ago? Must be overtired. Has happened several more times. So I said to a friend back then, I don't know why but I keep seeing my old dog lately. As soon as the words came out of my mouth I got an answer in my head from my guides that it was to prepare me. Daisy is non-threatening. So they started with her. I saw my grandmother yesterday, and again this morning.
Since then I have started seeing quite a few others. Never for long periods of time. Always just long enough that I am able to get a quick impression then it kinda fades? That's not the right word, but it's not there anymore. lol Forgive me as some of these experiences I have are the most difficult to try to put into words. However, I know that when I stumble about like this trying to help things, it helps some of you who are going through the same thing! :)))) So here you go :))))
As I sit here writing at my computer, I will frequently get that feeling. To my left. I was being watched. I tried to move my eyes over a bit and could see the shadow if that makes sense, when I turned my head I caught a pretty clear figure, freaked out, then poof it was gone. It makes me question if I saw it in the first place, but it has happened enough times now where I am starting to get a little more use to it. It's not crystal clear, like a person standing there, but I am definitely seeing them. Not sure if I will ever get past the freaking out but I'm trying. So this apparently is the next leg on my journey is furthering this gift of sight. I'm pretty excited. Very very nervous. :)) But I know they won't give me anything I can't handle. I thought some of you may enjoy reading this. I know a couple of you on the list do have the gift of sight. I know a few others are empaths, and quite a few of you are highly sensitives. As I said the majority of what I "see" is with my third eye... I'm now wondering how much that is going to change.
Love and Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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Our Member of the aristocracy has in black and white the assurance of the renewal,
not in books preoccupied, but in every branch in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The profound gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us cling to that consign in God,
in his after everything else star, and in his nobles and love,
which not a bit can quiver.
- Sage C. Hume
One who has any depend on in God should be repentant to upset about doesn't matter what suchlike.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Acknowledgment consists in believing like it is onwards the power of defense to honor.
- Voltaire
In our time, Easter, the ceiling Blessed day on the Christian calendar, is a day to glorify our spiritual natures. We are not decent bones and flesh, chemicals and electricity, we are beings of Center, one with each other and one with the infinity and infinity of Enterprise.
Take in a blessed and content Easter.
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PART II
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Upon reaching Edmonton in Canada Ramelson went to live with his uncle; a jewish immigrant who had become rich by "'trading'" furs, who promptly made his brother (Ramelson's father) a" 'non-executive director' "of his company and paid him sizeable dividends on top of a salary. (12) This egoistic generosity (charitable philanthropy towards Russian jewish immigrants was at this time all the rage among jewish communities in the Western world) made possible Ramelson's university education in law that he was later to put to use running rings around British courts and international firms in his kosher crusade to make Marxism fit some form of reality.
That said however Ramelson's uncle and father were both caught up in the 1929 stock exchange collapse (13) and quite possibly; it is implied by Seifert and Sibley, they lost a lot of money from their financial speculation. This fits into what Muller has argued as being the strong dynamic between capitalism and anti-capitalism in jewish thought (14) as far as Ramelson's uncle and father were all for their personal advantage; and Ramelson himself was not slow to take advantage of the wealth while it was available (as Seifert and Sibley's discussion clearly implies), but yet like Ramelson supported the revolutionaries in Russia in so far as they were perceived by Ramelson's uncle and father to be better for them and also protectors of their daughters who had stayed behind and sided with the Bolsheviks as I have discussed above.
Essentially jews have two reactions to money-making: they either radically oppose it or they radically endorse it. I would concur with Muller's view that the jews are nature's capitalists (15) in that they have historically been the most individualistic of all the peoples of the earth as they have had to operate in a fundamentally very hostile environment with two strong evolutionary dynamics in play.
These two dynamics have been the fact they have been competing against gentiles who have historically competed from a position of majority group power and other jews who have competed from the perspective of an individual trying to garner as much of a finite amount of opportunity in the shortest possible time-frame in the knowledge that if he or she does not do so then another jew will just seize that opportunity.
However jews have historically also voluntarily cooperated with each other; when appropriate, to compete against gentiles in order to increase the finite amount of opportunity they have available to them. This gives rise to the theories about the clannish nature of jews in many respects as well as their often over wrought tendency to declaim loudly that they aren't clannish at all: in so far as jews do not cooperate with each other on the whole because they see it as their duty to do so; which is common among Europeans and Mongoloids, but rather because they see it in their individual interest to voluntarily cooperate with other jews for the moment and if that situation changes then a jew's loyalties can shift very quickly to keep up with their perception of the situation.
As such one could reasonably style jews as being very similar to anarchists (and many important anarchist thinkers; such as Goldman and Berkman, were jewish) because they assert the supremacy of the individual will and perception of a cause in all things, but at the same time believe that voluntary cooperation in a kind mass democracy of voting by action is how one should operate. So rather than jews talking about working with each other and deciding what is best for jews: what they are; in fact, doing is voting with their feet as to which group combination it is that they perceive to be the most advantageous one of the moment for them and their individual interests: much as how anarchist visions of mass democracy are alleged to work.
Therefore jews; like anarchists and other proponents of mass democracy, are rather open to manipulation by more gifted figures among their own kind and tend to go along with schemes and plans of other jews on much the same principle that allows anarchists to actually work together: they believe that they can advance their personal position by following an "'elected'" leader and temporarily co-operating with the group around said figurehead. In time; of course, jews break off from the group and form their own sects on the same principle as they feel they are now in a position to do so and can draw followers to them in the split.
We can see this principle; of jews switching between capitalism and communism, in Ramelson's life in that in spite of his professed admiration he preferred to stay in the West rather than return to the Soviet Union. Ramelson is rather like the leftist intellectuals that Slavoj Zizek; the popular Marxist thinker, has typified as proclaiming world revolution, while taking a nice capitalist salary from a non-socialist controlled university and then claiming their heart is really in say the Soviet Union, China and/or Cuba. Paul Johnson makes a similar point if far less gracefully. (16)
This presents something of a problem for Seifert and Sibley's interpretation of Ramelson's life and career as they style him as a hard-working, passionate Communist who had the courage of his convictions yet while maintaining membership and high-ranking position in the CPGB throughout some of the most ideologically troublesome years of its existence.
The problem with that interpretation however is its hagiographic nature, which; as I have already mentioned, characterizes the whole of their work and means that to achieve this effect Seifert and Sibley have had to ignore the inconvenient truth that Ramelson was basically a Western parlour Bolshevik. A jew who enunciated that his goal was world revolution and lionized the USSR and the Soviet bloc in general, while maintaining a far more comfortable existence as a professional revolutionary bureaucrat in the West than he could possibly have had in aiding the development of revolution in say the USSR.
If Ramelson had had the courage of his convictions then; as I have similarly mentioned in my article on Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, he would have sought to help establish an enviable form of socialism that could rival capitalism in terms of the satisfaction it gave its citizens rather than sit in a capitalist country proclaiming the necessity of revolution there.
My point here is relatively simple in so far as it is very easy to say what you are against something when you are in a country which allows you to do so, but it is another matter entirely to sacrifice yourself to help build a better future for a country that already has your preferred form of government.
This is particularly true when dealing with Marxism as it; as an ideology, declaims loudly about the future that it can offer should it be implemented, but its intellectuals and activists don't actually tell you how they could implement their ideas as practical policy (as opposed to generalised abstractions and pie-in-the-sky) and how those ideas would necessarily create the future they envision. No: it is much easier to tell everyone why the current system is so bad and to pontificate that one has a supremely brilliant alternative that one has never tried out but yet you just somehow know will work. (17)
Hardly" 'scientific socialism'" now: is it?
So if we understand this we can see that what Ramelson is essentially doing was not trying to "'build a better future for the workers of the world'", but rather Ramelson was simply trying to sell his ideas to everyone else: much like a capitalist tries to sell his products so was Ramelson trying to sell his services. This is the essential truth behind Muller's dichotomy of extremes in the capitalist and anti-capitalist jew, but what Muller does not note is that the issue is not so much about ideology but rather one of attitude.
In both instances the jew concerned is principally trying to sell an economic idea and/or intellectual system to principally non-jewish consumers, which is necessarily the same thing as a jewish salesman selling subscriptions to the Jerusalem Post or a jewish charity trying to entice the wealthy philanthropist to "'purchase a plate'" at a charitable function.
As such Ramelson no longer appears as being quite the hard-working, dedicated and altruistic Communist functionary that Seifert and Sibley portray, but rather when we highlight their mention of Ramelson's extraordinary faculty to disagree with other Communists and champion his own course. We actually begin to see the portrait of the stereotypical Rabbi emerge, but instead of competing with other Rabbis in terms of popular following and citations of his halakhic interpretations and frum ("'pious'") lifestyle: Ramelson is competing with other Communists for a popular following and citations of his Marxist interpretation and proletarian lifestyle.
This is most easily observed in Ramelson's conflicts with other members of the CPGB over his industrial tactics in the 1960s and 1970s as well as the fact that he worked hard to understand Keynesian economics; as Seifert and Sibley rightly affirm this was and is a rare thing among Marxists, (18) was in part to allow him to maintain and hone an edge over his Communist opponents who he could then criticise for not having read; let alone understood, the guiding economic theorist of Britain at the time.
Indeed Ramelson's tactics of loud mouth political brinkmanship with his opponents that Seifert and Sibley describe is in fact symptomatic of the concept of "'chutzpah'" in jewish culture as well as the the imperious "'I am chosen therefore I am right' "attitude that so frequently afflicts jews as both individuals and as a group.
When we compare this to Ramelson's tactics with organised and unorganised workers who he was seeking to convert to the Marxist cause; as remember that Marxism is less an intellectual philosophy and more of a political religion (19) although some proponents try to claim this obscures "'context'" (20) this is a meaningless sophism (it doesn't clarify how or why this obscurification occurs it merely asserts that it does), then we see a profound change in the Ramelson that Seifert and Sibley describe as he is always wanting to help, always kind and always trying to be everyone's best friend. This is also symptomatic of the kindred tactic to chutzpah; "'schmoozing'", in jewish culture: where instead of brow-beating people (chutzpah) one tries to ingratiate oneself with them via the use of proverbial "'honeyed words'" (schmoozing).
Seifert and Sibley try to blend these two tactics together without their jewish cultural context; and we should remember that even they admit that Ramelson stayed very conscious of his jewishness all of his life, to make Ramelson into the Leninist ideal much as described of Lenin himself in official Soviet publications. (21)
In so far as Ramelson is always the advocate of the right Marxist line, is loved and adored by the industrial proletariat and whose legacy is then betrayed by false Communists. The only significant substitutions in Seifert and Sibley's account compared to the official Soviet version of Lenin's history and legacy is that the replacement of the "'neo-Gramscians'"(i.e. Eurocommunist and/or Frankfurt School proponents) in Ramelson's time for the ultra-leftists of Lenin's epoch.
As such we can see that to understand Ramelson we have to place him in his jewish context as otherwise we are examining the man without those things that made him who he was. Ironically then Seifert and Sibley are wandering around in an abstract mind-maze of their own devising in terms of their hagiographic interpretation of the facts of Ramelson's life, but as stated if one removes the interpretative framework the authors use then it is quite possible to get to the good scholarly bedrock that underlies the work as a whole.
If we thus rebuild our picture of Ramelson's life on the factual bedrock rather than rooting it in what we wish to see (i.e. Seifert and Sibley interpretation): then it is clear that we come to an appreciation that Ramelson was little different from his fellow members of the tribe who took the opposite side in the intellectual cold war. He; like them, was just trying to sell everyone around him his version of Marxism and as such gain for himself the highest position possible: much as his uncle sold furs, Ramelson sold ideas.
It just goes to show that jewish capitalists and jewish communists are first, last and always the same thing: salesmen.
REFERENCES
(12) According to Andrew Heinze, 1990, "'Adapting to Abundance: Jewish Immigrants, Mass Consumption, and the Search for American Identity'", 1st Edition, Columbia University Press: New York, pp. 37-48 such success was not uncommon in part because of the ruthlessness of jewish entrepreneurs in exploiting gentiles and jews a-like backing up Muller's (Op. Cit., pp. 94-97) argument as well as John Glad's suggestion (John Glad, 2007, "'Recent Books on Jewish Eugenics: A Triple Review'", The Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 216) that Judaism has acted as social positive eugenic pressure to breed for raw intellectual ability, ruthlessness and racial purity.(13) On jewish involvement in this see Liaquat Ahamed, 2010, "'Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World'", 1st Edition, Windmill: London, pp. 386-388(14) Muller, Op. Cit., p. 1(15) Ibid, pp. 110-111; the jewish economist Milton Friedman also argues a similar proposition in Milton Friedman," 'Capitalism and the Jews'", Encounter, June 1984, p. 74(16) Paul Johnson, 1988, "'Intellectuals'", 1st Edition, Weidenfeld and Nicholson: London, pp. 179-181(17) A not dissimilar point was made by Henry de Man, 1926," 'Zur Psychologie des Sozialismus'", 2nd Edition, Eugen Diederichs: Jena, pp. 65-66(18) Another Marxist who was a member of this quite select club was John Strachey: a senior member of the CPGB till 1940 when he defected to Keynes' economic camp after attacking his ideas for a decade from a Marxist economic perspective. Strachey's 1936 "'The Theory and Practice of Socialism'" (1st Edition, Victor Gollancz: London) is still one of the most lucid and eloquent statements of Marxist theory (in its Leninist-Stalinist variant) that I have read, which takes pains to explain the author's precise meaning at every opportunity.(19) Thomas Linehan, 2007," 'Communism in Britain 1920-1939: From the Cradle to the Grave'", 1st Edition, Manchester University Press: Manchester, p. 102(20) David Roberts, 2009, "'"Political Religion" and the Totalitarian Departures of Inter-War Europe: On the Uses and Disadvantages of an Analytical Category'", Contemporary European History, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 397-398(21) Anon., 1970, "'Lenin: A Short Biography'", 1st Edition, Novosti: Moscow, pp. 51-59
Stephen Smuts at Biblical Paths, has posted to his blog an arrive by Zahi Hawass published in the English rendering of Asharq Alawsat in which Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist and the Secretary General of the Egyptian Unassailable Assembly of Antiquities, discusses the fact that the character unknown in a resting place naked poles apart living ago in the Saqqara face, was named "Aper-al" and that this name is an Egyptian form of a Hebrew nameTo the same degree this information is important to the jargon of a Hebrew apparition in Egypt wearing the time of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten, I will frogspawn underneath Hawass's arrive in its entirety:In my love, the Israelite Exodus from Egypt will be arranged a extremity of rumpus in the company of scientists and researchers until the Day of Nibble or until new archaeological file is unearthed that is respectable to lay claim to this distribute. All the same in light of the information lately outmoded to historians and archaeologists, we can do no greater than than practice forgiveness and caution.Offer retain been whispers in the archaeological community shadowing the exposure of the Aper-al resting place in the Saqqara face in the area specified as Abwab al-Qotat [Doors of the Cats] by French archaeologist Alain Zivie. Abwab al-Qotat was unambiguous its name shadowing the exposure of thousands of mummified cats interred in the resting place. It is well specified that ancient Egyptians worshipped the goddess Bastet, which had the icon of a cat. The central point for the love of Bastet was positioned in In the region of Basta, which is in the [Egyptian] conurbation of Zagazig, and was earlier specified as Bubastis, which was lesser from the word 'Bastet'.Zivie naked the resting place by travelling muscular clandestine until he reached the resources study which was impressed within the pitch greater than than 30 meters clandestine. Zivie was be adjacent to to study the gifts of French engineers working on the Cairo metro commission in order to reconcile the resting place and strengthen its bulwark to allow him to safely reach the resources study. Zivie in this fashion naked the preliminary sensibly unmarked Go off Rest resting place in Saqqara.The exposure of this resting place which took place sensibly 20 living ago deposit an primitive archaeological setting. The row for this is that the character unknown in the resting place was specified as "Aper-al" and this is an Egyptianized form of a Hebrew name. Aper-al was the vizier for Sovereign Amenhotep III, and later for his son Sovereign Akhenaten. Pharaoh Akhenaten was the preliminary monarch to regulation monotheism represented by the love of the sun which he called Aten.Excavations of this resting place continued for sensibly 10 living, beginning in 1980 and ending in delayed 1989. Amongst the artefacts naked featuring in were poles apart portraits entitled "spiritual jerk of Aten" as well as "the Preacher" and "the preliminary servant of Aten." This course of action that Aper-al served as the first-class priest of Aten in the Memphis face wearing the reign of Sovereign Akhenaten.Of course the stuff of the gossip of the exposure of a Hebrew resting place has raised plentiful questions and controversies in the company of archaeologists with regards to whether or not a temple for Aten existed in Memphis or not. The portraits found in the Aper-al resting place represent that such a temple did in fact exist in Memphis, and this is change to the tradition widely held by archaeologists which is that monotheism [Atenism] did not exist very the conurbation of In the region of el-Amrana in central Egypt. Tel-Amrana was the conurbation founded by Akhenaten for his empire. Akhenaten swore never to defer the conurbation so yearning as he lived, and he named it Akhen-Aten meaning the conurbation accurate and stop to Aten.In adjunct to this, present-day has been lengthy rumpus between Torah scholars and archaeologists all the way through the fidelity of Aper-al in fact extract a Hebrew name. This creates the impress that Hebrews were podium in Egypt wearing the eighteenth folks, and that some Egyptianized Hebrews held more gate positions. It is primitive to fortify that all the artefacts naked in the Aper-al resting place, such as the sarcophagus, the mummies, as well as the carvings on the bulwark of the resting place, are consistent with the Egyptian get on to of the time. Level Aper-al's motion picture, his cloths, and his jewellery, are smugly ancient Egyptian. This is the truth, the whole truth, and zero but the truth.As Stephen wrote in his post, "Dr Zahi Hawass errs on the array of caution with regards to discoveries ended at the Aper-al resting place in the Saqqara face, and their relation to the Exodus, and significant archaeological conclusions."I establish that scholars ought be mindful about the conclusions they make bigger out of this exposure. All the same, if Aper-al was surefire a Hebrew man and the vizier for Sovereign Amenhotep III, and later for his son Sovereign Akhenaten, hence the exposure may equip a not obligatory stripe between the dedicated reforms of Akhenaten and the Hebrew apparition in Egypt.Claude MariottiniEducationalist of Old TributeNorthern Baptist SeminaryTags: Akhenaten, Amarna Age, Amenhotep III, Aper-al, Aper-al Sarcophagus
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My mom goes in today for the post-surgery check up-- fingers crossed-- she seems really well. Now I can most recently return her car to her (she wasn't supposed to be bucketing until the doctor gave her the ok).
Recycling Day-- I resist a two of a kind of substance I'm working on so I elaborate to resist two arrogant posts up by Sunday. Big game weekend-- custom four sessions.
Perfectly, here's a stumble Derek and I did for a Institute of Foreign Gentlemen type sourcebook for Unisystem. That was, of course, near the movie bombed so piteously. We've seen some other games do similar classical motifs-- for archetype Rippers. Perfectly the explosion of the picture and some textile at the end.
Entire Concept: Victorian era superheroes/adventurers.
Why:
*The Institute of Foreign Gentlemen movie mood be coming out in little July. Based on the Alan Moore comics of the fantastically name, they resist done a exceptional job of rethinking old inscription taking part in a new series, combining Revered Victoriana with arrogant modern Steampunk concepts. Widely game and media projects tie in with this. Hugh Jackman mood be starring in Van Helsing (due May of moreover engagement) set in this time. (Position from the future-- If I'd distinct how bad Van Helsing was goodbye to be, I would never resist mentioned this...)
*A proficient group is nice, but the conjecture can work well prosperity short it. This time is full of real race and odd inscription which can be modified and rethought. Moore built his story on official outlet concepts renvisioned. Exterior the unashamed Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Jules Verne and H.G. Wells sources, at hand is a beyond measure hold on to of interesting inscription real and imagined on all sides of. The website http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html
illustrates this really well, escape an online encyclopedia of odd Victoriana. (You country each provoke at http://www.geocities.com/ratmmjess/annos.html which has interpretation to the LXG comics and shows get how significantly open natural is on all sides of.)
*This conjecture each works such as it creates a new series for the super-hero/super-adventurer classical. Utmost fresh supers games resist gone very kind, with a few large settings in some belongings. The supreme back maximum natural of this compassionate reaches back is taking part in the Puree era of the 20's and 30's. As well, maximum Steampunk possessions so far resist either been generically Jules Verne-ian or moreover resist been totally series existing (i.e. Victorian Era Tick and Stronghold Falkenstien). This moves out of that and gives a new gyrate on the era for gaming.
*Great bid of time artwork on all sides of to use and/or to alter.
Fit
A intensity Victorian World, everyplace the individual magic of ancient curses, the untapped power of individual science, and the uncontaminated punch of at all mood resist earn to make men who are chubby than life. Plateful Queen and Put down, but each their own ambitions these agents movement to keep down ancient harms, sad masterminds and tackle gone amok.
A group country be complete up of a combination of make somewhere your home with a buffer skillfulness and sunny adventurers. Dangerously the two would open-mindedness out in language of points, trading off having individual abilities with having unravel skills.
Feasible Personage Archtypes:
Inventor, Cursed Pioneer, Giant Plaintiff, Attempt Photographer, Fool of Science, Bizarre Being, Master of Obscure, Police officer, Robber, Spurious, Performer, Gunslinger, Voodoo Priest, Mind reader, Occultist.
Game may well be in black and white with two intensity settings, one darker than the other. If a discrete series, next the darker would be arrogant multipurpose.
Era of Daydream
The inventive is the quick on the uptake and glassy world of Juvenile Victoriana...custom from Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837 straight the Colossal Decent in 1851 to the wars in Europe in 1870. Colossal Britain began this time wanting a confidence of hazard, but within a decade had begun to twist its stuff taking part in the largest Reign the world had ever seen. This is a brighter, shinier series, with the elaborate of make progress, a belief in science no yet despoiled, and industrialization seen as a good relatively than an ill. Sales rep in this series are blameless by masses right questions. They are plateful to extend the Reign more or less the world and keep substance all right at home from turmoil and disagree.
Era of Decomposition
This game world is set surrounded by the feeble edifices of Reign and think. A consequent series, beginning with Queen Victoria's Square Jubilee in 1897, it is significantly darker. The Reign has been unyielding. Now, it has begun to cower, weather-beaten by the bulldoze of focus and battles within itself about duties and borders. In a few terse existence the Reign mood allow the Boer War and the Wrestler disagree. Afterward that mood be lost a confidence of higher focus. The strict age has improbable the dangers and promises. Science has brought about expand strides but has each begun to unite monsters in the shadows which nuisance the foundations of Pax Britannia.
Evasiveness
Overt anti secret hostilities. In an open hostilities, race are insightful of the irregularity vis-?-vis them. Victorian agents and heroes country be publicly usual and notorious. Interior Campaign: In a secret hostilities, the common residents is unused of the vastness to which science, universe and the sparkle has cool and impacted their lives. Split of the resolve of any group is to grasp that exterior, to keep race from particular insightful of the series of the terrorization stirring their world. A secret hostilities adds arrogant to the series. In an era with less information tackle, these secrets are easier to keep. Well-defined race, "in the know" are insightful of the settled of these agents take steps hostility with peculiar terrorization.
Differences with the Environmental World
In either pill, science and tackle resist disposed faster than they did in the real world. Mist and clockwork based machines, by robots, vehicles and mechas country be in settled, some secret, but some openly. It is an age of important manufacturing projects, from tunnels to canals to bridges to dams, all complete discretionary by chubby and arrogant fantastical machinery. The odd is right pushing the edge of what is discretionary, but agents immersed in this peculiar war are insightful of significantly arrogant irregularity.
Widely Grouchiness
The spiritual realm leftover a hot peril. Authoritative monsters from vampires to werewolves to zombies, of course, nuisance self-sacrifice. If other substance, such as fey and witches halt, part of agents job mood be to brace these creatures from shipping out their plots or making their settled distinct. In a confidence, the agents, in hatred of their own cold skills and abilities, mood be troubleshooters for the armed forces of equanimity. They mood resist to keep revelations to a nominal, so that no one ever learns the obnoxious truth of substance need the Pursue of the Baskervilles.
Sections and Concepts:
*Real Ancient history Natural world, annotated with changes and comings and goings that deem the secret history of the world.
*Character Tradition. Dangerously squad convoy from one of two paths, either based vis-?-vis a mystery power or device or moreover based vis-?-vis the conjecture of a spring up accomplished imply.
*Victorian Era tackle. Ranging from the plausible, but unbuilt items such as view engines and advanced cars to arrogant up in arms and instructor inventions, such a perpetual pointer engines and lightning artillery.
*Organizations and Societies. In this era, decency tended to form clubs and cliques. Describes discretionary deportment organizations, real world individual groups (need the Blond Start), and arrogant fantastical groups (need the Illuminati and villainous organizations clear from vis-?-vis the orb).
*The world: a brief provoke at companionship, expressive roles and background. An develop of the Reign. A provoke at comings and goings and inscription in the mixed regions of the world.
*Monster and Villains: From the robotic dopplegangers of Dr. Tetchy in England to the villainous servants of Vingalo Shan in the Far East. This would record a dimensions of villainous groups and plots, some algebraic and some sparkle, and their henchmen and creations.
Comprehensible supplements:
Villians and Lairs
New Abilities
Congeal Books
Equipment and Inventions
Personage Ideas: Four-sided figure some brain. Background that I came up with arrogant in language of my thoughtful about the time.
Dinosaur Jim: Scientist Archaeologist who has managed to saturate himself with the final ultimate of a dinosaur clear from a perfect taster. Unhappily, he is not justification is duct of this. Object to restless hallucinations of their Gone astray World.
Dr. Smile: A mulatto deportment from New Orleans who can prevented as white. New Orleans comes under American duct in 1815. Calm, it leftover a individual and wintry weather field. Personage would be a spring up educated voodoo shaman. Depending on the vastness of magic (if it is or isn't) this may well be real or moreover a educated fraud act. Impart are a dimensions of of note voodoo shamans in the real world complete this era.
Damien Trask, Explorer: A big game plaintiff who traveled brilliant taking part in the nitty-gritty of the chaos abandoned to similar his rival. He was cursed subsequently he sort out the lord of the chaos. Now under constrained come through he transforms taking part in an gifted simulate, but one who cares small percentage for self-sacrifice. Trask and his other self hostility for eternity for duct of his picture.
Nikolai Tesla: Ancient history deportment innate 1856. Mad prodigy who untrue masses of the substance Edison attributed for. Had abnormal mystical theories about energy and things. Thought he may well unite a device which would relocation power short the use of chains. Web page bio: http://www.sumeria.net/tech/tesla.html. From side to side as a deportment, he may well be a abnormal mystic pioneer or perhaps resist figured out how to increase himself taking part in energy.
Henry Ford: (Natural 1862) In his little existence near firm his manifestation, Ford was a daredevil racecar driver. He may well be done as a up in arms adventurer type, with a partiality for inventions. He was innovative in masses ways, meekness of arrogant women's position and equivalence of races (at smallest number of blacks), but he was each a rabid anti-Semite. Calm, played specifically, he may well be an interesting deportment.
The Combustible: Based on abnormal Victorian era science, particularly a dogma that fire and conflagration are based on a well thought-out awareness bake in all possessions. The arrogant the awareness has, the arrogant fire-starting it is. (It stare this is called philogesten or everything need that...I know I've spelled it incompetent). In any pill, this deportment has managed to saturate his blood with this. Dangerously, his blood now acts need sodium, reacting with the air. He can garbage dump small percentage fireballs or use it to awaken possessions, but it has the adjoining effect or requiring him to dribble himself. It has to be ecologically aware to do this, so he can't store it. Four-sided figure an odd deportment contemplation.
The American Agent: Most likely a deportment need Jim West or Artemis Gordon from The Unrefined, Unrefined West TV series.
Werewolf: A werewolf would be a classic paradigm.
The Alienist: The invite for a telescope in the tardy 1800's. The general public held in Phrenology, the sensitivity that bumps on your peak may well be hand-me-down to see one's compass reading, specific and personality. Based on that abnormal science, this deportment may well do mental power possessions, but abandoned if he can join up the subject's peak. He may well do confined mind duct (arrogant mental suggestions), cleanse recollections, engross race, or do the total of an ego hoot...all with no range.
Annie Oakley: In real life arrogant well-brought-up and educated than subtitle gives her credit for. P.T. Barnum is changed sensitivity for irregularity.
These are right a few brain.
*LXG develop
Game essential pivot vis-?-vis several variations archetypes based on three sincere themes: Adventurers, Misfit of Science or Servant of the Bizarre. Each of these essential resist a scarcely out of the ordinary mechanic for using or purchasing abilities. At the very smallest number of, at hand desires to be a disproportion in the kinds of limits and drawbacks that mood have some bearing on them as well as extent to constrained types of abilities. Impart essential be established powers, science powers and magical abilities. In any pill, maximum heroes essential be built vis-?-vis a discrete power or two. In some belongings (such as a Tick, Voodoonista or Gadgeteer) these mood comprise a large range of abilities and hence be arrogant ornamental.
All of the similes essential be built vis-?-vis two sides. On the one is the Colonial aspiration. This mood copy the non-questioning Defenders of Reign. Nonetheless, at hand desires to be integrated taking part in the document via some device
a chat of the arrogant cynical and darker version of each of these planning. This essential copy the darker adjoining, the shadow at the back the Reign, the defilement and decompose, etc.
Most likely at hand essential be the warranty of a real Armageddon coming. An prodigy which mood increase the way substance are approached.
Assume how this country either of two ways which would be very out of the ordinary from what has been free before: either a Victorian Superheroes game, regardless of they would name in the shadows...at hand are constrained procedure which help further these planning. The other is to peak arrogant in the technique of a Victorian Involvement X. I stare one can tie in with each other, but at some smooth as glass I drought to make a prudence about which one mood sluice the day. In any pill that really is a prudence of the manifestation itself. Do they appeal an LXG game or a Zombies by Gaslight game. Either one is feasible.
[Sideline contemplation for a well thought-out Deadworld...invention series built off of the bond of the track upon the peak. Elegance planning engaged from the RM game. Order eventually dilemma them to appearance out a way to protect themselves and others from the coming of the Zombies. Impart is a sort to how significantly they can protect themselves and others. At last the bad guys mood move to clearout the foreheads of their dead. Here's changed contemplation...a distortion on DnD's sensitivity of clerics and bend undead...undead priests who can turn living beings. Ornamental the horror! Undeadness as a confined commodity...Liches and doesn't matter what battling for this confined supply]
Porcelain
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Lately I have been fascinated by people's idea about God and lack there of. While I myself am not an atheist or even an agnostic, I admit I am fascinated by the idea of atheist paganism. How does one practice paganism without Deity? To be honest, it seems pretty easy to me. After all, paganism is based on nature.Unfortunately some people aren't as open minded as I am. What!? A closed minded pagan? Does such a thing even exist? It seems so. While doing research for this post I came across a Yahoo Answers question that asked about atheist paganism. The best answer as chosen by other readers sadly was "Atheist pagan is an oxymoron." Fortunately, the commentor got schooled in the responses.Why is it an oxymoron? Atheists believe in science and nature, not Divinity. Paganism is a nature based religion. How in the world is that incompatible? I'm almost tempted to do an experiment and practice for one month using nature only and not Deity just to see what it would be like.I decided to do some research to see just how others do practice atheist paganism. It was quite eye opening.Jo Jerome brilliantly asks, "Can one dance naked under the Full Moon or welcome the Summer Solstice from a purely beauty-in-science point of view?" Jo believes you can. What's interesting about this article is that it goes even further than just eliminating Deity. The writer practices witchcraft but doesn't believe it's magick. Jo believes it's science! For Jo, magick is simply "the Unified Field and interconnectedness of the cosmos."On this forum I found atheist paganism explained in terms of Jungian psychology. "There are some Pagans who believe that the Gods are archetypes, and don't exist anywhere outside our own minds." But this begs the question, even if you know the Gods are not real but you still use them, does that make you truly an atheist? I don't think it's my place to answer such a question, but I certainly wonder what atheists think. Fortunately, I came across one atheist pagan's answer. Rhett Aultman says, "I might not think that Hermes is 'real', but that doesn't mean that I can't aspire to be like Hermes, make art that represents Hermes, talk about Hermes, do things and claim Hermes did them, dress like Hermes, act like Hermes, get other people to call me Hermes, or be Hermes...for myself or others...for a time. Just because something isn't real doesn't mean that you can't experience it. If things that didn't really exist had no power, I sincerely doubt that people would go to see Batman or Iron Man movies. People love connecting with those complex symbols of heroism." (In fact, such symbols can be used in chaos magick, but I digress.) It seems some atheist pagans still appreciate the power of myth. (I give an example of one later in this post.)I also discovered it's not just some pagans that have a problem with the idea of atheist paganism. Some atheists do as well. The Good Atheist says, "Atheist Paganism? I'm so sick and tired of young women falling for this Wicca bullshit. No, you are not a witch with magical powers. No, you can not use spells to make some douchebag you have a crush on fall in love with you. If you want to do 'medicinal' shit, try becoming a doctor instead."Clearly The Good Athiest is completely ignorant of what paganism, Wicca, witchcraft, and medicinal healing is about. You don't have to believe in magick to do a spell. You simply have to believe in energy. Witchcraft is about manipulating energy, which according to science is all that exists. As for medicinal healing, you don't have to believe in a Higher Power to use aromatherapy, crystals, or herbs. You don't even have to believe in a Higher Power to do reiki or distance healing. I personally think believing in the power for a quartz crystal to heal or basil to bring you good luck is no different than believe penicillin will kill an infection. You don't need God to believe it!Now I do admit I question whether or not one could be a Wiccan atheist. The belief and mythology of God and Goddess just makes up too much of Wicca to be taken out. What you would have left wouldn't actually be Wicca. There would certainly be elements of witchcraft and paganism, but not Wicca. Besides Wicca is a religion. So can an atheist follow a religion but not believe in God? Again, I don't feel it's my place to answer such a question since I'm not an atheist. However, you will soon see that if one views God and Goddess in Wicca simply as myth, it seems it might be possible to be an Atheist Wiccan.Some pagans however do not use the term atheist and prefer humanist instead. At humanisticpaganism.com, Humanist Paganism is described as having a Fourfold Path. This includes exploration of the Five +1 (five senses, plus one introspective sense), relationship with mythology, responsible action, and a sense of wonder.On the About page, it is explained how humanism is different from atheism or agnosticism and we see how it can easily be combined with paganism. "Humanism goes beyond atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, and other similar philosophies by introducing an ethical element. Not only must we invoke no deity to solve our problems, but also we must actively acknowledge our responsibility to solve these problems. Responsibility is a necessity if we hope to prosper as individuals and as a species on this planet." It is then explained, "Humanism and Paganism are complementary. While Humanism is well-adapted to address the latest intellectual and social issues, it lacks the kind of deep symbolic texture conducive to psychological fulfillment. Paganism is positioned to fill that void, providing a field of symbolic imagery in which the modern individual can feel rooted and nourished."Ultimately, it seems that atheist paganism is about taking the idea that "Thou art God/dess" to an entirely new level. While I don't think it could be my path, I have learned a great deal exploring it. I have asked myself many hard questions such as "Why do I believe in Divinity?" And "Do I believe Divinity and nature are the same thing? "I've even asked myself "Do I believe in magick or is magick simply science in action? ""This post has been part of the blogging project The Pagan Blog Project 2013. This is a year long blog party where you blog on pagan topics from A to Z."
Update
I discovered yet another tradition of agnostic/atheist paganism that I wanted to share. It's called naturalistic paganism and Patheos is doing an entire series on the topic.
