michelle's miscellanies: Today’s pagan paths post was about Hellenismos, and I have two angry... →
Today’s pagan paths post was about Hellenismos, and I have two angry commenters, telling me that #1 the person I interviewed is not Hellenismos (without stating why), and #2 that it’s super insulting to refer to Hellenismos as a pagan path. Awesome, just what I needed (after dealing with my…
People are stupid.
Hellenismos is a form of paganism, period.
This is why I avoid the crazie in some corners of my religious community. Really sorry for the unnecessary hate you got in an attempt to spread the word….
New Year’s Eve Webcam/IM party tonight!!
From 6pm EST onwards. Webcam not required, but cool if you’ve got one. Starting early for the UK/Ireland folk and others in Europe.
Will be crossfandom happy! Make love, not war. No hate, only squee. ONLY RULE OF PARTY IS TO PARTY. ALL WILL BE HAPPY. NO SHIP WARS, BEST DOCTOR WARS, BEST FANDOM WARS, or ANY WARS AT ALL.
We will all love one another in drunken bliss as we say goodbye to 2010. :D
Join me here tonight, and reblog to spread the word:
Doing a Blogathon for charity tomorrow—please sponsor me!
I’m doing a Blogathon this Sat (7/31) to raise money for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (http://www.barcc.org)!
My blog is at http://adriannebrennan.blogspot.com and I will be blogging every half hour for 24 hours.
My posts will include my thoughts and advice on writing, never-before posted excerpts of my works, and answers to any questions you pose to me beforehand.
To sponsor me, go here: http://tinyurl.com/AdrianneBlogsforBARCC then email me your receipt at adrianne@adriannebrennan.com so I can keep a running total.
“…’The may contains the unity of the one without losing the possibilities of the many.’ This restates the Neoplatonist idea of skopos: the thematic unity of intention, the aim or target which gives an internal necessity and fittingness to each part of a work of part. Here the one is not something apart and opposed to the many, leaving them as inchoate fragmented bits, but it appears as the unity of each thing, that it is as it is, with a name and face.
As a psychic reality, the one appears only as this or that image: a voice, a number, a whirlwind, a universal idea, etc. And, it appears as the unity of each particular event, discoverable phenomenally only within eachness. The arguments that th eone is ground of the many, their continuity, or the whole which embraces them all are again biases of monotheistic consciousness attempting to usurp a more ultimate, more basic and superior place in a metapsychological system, where system itself belongs to senex rhetoric. We must watch out for words like “grounds,” and “whole,” and “all,” and remember that unity too can be imagined polytheistically. To polytheistic consciousness, the one does not appear as such but is contained as one among many and within each of the many….”
“Polytheism is not necessarily half of a philosophical pair, requiring monotheism for its other side.”
“For many, brought up in a monotheistic culture, the rediscovery of the doctrine of the Gods has been a difficult experience; a common reaction of those who have understood the philosophical need for the Gods is to admit their reality, but then diminish it by treating them as aspects of The One rather than realities in their own right. This is a very poor halfway house, for it neither honours the Gods, nor The One.
“It is one of theology’s ironies that monotheism has a One God who is less than polytheism’s One God, for in monotheism the reality of other Gods adds, if such a thing is possible, to the majesty and magnificance of The One.”
Artemis.
I want to form a group devoted to Artemis for the benefit of supporting women (both cis and trans) who have undergone assault, abuse, and/or gender discrimination.
I’d like the group to do community work, fundraisers, that sort of thing. Fundraisers could include things like publishing hymns and stories about the goddess and donating the proceeds to a related charity of choice. I have publishing connections that can help us out in this arena and give us the capacity to be both in print and e-book.
This will not be about tiara-chasing, priest(ess)ing, feathers in your cap, or what-have-you. It’ll be about doing *work*.
If you’re interested, leave me a message here or email me at kyrene(at)gmail(dot)com. This group will be open to anyone regardless of where you fall on the pagan/Hellenismos/recon/
I will be crossposting this to the usual places so if you see it more than once, bear with me. :)
Reclaimed my old Yahoo and AIM nicks from the void.
YIM: kyreneariadne
AIM: KyreneAriadne
O hai i is bak
Found my email to Imbas back in ‘99 asking them to borrow the wording of their mission statement for Hellenion’s. Time, where did you go?
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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