Posts Tagged ‘2005’

Holiday ornaments, 2005

2005’s holiday ornament: Silver star with phoenix rising (formerly at elfwood.com/art/m/e/meghanann/phoenix_rising_forbritt.jpg.html, by Meg Davenport) — hope is returning :-).

2005 ornament
Also, purple and gold magic wand, since the colors are Mardi Gras-ish, as a Katrina memorial (photo pending).

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A Baby’s Hug

Y’all know by now that I’m not a Christian, and haven’t been since the 70s, But this came to one of my lists today and I wanted to share. As the person sharing it noted, the message transcends religion. The scriptures and metaphors may change, but at the end of the day it all comes down to Love.

Joyous Yule.

(more below the fold, of course…)

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On Evil

My wife asked me to write on this subject as a result of the diary/thread Pact Of Lies. I realized that my thoughts, and response, were really too much to go into in a comment.

Lots more below the fold.

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Morgan’s short hops

Since I’ve been collecting things I want to share, and none seem worth a whole diary by themselves :-).

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Daily Deity — Seeking comments

Since I was away for a while, I figured I’d gather some opinions before starting up again.

What would folx like to see on this series? I’ve done random deities and a theme week, and I think the theme went over better but that could have been that the random deities were kind of off the wall :-).

FTR, I already know who I want to do on Dec. 21 and 25 :-). Other than that, I’m open to suggestions. I do remember that someone asked about Hera, so maybe I’ll do the Greco-Roman pantheon next.

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Daily Deity (Nov 18): Frige (with musings on love)

This week, I’ve decided to go the “theme” route and over some Norse deities. Friday’s deity is Frige, goddess of love.

More on the flip…

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Daily Deity (Nov 17): Thor

This week, I’ve decided to go the “theme” route and over some Norse deities. Thursday’s deity is Thor, god of thunder.

More on the flip…

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New Age, belief and politics

I’ve been trying to deal with what label I can use to tell people who and what I am in a few words. Taoism worked for a while, until I could no longer face Lao Tze’s admonition to ‘cleave to the Yin’ when I’m a very Yang kind of guy. Since then, I’ve been kind of adrift when it comes to the name (I know what I am, but describing it usually takes a while). As I’ve been reading others talk about their own beliefs here, including Pastor Dan, Taliesin, lauramp, mondaymedia, my own beloved Morgan, and others, I’ve wondered how to do the same — and if it really mattered. I’m a religion of one, after all.

Except having been sick the past almost-week, I’ve had more time than usual to think about it, and I’ve realized, no, that’s not right. I’m a New Ager.

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Daily Deity (Nov 16): Odin

This week, I’ve decided to go the “theme” route and over some Norse deities. Wednesday’s deity is Odin, the Big Daddy of the Norse pantheon.

More on the flip…

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Believing in Santa Claus

Crossposted from Big O.

Believe it or not, this is not yet another slam of DarkSyde’s rant. In fact, I’m going to do a little defending of his position here, even though I believe, quite firmly, that there is far more to the universe than these mere globs of animate biomatter we inhabit. However, it’s clear that DarkSyde’s real problems come not from people who ‘believe in Santa Claus,’ which represents something ‘whacky, if perhaps relatively pleasant on the surface’. Sure, he’s dismissive of the idea, but aside from the agnostics (and even them only to a point), which of us doesn’t believe we have a decent handle on our faith/beliefs/reason? I mean, if we didn’t actually think we were right, we wouldn’t believe what we believe. QED.

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