Archive for November, 2005

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…

Read the rest of this entry »

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…

Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

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…

Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

Daily Deity (Nov 15): Tyr

This week, I’d decided to go the “theme” route and over some Norse deities. Tuesday’s deity is Tyr, god of warfare and battle.

More on the flip…

Read the rest of this entry »

Morality and religion

I just found some notes I made that I was thinking of posting to another diary, probably a couple of weeks ago. That one’s long gone, but I think this is worth posting as it’s own diary.

The impression I got on the other thread is that some folks feel that a person’s morality/ethics is a function of their religion. For some people, that is undoubtedly the case.

Read the rest of this entry »

Daily Deity (Nov 14): Brynhild

This week, I’d decided to go the “theme” route and over some Norse deities. I have Tuesday-Saturday worked out, but didn’t know what to do for Monday, so I hit the Deity of the Day at godchecker.com.

And lo, today’s deity is Brynhild (NOTE: You may need to copy and paste the link to get it to work.), most beautiful of the Valkyries.

More on the flip…

Read the rest of this entry »

Daily Deity (Nov 11)

Today, I’m skipping the Deity of the Day at godchecker.com and using their search to find someone appropriate to the day.

Today’s deity is Tonatiuh(*), Aztec Sun God. “He looks after warriors, particularly those who die in his service, and rules the present Age of the world.”

More on the flip…

Read the rest of this entry »

Daily Deity (Nov 10)

Until and unless we decide to take a more structured approach (working though a pantheon at a time, for example), I’m taking from the Deity of the Day at godchecker.com.

Today’s deity is Wu-Guan-Wang (Note: If the link gives an error, try copying it and entering it manually. The site also seems to time out a lot.), appropriate for the things we’ve been dealing with the last couple of days IMO. He’s in charge of the hell for “forgers, counterfeiters and cheats.”

Unsurprisingly, there’s more on the flip…

Read the rest of this entry »

AWSOM Powered