I’m British and Welsh, sounds like something my ancestors would do before they were taught the Gospel.

Nobody really knows what the ancient druids did back in the day. The only contemporary descriptions are highly slanted greek and roman passages.

All this current crap was made up from scratch in the twentieth-century.

check your local university.

She was trying to avoid the draft by shooting herself in the foot - she just used what was handy...

How do you say "Fail" in Lebanese?

Imagine the call:

"911, what's your emergency?

"Help! My friend just stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot sword!"

"What's your location?"

"We're at the cemetery. Please hurry!"

"We have an ambulance on the way now. Please stay on the line. How did this happen?"

"Well, we were having a peaceful, quiet Wiccan ceremony..."

I'm Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and English, and this sounds like something my ancestors might have done after chuggalugging a flagon of Duggan's Dew.

“Strange women stabbin’ their feet with swords is no basis for a system of government!”

...stupid limey gun-control laws...

Cheers!

is there any need for doing this type of stuff in the middle of a cemetery?

Ah, modern pagans. They make up wishy-washy religions. Why not revive the well-known pagan religions of Rome or Scandinavia if you’re looking for an actual pagan religion?

C.S. Lewis - Cliche Came Out of its Cage

1

You said ‘The world is going back to Paganism’.
Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House
Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes,
And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes,
Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses
To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem.
Hestia’s fire in every flat, rekindled, burned before
The Lardergods. Unmarried daughters with obedient hands
Tended it By the hearth the white-armd venerable mother
Domum servabat, lanam faciebat. at the hour
Of sacrifice their brothers came, silent, corrected, grave
Before their elders; on their downy cheeks easily the blush
Arose (it is the mark of freemen’s children) as they trooped,
Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance.
Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods,
Shun Hubris. The middle of the road, the middle sort of men,
Are best. Aidos surpasses gold. Reverence for the aged
Is wholesome as seasonable rain, and for a man to die
Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing.
Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune
Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions;
Heathendom came again, the circumspection and the holy fears ...
You said it. Did you mean it? Oh inordinate liar, stop.

2

Or did you mean another kind of heathenry?
Think, then, that under heaven-roof the little disc of the earth,
Fortified Midgard, lies encircled by the ravening Worm.
Over its icy bastions faces of giant and troll
Look in, ready to invade it. The Wolf, admittedly, is bound;
But the bond wil1 break, the Beast run free. The weary gods,
Scarred with old wounds the one-eyed Odin, Tyr who has lost a hand,
Will limp to their stations for the Last defence. Make it your hope
To be counted worthy on that day to stand beside them;
For the end of man is to partake of their defeat and die
His second, final death in good company. The stupid, strong
Unteachable monsters are certain to be victorious at last,
And every man of decent blood is on the losing side.
Take as your model the tall women with yellow hair in plaits
Who walked back into burning houses to die with men,
Or him who as the death spear entered into his vitals
Made critical comments on its workmanship and aim.
Are these the Pagans you spoke of? Know your betters and crouch, dogs;
You that have Vichy water in your veins and worship the event
Your goddess History (whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune).

The residents don't complain.

/johnny

Little did they know they’d be celebrating a black mass (ie bloodletting).

It’s funny too as Wiccans always ‘say’ they are peaceful, and the kinds of ceremonial daggers and swords generally ship with the blade dull on purpose. You have to sharpen it when it arrives.

how long were you waiting to crack out that gem? =D

Yup, particularly the theater department. A production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at my school saw one actor accidently cut off the tip of the nose of another actor while waving an unfortunately real saber around. I lost a race to the cafeteria to get a bucket of ice to store the nose in - someone else ran faster than I did. But the dude's nose was successfully sewn back on.

/johnny

/johnny

"Oh Great Mother****ER THAT HURTS!"

Why? Stupid isn't against the law.

(We'd never have enough jail space.)

Better yet what did they think they would accomplish by praying( or sacrificing) to a pagan god(s) in a Christian cemetery.

Surely their “earth god” wouldn't appreciate their services being performed on hallowed ground dedicated to the God that destroyed their (tin)horned god.

Ya think these "druids" would do a little research beyond their D&D Players handbook before they offer thanks to their "gods" Real pagans were into real blood sacrifice and not the accidental kind.

Whadda bunch of poseurs

Bake bread, bake; butter the scone!
Slice cake, slice; eat every crumb!
Freeze cream, freeze; scoop into cone!
Phi, fie, foe, FUMMMMMMMMM-BLE!

Do they speak Lebanese in Lebanon Indiana?

Hold my potion, and watch this!

We ought to outlaw stupid. Then maybe we could get a fence built around our borders. lol

They have revived the the Scandanavian.

Excerpt:

Prison-outreach program

WotansVolk and the Temple of Wotan were known for having prisoner outreach ministries. In 2001 there were prison kindreds linked with Wotansvolk in all federal states of the USA and the groups supported more than 5000 prisoners. Research by Mattias Gardell indicated "a pagan revival among the white prison population, including the conversion of whole prison gangs to the ancestral religion.".

Wotanism

Then there is Greek "revivalism"; for a starting place, see: Hellenismos / Greek Revival

From the latter link, you can also jump to the 'Roman Reconstructionists'.

And there are a LOT more out there.

They don't mean it. They don't even understand it.

“I’m British and Welsh, sounds like something my ancestors would do before they were taught the Gospel.”

Precisely!

They don't mean it. They don't even understand it.

The original pagan religions were real, substantive religions that prescribed codes of conduct, held certain behavior to be virtuous and other behavior to be evil. They functioned as the moral and ethical guides for their respective societes.

This New Age stuff doesn't really focus on those aspects of pagan religion. The new age Norse religion seems to be a cover for white supremacists. Modern Wiccans are a bunch of middle-aged hippie chicks who like to go naked in the woods, and the men who want to bed them.

The old religions are dead- trying to revive them in a society like ours makes no sense. The original religions, like any religion, grew organically to serve the needs of their respective societies. You can't just transplant a religion over centuries into a completely different culture and society.

I did that once, just to spite my face.

But seriously folks....my dog had his nose cut off when he was a puppy...How does he smell, you ask?

Terrible!!

Lewis was well read in the Classics (his day job) and the Edda and Sagas. He commented elsewhere that it would be worth reviving Paganism just to see a gaggle of cabinet ministers trying to sacrifice a white bull!

Nobody who has read the Edda (elder or younger) has any illusions about Norse paganism. The problem is that nobody is reading them any more!

I just hate stupid people.
They should have to wear signs that just say I'm stupid.
That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you?
You wouldn't ask them anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops,
never mind"
"I didn't see your sign."

It's like before my wife and I moved from Texas to California
our house was full of boxes and there was a u-Haul truck in our driveway.
My friend comes over and says, "Hey, You moving?"

"Nope."

"We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week. Just to see how many boxes it takes."

"Here's your sign."

Why can't they get the picture?
Why don't they understand?
We're not dealing with the planet of apes,
we're talking about the modern man.

So you people with them itsy bitsy teensie weensie tiny minds... Here's your sign. Here's your sign.

A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine,
we pulled his boat into the dock,
I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass
this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, yall catch all them fish?"

Nope.

"Talked 'em into giving up."

"Here's your sign."

I was out in the front yard with my boy the other day
and he was playing with his little friend,
and he hit his friend
and I went up to him and I said "Hey, (smacks his boy), we don't hit." He looked up at me like, "Here's your sign, dad."

Why can't they get the picture?
Why don't they understand?
We're not dealing with the planet of apes,
we're talking about the modern man.
So you people with them itsy bitsy teensie weensie tiny minds...
Here's your sign. Here's your sign.

I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel,
there was a guy inventing a shark bite suit.
There's only one way to test that.
"Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks good...
They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you tell us if it hurts when they bite you."

"Well allright....hold my sign, I don't wanna loose it"

Why can't they get the picture?
Why don't they understand?
We're not dealing with the planet of apes,
we're talking about the modern man.
So you people with them itsy bitsy teensie weensie tiny minds...
Here's your sign. Here's your sign.

Last time I was home I was driving around I had a flat tire,
I pulled my truck into one of these side-of-the-road gas statioons,
the attendant walks out,
looks at my truck,
looks at me,
I swear to GOD he went, "Tire go flat?"

I couldn't resist.

I said "Nope".

"No I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me."

"Here's your sign."

Why can't they get the picture?
Why don't they understand?
We're not dealing with the planet of apes,
we're talking about the modern man.
So you people with them itsy bitsy teensie weensie tiny minds...
People with them little bitty teenie weenie tiny monds...
Here's your sign.

We were trying to sell our car about a year ago,
a guy come over to the house,
drove the car around for about 45 minutes.
We get back to the house,
he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the exhaust pipe,
then goes, "Damn thats hot!"

See...

If he'd been wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.

LOL

Just a thought...if you can’t even handle a sword without stabbing yourself in the foot, you’re probably not ready to be allowed to be a Wiccan priestess.

lol

What do you mean "British and Welsh?" The Welsh are British (in fact, one of the oldest British populations).

Did you perhaps mean "English?" Please do not subsume English identity into Britishness. The Scots and Welsh retain their particular identities. The English deserve the same.

sorry, I thought of that right after I posted. Actually, as far as I know I am English, Welsh and Hungarian, but we are all related, eh?

That's true, but the utter absorption of English national identity into a "British" identity is a particular peeve of mine. The Scots are Scots, the Welsh are Welsh, and the English are British.

The Union has completely destroyed English national identity in a way that it has not Welsh or Scots (or even Cornish). The absence of an independent English nation has deprived the Anglo-Saxon diaspora of an ancestral motherland and led them to embrace bizarre racialist ideologies as a substitute.

I say independence for England! (And yes, I am well aware that it was the English who were the catalyst for the Union in the first place; perhaps that's why they alone have been re-branded as "British").