Happy Imbolc (2nd or 7th August 2005)

Flowing from what Supergirl had to say below, I have to add that most pagans today are fully aware that their gods are created by themselves, and insofar as religion goes, this is pretty healthy.

The gods are archetypes and extensions of ourselves-with all the good and evil that that implies.


Right, now-Imbolc

From the Irish Gaelic meaning in the belly,it is also known as Oimelc, meaning ewe’s milk.

Celebrated around the start of February in the Northern Hemisphere, this festival celebrates the coming of the lambing season, and thus the start of Spring.

Snow may still lie on the ground, but early flowers are pushing up through it, and all the world is stirring from Winters’ long sleep.

Associated with St Brigid, co-opted by the Christian Church as they couldn’t get rid of her, Imbolc is a Return of the Goddess sabbat. In Ireland and some parts of Scotland, a dolly made of the last of the harvest’s corn stalks was dressed in female clothing and laid in a bed near the hearth, together with a phallic wand.

If , in the morning, footprints were seen in the ashes of the grating, the coming year would be fruitful.

So, another desperate fertility festival, then.

Actually, Bridie has become one of my favourite Sabbats, as full of new beginnings and joyful returns as it is.

I’ve never tried making a Brigid’s Cross,



yet, but maybe I’ll have a go this year.



Imbolc , Made-Up-Gods’-Blessings to you all.

Loon

I howled like a maniac this morning, seriously disturbing my colleagues. The cause was a comment from Infidel epepke on page 2 of this discussion about..well you'll have to read it for yourselves.I'm not clever enough to try explaining it.

You can't be the whole universe, because I'm the whole universe, and I don't want any competition. And if you don't like that, then I'll just sit on you, and we'll see which of us is more universe-like.

Have a great weekend, all!

It's The God, Stupid!

Here I was, wondering how long it would take most of us to get the message that religion is an evil we really, really don’t need, when the London bombers handed me this neon sign, complete with whirling crescent-moons.

The silly excuses about people born and brought up in extreme poverty shouldn’t still be washing, I think-most suicide bombers appear to hail from middle or upper-middle class backgrounds, and some from wealthy and/or upper class ones.

Then it was the ‘alien cultures’ excuse, whereby the perpetrators were even partly excused by not having been raised in the cultures they targeted.

Hello, world-how much louder does it have to get?

The London bombers were probably all from Britain, having been born and raised in the British Isles.

Can I design a new bumper sticker, along the lines of those castigating people for not cottoning onto the real reason behind the American invasion of Iraq(‘It’s the Oil Stupid’)?



This one should be surrounded by a pastiche of symbols from the worlds’ major religions, and bear the logo: It’s The God, Stupid!

People are so Sad

...and sorry-looking.

If I found a people under a tree, I'd have to warn kids not to touch it.

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Axe Murderer

I guess you're all aware of the stuff that's just happened in London. I just have one feeling at the moment: OK, which fucking monotheistic psycho-god worshipping prick wants to step up to the plate now?

I'm just the person to take your fucking head off.

Campanalaphobia

Noticed a whole spate ofpanicking campanologists lately?

Well, neither have I, but I used to be a bell ringer, in England, and coincidentally have suffered various phobic conditions of panic for many years.

It’s a conspiracy to keep the mathematically inclined impotent.

Ringers are suffering panic attacks, fearing the bells will fall on their heads or they are going to be strangled by the ropes.

You laugh? The usual topic of conversation in the ringers’ chamber is some gruesome account or other of how a careless campanologist met a sticky end.I kid you not.

But wait-what’s this?:

Some have had to stop taking part in what they call "the exercise" after years of ringing and suffer anxiety upon hearing the tolling of a bell or catching sight of a church tower.

A light begins to dawn.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is proof of the latest in a long string of dastardly Atheist sub plots to terrorise good Christians away from Church.

There.All sorted out.

Specero, Satanus

James D Carmine blogs in”The Death of Atheism and the Birth of Malignant Gods”

For I am an atheist now, in a time when atheism is dying. And there is a new God coming. We can see his stern face in the new radical religious extremisms now racing around the world. And this new God may well be a more virulent God than the last God.

Is he right?

I hope he isn’t, and fear he may be.

And I do miss God, though to be honest the God of love was dead before I was even born. And I dread the new God on the horizon.

Here,here.

Time to Circle the Wagons

On World Net Daily there’s a report of a bunch of Christians who think the US has become a very Sodom and Gomorrah of countries. Take a look at the offenders themselves

ChristianExodus.org is moving thousands of Christians to South Carolina to reestablish constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles

Hmmm…think we’ve seen something like this before, a little closer to home?