pwp and samhain
Oct. 30th, 2007 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jukeboxhound_backup I was trying to think of a Halloween fic that wouldn't turn into an epic, and instead got the inspiration for one of those stuck-in-the-Nibel-Mountains-and-must-share-body-warmth-wink-wink oneshots that are just as an excuse for PWP sex. Not that I'm complaining, but still not quite what I was hoping my unconscious would come up with.
It's a Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud, and my first threesome, if you cared to know. Dunno when I'll finish it. I'm hardly the most prolific of writers.
It's a Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud, and my first threesome, if you cared to know. Dunno when I'll finish it. I'm hardly the most prolific of writers.
Community Seed is a local pagan organization designed to promote the equality and understanding of pagan groups. (Dude, you know you're a fangirl when you automatically spell 'seed' as 'SeeD.' Oi.) Most of the people are Wiccan, but there are some druids and asatruans and general neopagans.
So last Saturday was this year's Samhain ritual, and I'm torn on how to react. I practiced Wicca myself some years ago, before I lost my faith for various personal reasons; point being, there wasn't anything that shocked or surprised me on the basis of the religion or the ritual itself. No, my problem lay in that little mental voice of Reason that wouldn't shut the fuck up and insisted on picking everything apart...especially when one of the priestesses talked about 'worshipping in the ways of our ancestors.'
From what I understand, two of Wicca's most prominent 'founders' were Margaret Murray and Gerald Gardner, the latter having been the most influential. But Margaret Murray, even as an anthropologist, was known for picking and choosing from available sources to confirm a pre-established theory, or using circumstantial evidence, or any other number of rather unprofessional methods; and Gerald Gardner himself admitted to having made up at least part of the ritual system he described in his texts. So, where's all this supposed history that many Wiccans lay claim to supposed to come from? I don't think religion needs a historical pedigree to be any more valid than it already is--look at Christianity, two thousand years old and still fucking things up, or Islam and the division between tradition and radicalism. I simply don't understand why Wiccans seem to have this need to prove themselves under an age-old Church repression that never existed and can't accept that even being a new development, the most important thing if that they truly believe in it. When it comes to personal spirituality, outside history doesn't (shouldn't) mean a goddamn thing.
And dear God, people, if you're going to commit yourself to something like a religion, do some research and understand it first.
(Other than that, it was a nice enough ritual. Wonderful food afterwards.)
I was talking to a clerk in a deli while carrying a book called The Origin of Satan, and he mentioned something about Satanism and communism. I told him that Satanism and communism are, generally, incompatible, and the modern Church of Satan would be more likely to move towards fascism if anything. Which is totally not anywhere near communism.
...*head-desk* *kicks all the stupid people*
I can be unbearably pigheaded at times, so if I've made a mistake somewhere, be my guest and call me on it. I've gotten better at admitting when I'm wrong, though no promises. XP
So last Saturday was this year's Samhain ritual, and I'm torn on how to react. I practiced Wicca myself some years ago, before I lost my faith for various personal reasons; point being, there wasn't anything that shocked or surprised me on the basis of the religion or the ritual itself. No, my problem lay in that little mental voice of Reason that wouldn't shut the fuck up and insisted on picking everything apart...especially when one of the priestesses talked about 'worshipping in the ways of our ancestors.'
From what I understand, two of Wicca's most prominent 'founders' were Margaret Murray and Gerald Gardner, the latter having been the most influential. But Margaret Murray, even as an anthropologist, was known for picking and choosing from available sources to confirm a pre-established theory, or using circumstantial evidence, or any other number of rather unprofessional methods; and Gerald Gardner himself admitted to having made up at least part of the ritual system he described in his texts. So, where's all this supposed history that many Wiccans lay claim to supposed to come from? I don't think religion needs a historical pedigree to be any more valid than it already is--look at Christianity, two thousand years old and still fucking things up, or Islam and the division between tradition and radicalism. I simply don't understand why Wiccans seem to have this need to prove themselves under an age-old Church repression that never existed and can't accept that even being a new development, the most important thing if that they truly believe in it. When it comes to personal spirituality, outside history doesn't (shouldn't) mean a goddamn thing.
And dear God, people, if you're going to commit yourself to something like a religion, do some research and understand it first.
(Other than that, it was a nice enough ritual. Wonderful food afterwards.)
I was talking to a clerk in a deli while carrying a book called The Origin of Satan, and he mentioned something about Satanism and communism. I told him that Satanism and communism are, generally, incompatible, and the modern Church of Satan would be more likely to move towards fascism if anything. Which is totally not anywhere near communism.
...*head-desk* *kicks all the stupid people*
I can be unbearably pigheaded at times, so if I've made a mistake somewhere, be my guest and call me on it. I've gotten better at admitting when I'm wrong, though no promises. XP
