Friday, 29 August 2014

Pulp heroics and aussies first magic sword

possum leach
man
thats a gritty pulp hero name right there
fights crime
with his fists

Chokes crooks with his fluffy tail.

then sucks thier blood
not becuase hes a vampire
he just sucks it out and spits it into a bucket
he carries about with him
he wants to get enough to forge a sword made from the iron extracted from human blood
aussies first magic sword
the leach blade

Friday, 15 August 2014

Why I do art

  • speaking of scandinavia
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    i was going to ask if you know anything about this Folketro (Danish, Norwegian) or folktro (Swedish) is the North Germanic for "folk religion", referring to Scandinavian folklore in particular. In the Scandinavian Heathen discourse, the term is used for a religion that consists of a folklore that is believed to be the descendant of historical Norse paganism. Folketro is considered a living tradition and that does not include the use of reconstructionism in any way, nor the use of historical sources such as the Edda or notation of folklore. The term is in conscious contrast to Asatru, the reconstructionist revival of medieval Norse polytheism. Preferred terms are Forn Sed ("Old Custom") or Nordisk Sed ("Nordic Custom"). Attention is rather given to traditional song, dance, folk music and festivals.
    Critics refer to the folketro movement as funtrad (for fundamentalistisk traditionalisme, "fundamentalistic traditionalism"). Not to be confused is the "radical traditionalism" of the New Right, which invokes national mysticist or occultist notions of a pan-Indo-European tradition rather than the focus on regional customs advocated by folketro. Proponents of Folketro include the Samfälligheten för Nordisk Sed in Sweden and the Foreningen Forn Sed in Norway.
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    i don't know much about that man
    my knowledge about northen mysticism and paganism is prose edda
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    nothing more
    and books on prose edda
    and of course the numerous black metal bands singing about loki en ginnungagap and yggdrasil
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    it looks interesting though.
    although the description you sent me is rather vague
    vagueness is attractive
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    well its covering what are probablly exceedingly tiny procivinal movements spread over 3 or 4 countries
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    heh
    is it lapland related maybe?
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    but the idea of folketro is interesting to apply to national occultisms
    i don't know enough about lapps
    specifically british occultism
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    folketro roughly translates to folk religion apparently
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    sounds like your regular paganism
    blatantly
    it's not, apparantly
    but still
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    folk religion is a wide concept
    folk religion could be occultism
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    yeah
    is a codified and nationalised folk religion still a folk religion
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    heh
    yeah
    i don't care much for terminology
    something is what it is
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    was wicca a folk religion
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    or what you perceive it as
    haha
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    in my opinion, yes
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    yeah... it kind of appropriated all the more intellectualized strands and re-purposed them
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    what do you think of wicca?
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    i understand it... intellectually... its a fertility cult
    i don't sympathise with its appeal beyond being the most accessible gateway to paganism though
    as in
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    yeah
    i understand
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    promises of magical power and shit
    basicly come down to talk is cheap
    not that i care about magical power anyway... just magical results
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    that's what i was think of earlier
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    i think how its a fertility cult... and a magical system.... is kind of counter intuitive
    i mean
    it makes perfect sense for a folk religion
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    it doesn't really matter what stage you reach on journeys
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    but for a religion whose publishing arm rivals the christians...
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    but what you bring back from them
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    the magic and the fertility aspects sort of become distinct things
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    is what is important.
    yeah
    do you really oppose any religions?
    like, do you hate christians or jews?
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    i think both of those religions are generally repugnant
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    i can respect true spirituality, regardless where it comes from.
    contemporary christanity or
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    i worry about people who subscribe to creeds that arn't internally consistant
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    never worry about people.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    i mean
    i worry about what they are going to do
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    like what?
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    well it could be shower you with love or burn you at the stake... depending who is reading the book today
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    heh
    yeah, alright.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    its obvious no kind of definitive morality can be gleaned from them... and i think their internal contradictions militate against peaceful coexistance... or even peaceful existance in themselves
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    what do you actually believe?
    what is the meaning of our existence according to you?
    it is something i cannot help but ponder upon every day
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    enjoy the earth, sing a beautiful song and disappear
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    so a rather egocentric existence
    or sing a beautiful song for the people?
    honestly man.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    its hard... do you believe in destiny as a concept eer
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    i cannot wait for the day that i die.
    still i have the feeling that there is stuff i must do.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    the object that does nothing doesn't exist... most people are boring and cowardly
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    so that answers your quetion; yes, i do.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    or maybe they are happy that way
    i don't know
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    most people are sheep.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    but i think people exist to make the world more interesting
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    but what is the ultimate goal of that>
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    to carve the groove of culture
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    we like to think we're so important.
    to what?
    it's questions like these that drive me to the spiritual paths i choose, or coose me, man.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    well i don't feel a strenuous need to refute existentialism
    i'm defined by being from a tiny and young country... theres a chance i can make its art culture more interesting... if only to me
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    that's a noble goal
    IMO
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    but such answers don't really answer the question of the purpose of all human existance
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    art evokes emotion
    and emotion is real
    heh, yeah.
    i have yet to find an answer
    one besides spiritual progress
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    but it is the same thing with paganism...it revival that began in the early 20th century isn't going to be put back in the bottle... and its very early days
    theres a lot of questions to be worked out
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    heh
    yeah
    what do you think happens when you die?
    excuse me for being straightforward.
    it's just that we talk about the occult a lot, i'm curious.
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    well
    you cease to exist
    and then you are forgotten
    unless you work toward furthering something that has some chance of survival
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    but now you are merely talking about your mundane self
    your body
    right?
    the physical aspect of your being
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    this is as much a political as a spiritual stance... i think all espoused systems of an afterlife have fundamental political effects
    negative ones
    i mean what do you think homers hades is an explanation of
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    you all just become miserable shades
    at least its egalitarian
    and anti death
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    i guess so
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    sometimes i wonder if religion sprang from the practice of burying the dead
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    once the rotting corpses are out of your sight you are encouraged to make up stories about where they go
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    it's not unlikely
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    thats probably a simplistic take
    i prefer religions arising from dreams
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    which is also not unlikely
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    Knowing from the experience of dreams that he himself seemed able to wander away from himself, he thought in course of time that other living things were somehow double, and the world around him came to be occupied, not merely with things that were alive, but with other selves of these things, that could remain in them or leave them at will.
  • Erik Bleijenberg
    Erik Bleijenberg
    where did you get that from?
  • James Collins
    James Collins
    Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times from like 1904
    its on project Gutenberg