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

Why I do art

• speaking of scandinavia
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  07:54

  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.
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  07:56

  Erik Bleijenberg

  i don't know much about that man

  my knowledge about northen mysticism and paganism is prose edda
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  07:57

  James Collins
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  07:57

  Erik Bleijenberg

  nothing more

  and books on prose edda

  and of course the numerous black metal bands singing about loki en ginnungagap and yggdrasil
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  07:58

  James Collins

  heh
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  07:59

  Erik Bleijenberg

  it looks interesting though.

  although the description you sent me is rather vague

  vagueness is attractive
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  08:00

  James Collins

  well its covering what are probablly exceedingly tiny procivinal movements spread over 3 or 4 countries
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  08:00

  Erik Bleijenberg

  heh

  is it lapland related maybe?
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  08:01

  James Collins

  but the idea of folketro is interesting to apply to national occultisms

  i don't know enough about lapps

  specifically british occultism
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  08:02

  Erik Bleijenberg

  folketro roughly translates to folk religion apparently
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  08:03

  James Collins

  yeah
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  08:03

  Erik Bleijenberg

  sounds like your regular paganism

  blatantly

  it's not, apparantly

  but still
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  08:03

  James Collins

  heh
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  08:04

  Erik Bleijenberg

  folk religion is a wide concept

  folk religion could be occultism
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  08:05

  James Collins

  yeah

  is a codified and nationalised folk religion still a folk religion
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  08:05

  Erik Bleijenberg

  heh

  yeah

  i don't care much for terminology

  something is what it is
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  08:06

  James Collins

  was wicca a folk religion
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  08:06

  Erik Bleijenberg

  or what you perceive it as

  haha
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  08:06

  James Collins

  heh
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  08:06

  Erik Bleijenberg

  in my opinion, yes
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  08:07

  James Collins

  yeah... it kind of appropriated all the more intellectualized strands and re-purposed them
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  08:08

  Erik Bleijenberg

  what do you think of wicca?
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  08:09

  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
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  08:10

  Erik Bleijenberg

  yeah

  i understand
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  08:10

  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
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  08:11

  Erik Bleijenberg

  that's what i was think of earlier
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  08:12

  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
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  08:13

  Erik Bleijenberg

  it doesn't really matter what stage you reach on journeys
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  08:13

  James Collins

  but for a religion whose publishing arm rivals the christians...
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  08:13

  Erik Bleijenberg

  but what you bring back from them
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  08:13

  James Collins

  the magic and the fertility aspects sort of become distinct things
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  08:13

  Erik Bleijenberg

  is what is important.

  yeah

  do you really oppose any religions?

  like, do you hate christians or jews?
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  08:15

  James Collins

  i think both of those religions are generally repugnant
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  08:15

  Erik Bleijenberg
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  08:15

  James Collins
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  08:16

  Erik Bleijenberg

  i can respect true spirituality, regardless where it comes from.

  contemporary christanity or
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  08:17

  James Collins

  i worry about people who subscribe to creeds that arn't internally consistant
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  08:17

  Erik Bleijenberg

  never worry about people.
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  08:17

  James Collins

  i mean

  i worry about what they are going to do
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  08:18

  Erik Bleijenberg

  like what?
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  08:18

  James Collins

  well it could be shower you with love or burn you at the stake... depending who is reading the book today
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  08:19

  Erik Bleijenberg

  heh

  yeah, alright.
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  08:19

  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
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  08:20

  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
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  08:22

  James Collins

  enjoy the earth, sing a beautiful song and disappear
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  08:22

  Erik Bleijenberg

  so a rather egocentric existence

  or sing a beautiful song for the people?

  honestly man.
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  08:23

  James Collins

  its hard... do you believe in destiny as a concept eer
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  08:23

  Erik Bleijenberg

  i cannot wait for the day that i die.

  still i have the feeling that there is stuff i must do.
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  08:24

  James Collins

  the object that does nothing doesn't exist... most people are boring and cowardly
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  08:24

  Erik Bleijenberg

  so that answers your quetion; yes, i do.
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  08:24

  James Collins

  or maybe they are happy that way

  i don't know
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  08:24

  Erik Bleijenberg

  most people are sheep.
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  08:25

  James Collins

  but i think people exist to make the world more interesting
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  08:25

  Erik Bleijenberg

  but what is the ultimate goal of that>
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  08:25

  James Collins

  to carve the groove of culture
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  08:25

  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.
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  08:26

  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
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  08:27

  Erik Bleijenberg

  that's a noble goal

  IMO
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  08:27

  James Collins

  but such answers don't really answer the question of the purpose of all human existance
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  08:27

  Erik Bleijenberg

  art evokes emotion

  and emotion is real

  heh, yeah.

  i have yet to find an answer

  one besides spiritual progress
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  08:28

  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
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  08:29

  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.
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  08:30

  James Collins

  well

  you cease to exist

  and then you are forgotten

  unless you work toward furthering something that has some chance of survival
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  08:31

  Erik Bleijenberg

  but now you are merely talking about your mundane self

  your body

  right?

  the physical aspect of your being
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  08:33

  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
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  08:34

  Erik Bleijenberg

  heh
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  08:34

  James Collins

  you all just become miserable shades

  at least its egalitarian

  and anti death
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  08:35

  Erik Bleijenberg

  i guess so
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  08:36

  James Collins

  sometimes i wonder if religion sprang from the practice of burying the dead
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  08:36

  Erik Bleijenberg

  heh
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  08:36

  James Collins

  once the rotting corpses are out of your sight you are encouraged to make up stories about where they go
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  08:36

  Erik Bleijenberg

  it's not unlikely
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  08:36

  James Collins

  thats probably a simplistic take

  i prefer religions arising from dreams
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  08:37

  Erik Bleijenberg

  which is also not unlikely
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  08:39

  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.
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  08:39

  Erik Bleijenberg

  where did you get that from?
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  08:40

  James Collins

  Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times from like 1904

  its on project Gutenberg