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12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Esoteric Publishers, C... · 1 reply · +6 points

There are a lot of reconstructionists out there who are not about purity of cultures and pantheons. Many of us work in syncretic, multicultural, and otherwise complicated contexts.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Esoteric Publishers, C... · 0 replies · +14 points

Thanks for publicizing Scarlet Imprint's statement, Jason. I don't like seeing this kind of shit in our communities. Reminds me of the sort of crap Akins was about.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Pagan Community Notes:... · 0 replies · +3 points

I would think that saying "initiation is making a commitment" kind of covers that taking initiation as sacred thing. Back in the day, some of the BTW groups were doing what amounts to driveby initiations -- bring somebody in for their first ritual, initiate them all three degrees, and you're good to go. It's treated a lot differently now in every group I'm aware of.

Anyone who's been a member of a community steadily for fifteen or twenty years, whether they've been initiated or not, has obviously got a commitment as well. Both of these things -- initiation taken seriously and time in service -- are indicators of commitment to community.

I think you're reading something into my comment that wasn't intended to be there.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Pagan Community Notes:... · 4 replies · +5 points

I'm quite aware of that and absolutely agree that no initiation is necessary to be a Pagan, generically speaking, but taking an initiation is making a commitment. It's a rather different level of assumption and involvement. It marks you as a member of a community in a way that just saying you're Pagan does not.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Pagan Community Notes:... · 8 replies · +2 points

Wiccans aren't the only Pagans who do initiations. OBOD has various initiations, for instance, some of which are self-initiations, but they are also done within actual OBOD groves when there are enough members locally to do them. There are a number of non-Wiccan mystery traditions that do initiations.

The fact you weren't aware of something doesn't make it false.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Pagan Community Notes:... · 2 replies · +8 points

Considering how academia treats out Pagans, I can't really blame him for being cagey in public. You'd think that when he's replying to the Pagan community, though, he might be a little more forthcoming.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Pagan Community Notes:... · 17 replies · +6 points

Last I looked, Hutton was an initiated Pagan.

12 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - A Collection of May Da... · 0 replies · +7 points

Blessings of Beltaine, Jason! It was a bit of a surprise to see a quote from my ritual report, given as we're such a small group and all, but I will admit I was tickled. It's so wonderful to actually have a harper now! And there are enough of us now who like to sing that we'll be able to learn and sing songs in Irish, Gaelic, and maybe even Welsh for some of the other festivals as well. That'll be fantastic and I'm really looking forward to it.

13 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - The Smearing of Assisi · 1 reply · +6 points

Your quote under the youtube link is repeated. The first instance has Ratzinger misspelled.

His whole "all you other people are deluded and must be converted" mixed with a liberal (sic) dose of racism, sexism, and probably any other -ism you want to cram in there, really makes me shudder.

13 years ago @ The Wild Hunt - Unleash the Hounds! (L... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for the link, Jason. I was out of town all weekend and just saw this.

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