Wednesday, June 22, 2016

And Now This Word from Outer Space

Born again Nordic edition
I got into the subject with Lloyd Pye's Everything You Know Is Wrong. While I don't support his conclusions, it opens the door to some interesting questions for which I don't have answers.

I actually took some time looking for that name because I had a bit of a born-again Nordic experience. Another example of interesting questions with no conclusions. When I pray, as a Christian, I feel the presence of the Spirit, I feel that Jesus is love and the Gateway to heaven, but never answers. And always guilty and judging myself for expecting anything, like I should be grateful I'm not covered with maggots in a gutter in Calcutta.

Long story short, I had an exacerbating health issue and prayed about it, as usual I got bupkus, but decades of silence made me mad. I had a very angry one-sided convo with a silent Almighty, then proposed an experiment, and put my request to "whatever spirits or gods, I don't know what you are orcif you are, but if you looked after my ancestors in ancient times, show me you're there and consider my request." I went for a walk to cool off and I hadn't gone forty yards and a bald eagle with a squirrel in it's talons literally buzzed me, I could have hit it with a stick...OKAY...THAT was a hell of a coincidence...

Then my health started changing. My energy increased. It was like I had been walking with eyes at half mast and now I woke up. I needed a fraction of the sleep I needed before. My shoulder joint issues subsided into a vague reminder. I didn't see an old man in the mirror anymore. A month ago I started a hardcore diet and willpower seems completely beside the point, I just decided it, so it is. The way I deal with people, I feel confidence to a level that I don't want to "shine" too much and be overbearing. I could go on.

Where I am not having overwhelming confidence, is where I go from here. This makes me question my own stability as well as my relations with the Almighty and I keep thinking about how crazy some wackos get over religion and things they choose to believe. It was many weeks before I even tried another "conversation with my elders", and I had this clear feeling that while I had mainly been addressing a father god, he was pushing forward another person to help with an issue I hadn't prayed about yet, with advice on how to dedicate certain things I had been having failures with to them, so they could find me success.

The last thing I was expecting was an answer to prayer, and the context of the answer is a lot like the story, I asked for a fish, I'm being given a fishing rod rather than a fish. There is actually someone there, but it's like a holy family of some sort, always available, but I'm notvsurexabout visiting them. Going on two months I've done this "experiment" twice.

I'm still in a crisis. I still pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ. I still get silence. I still get the Presence and the feeling of Christ's love. But my guilt is entirely, completely, gone. And I miss it! Its almost like feeling unworthy was at least some kind of communication, some kind of answer. And I can't deny the changes, the crazy events. It's like I set the rules of the experiment, I had a result, I can't go on like the result happened.

My longwinded explanation of my "Viking name". And my chance to come out of my closet, tyvm ;) I pored over the Norse names and meaning thereof until I decided it was silly, often the names they gave themselves were intended to be humorous. For some reason I jyst always liked the sound of Ketill. It literally means an iron kettle and sometimes an iron helmet. Well, I've got a hard belly again and I've always had a hard head. "Whitebeard" or "Frostbeard" is one of the aliases of Odin, and since there's a white skunk's stripe down the center of my beard, I took it. I'm letting it grow, normally I shave, but I read the Lombard sect let their beards grow as a dedication to Odin, so.

I'm waiting until I feel ready for conversation 3, which is going to be different. In my research I came across a simple "rite of Bragi" where you dedicate a drink to the Holy Family (that's my term for them lately) and then you look at the surface of the drink, and you're supposed to experience something. I'm not in a hurry, frankly. So, there it is. Thanks for being my "victim" in my coming out. Now the pronouncements of insanity and eternal hellfire can begin, I'm ready ;)
Wrong kind of drama and crazy for Freep provided by the likely short-lived Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)

7 comments:

  1. Be careful what you pray for. I got
    hooked on 4-Way Nasal Spray several years
    ago & got where I had to use it all day,
    EVERY day. - Got tired of that. I prayed,
    "Dear God, please unstop my nose!" -
    Well, a couple of nights later, my nose
    started bleeding like a stuck pig. &
    bled, & bled, & bled. Husband took me to
    the ER. Nose kept on bleeding & would not
    stop! Finally, after at least two hours,
    & globs of gobs pouring out in clots;
    it quit. - That was at least 6 or 8 yrs.
    ago; and my nose has NEVER been stopped
    up for any length of time again. I think
    the 4-Way was designed to hook us.
    Anonymous

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  2. Weirdo paganism is usually a sure fire way to get zotted on FR ...
    however, Scandinavian paganism, with its inherent "white-power" connotations, may be given a pass (and even encouragement) in the present FR atmosphere.

    And, uh, when TWINKIE talks about "4-Way Nasal Spray", she means "Vodka".

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    1. That's it! You 'uns just tell it like
      ya'll like & it's all just fantasy
      & unicorn farts! Twinkie don't drink;
      but Twinkie would drink if she liked!
      A little wine is good for you as long
      as you don't drink a whole bottle &
      then get on FM & tell big lying
      whoppers!! Ya'll don't even know that
      "Anonymous" IS "Twinkie". Ya'll ran
      poor Twinkie off for making fun of
      HITLER-Y ROTTENHAM CLINTOON. Ya'll
      also CUSS like sailors! No wonder ya'll are throwing ya'll's votes on
      HITLER-Y and down the old crapper!

      PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
      Anonymous

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    2. I think we all knew who you were twinkie, your troll game is about as stale as four year old bread.

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    3. No. I'll tell you what is as stale as
      four year old bread. It is the idea
      of FIRST LADDIE BILLIOUS CLINTOON
      installed with HITLER-Y for another
      round of INTERN ABUSING!!

      THAT is what is STALE!! - Anonymous

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  3. So, "Whitebeard" or "Frostbeard" > Muslim beard?

    His Norse god role playing is one hell of a mid-life crisis!

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  4. Fucker has watched Thor one too many times

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