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  1. DanishCrow

    Violence in Eastern religions

    Try to read Arjunas Doubt from the Upanishads. Essentially, the question of fostering peace vs. fulfilling feudal obligations is very, very old in all religions. In Arjunas doubt, the hero Arjuna asks Krishna on the eve of a terrible battle between brothers if it's more important to obey his...
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    Difference Between Church and Star Trek?

    Well, the similarity would be that both devotees find a community of others that cares about something as much as they do. They will find 'services worldwide', though a great many trekkies only communicate through the internet, which has a lot of in-built limitations. A service gives personal...
  3. DanishCrow

    Why not to consider "Alcohol" among Illicit drugs & prohibit its use

    I'm an alcoholic (recovered, thank spirits) and live in one of the hardest drinking countries in my region. That said, the issue with prohibition is not that alcohol is not a terrible drug that kills and destroys people whereever it arrives, it's that prohibition by it's nature doesn't work...
  4. DanishCrow

    Waking up the Dead

    Any time.. I would recommend that you contact an experienced shamanic practicioner (if you tell me where you live I may be able to help you look) for any urgent need to contact a specific individual. For learning how to do so yourself, you need to learn how to create a sacred space and the...
  5. DanishCrow

    Power animals and personal development

    My spirit helpers are conventional animals that live in my area of the world. Therefore, I seek out their relatives in the ordinary reality and give them stuff the animal likes. By building good relationship to the helper spirit in this reality, my relationship to it in the shamanistic reality...
  6. DanishCrow

    Let's share everyday heathen rituals we know or have seen!

    That's great stuff! Native americans will bless dwellings by burying quartz and asking land spirits to protect it, and we scandinavians did something like it before the christians came. In fact, all indigenous peoples used to have a relationship with spirits of the land, but a lot of it went...
  7. DanishCrow

    Racism in Heathenry

    "A people who won't protect itself deserves to perish" ..and so racist people will perish, in due time. Wotan's Krieger and other fölkisch weaklings have to believe that heathen faith is reserved for white people, otherwise their worldview falls apart. Our gods never had any such concerns.
  8. DanishCrow

    Let's share everyday heathen rituals we know or have seen!

    So no event-based ritual actions outside of the yearly sacrifices?
  9. DanishCrow

    Let's share everyday heathen rituals we know or have seen!

    Care to discuss everyday heathen rituals you've discovered? I'll start. I got to participate in a smaller-scale heathen ritual this sunday, which may interest some of you: a member of my blót guild had moved into a new apartment, and held a housewarming - she charged me to bind a big stick of...
  10. DanishCrow

    Racism in Heathenry

    Good stuff, Hildeburh, thanks!
  11. DanishCrow

    Yggdrasil Tattoo

    Oh, hey, I went and saw Wardruna this sunday! Good times.
  12. DanishCrow

    New member, greetings!

    They are just depictions. I enjoy them for some of the things they get right (for instance one might think: what is up with Heimdall being played with Idris Elba? Well, from what we know from the sagas, Heimdalls skin is, in fact, black :) ), but they are mostly just entertainment. Costumes are...
  13. DanishCrow

    Is there an afterlife?

    Pop by the Shamanism or Heathen DIRS and ask? There are several of us around. In short: I use the same methods as shamans everywhere in the world, rattle and drum, to enter the underworld (or other spirit realms), to achieve various aims, usually augury/seeing or healing of patients.
  14. DanishCrow

    Seiðr and Ergi

    Sure, but then I wouldn't **** on a lot of Danish "asatro" to put out a fire. They seem to uncritically copy a lot of their practice and theology wholesale from their favorite group, which unfortunately often is the Asatruar Folk Assembly.
  15. DanishCrow

    SCIENCE: Death Anxiety Likely Cause of Belief in Intelligent Design

    That assumes the critics are right, but sure, we are dealing with theoretical physics that are not proven through at present - but considering that Penrose has before made concrete progress on the theoretical field of relativity, his track record is good enough for people to take note, and I...
  16. DanishCrow

    Is there an afterlife?

    As a practicioner of norse shamanism, I have gone beyond death and visited my own former lives. This is evidence enough for me that there are more lives to come.
  17. DanishCrow

    SCIENCE: Death Anxiety Likely Cause of Belief in Intelligent Design

    Trying to form new scientific theories = being into woo ? I cannot approve of the comparison. Roger Penrose is one of the most brilliant scientists to ever live, and even if he's wrong about this it is going to get us closer to understanding the principle of consciousness.
  18. DanishCrow

    SCIENCE: Death Anxiety Likely Cause of Belief in Intelligent Design

    We're done here, Thermos. You demand an act of observation our present technology and mental development cannot provide, but you do insinuate that we lack metaphysical evidence, evidence that you by shifting definitions refuse to consider. An ad hominem fallacy would be attacking you, not...
  19. DanishCrow

    SCIENCE: Death Anxiety Likely Cause of Belief in Intelligent Design

    Quite so. You assert that evidence is "Independent and verifiable observations that fit the predictions made by an explanation." - while we can agree that we can prove the big bang happened, you also claim that there was no act of creation by anything or anyone behind it. For that, you have no...
  20. DanishCrow

    SCIENCE: Death Anxiety Likely Cause of Belief in Intelligent Design

    In that case, you can't have evidence, because the omniscient and massive computing power required to test these claims at presents is not available. But, by the same metric you give me here, you cannot muster a scientific framework to prove there was not a conscious principle behind creation...
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