Aquila ka Hecate

Dear emotional, I assume you're being a little tongue in cheek here?

I've also had an NDE,and I can assure you that I encountered no being-loving light being or otherwise-who held any kid of existance outside of my fevered and dying brain.

emotional

No.

I don't care how you interpret your experience. For me, NDEs are evidence of life after death, and nothing anyone says could ever change that. And even if there weren't NDEs at all, I'd believe in life after death. My beliefs are independent of evidence. Blind faith is what makes me tick.

gsx1138

You thought wrong. Before the NDE I didn't believe in any kind of afterlife now I do. As for the existence of God that is still up in the air. My NDE didn't resemble anything in any of the abrahamic religions. Which was even more confusing because that was all I knew at the time.
Well if you run off of blind faith then I have nothing to really say. My faith is based of of my own experiences which is why it can be considered myth by others. If you can't prove something then it is a myth. Like I said before, words only go so far. If you can't experience it then it will have no context for you. I think people are still hung up on the word Myth.

Potaten

I know Germany used it a bit in their recruitment posters in norway, showing viking longships in the background of SS soldiers and stuff like that.
I dont however that the neo-nazi and the pre WW2 nazi use of Asatro have much to do about real faith and belief in them.
Its more about "the glorious past of the germanic master race blahablaha".

Mind you, using christian symbolics was alot more common from what I've seen, describing the war against russia as a european crusade against "godless communism" and stuff like that.

AndresDeLaHoz

Ahh yes. Varg. His site's a hoot, or at least it was the last time I checked. And his nintento midi ambient music is comedy gold.

triplew00t

Are there any Asatru on these boards? I know Ojuice is Romana, but I was wondering if anyone follows the Norse path.

Nero

triplew00t

Or, for that matter, any followers of Druidism or Celticism here?

I always like to look around this board for rational Pagans. I find it to be refreshing after dealing with the new age nonsense that Paganism has fallen into as of the last 20 years or so.

Nero

gsx1138

I'm studying Celtic Paganism right now. I'm fairly new to it so I don't think I would be able to hold an interesting conversation on the subject. The coven I'm studying with is strictly Celtic.

asgardhaven

gsx1138

Slightly off topic here but I was curious.

It sounds like for you (please correct me if I have this wrong)at least to some degree these myths represent a story tradition whereby insight into human nature is transmitted in allegorical form. I was just curious as to what you think of modern authors who take and update or rework these stories for comercial gain?

For example one of my favorite authors David Drake routine takes myths from the old traitions and reworks them into scince fiction stories. The celtic and norse traitions regularly show up in fantansy, historical fantasy, and historical fiction.

triplew00t

gsx.

Could you give me a quick overview of the Celtic idea of life after death? I keep getting conflicting sources. I have heard almost karmatic reincarnation, Otherworld, voluntary reincarnation, etc...

Nero