Re: survival skills for teenage geeks
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:38:05PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:08, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:11:32PM +0100, Volker Tanger wrote:
> > > E.g. while being catholic myself I was attending the local
> > > witches (wicca,asatru,...)
> >
> > Hate to break it to you, but asatru is not a branch of wicca.
>
> It looks to me as though Volker Tanger was grouping Asatru and Wicca as
> peers, rather than specifying Asatru as a branch of Wicca.
I was imprecise, yes. It appears that he was grouping both under the
category of "witches". Still inaccurate.
> > We are
> > not "witches" of any sort. We are heathen, we are polytheistic, and
> > some of our number do study magic and/or divination, but magical
> > practice is not the basis of our religion.
>
> Have these efforts produced anything interesting, by any chance?
Not to my knowledge, but it's not something I get into.
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White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that
we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
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