Pagan Centered Podcast™

This story isn’t podcast-worthy since it likely wont spark a discussion, but I felt the need to mention anyway. The Wild Hunt Blog has a great article about a Pagan woman who was once a Superdelegate and her views on Pagans in politics. Check it out at:

http://www.wildhunt.org/2008/04/interview-with-rita-moran.html

Seriously, that’s the title of the news article: Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico.

From the Nick that was going to be on Episode 61 is a transcribed speech that gives the history and background of Wicca.

http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/historywicca.htm.

Memorable quotes include:

They were all to perform a ritual together, supposedly to contact an extra-terrestrial being.

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Kenneth Grant claims that as a result of disturbing their working, Houghton’s marriage broke up, and that Houghton died

… the story goes that Madeline agreed to participate in a rite with Gerald, which turned out to involve Madeline being tied up and tickled with a feather duster! The great lady was not amused.

the main differences between the Alexandrian and Gardnerian Books of Shadows occur where Alex mis-heard, or mis-copied something!

Of course we can never really know the truth about the origins of the Wicca. Gardner may have been an utter fraud; he may have actually received a “Traditional” initiation; or, as a number of people have suggested, he may have created the Wicca as a result of a genuine religious experience, drawing upon his extensive literary and magical knowledge to create, or help create, the rites and philosophy.

There’s an interesting article on GetReligion.org (an interfaith blog) about Barack Obama’s speech on Race and Religion. Links to the video and transcript are also available at: http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3295. The article and discussion are (as of right now) entirely from a Christian perspective but makes for interesting reading nonetheless.

Jason showed me this video a couple of months ago. I love Rammstein. I suppose this is supposed to start discussion about cultural imperialism.

The essential guide to anyone who is new to posting to forums:

Posting And You…

If you watch this, you’re good to go for posting to internet forums and not sounding like an idiot .

This is an interesting blog from Hellenismos.us: I Believe I Ordered A Coke.

Imagine if you would that, you are at a restaurant and order a Coca-Cola. After a few moments, the server returns bringing you a root beer. You explain to her the mistake, you ordered a Coke. Instead of the person giving you what you ordered, she then goes into a monologue regarding all the similarities between Coca-Cola and this root beer and, because of those similarities, you should be open-minded enough to accept what she brought you was, in fact, a Coke.

Make sense? No? Hold on, we will keep going.

From: http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1621 – Offended Muslim Syndrome.

“I have always been offended by rubber ducks,” says Mahmud Said of Portland, Oregon. “For a long time I felt stigmatized and inadequate, until one day I decided to write about it on an Internet forum. I received hundreds of heart-felt emails – from Morocco to Indonesia. It turns out that thousands of Muslim men between the ages of 18 and 35 have had traumatic experiences with rubber ducks.

Yes, this is satire, click the link to read this lengthy article.

So, someone decided to analyze Sylvia Browne’s 2007 predictions for accuracy. Read here.

On the bright side of things, 2008 will be her farewell tour. Yet another thing that we can inaccurately claim to have caused – yay the power of PCP (the podcast)!