Pagan Centered Podcast™

Listener Commentary:

Have you guys seen the some of the effects the movie Avatar is making? Some people are becoming suicidal and depressed after watching it and wanting really bad to be Na’Vi. Do you think this is just stemmed from the dire reality of our world or will then fall into some sort of Otherkin once they do some deep soul-searching? Like those who feel Elfish or feel they are from some other world – could they link themselves to this eventually? Have you heard of people feeling kinship or identity in the otherkin forums?

News article:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

@Amber, I too hate the human species in general. I was like this since I was in kindergarten. What a weird child I was. Now, I’m a strange adult.

excuse me, I'm going to stay in denile for a while.

I was never in denial. Of course I didn't know how strange I was until one of co worker's kids called me "Strange Lady." She had a nickname for everyone in the store and that happened to be mine.

Anyone "deeply moved" by Avatar's frankly pedestrian story was looking for something to be moved by. Crazy people are crazy all by themselves before they find their focus. If Helter Skelter were never sung, Jeffrey Dahmer would have still found a reason to kill people.

Anyone "deeply moved" by Avatar's frankly pedestrian story was looking for something to be moved by. Crazy people are crazy all by themselves before they find their focus. If Helter Skelter were never sung, Jeffrey Dahmer would have still found a reason to kill people.

As i said, I am trying to stay in denile

I'm not.... Gameshark up the ass!

*GAH walls of denile breaking down*
its ether denile or ranting lol...but seriously I am trying to think of this as just a few of the lowest on the food chain who are...well see blackhearts descriptive (and poetically accurate comment).

IF this offends your sense of reality then please tell me so i don't feel so alone in this. I read this and it makes me wanna cry.

I am not saying avatar wasn't a good movie. It was an amazing cinematic experience, a near perfect blend of live-action and CGI, a near flawless storyline with well thought out characters and plot development.
I am, however, saying that this whole "let's worship the next new thing" blowing a concept waaaaaaaay out of proportion, yadda yadda yadda, is a perfect example of why if Darwin himself walked this earth today, He'd break out a .40 cal and start decimating everyone he saw.
for crying out loud, nearly 200,000 people died this past week, and people are trying to figure out how Avatar they can make themselves without looking or sounding like a complete fucktard?
I got a great Idea. let's get a large warehouse. throw pat robertson, Glenn Beck, the avatar people, the twihards, and, a Large Hungry Lion(cause all the velociraptors would just point and laugh) in that mother, and seal the warehouse shut. with extra strength ducttape. and speaking of ducttape, everyone in the warehouse, cept the lion, shall be wearing Blackheart's patented Duct tape ball gag. so no one hears them scream.

Scary part is, is the people who i know who play DnD also laugh at these fucktards.....just saying for perspective.

Hey now. I still play D&D to this day. :P Though I find it more of an exercise in strategy and optimization than actual being-part-of-a-fantasy-world.

However, I think those that link so strongly with unreal events and personalities are seeking for a link with something superhuman, something that is unique and powerful. Something that they don't currently experience and can't find anywhere else. Once they find it, they can't let go because it has added color and depth to their world; without it, the world fades to black and white because they've lost their connection to something that brings them out of the humdrum of -this- world.

I have to say, while I have many issues with DND, if you're doing it to exercise your strategy skills - I have no issue with that.

Then again, I just discovered the amazingness that is paintball and believe that's a much better and immersive experience to test such skills.

Hi guys and gals..another great discussion. Quick question…I didn’t catch which speaker it was , but one of the guys was telling a story about comparing his Greek text to a friends bible. I am also very drawn to the Greek deities Sun and Moon deities for example), but seem to find some limited information, besides the myths here and there.
What was the text he mentioned that he was usuing while doing the compare? It sounds like a great text to track down that would be much help to me for some clarity.
Appreciate any info…
Peace and Cheers!

Hi guys and gals..another great discussion. Quick question…I didn’t catch which speaker it was , but one of the guys was telling a story about comparing his Greek text to a friends bible. I am also very drawn to the Greek deities Sun and Moon deities for example), but seem to find some limited information, besides the myths here and there.
What was the text he mentioned that he was usuing while doing the compare? It sounds like a great text to track down that would be much help to me for some clarity.
Appreciate any info…
Peace and Cheers!

That was probably Dylan...I'll see if I can harass him and get him to give me that info for ya!

I got a great Idea. let's get a large warehouse. throw pat robertson, Glenn Beck, the avatar people, the twihards, and, a Large Hungry Lion(cause all the velociraptors would just point and laugh) in that mother, and seal the warehouse shut. with extra strength ducttape. and speaking of ducttape, everyone in the warehouse, cept the lion, shall be wearing Blackheart's patented Duct tape ball gag. so no one hears them scream.

And this Gary, is one of the few reasons that we love having you around! You do have a point, both about the reaction (or lack there of) to the mass death, and also about the raptors pointing and laughing. But really...we have our good seeds out there, but humanity as a whole is going down the tubes IMHO.

@Magda...yeah...been hating the human race since before kindergarten. Been a weird kid all my childhood...and an even stranger adult...I just tend to mask it quite nicely. LoL

@ShadowWalker...sometimes I think this is also the case with religious zealots. They can feel alive in tales of superhuman experience full of mysticism and magic that without those deity, or that zombie jew of a poor man's god...and they can throw all their focus into those tales rather than seeing what is right in front of them. Not saying religion is bad...just going to fundiville

@Amber...My old neighbor once told Mike about how I was when I was younger. Then she asked if I had changed or even mentioned that I have seemed to change. Mike said no, I'm still the same Magda I've always been.

fundivill otherkinnies........

I don't even need to read the article to figure out why these primitive screwheads are all weepy over Avatar. People, no matter how much they want to deny it, want that special connection to the Divine. Humanity as a whole has become so separated from the Earth and her energies over the passing centuries we have become a very hollow and unbalanced species. All day we consume, consume, consume, desperately trying to find that material object that fills that lonely need for a connection to something greater. As much as they deny it, people want magic to be real, people want there to be more to the world than what we feel with our five senses. People have forgotton about spirit and now are trying to find it again. Movies like Avatar remind us of that hollowness and we try to reach out, thinking that there is nothing there because that is what society has told us for all these years. Society told us that magic is just illusion and delusion, society told us that the myths and legends of the past are just the pipe dreams of our primitive forbears that didn't have the mental capacity to understand the world around them.

When this realization is brought to the front, naked and unrelenting, most people can't handle that. We are taught to hide from confrontation, to avoid it, but when the confrontation is inside of you - there is no where to run, and that is where the mind starts to unravel.

I pity the creatures we have become, so lonely and confused yet so self righteous and sure about the world - completely deluded with the notion that we have everything under control.

/end babbling rant

Ashlee .....

can you write that again as poetry?

I think this and other movies, make some aware that we DO not have control. And that is where we get scared and suicidal.
For me.. Avatar had much more beauty than anything else in it. Maybe that is because I am desensitized to all the greed that comes with being human. Remember.. they were still alive in the end,their species did survive. And they had Pony Tail Sex
http://tinyurl.com/yf8dbew

@Dave: I would happily play paintball if I didn't have to worry about my second career as a musician. :P I've seen the bruises people get, and frankly, I don't want bruised hands or chest when I'm performing and having to hold an instrument there.

@Amber: I agree with you as far as religious zealots goes. Unfortunately, there are far too many of those in Dallas.

@Scurvy: Ashlee should write it as haiku. :P

@Ashlee: That is what we are all seeking, I think, to some extent over our lives: control. Control and understanding, and to do that, we need both organization and lack thereof. But because it's so demanding on our mental faculties--there is so much knowledge in the world that I think a single human mind can't hold it all--and so we need an escape, a place to rest the mind. To self-indulge, as it were.

@Ashlee – well spoken, I felt the same way when I saw the movie. I left with a connection of hoping we could do the same, as I walked out of the theater in this large shopping center with nice paved streets. In Hellboy 2 (Keeping on the movie themes) they mention that humans were born with a hole in them, that they constantly seek to fill, but never would. Materialism gives the illusion of doing so.

Also, I thought of you when I saw this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR5ieP9cVgM
Cthulhu vs Christianity

@blackbirds: Thank you :D I was actually thinking of Hellboy 2 when I wrote that, phenomenal movie, I absolutely ADORE Guillermo del Toro's work. I absolutely melt when I hear that man say "color pallet" lol

And that vid was AWESOME! The original piece of crap song would be vastly improved if those were the actual lyrics :) But then again, I'm a bit biased in that regard XD

Ferngully in Space.

aka

Dances with Smurfs.

I really really really enjoyed it, but the story isn’t groundbreaking

Hey.. I’m on this one! I didn’t know I was in this episode! :p

i am not unregistered! weird-ass form.