THE Holidays Thread pt 2 (merged)

by **bratticus** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 14:39:21

Charisma

by **bratticus** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 14:41:15

Better Together

by **bratticus** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 14:42:14

Guess where these were taken?

by **topcat** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 15:56:07

No guess about it!

DC

Otherwise known as the "District of Crime"

Punched that ticket in the mid 1990's

Best of luck to you there.

by **Byron100** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 16:41:51

I'm really surprised to see this happening in DuPont Circle of all places - hasn't the DC area weathered this new depression much better than other cities thus far?

I should take some photos of all the empty slots at my local shopping center - this is the sort of thing that creeps up on ya, and before you know it, it's like, "where have all the businesses gone?"

One big hope for my little corner of Atlanta metro, however - and that's a large Class "A" apartment complex that's scheduled to open next month immediately adjacent to this shopping area - you can bet the biz owners around here are biting their nails down to the quick for this place to be open and tenants moving in, for it can't come soon enough.

by **Snowrunner** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 17:00:11

Saw this yesterday:

The interesting thing here is that this is in a pretty brand new buliding (those who know Vancouver, it's on False Creek one of the new ones across from Granville Island).

I have heard some local grumblings about people to walk away but it's the first time I have seen one advertised.

This advertisement was posted in the "Denman Place Mall", which is essentially a small "strip mall" with a Supermarket (No Frills) and some smaller stores.

by **jdmartin** » Sat 10 Jan 2009, 20:01:30

Man, great pictures.

by **vision-master** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 10:16:19

Pagan Holiday $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;Ishtar" is pronounced "Easter." Her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg." She brought forth a son named Tammuz.

Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made. It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.

From the book: Astrotheology & Shamanism, pg 71--"...the egg is symbolized by the early stages of the mushroom's growth. Today, most no longer use these mushrooms in their ceremonies, but Christians still symbolize it with their ritual of sending children on an Easter egg hunt in the morning time, symbolic of the shaman's children gathering the colored mushrooms before the sun waxes hot. The spring feast and intoxicating celebration in the evening (symbolic of the shaman consuming the intoxicating mushroom) would complete their ritual, a ritual that remains exemplary to this very day."

Easter eggs....... :mrgreen:

by **Armageddon** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 11:04:35

Very Pagan and very un-Christian, just like Christmas. They stole Pagan traditions and put a Christian label on them. God dis-honoring events.

by **vision-master** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 11:06:01

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'V')ery Pagan and very un-Christian, just like Christmas. They stole Pagan traditions and put a Christian label on them. God dis-honoring events.

by **Armageddon** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 12:01:22

santa claus = satan claws ?

by **dunewalker** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 12:12:37

edited to appease visionmaster...

by **vision-master** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 12:17:57

That's fricken mean.

by **blukatzen** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 15:18:43

VM, where did you get that stuff, that's revisionist history! Ostara was a Saxon Heathen Goddess of Springtime, the rabbit was her symbol (of rebirth and the fertility of nature.)
The EGG was used by Slavic Heathens to symbolize "Icon of the Universe" and made pysanky with them. What pysanky *writing* is, is the symbols predate the conversion era, and come almost from the neolithic times. (per Marija Gimbutas, and Mary Kelly, an archeologist/anthropologist and a historian respectively.)
Some of the egg "runes" if you will, come all the way form Trypillian era.
http://www.trypillia.com/info/index.shtml

The "easter egg" that you represent is a mushroom, which was used for eating, but as well, used in shamanic work, but NOT by everyone. Only Volvhas or certain types of priest seers used these. (one must also realize that in the Pagan era, most "priests" were chieftains of their tribe-clan, and most "cunning folk" were the ones that did the work YOU speak of. There was a societal difference.

Even today, people "write" pysanky, mostly for cultural and familial use. My Polish-American mother had a good-sized selection of them, my favorite a Lithuanian goose egg. Each culture in that area, whether Baltic or Slavic, reveres the egg.

Germans also have "egg trees". In store front windows, they put either stands with eggs on them (used to simulate a "tree", or flowering branches, maybe forsythia or cherry, plum, etc. tied with pastel colorful ribbons to simulate "Spring"! (however, they do NOT do the "egg runes" of Pysanky, that is a Slavic thing.)

Stop with the revisionist history, that is where we Heathens and Pagans come off looking like goof balls always looking for the next "high". Nothing could be further from the truth..

I run several forums for the study of Heathen history, and they stem from both my heritage:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SlavicReconstructionist/ This list is particularly well known, and has several PhD's, authors and scholars on it.
Same here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hexenkunst/

That stuff you've written on, I know you mean well, VM, but that stuff is like C2CAM stuff, where *this* above IS history, documented by scholarly sources, taught in Universities.

Blu

by **blukatzen** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 15:23:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 's')anta claus = satan claws ?

by **vision-master** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 16:09:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('blukatzen', 'V')M, where did you get that stuff, that's revisionist history! Ostara was a Saxon Heathen Goddess of Springtime, the rabbit was her symbol (of rebirth and the fertility of nature.) --snip--
That stuff you've written on, I know you mean well, VM, but that stuff is like C2CAM stuff, where *this* above IS history, documented by scholarly sources, taught in Universities.

by **blukatzen** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 16:35:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'D')on't get mad'd....... :oops:

The Pharmacratic Inquisition :mrgreen:

by **vision-master** » Mon 13 Apr 2009, 23:43:51

Just some stuff I dug up in reponse to a Golem Anti-Pope thread over at 2012. :lol:

by **AlexdeLarge** » Wed 14 Oct 2009, 09:40:31

by **SeaGypsy** » Wed 14 Oct 2009, 09:45:34

You really are the funniest bastard on this site Alex.Thanks for the therapy; once again. Remeber to switch off the lights and music on your way out ok?