Recent content by JStrat

Plenty. The occult is simply a term used to describe hidden knowledge. It's where the term "occulted" comes from. As in, "the occulted star", or the star hidden from view. The connotation for the term now implies a knowledge of the supernatural and the means of attaining supernatural power...

They make more money, get more perqs, etc. Sure. As a society, we reward beauty and equate it with goodness, though clearly that is often not the case.

That would be frowned on for anyone! That's some sick shyte. If you don't live under a bridge, talk to her, or see if you can get a group of people together for a reality intervention.

"with this established" Nothing was established. You also have no idea how to use quotation marks. Reality exists. Deal.

Actual fundamentalists set the bar so low that it's hard to say.

That's pretty sick. No.

Why is that directed at Christians? Those aren't Christian songs. They are sort of creepy, though, especially as a group. Yeah. I'm voting for creepy instead of magical.

Send the flowers anyway. If there's going to be a continuing schism, you'll sleep better knowing you are not part of the problem. And maybe she'll eventually realize that her misplaced anger is not worth losing her child over.

That's only "clear" if you believe the text you are quoting from, which would also mean believing in talking snakes and donkeys, every animal in the world on a boat during a flood that covered the entire Earth, murderous flying angel people, a person being turned into salt in an instant, magic...

As long as irrational faiths control governments and power structures and affect the real lives of real people... and often mean the end of those lives... that kind of thought must be argued against. True, much of it is not useful on this particular forum... except perhaps as a whetstone.

An enemy of Asgard, which would imply one of the Vanir, as most Asgardians were Aesir other than Frey/Freya/Njord. (And the few Vanir mentioned above were immigrant Asgardians anyway, so they are not also enemies of Asgard.)