Another One Bites the Dust

Another "chosen one" preaching his wicca like a monk from another planet. Claims to have studied under Raymond Buckland personally since 1964, although I doubt they would have taken anyone that young. Rather, I suspect it was his mother who attended, at least until 1973 when Buckland Left for New Hampshire. Then there was Buckland’s brief flirt with Seax-Wicca in San Diego that he also undoubtably missed. So, if all accounts are true, he actually started with an Alexandrian coven. Indeed much of what he says is its' classical take on the earth/underworld goddess connection. Frankly, I don’t have a problem with any of that, or what anyone chooses to make peace with their innermost fears. It’s when they start dropping names to preach about giving up one’s “differences” to serve the “common cause”, that’s when I get leery. Despite all good intentions such ideals tend to overlook certain facts, that make that critical difference between reality and delusions of grandeur. Especially the idea of collectively using “magic” to “heal the earth” tends to leave me cold. It strikes me as a cop out from any real efforts at conservation. It’s rather like those people who preach about saving the forests, but have never planted or cared for a tree in their entire lives, to think nothing of the paper they relentlessly wipe their butts with . I think the flaw in the whole concept here begins with the meaning of “crafting”, in other words the “kenning” of what it really is you’re dealing with.

Last night, one of our members was holding a wiccan yule ritual in the chatroom and of course this wise guy couldn't resist the urge to intervene. Naturally, failing to give the impression he had hoped for, he implied we were little better than an RPG site. Heh, that's what he would have liked to believe, especially trying to come onto us like we're a bunch of neophytes. A colleague told me she had this flash of seeing this jerk in a room full hoarded popular pagany books, presenting their contents, word for word as his own. Indeed, this wouldn't surprise me. Such wannabe gurus always need some kind of written gospel they can preach, after all, to them it's all about peer worship. We get the same crap from Asatruar that try to preach the Havamal. Aside from the fact of the obvious Christian pathos, it would never occur to such fools that some of us have our own indigenous cultures and can do well without these damned missionaries. Yep, it's the spanish inquisition all over again. Well, the good news is that the blighter's account's been closed and is no more.