seven interests

[terabient]

yeah, that bit about posting 'something substantial soon?' nooooooot happening...yet, at least.

instead, here's a meme:

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

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Part 2!

[theplaidsheep.livejournal.com]

5)Egyptology - I've always loved ancient cultures, there's just something alien yet familiar about them that just hits my kink-button. In the past human-kind has done some amazing things, and some quite horrifying. There beliefs and worldviews especially can be quite fascinating, and sometimes you are just left thinking: omg why?? I think ancient Egypt is one of the most unique cultures in the word, for their entire existence depended upon and developed around a single river and very little beyond that. It was their life and death, for without that river there would be no life. And they became from a nation of independent, almost disparate, entities into one of the most famous cultures in the world ever to exist. Who doesn't know about mummys? Or the great Pyramids of Giza? Or the strange animal headed gods which they worshiped? And the more you look into it the more human, yet strange it becomes, I love it!

6)Real Ales - ok, so I lifted this bit from wiki: Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in 1973 for a type of beer defined as "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide". What it means to me is beer and ale with body and flavour which can vary from brewery to brewery: it encompasses pale, porters, stouts, milds and bitters. It's just so much better - and often cheaper - than the mass produced crap that serve out of taps or bottles, give me draft any day!

7)Paganism - Ah, this is actually the difficult one. I can say with certainty that I am polytheist and this would qualify me along to be pagan according to the monotheistic religions in the world. What I believe though has changed and developed over the years through my many forays into ancient history and cultures (I have two degrees to show for it!). Like many pagans though, I started off in wicca as it was almost by default the only active pagan religion available to the public. I came to paganism like a good number of people desperately seeking something that resonated with the barely formed philosophies of my teen years - and that just clicked, and it was quite joyfully that I came across an active faith devoted to the feminine aspect of deity and I through myself in whole-heartedly. It took me many years to finally come to the conclusion however, that no matter how I tried I just couldn't make the robe fit. So, my philosophies are very pagan, I believe in many gods, I believe in the latent power of the world around us that has been variously described in physics as potential and kinetic energy, and quite wonderfully by the ancient Romans as Numen. I believe that some of us have the ability to manipulate this power. I believe we are all apart of the universe physically and spiritually, yet we are still individuals in our own right, reflections of the creation we live and the gods and spirits are equally apart of that. So I will continue searching until I finally the right robe to wear - or discover I shouldn't be wearing one at all!;)

Re: Part 2!

[lustychan.livejournal.com]

Your reply about Paganism was much more eloquent than mine! Kudos.