Comments for Romantic Antihero™ http://romanticantihero.com Budo, the Heathen Gods and Right Living™ Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:44:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Emotion versus Intellect by Dietrich http://romanticantihero.com/2011/11/15/emotion-versus-intellect/#comment-913 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:44:27 +0000 http://romanticantihero.com/?p=2425#comment-913 Never been to any of the JBK’s open events yet, though I plan on doing so. I literally discovered their site (and yours) last weekend. They seem like a good group of folk and have their shit together. Unfortunately that isn’t the case with other pagan groups I’ve encountered.

I think the next event falls on Ostara (?).

]]> Comment on Emotion versus Intellect by Monty Maxwell http://romanticantihero.com/2011/11/15/emotion-versus-intellect/#comment-912 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:19:17 +0000 http://romanticantihero.com/?p=2425#comment-912 Maybe we could meet at the next Kansas City pubmoot? Do you ever get out to those?

]]> Comment on A Logical Starting Point by Dietrich http://romanticantihero.com/2011/04/27/a-logical-starting-point/#comment-911 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:10:16 +0000 http://romanticantihero.com/?p=1778#comment-911 ~~”Do I have anything against mystics and academics? That depends entirely on the mystic or the academic. I have friends from both camps and I see value in both viewpoints (when mediated by my “third position”).”

Your ‘third position’ (‘middle way’?) seems to be similar to the quaint expression found within Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies: “both / and” instead of “either / or”.

Some sectarians would scoff at this as a lack of certainty. Personally, I find it thinking in terms of shades of gray empowering, as opposed to a monochromial spiritual perspective that simplifies a complex world into (subjectively) convenient categories.

Dietrich

]]> Comment on Emotion versus Intellect by Dietrich http://romanticantihero.com/2011/11/15/emotion-versus-intellect/#comment-910 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:33:21 +0000 http://romanticantihero.com/?p=2425#comment-910 Woops, replied to the wrong post.

I graduated from Lansing, c/o 1992. I’m sure there are a few people we know in common. I know that area like the back of my hand.

I currently live in south JoCo, but up in LV on a weekly basis (family lives there). Perhaps we could hang out sometime and chat. You seem to know your shit.

Dietrich

]]> Comment on Emotion versus Intellect by Dietrich http://romanticantihero.com/2011/11/15/emotion-versus-intellect/#comment-909 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:25:13 +0000 http://romanticantihero.com/?p=2425#comment-909 Well, you definitely reflect my thoughts and feelings on the subject (the importance and practicality of ethics vs mystical abstractions).

Most people I have met in the online Heathen community comes across as a ‘Believer’…often they seem to mimic Christians and others in their zeal and defensiveness. Clinging to literal interpretations of anything tends bother me. Unless it’s math.

I think Heathenry has evolved into something modern, and continues to do so, with varying interpretations (as with all religions).

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