out of my... former religion... thing. oh, just OUT!

[rivendellrose]

Some articles just leave you wondering why... why... well, I'm not even sure why what, exactly, just why. For instance: A bunch of people had a 'Fairy Congress' in Twisp, Washington on the summer solstice.

Now, I'm still pretty pantheist in my atheistic sort of way (...that make sense to me, though I suspect it may possibly be nonsense to the rest of the world - suffice to say that I never really thought of god as god when I believed in a god, so much as believing in the universe and the inherent holiness / awesomeness (in the oldest sense of the word) of life, so not calling it a deity any more doesn't do a lot to change the way I think about things) and I've always had a strong affection and affinity for the old stories of the Good Folk and so on. However.

After I got over giggling my head off about the mental image of a bunch of aging hippies dancing in fairy wings up in the mountains of my fair state, I suffered one of those moments that I've always felt marked out pagans who were in it for the cool 'magick' and gothy emo-ness of it all from the ones who, you know, had actually bothered to read a bit of mythology at some point.

'Good lord,' I thought - 'If those people really believed in fairies and knew what they were talking about in regards to fairy-lore... they would know that all of that was a fantastically bad idea.'

Since no one appears to have been transformed or stolen away, I think we, sadly, must mark this down as proof that the Good People either never existed, have left, or... never lived in Washington State to begin with? *Sigh*

Comments

[gaslightgallows]

I'm going to go with "Never lived in Washington State," that way I can leave all my childhood dreams of tall and vengeful fae intact.

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

You know, I haven't completely written out the existence of the supernatural, but... WUT?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

As Gene Wilder once said, for some moments in life there are no words.

[lorannah.livejournal.com]

I think we have similar religious outlooks - I personally don't follow any particular religion that I see problems and values inherent in all of them - but I don't think I'm particularly atheistic. I'm spiritual, I believe in something - I just can't explain what.

And finding a label to describe it, particularly one that other people would understand, is definitely a challenge

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

...Okay, I found some words. But mostly they're "I want to start attending these events for the sole purpose of getting quoted by the newspaper guys."
Because I can make shit up just as impressively as these folks, plus I have history/folklore to base things on, so I have the bonus of coherence.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

My ex-wife was (and possible still is) into the whole Faerie thing. In fact, she was in part of this whacked-out fringe movement called "Otherkin" whose members seemed to genuinely believe that they were faerie-folk, or had faerie blood or, um, something like that? Anyway. It was all about how they were Teh Speshul, and how we mere mortals were incapable of understanding or appreciating their Speshul-ness...

Yeah. I mentioned the ex was bugfuck crazy, right? That's kind of why she's the ex.

Anyway. That sort of thing sounds right up her alley. The aging hippies in the article were probably convinced they were Speshul, too, and that any fair folk they called up would recognize and reward their Speshul-ness with rainbows and glitter and unicorns and....

Right. I think I'm about to sparkle myself to death here. *g*

[kusanivy.livejournal.com]

There's definitely a Hellboy fic in there somewhere...