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One is so reluctant to express any degree of dislike for "This American Life," the popular public-radio storytelling program created by Ira Glass twelve years ago, and featuring such stars as David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, and John Hodgman, that one's inclination is to avoid the use of the first-person pronoun for as long as possible, in order not to be identified with any reservations concerning the show. One wants deniability; in fact, one wants to hide. One doesn't want to die at the hands of angry public-radio fans, who would not be deterred by one's cries of "Stop! I love public radio, too! Please! I'm one of you! I give them money!" One wants very much to like "This American Life"—to love it—because the people who make it are so obviously thoughtful, intelligent, and respectful of their subjects. Totally. Also, one is not proud of one's feelings, and one suspects that the gnawing stomach acid sometimes released when one listens to the show is composed partly of envy. One has, one must admit, often fantasized about having a radio program of one's own, though in truth it would be very different from "This American Life": it would be broadcast from one's home, possibly when one was in one's pajamas, possibly in bed, only when one was in the mood, and it would involve no actual work. (One must mention here that one has friends who have contributed to or are in some way associated with "This American Life.") In any event, "This American Life" has now come to Showtime as a weekly half-hour television series, and one has a job to do.
On the radio, despite all that is right with "This American Life"—and so much is—a certain amount of smugness comes through, though it is hard to locate precisely. Certainly, the stories are as well thought out and edited as anything you will ever hear on radio; the show is produced by WBEZ, in Chicago, and distributed by Public Radio International, but people think of it as a characteristic National Public Radio show—fair-minded, literate, and comfortable with kneading together the high and the low, Wittgenstein and Waffle House. Glass, who just turned forty-eight, got his start at NPR nearly thirty years ago, and has since become a kind of storytelling guru. In a manual that he and the cartoonist Jessica Abel put together in 1999, called "Radio: An Illustrated Guide," Glass describes how the show works. Here I found a clue to the source of my irritation with "This American Life." Glass begins each show with an introduction to the day's theme—which might be something like lost love, or what power and powerlessness do to people, or what it's like to be a teen-age girl—and then he returns to provide commentary between the show's segments, or "acts," as he calls them, and to close the show. (He also does segments himself.) He describes the show's structure this way: "There's an anecdote, that is, a sequence of actions where someone says 'this happened then this happened then this happened'—and then there's a moment of reflection about what that sequence means." He goes on, "It's the structure, essentially, of a sermon; you hear a little story from the Bible, then the clergyperson tells you what it means." Well, no wonder my head is exploding—meaning is being forced into it. When it comes to meaning, I prefer to grow my own. Sometimes, after reading certain magazines or watching certain TV shows, people speak of feeling as though they needed to take a shower; after listening to "This American Life," sometimes I feel I need to roll around in the dirt.
Glass's voice, literally and figuratively, is one of the least appealing on "This American Life"; he speaks in a rushing staccato mumble. In an instructional video he made for Current TV, he said that it's crucial for people who want to be any good on radio or TV to avoid the familiar orotundity that we all think of as the proper way to address an audience, and he plays an old tape of himself reporting a story in just such a voice. He's right: he sounds professional, and yet nothing he says sticks in your ear. But what he opted for instead was to make no effort to enunciate clearly, and isn't there something rude about that? Disregard for listeners' ears is also glaringly evident in several of the show's other contributors, who should just sit quietly in a room and write—they're good—and let someone else do the talking for them. This business of keepin' it real—it can be carried too far, and it can come across as arrogant. Real is earned: Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" sets up a fictional world that is so fully imagined that it seems as real as the one we actually inhabit—precisely because he's performing, and not just "being himself."
"This American Life" has such devoted fans that Glass must have been nervous about messing with the show by taking it to TV, though the move is one he's been considering for years. (Read online the six-thousand-word diary he wrote for Slate of an exploratory trip to Hollywood that he took in 1999.) Radio, as Glass himself has pointed out, is already a visual medium, so in a way the danger he faced was of translating the form to TV in a boring way—of simply replicating onscreen the pictures that develop in listeners' minds as they hear the stories. He knew that the TV show would have to work from a different model. Still, the result is very recognizably "This American Life" both in structure and in content. Glass has used the new medium as well as he can; the framing device actually works better on TV, and seems less condescending, because we've all become used to not giving TV our full attention and Glass's commentary helps us absorb the stories. (For some people, TV is now just the radio that's on in the background.) Glass hasn't done anything really new here—unless you count the gimmick of having him speak while sitting at a desk that's placed somewhere out of doors. The playful visuals don't add much to the stories; an animated segment by Chris Ware in the fourth episode is nice but really no different from the kind of shorts you can see on IFC or the Sundance Channel or even PBS.


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Anomalous Thracian: Constructing Living Tradition
A polytheanimist Thracian perspective on creating, rebuilding, and embodying ancestral religions as living traditions in the 21st century. Religion as life, life as spirit, spirit as being.
Gods of Consequence
Gods of Consequence
In the various debates that have been coming up of late, about the further differentiation of polytheism from other paganisms (especially humanist paganism, "self-centered" paganism, super-hero-worshiping-archetypalism, and so forth), I have noticed something. Obviously both sides of the various "lines" being "drawn" are having trouble coming together in agreement around a great many things, and both sides feel very misunderstood by the other. (That's what disagreement frequently leads to...) However, in all of my talks with polytheist colleagues, theologians, and co-religionists, none of "us" seem to be confused by *what* the archetypal-and-superhero-folks are saying about their beliefs or practices. We may be dumbstruck by some of their statements – generally when they are comparing their thought-forms to our gods in direct and offensive to us ways – but overall I don't sense a disconnect of understanding in that particular direction. (Agreement is another matter entirely...)
However, I have sensed a tremendous disconnect in understanding, and a great and wild mischaracterization, in the other direction. Polytheists are being called fundamentalists, are being called ontologically cowardly, are being called extreme to the point of instability, are being called delusional, and so on. All because we engage with our gods as beings great and powerful and worthy of holy veneration *outside of our own unconscious*; beings that are wholly and fully separate from us, who were no more born "inside" us (or "for" us) than that tree over there, or the air that I am breathing. They are not manufactured to suit our needs (like the apple-juice I am about to add whiskey to) nor are They engineered or tailored to "fit" us. There is no monism, and certainly no atheism, in polytheism.
The disconnect seems to be that the humanist side of the issue doesn't seem to realize the excessive "boxing" and "labeling" and ultimately conformist-based actions that it appears to be taking with regard to (or even against) some polytheist practices. That they are generally doing this with less openly aggressive (and occasionally blatantly passive aggressive) and far more gentle language does not change the fact that it is still being done. Whereas many polytheists, who are admittedly quite ready to be honest with their frustrations and emotions (read: more obviously aggressive in tone), are actually writing from a place that has no demand of conformity on humanists, because the polytheist paradigms ultimately have room for things like archetypes. It just also differentiates archetypes from actual gods. What I mean by this is that polytheist theology does not necessitate the exclusion of humanist or archetypal engagement, whereas humanist and archetypal engagement *do* exclude polytheistic process.
Example: If one airplane seats 100 humans and 50 tigers, and another airplane seats 100 humans and zero tigers but provides a tiger video accompaniment as a complimentary in-flight package, these airplanes are not the same. The first airplane ("Air Tiger") is inherently "more", in that it includes space for 50 tigers. 50 actual tigers. It may also include in-flight video accompaniments; nothing about the space for 50 tigers interferes with the ability to also have a video of tigers, or of giraffes, or of dirty NYC detectives, or of child models. The second airplane ("Air Human") is inherently "limiting" (not less, however, in terms of value), in that it by its own definitions and mechanical specifications does not include space for actual tigers. The presence of actual tigers would upset the seating arrangements of a full flight on "Air Human". The video of tigers does little to change this phenomena.
So the problem is that the executives of Air Human are saying "But we DO have tigers! We just installed all of these video displays! We have a THOUSAND CHANNELS of TIGERS! On Satellite! And and and! You can even buy TIGERBALM for your sore neck from your in-flight console! And TIGER BARS for your snacks! And our pillows are made of dead tiger kittens! Our blankets are Tiger Skin! We even hand out Tiger Kidneys! WE HAVE TIGERS! Rawr!"
Meanwhile the executives of Air Tiger are sort of sitting back and saying, "But, um… those aren't tigers. Those are images of tigers, moving pictures of tigers, products unrelated to tigers but named for them, and then also the desiccated remains of murdered tigers. That is not the same as tigers. That is actually quite the opposite. You are defining your airline by the absence of tigers and then compensating with simulation and bad marketing techniques to try and imply or suggest tigers. We actually just made room on the upper deck for.. tigers."
And then all of the tiger-enthusiast passengers trying to book flights are confused as the two companies go back and forth. However, one of those companies is sort of lying (sorry, guys) and limiting the accessibility of resources (tigers) to its passengers, while the other is being honest and totally not limiting anything, as it actually has space for tigers, and in addition can absolutely provide all of the other stuff too (with the exception of the inhumane murder products) for anyone who wants them.
In truth, the problem isn't so much that Air Human is trying to be dishonest to its market demographic, but rather it is more that they don't believe in real tigers, anymore. They think that they're already extinct. Or maybe they didn't really exist to begin with. (Just like jugglers. See below for the truth about jugglers.) Air Tiger, on the other hand, is trying to provide a presentation that by definition offers "more"; the plane is bigger to accommodate actual tigers, and the seating arrangements for humans doesn't run the risk of spacial overlap with giant four-legged feline apex predators, and the in-flight options can include all the tigers – or any other animal conceivable, including the honey badger! – and so forth. There is no requirement onboard Air Tiger that every passenger go up and hug a tiger, or ride a tiger, or feed a tiger, and in fact these are probably best left for those who know how to do these things. But all of them are invited to look up at the cabin ceiling above them, through the transparent viewing glass, and *see* the tigers above them. From awkward up-shot angles. (Unless the tigers are in a zero-gravity cabin, in which case, maybe they're floating upside down and the angle is less awkward.)
Ahem. And then this brings us back to the issue of "belief", and who has it, or who doesn't, or who needs it, or whose whole identity is shaped by it, or what the word even really means, and so forth.
Polytheists do not require "belief" (although for many of us it is there as a useful tool on the side) anymore than I need to "believe" in the presence of black bears in the California mountains when deciding where to store my food on a campsite. (That I *do* believe in bears is irrelevant to their belief of entitlement to my food; you don't need to believe in a bear to find yourself uncomfortably between it and a roast pork sandwich.)
And therein lies a major difference that I have seen: the self-described "self-centered" or humanist or archetypal pagans are engaging with powers and so forth which are by their own definitions of no greater consequence than their own (collective, at times) unconsciousness, and no matter how much you glorify and believe in the great and sacred power of internal cognition and transcendent psychology, these things are not going to maul you to death in the woods.
And the thing is? Our gods will.
Guns fire bullets that can kill, ripping through flesh and bone and sinew. Power-saws can slip from timber and take off a hand. Cars, airplanes, baseball bats, whiskey bottles, and juggler's flaming bowling pins; all of these things have tangible consequence when they are not approached with the proper respect. The respect that they are due. The respect that they demand, not based on some flimsy made-for-us fabricated belief system, but because steel, brass, iron, lead, glass, hickory, and fire are elements of consequence. And humans? They are soft, meaty, fragile creatures.
Gods are greater than guns, faster than cars, bigger than airplanes, wield more concussive leverage than a bat and hold far more spirit than a tempered glass whiskey bottle. Gods are the source of fire. And bowling pins. (And jugglers.) Approaching the deities with respect and deference is not a thing of belief, but a thing of necessity.
This is an intrinsic difference between polytheists and archetypal-or-humanist "self-centered" pagans, spiritual-seekers and so forth. Unless you view the gods as having the power to rip your arms off and beat you to death with them, or take the face of your lover while turning your skin inside out and dropping you in a pit of jello and alligators, we're not talking about the same thing.
I use the above imagery to communicate dramatic (perhaps over-dramatic) points, although none of it is exaggerated. (Except the bits about jugglers. We all know that they come from unholy powers, nothing sacred about it.) This is not at all the only expression of, or way of relating to, our gods. But it is there. Always. No hunter, butcher, lumberjack, soldier, archer, wood-chipper-landscaping-specialist or nuclear physicist would ever try to suggest that there was nothing viscerally dangerous or tremendously destructively powerful about the tools of their trade, and this is not different with religion. The "tools of my trade" are dangerous. They are great. They are powerful. And They are much beloved by me, and if I am reading the signs correctly, I am of Them as well. (They are also not tools; this is a metaphor, before I get misquoted as comparing my gods literally to woodchippers or rifles, and so forth. Critical thinking, people...)
My devotions are not about self-development. I do not rely on my gods to be a good person (I take responsibility for that myself) and I do not rely on my gods to be a good brother (I take responsibility for that myself) and I do not rely on my gods to be a good son (I've never been a very good son, truth be told), and I do not rely on my gods to be a good partner (mainly because I am single), and I do not rely on my gods to be a good father (as my raven will attest, I probably suck at this as well). I turn to my gods when I struggle, yes, but not so that They can "make it better" or "make it go away"; I turn to Them for support, not for co-dependence. I find comfort in the protection that They offer me – and I am very well protected, as any of my enemies could attest – and I find inspiration at Their touch, and I find myself elevated and lifted in Their presence, even (and especially) when I fall to my knees in reverent, deferent praise.
But They are not a self-help book, or an internal model for "how to not be a dick".
Philosophies of moral theory and ethics have informed much of my exploration of "how to not be a dick". Finding elders in my communities who are not dicks? That taught me how to not be a dick. Finding elders in my communities who *are* dicks? That taught me how to not be a dick. Being a dick? That also taught me how to not be a dick. I am not always not a dick. Sometimes I am a dick. Being a dick and being a bad person are different. Sometimes I find myself compelled to be a dick. But I am always a good dick. My gods have very little to do with whether or not I am being a dick. My religion does not exist to stop me from being a dick, or to inform me of how to be a good person; those are things that generally speaking are in my court to take responsibility for. (When I am a dick, I don't blame my gods for it. When I am a good person, I praise Them for giving me the space to find that within myself.)
They also don't care all that much, so long as I get the job done. The work that They have given me to do would be sort of impossible to do if I were a dick all the time. So I also have compassion. Not because They gave it to me, but because They demand that I do what I need to do to complete the tasks assigned. To do this, I must also have softness, tenderness, receptive qualities and embracing qualities and I have hope and I have visions of a better world. Those visions are not born of my mind, of my unconscious, of my intellectualism or blah blah blah. Those visions are the visions of my gods. Those visions are the blueprints of my job here in this world; the schematics that I am seeking to navigate.
Some people spend their lives and their religious engagements seeking the divine, seeking understanding, seeking meaning, seeking something outside (or inside) of themselves. I am not seeking those things. I already have Them. That does not mean that I have *everything*, however, for I still seek – daily – to learn the better place foot to earth with the right balance of righteousness and humility, to learn to better place bat to skull when the circumstances call for it, to learn to put the bat down when they don't. To learn to use my voice to bring not just change, but change that leads to realized vision, received from gods and blessed dead. I am seeking, always, to better calibrate my own human baggage, to embody it when needed or shift it aside when not, to better see the fulfillment of the will of my gods brought through into this world.
Because my gods have a plan. It is a good one. I've seen it. I am living inside of it.
But They can also rip my arms off and beat me to death with them, or fill me with the ability to do my work with no arms at all, across any distance, if only I have the strength to trust in Them that much more than I already do. And so I fall to my knees and I praise Them.
My religion is a religion of consequence. The day to day maintenance of human existence and so forth? That is on me. There are tools provided in the whole "polytheistic package" for assistance in those pursuits, such as divination, oracular work, healing, blessing and so forth, and my gods encourage the use of these as needed. But these are provided to compliment the human investment – the effort to be a good person, to practice and execute acts of good character inside and out, to engage with my world in a progressive and constructive and hopeful way, to encourage empowerment and compassion in those around me and lend what I have to the building (or rebuilding) of healthy and cohesive community – rather than to replace it. I am strictly forbidden from turning to my gods for aid if I have not first tried to resolve a thing myself, not because They won't help me, but because They've already given me many blessed tools. Thumbs, for example, and a brain capable of many great things, and a voice that can range in delivery between "don't you dare touch that child or I will kill you" intensity to "it is okay, dear, the scary man is gone" in gentleness.
My gods are gods of consequence, not abstractions torn from the back of my mind. Don't get me wrong. The unconscious is powerful, potent, and is the landscape of internal revelation. It provides the language through which outside influences can communicate meaningfully with us. The unconscious also provides the interface for us to communicate with ourselves, and "do our own work". But my gods do not dwell there, are not born there, and don't generally give a flying feck what color the wallpaper is inside. They're from outside of it all, outside of me, you, and everyone else: that is what makes Them gods. (And yes, They're inside of us, too. But They're not from *from* inside.)
My job is to do my work and to live in this world, embodied and realized as a human-formed being, and to know myself inside and out well enough that I can put myself to the side and as far out of the equation as possible when the situation calls for it. My religion is here to provide me the tools and structures not for developing myself, but for using myself to see Their will realized in this world. My religion provides me the rules of engagement, the process of negotiation and the technology to do it all safely, sanely, cleanly, and efficiently. Looking back at my career as a spirit-worker, as a priest, as a teacher? I have done a good job. I have done good in this world. There are people alive today because I was there, because I submitted to the will of my gods and saw that will enacted through me. There are people who could have done harm who were rendered unable, not at my intervention but at the intervention of my gods acting through me, because I knew enough to step aside and let Them speak, and act, and be.
One of the concerns that I hear from a lot of people who are not polytheists in this sense, is that this all sounds like a scary "cop-out" of personal responsibility. That it sounds like an "abrogation of personal accountability". To this I say, it could not be further from those things. To open myself up to the gods, those forces who I serve and praise outside of myself, who I adore with all of my being, is to likewise embrace a deeper accountability and sense of personal responsibility than I have witnessed in any other around me. We should be afraid of our gods, but we should not be afraid to lose ourselves to Them... for we are nothing without Them. My humanity exists as a tool for Them, as my religion exists as a tool to engage fruitfully with Them and see Their plans unfold through me in this world.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
I find the use of the term "self-centered" to be problematic, simply because people outside Jungian circles generally take it to mean something entirely different (and in a negative sense). "Self-centric" makes more sense to me, because it's not a term used differently in common discourse; it's more likely to simply be unfamiliar, so the listener is likely to ask, "What do you mean by that?"
Thanks for the explanation.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
This is very much where Jung and I part ways I suspect.
I do not think they are or can ever be reconcilable (though I very much appreciated your breakdown. i think it was apt). I think it would be a very sad day when any reconciliation of these povs occurred.
the last thing we need is devotional polytheists compromising both belief and praxis in order to reconcile with those we find flat out impious at worst and misguided at best. I"d rather see the whole restoration fail than reach such a compromise. Reconciliation in this case is just another word for de-sacralization.· Liza, Christine L Berger and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Why is anyone who does not believe in the Gods even getting their panties in a twist over being definitions of polytheism? It is just basic...look up the word. It implies a belief in many Gods. Therefore, f you do not believe that Gods exist, you are not a polytheist. This is just basic. If the term does not apply, feel free to find another term, just don't redefine the term to suit people to whom it does not apply. This has been your moment of logic.· Beth Lynch, Tess Dawson, Liza and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
But what does "a belief in many gods" mean? I recognize that most ancient pagans were "hard" polytheists, but there were Neoplatonists who saw the gods differently and probably others as well. I also know that Heathens, like Galina, have been defining polytheism in the radical or "hard" way for decades. However, (Neo-)Pagans have been defining it in archetypal or "soft" ways for just as long. See Adler's *Drawing Down the Moon*. My point is that neither group has the right to define the word to the exclusion of the other. You can say, "They're not polytheists in the way I am polytheistic." But, you don't own the word, and you can't prevent "soft" polytheists from using the term in their way, any more than Baptists have the right to define Mormons out of the term, "Christian".· Stifyn Emrys likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Nobody is claiming to own the word polytheism, they're claiming to know what the word means. There is a difference.
True it is probably inappropriate for a Baptist to tell the Mormons that they're not "Christian" (or whatever), but it is not inappropriate for a Baptist to point out what the definition of monotheism is.
If folks believe in "many expressions of one god", they're not polytheists. If folks believe in "many archetypes that are, for the sake of lazy inclusion, called archetypes", they're not polytheists. Both of those *are* something, and it may even have a catchy name, but it is not polytheism. Because words and things. They have meanings.· Matthew N. Hunt, Beth Lynch, Tess Dawson and Laura P likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Because words and things. They have meanings.
But don't you know, all points of view are equally valid and should be given equal weight, even on matters of simple fact, because your mileage may vary and we have to be inclusive of every opinion or belief or approach possible.... as long as it's not OUR beliefs and opinions and approaches, which are wrong and we are terrible for stating them.
There's really no use arguing logic with people who can't even adhere to their own standards.· Tess Dawson, Laura P and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Congratulations on winning, Dver!
And, yes, I think you've stated very accurately how almost all of us polytheists are feeling, at least on this blog and in some of our own, as far as we've been approached by others. Stifyn has done exactly what we've said they've done in their most recent post, about making us aware that there are other viewpoints--and, as I stated earlier, we are aware and we don't agree. Insisting we're not aware and drawing further attention to themselves by continuously arguing for the visibility of their viewpoints in our spaces and forums is very annoying, and often rude--and, as Galina and Anomalous Thracian have stated, not just to us but to our gods.· Tess Dawson, Laura P, Liza and 2 others likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Woo-hoo! I knew that being a snarky bitch would pay off eventually! And hey, I appreciate things that are biologically alive too. Or were once biologically alive.
A horrendously awesome amount of hard liquor seems like the perfect accompaniment to this mess.· Laura P and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Ding ding ding! You are lucky comment number 50! For this, Dver, you have won... SOMETHING... which.. I will.. uh.. find. In either my ritual supply closet or my Temple supply closet or arbitrarily on a shelf somewhere between these two places. For reals. (I promise it won't be alive. Biologically.)
I've been anxiously waiting Comment 50, while drinking a horrendously awesome amount of hard liquor.
I am immensely pleased to see the honor go to you. I'm completely serious on winning a prize with it, too.
I'll contact you off-list to sort the details· Christine L Berger and Selina Rifkin likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Now i have to assume you're just being provocative because "belief in many Gods' is really not that hard to comprehend. Polytheism is the belief in many Gods and until monism came along and corrupted the matter, it was the belief in many Gods as independent beings. There's a reason that I never have and never will refer to myself as a 'neo' pagan, and you've pretty much nailed it in your comment. I'm not 'neo' anything. I hold to polytheism the way my own polytheistic ancestors did. and no, i can't prevent a neo pagan from claiming to be polytheist, but i can and will call such a person out when they do. In fact, i'd say i have an obligation to my ancestors and Gods to do so in some cases. This may not stop them, but it does provide a counter voice for those coming into the communities and just learning how to honor the Gods.· Laura P and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
I wish I had written this post. Brilliant, AT.· Beth Lynch and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Anomalous, I wanted to comment on your most recent post, but alas the 'reply' function won't work for me either. Simply put, i want to say "yes. this." When your or I or any number of polytheists and /or spiritworkers talks about the Gods, *we are not speaking metaphorically*. That is what it comes down to. Our consensus reality is different. it's been colored and indisputably altered by our interactions with our Gods, ancestors, and spirits. These are not ideas. They're not archetypes. They're not manifestations of our psyches, or fiction or whatever else many of those involved in the other side of this debate seem to suppose. They are holy Beings Who have the capacity to act for us, with us, on us and our world and Who often do so in many different ways. They are not subject to our whims, our fancies, our comfort levels. I think you may be right: when we engage with non polytheists and non spirit workers in this debate, we're talking about very different things. (I know for myself, I get pretty damned tired of people assuming that I'm speaking metaphorically when I answer questions about my relationships and experiences with the Gods. I don't speak in metaphor).· Beth Lynch, Laura P, Liza and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Stifyn, again, i'm not able to respond to your comment above where you counsel "be true to yourself." So i'll post my comment here. That highlights exactly what i'm talking about. It's not about being true to myself; it's about being true to my Gods and ancestors. That right there is the divide we're dealing with.· Laura P, Liza and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
" So, yes, literally ripping arms off. Gods. Tangible consequences. Like bears in the woods. ... When I talk about my arm being eaten by a cow, I mean an actual physical middle-eastern cow who tried to eat my arm (it was awesome, but painful after the elbow or so) ..."
Ahhhhhhhh. Galina is right; I've completely misunderstood. I have no frame of reference from which to comment about such an experience. Nor do I wish to.
I hope your arm is feeling better.
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Saturday, 08 June 2013
You really are a patronizing fellow, aren't you? lol. Enjoy your sign-off, J.H.
For serious though, "we told you so". At least a few of us did, anyway. ENTIRELY different conversations. Glad you finally got with the program. Have fun misapplying Jung (about as competently as you've quoted or paraphrased me time again) in all of your pursuits.
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Stifyn: Regarding the *American Gods* book: I don't want to misquoted. I don't think the book gave rise to hard polytheism. For the sake of those who have not read my post, what I said was "I have a theory that Gaiman's book may have had a direct influence on the growth of hard polytheism in the Pagan community." As I understand it (and Galina can correct me here if I am wrong), Heathens have always been hard polytheists, and the Heathen revival in the US started coincidentally around the same time as the Neo-Pagan revival, in the late 1960s. But the two movements remained separate for decades. In the Neo-Pagan community, a "soft" polytheism seems to have been the norm until around the turn of the millennium. I recall reading that Diana Paxson (herself both a Heathen and Pagan) started reviving the practice of oracular seidr in the mid-90s. Around the same time, there also developed an interest in the Pagan community in the Vodun phenomenon of being "ridden" (possessed) by a lwa/orisha. These practices led to "harder" form of polytheism among Pagans, who felt that a reductive psychological account of the gods did not adequately explain their experiences. This all became more visible after 2000 and culminated in Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone's publication of *Progressive Witchcraft* in 2004. Janet and her late husband Stewart were formerly important proponents of archetypal polytheism (see their *The Witches' Bible*), but Janet's new book articulates the view of deities expressed on blogs like this one. *American Gods* was published in 2001. It's popularity among a certain demographic is hard to overstate. And I've noticed it being quoted frequently by polytheists, (especially the exchange between Wednesday and the Neo-Pagan girl in the book). So, while I don't think it gave rise to hard polytheism by any stretch of the imagination, I do think it encouraged its growth.· Peg and Stifyn Emrys likes this comment.
Sunday, 09 June 2013
@John Halstead: I agree with you about the influence of "American Gods" on contemporary polytheism. I see it referenced everywhere.
I have to admit, though, that I was thoroughly *bored* by the book. It was like slogging through mud. I gave up at the halfway point and never tried again. A pity, since I enjoy Gaiman's poetry so much ....
Sunday, 09 June 2013
Thanks for the insight, and my apologies for the sloppy paraphrasing. I should have done a better job of capturing what you said by quoting directly. I wonder if Gaiman is aware that he may have had some influence in this regard. I'm going to meet him later this month, and I may well ask him.
Sunday, 09 June 2013
Anomalous, thank you for this thorough and brilliant post. I became aware of being claimed by a God about a year ago. Life will never be the same, and with an intensity that sometimes is challenging. I read what you and Gallina and Sannion write because it helps me a great deal. Otherwise there are times that relying on the experience of have of the Gods that is central to my life gets to be a lonely place. I do not need to hear of your experience of the Universe as Deity centric for it to be true for me, but it is good to know I have company; other than maybe one or two people I know in my local environment.· Tess Dawson, Laura P, Liza and Anomalous Thracian likes this comment.
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Marqui D I saw the premade Nutrition shakes at walmart but opted for the powder. i kinda hate that decision now...i'm thinking about going back and getting some.
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Started by lilymurray , Jul 02 2010 11:41 AM
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Posted 02 July 2010 - 11:41 AM
Welcome to the 2-5 years Forum
Have you seen Essential Baby's Resources for Kids Activities? Here is a link to Essential Baby's Kids Activities Page:
The link includes:
Colouring pages
Craft Activities
Holiday Activities
Miniature Easter buckets
Tissue paper eggs
The link includes:
Themed colouring pages
Print off mazes and puzzles
Bingo games
Oragmi puzzles
Paper planes
Playdough recipe
Kitchen Science experiments
Educational craft ideas
There are also some great suggestions for Kids Books here:
There are also some fantastic ideas in the 12 - 24 months forum:
Below is a list of Toddler Activities compiled by our members.
1. COOKING CLASS ? Fill several small plastic bowls with small amounts of different cereals, dried fruit, chocolate chips, pretzel pieces, etc. and put them on the kitchen table. Then set out some plastic measuring cups, wooden spoons, big plastic mixing bowls, and measuring spoons and set them to work at the table.
2. BAKE MUFFINS ? Let them stir and add the ingredients
3. BATH TIME - An extra bath can keep them amused and fill in time.
4. PLAY DOUGH - usually on a plastic mat on the kitchen floor whilst I'm cooking
5. DRESS UPS ? fun for boys and girls
6. TEA PARTY - in an indoor tent or under a blanket propped up over some chairs.
7. MUSIC - I have a container just for musical instruments. I put on a cd and DD and I go for it.
8. CHALK - Chunky chalk and let them draw all over the cement on the back
patio or driveway. It hoses off really easily and actually hosing it off becomes
another game in itself
9. PAINTING - the outside house wall or cement with a paint brush and water
(you can also add food colouring)
10. FINGER PAINTING (mummy has to be in the mood lol)
11. CHORES - Making a game out of household chores. DS pushes the vacuum
cleaner and checking the mail has become a big event!
12. CHALK - Drawing on the chalk board easel
Decide what you are having for dinner and let them go shopping for the items in the pantry. Give them a small cloth shopping bag, they can then all of there shopping on the counter ready for cooking dinner.
14) MAGAZINES - Make collages with pictures from magazines. Mummy does the
cutting out, toddler does the sticking on.
15) CLOTHES SORT - when folding the washing ask them to sort the washing into
piles with you. Mummies, Daddies and theirs
You could also sort the different types of clothing eg underwear/pajamas/shorts/shirts or where the clothing belongs draws/hanging and help to put it away.
16) WATER THE GARDEN - give your child a plastic watering can and fill it up with
water and let them "water the plants" or whatever else their little heart
17) WATER PISTOL - A big water pistol and let them loose outside
18) PHOTO ALBUM - Make up a photo album of extra photos that your toddler
can look through - especially ones of family and friends.
19) KITCHEN - give them a couple of small bowls - one with water in. Let them
pour the water from one bowl to another.
21) SORTING - recycling into piles of similar things. (But make sure there aren't
any sharp things in there before you set your toddler to work).
22.) COLOR MATCHING GAMES - Find several small objects of different colors,
and show your toddler how to sort them by color.
23.) CLEANING - Put 'Em To Work! Give them a cloth and let them do the
cleaning. Wipe the fridge, the cupboard doors, the dishwasher etc.
26. DISHWASHER - Unstack the dishwasher. Obviously supervised
27) DOG - Feed the dog a treat
28) SWEEPING ? Give them a broom and let them sweep the patio or garage
29) SHAVING CREAM - Spread shaving cream on the table and let kids 'finger
paint' and make patterns..heaps of fun?food colouring
30)STRING PAINTING - (dip string in paint, drag over paper) - can also stick onto
paper when finished
31) 'NATURE HUNT' - collect bark, small twigs, seed pods etc ... make a collage out of the things you find.
32) TREASURE HUNT - in the back yard...hide items according to child?s
observational abilities.
34) WINDOW WATCHING - Watch out of the window and have a chat about what
you see.
35) WALK to the shops or a park. Toddler gets to look at birds, animals, plants,
houses, passing traffic. Mum gets exercise...
36) PAIRS - Play matching pairs with practically anything!
37) FRIENDS - Make friends with the neighbour's children
38) LIBRARY - Get 10 books. Get some board books and some paper books. Read
them throughout the week.
39) MAKEUP - Have an "empty set" of makeup etc. DS copies me putting
deodorant on, brushing my hair etc when I'm getting ready in the morning.
40) TRUCKS - Pile of toddler-hand-sized pebbles (e.g. the kind you get at a
garden store) + toy tip-truck = many minutes of fun filling truck with
pebbles, pulling it around, emptying out stones (good exercise in teaching
not to throw/eat stones & requires fairly close supervision)
41) BOX CUBBY HOUSE - House made out of large cardboard box (e.g. fridge/washing machine box) - make holes for door/windows, tape on some scrap fabric for curtains and make a couple of peepholes - great for playing peekaboo with mum/dad and for entertaining dolls & teddy bears. Toddler can also decorate outside of house with crayons/textas/paint.
42) KITCHEN CUPBOARD - The Plastic Cupboard in the kitchen - Lots of fun
taking everything out and (sometimes) putting everything back & playing mix
& match with plastic containers & lids.
43) WASH THE DOGS ? Great on a hot day and it is another job done.
44) INDOOR CUBBY HOUSE - with sheets & chairs then put a picnic rug & some
pillows in there. We sometimes even have lunch & a story in the cubby
house, and then have lots of fun jumping into the middle of the sheets to pull
it down.
45) JELL-O BRICKS ? Make jelly together
46) SCAVENGER HUNT I made a list (with pictures) of things we had to find on a
walk (e.g., a rock, a stick, a leaf) give them a little bag or basket to collect
47) FRIDGE MAGNETS Buy lots of different ones and/or the alphabet ones and
put them at toddler height. Great entertainment whilst you are cooking or washing up.
48) ROLL OF PAPER - Roll of cheap greaseproof paper is a good one. Buy a cheap roll and let them play by rolling it up and out.
49. STICKERS - those sheets of metallic stickers that you find along random supermarket aisles are good because they are easy to peel off things. Stick a couple on each
50. TEACH SONGS with hand movements like twinkle twinkle little star, itsy bitsy spider, and I'm a little teapot
51. PLAYING CARDS - Give them a deck of playing cards or old trading cards - they bend them up and make a mess but have fun playing and looking at the pictures.
54. SAUSAGE SIZZLE - We often take some snags and bread and sauce to the park. Nothing fancy - and most parks seem to have BBQ's.
55. FLASH CARDS - Make your own number flash cards or print some off the net and stick them onto cardboard after colouring them in. We play with them at the table after a meal and I deal them out and we play snap etc. Or I arrange them in order on the floor and they use them as stepping stones while we count out loud.
56. WASHING - Help with hanging out the washing ? They can pass and count the
pegs as you go.
57. DRAWING - Cheap butchers paper and let them draw away
58. PICNIC LUNCH - Just gather up food, drinks, kids and a quilt and head for the great outdoors (backyard is good or meeting daddy for lunch in the park in town is better) It's also a great opportunity to practice drinking with a real cup.
59. TRACING - Another good use for butchers paper is to trace around the child laying on the floor, then let them decorate/draw in eyes etc themselves!! You can use wool for hair, fabric for clothes, or just crayons or pencils...depending on time/mess factors
60) STORY TIME - Find out if your local library holds a "Story Time" for pre-schoolers (ages 0-4). The children's librarian reads the children a selection of books and this is followed by a craft activity. The best thing about story time at the Library is that it's FREE!
61) MAKE A CHALK BOARD from Ply wood, chalkboard paint, paint brush and some sticky numbers. Painted it with two coats and let it dry.
62) COLOURING - Crayons and a well defined colouring book
63) WINDOW PAINTING - Shaving cream paining on the windows, just hose off when done and no major mess! Just smelly kids!
64) PICK UP THE PEGS - When take off the washing drop the pegs on the floor and get child to pick them up and put them in a bucket.
65) COOKING - Sit them on the bench away from 'sharps' and let them see and smell what you're doing.
66) MUSIC - have a special cupboard and sometimes fill them up with rice, sand etc
67) BATH TIME - Sit in the bath with them, sing songs and play with the water. Easy hour filler and so relaxing!
68) SHAPES - Learn shapes with rubber bands, let them sort and explore
69) ART - Make faces and objects with paper plates, use crayons, cotton wool, anything around the house
70) PRETEND COOKING ? Give them a saucepan and a big spoon to make me a "ake"! Then thy can pretend to feed it to you.
71) PRETEND SHOPPING - at home with a little trolley and groceries
72) CREATE - Have a spare box in the kitchen to collect anything that could be used to build anything. Give child the box of goodies when sufficient and have glue and let them create.
74) FRIDGE PHONICS by leapfrog. Ask them to find something beginning with a certain letter. Start with the letters in their own name. A great distraction
75) FEELY BOX - where you can put favourite toys or whatever your imagination allows. Encourage your child to tell you what is in the box by feeling it. Demonstrate to them by using lots of describing words. Great one to build their vocabulary too, as well as heightening their other senses.
76) GUESS THE FOOD - Children close their eyes and put some food samples in their mouths. Can they guess what it is?
77) PHOTO?S - looking through photo albums with pictures of herself and other family members.
78) ROLLER PAINTING - Fill empty roll on deoderant bottles with paint and let them roll some pictures (I'm still saving up the bottles)
79. BEANBAGS - are really useful for lots of games - we throw them through or into a hula hoop and balance them on our feet and they also make good pillows for soft toys and dolls.
80) JIGSAW PUZZLES - they come in all different levels for all ages and can be bought second hand as well as new!
81) SHAPES - Cut a hole in the lid of an icecream container. Fill the container full of pegs or bits and pieces and watch them amuse themselves for ages..putting things in and out of it.
82) RICE?SAND PIT? - If you hate sand going everywhere, why not try rice. i buy massive bags of rice and put it in a 'shell'. The kids can still use all of the sand toys in the rice and you don't get sand through the house.
83) BALLOONS - Hang balloons from the clothes line. Make 'bats' out of a clothes wire hanger and a stocking. Stretch the hanger from the bottom to make a kind of diamond shape. Slip a stocking over the the bottom and fasten at the 'neck' of the hanger. The kiddies love this as they get to bash away at the balloons without them bursting.
85) WATER - anything with water in it.
86) CHRISTMAS CHAINS - Remember we use to do them in school. Cut out strips of paper and staple or tape them together to make a chain.
87) TRANSPORT - Go for a ride on a train, tram or bus
88) BAG POTATOES -a 2kg bag of baby new potatoes can entertain for days. Put them in (and out and in etc) muffin tins and roasting tins, flung them around the living room, "cooked" them, did the 'hot potato' etc.
89) "PLAYGROUND CRAWL" - look in the UBD or on your council's website for the local playgrounds and parks and "discover" them one by one.
90) VISIT THE ZOO - buy a zoo pass and go to Taronga Zoo to visit the animals - elephants one week, giraffes the next etc.
91) GARDENING - let your toddler help you replant or get rid of weeds, water the garden, etc.
92) AEROPLANES - cut out aeroplane shapes from cardboard and make an aeroplane mobile - invovles painting, glitter and fuzzy things to stick on. Dont forget to draw in the pilot.
93) MILESTONES - Check the "what to expect" for toddlers and find out what he should be able to do, but doesn?;t. Teach him how to do it, eg. jumping, walking on a beam, etc.
94) SIMON SAYS - practice turn taking with "Simon says"
95) CLAPPING GAMES play hand slapping games with songs (make them simple)
96) BOX PLAY- decorate a large cardboard box, lay down a blue towel for a river, then sit in the box on the river and play "row row row your boat". Dont forget to point out the Crocodiles and Platypuses.
97) STICKERS - sticker books are excellent fun - watch your toddler pull all the stickers out and decorate their own scrap book (or themselves)
98) TEMPORARY TATTOOS-. Decorate their arm with a Shrek tattoo - endless entertainment.
99) TRAMPOLINE - The whole family can have fun!
100) SOCCER - make objects into goals or set obstacle courses and kick the ball around.
101) FRISBIES - Need I say more.
102) OBSTACLE COURSES - you can set these up also without the soccerball. Something to jump over, crawl under, climb through etc. Outdoor furniture can be useful.
105) FINGER PAINTING - Jelly and instant pudding make great finger painting stuff! Doesn't matter if they eat it and it washes out
106) SPRAY PAINTING ? Use a white sheet for spray painting. Have spray packs with food colouring and water for the kids to spray the sheet. Ends up looking like tie dying - but washes out so you can use the sheet over and over again!
107) Drawing
108) Reading
109) Walking/Tricycle
110) Cooking
111) Play with Train Set
112) Cubby in the loungeroom
113) Dancing and singing
114) Help with chores
115) Pots and pans and a wooden spoon to bang them with
116) Collage - - using old junk materials, such as cereal boxes, etc. You can also get cheap materials to glue on from cheap shops, such as foam shapes, feathers, paddle pop sticks etc. We offer the kids, access to glue and sticky tape, their imaginations at this activity is just extraordinary. Nature collage- find things in your own backyard, environment to glue make things
117) Music games - they love musical statues, chairs.
118) Magic paintings - draw on white paper with a candle, then Paint over with water colours and see your picture emerge! Its like magic
119) Role play activities - dressing up, acting out fairy tales
120) Make fairy wings, different costumes, masks with art materials
121) Obstacle course using your furniture - arrange furniture in such a way that encourages physical development. eg. crawling under a table, climbing over chairs, stepping on cushions etc.
122) BALLOONS..... blowing them up, kicking them, batting them, painting faces on them.
123) Gluing
124) Planting a flower or herb or vege garden
125) Potato Stamping
126) Mini vege garden in pots
127) Seed growing etc on cottonwool/in jars
128) Our day carer has a white sheet that she uses for spray painting. She has spray packs with food colouring and water for the kids to spray the sheet. Ends up looking like tye dying - but washes out so you can use the sheet over and over again
129) Jelly and instant pudding make great finger painting stuff! Doesn't matter if they eat it and it washes out
130) Get an empty nappy box, cut a hole in the side of it, so its like a letterbox, and post anything and everything that will fit.
131) Buy some cheap brightly colored construction paper (not sure if you call it that in Oz, but it's just bright paper used for making all sorts of crafts). Take a small pile of the paper and cut out little squares, rectangles, circles, ovals, hearts, etc. Put all of the little shapes in a bowl with a lid. Let your toddler pick shapes from the bowl and then help him/her paste them onto another sheet of paper for an instant collage. Then let your toddler embellish the collage with crayon drawings -- instant masterpiece!
132) Feeding the native birds, I buy a weekly bag of seed for the native parrots, cockatoos, pigeons and my daughter puts out the seed and loves watching them feed, she also helps fill the bird bath.
Craft Box Ideas
Glue/glue sticks
paper plates
pipe cleaners
finger paints
icypole sticks
packs from craft places
googly eyes
Paper towel and dunny roll tubes
old mags
gold/silver paper
Sponges to sponge paint with
lace, material, foam, buttons
yogurt tubs
pom poms
sticky tape
icecream containers
squeezy containers that mayo comes in (good for paint)
orange/onion bags
bubble wrap
curling ribbon
gum nuts
cereal boxes
tissue paper
wrapping paper
felt pens
coloured pencils
puff paints
straw or raffia
alfoil, pie tins
bottle tops
milk tops
pasta, lentils, legumes
take away containers
jewelery from op shops
crepe paper
rubber stamps & stamp pad
cookie cutters (for play doh and for stencils)
chux wipes (for clean up and cut into pieces for collage)
cotton buds for painting with
cotton wool balls
permanent marker
stanley knife
masking tape
magnets (I just cut up the cheap advertising ones that you get and stick them on the back of things that you have made)
paper clips
split pins (then ones that you push through things and allows things to move)
rubber bands
colouring in books
chalk (you can wet it and draw on ordinary paper with it as well as use on a chalkboard)
foam shapes
egg cartons
Put faces and streamer hair on cardboard toilet rolls. Like little puppets
lacing cards - picture cards with holes for lacing wool through
Thanks to the member Tan for compiling this list.
If you have any additional craft ideas, please feel free to add your ideas to this thread
Posted 21 July 2010 - 10:42 AM
NJ is two years and four months and I am due with my second any day... Thank you for compiling this list!
Posted 02 August 2010 - 11:29 AM
Some really great idea's
Thanks for posting them. It has saved my sanity. Hahaha
Posted 11 October 2010 - 04:21 PM
Take a bus/train/tram to a different suburb and check out the park action there. Small one and I visited Vic Park in central Sydney a few times and loved it, as you can see below ...
Posted 10 November 2010 - 12:21 PM
Also, try heading out along the water!
This park can be reached by bike path or for those not two wheeled, road.
Posted 30 March 2012 - 08:23 PM
Many thanks for the list, just what I was looking for! x
Posted 05 April 2013 - 12:24 PM
You can also get free activity sheet from websites such as:
Letterland - www.letterland.com.au Activity sheets teaching basic letter and number recognition and tracing. They change activtity sheets every two weeks.
Easy Peasy Mandarin - www.easypeasymandarin.com.au They have free activities like join the dots, mazes, colouring etc. They also change their activity sheets every twoo weeks or so.
Posted 01 July 2013 - 05:28 PM
Hi guys! I'm new here as you all can see! I have 3 kids aged 4, 7 and 10 and they seem to love their Ipad! Actually it's my ipad lol, but I didnt have anything better to do with it so I downloaded a few educational games for them and now they're stuck to it! Sigh, so much for teaching them crafty stuff!
Posted 03 July 2013 - 04:08 PM
So I found another game for kids! It's called Animal Wiz (https://itunes.apple...d603843703?mt=8) and its quite educational I felt. Well you you, to teach kids all these different animal sounds and it was really quite shocking when my 4 year old daughter recognized the sound of an owl on her SECOND try!! Even I did not what an owl sounded like, tbh. Anyway, just wanted to tell you all that it's a great game Animal Wiz, and highly recommend it to all parents with kids in the kindergarten age
Posted 19 August 2013 - 07:45 PM
thanks a lot, i love crafts and doing them with my DD, i think i'll put some of my ideas too
Posted 11 November 2013 - 11:38 PM
found this great site for building lego with toddler, a lots of simple lego creation examples, easy to build:
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