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Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by krapp on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:26PM (#16242118)
>His sex magick informs a lot of the modern incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy. The result being that you have to abstain or otherwise be reduced to a plodding pile of unenlightened goo (to give the idea some imagery).

As someone who appreciates occult and pagan symbolism for the aesthetic and narrative value, can I just mention how annoying it is that extremists have ruined so much of it by adopting it for code and shibboleths? Especially Norse symbolism. I wanted to get a valknut tattoo when I was younger just because I thought it looked cool - now I'm glad I didn't because if I had, Nazis would think I was one of them.

To say nothing of the manji/swastika.

Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by andrepd on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:37PM (#16242201)
Tolkien agrees with you:

"No one ever calls on me to "broadcast" or do a postscript. Yet I suppose I know better than most what is the truth about this "Nordic" nonsense. Anyway, I have in this war a burning private grudge... against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler ... Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light. Nowhere, incidentally, was it nobler than in England, nor more early sanctified and Christianized."

Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by cmrdporcupine on Friday January 26, 2018 @02:43PM (#16242259)
Nice quote, but "nor more early sanctified and Christianized" is technically incorrect. The Goths and Franks and Lombards etc. were Christianized before Angles and Saxons.
Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by cat199 on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:48PM (#16242769)
this is open to debate..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_centers_of_Christianity#...

in my opinion, there were likely christians throughout the empire roughly simultaneously due to the strength of roman trade routes.. as to which places embraced the faith nationally, is a different story..

also: angles & saxons arrived to the british isles after the roman empire.. prior to this the local population was mainly celtic..

another interesting tidbit is that Emperor Constantine was crowned emperor in York before beginning his journey back to take the empire where he famously had a vision of the christian cross.. granted this is a few hundred years later, but still, very early, before the the british isles were settled by Anglo Saxons, and highlights how interconnected the british isles were with the rest of the empire in those days..

Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by IntronExon on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:16PM (#16242962)
Are you familiar with the Ruthwell cross?

http://historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-dr...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthwell_Cross

A professor had us all memorize a passage from that poem which I can still recite. It’s quite eerie, and a fascinating look at how cultures adapted to Christianity and adapted Christianity to their needs in turn.

Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by PaulWillis on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:43AM (#16258538)
Wasn't Tolkien a Christian? Close friend of C.S. Lewis.
Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by PhasmaFelis on Friday January 26, 2018 @07:14PM (#16243995)
> I wanted to get a valknut tattoo when I was younger just because I thought it looked cool - now I'm glad I didn't because if I had, Nazis would think I was one of them.

It's also a bad time to be a fan of the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by IntronExon on Friday January 26, 2018 @08:52PM (#16244373)
I feel badly for all of the people who named their kids Isis! Lots of people probsbly switched to “Izzy” or something. The really clever ones probably switched over to Inanna, Ashera, or Astarte.
Re:3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freel... by hutzlibu on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:21PM (#16243709)
That the swastika is basically banned in many countries, is in my understanding the same as we would ban the cross, because of Inquisition, etc.