tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post8210898552830273985..comments2023-11-05T04:09:26.194-05:00Comments on e g r e g o r e s: "The simplest explanation is that the essential foundation already existed." (Suggested Reading on Pagan History)Apuleius Platonicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-991813986322406682013-01-27T21:07:34.565-05:002013-01-27T21:07:34.565-05:00Thanks Apuleius and Rhondda for your commentary! ...Thanks Apuleius and Rhondda for your commentary! I agree AP with your comments on Aloi. I don't know about Craig's review but a review of Trials by Ethan Doyle White at the Albion Calling website, (which I see you are familiar with, Apuleius :), is illuminating. Read carefully the second paragraph of Ethan's second response to Wade MacMorrighan. I found interesting his blatant admission that if he didn't go along with the Hutton glorification school of thought, he would not achieve his Masters/PhD degree.<br /><br />As someone who has attended university and now works as staff at a university, I can attest to how people can get messed over by honest criticism of an accepted theory. Nevertheless, you gotta have guts! And White didn't have to belittle Ben Whitmore so much in his review. Ben should be honoured for giving the pagan community a much needed, open-minded and damn it, well researched, work with an intriguing bibliography that it behooves us to research. I would recommend people not just download Trials of the Moon, but support Whitmore by buying the book. It is worth its weight in gold!Kay Broomenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-17083371857409615982011-03-05T20:18:54.270-05:002011-03-05T20:18:54.270-05:00Grimassi and Sorita d'este have been valuable ...Grimassi and Sorita d'este have been valuable resources for me. This is not about a logical argument, but a thread of consistency or if I dare say a spiritual journey. It consists of picking up threads and making the connections. It is also looking at language and how certain ideas are demonized or not and being brave enough to look at the demonized ones, not romantically, but very pragmatically. A lot of people just take witch to be a romantic idea. I don't, not in these days. There are repercussions and I sure as hell would not trust cross religion dialogue. I have witnessed how First Nations peoples have been betrayed by xians who pretend fellowship. The whole idea of pagan scholarship at universities is anathema to the mission of universities.(brainwashing) Some scholars with tenure may be able to write decent work, but really alot of it is coded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-43777609709608301052011-03-05T18:21:01.807-05:002011-03-05T18:21:01.807-05:00Well, you know alot of people seem to forget that ...Well, you know alot of people seem to forget that scholars live in an atmosphere of peer review which means that the prevailing notions of scholarship are really group think. In this day of post modernism, sucking up to that means a livelihood or not. It is very easy to justify. Those who defy that, I really admire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-48972213754059510712011-03-05T18:00:28.511-05:002011-03-05T18:00:28.511-05:00Just to give an idea of where my 'tude is comi...Just to give an idea of where my 'tude is coming from, Peg Aloi refers to Ben Whitmore as "self-serving" and "cluelessly narcissistic". So I take that as my cue that the gloves are off. (In the same post she criticizes Whitmore for his tone!) As far as Donald Michael Kraig (whom I've been a fan of for over a decade) goes, I was going to describe his "review" as just "chickenshit".Apuleius Platonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-62955214294644418692011-03-05T17:15:06.859-05:002011-03-05T17:15:06.859-05:00Trust me: I'm holding back, snarkwise.Trust me: I'm holding back, snarkwise.Apuleius Platonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-74626525114785313472011-03-05T17:01:58.792-05:002011-03-05T17:01:58.792-05:00Well, I do have to go through all this in more det...Well, I do have to go through all this in more detail, but love your snark. (need to check your references and see if I agree)<br />How the hell did you get so smart anyway? <br />Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com