Na'vi 'kin (I'm right again!)
Remember when I said that I was starting the countdown until people started claiming to be Na'vi otherkin? (the race from the James Cameron movie Avatar) Well, I win!
There are now whole discussion groups devoted to the belief that they are either Na'vi reincarnated, or their souls are Na'vi, or they're just Na'vi on a totally different plane of existence.
People! The movie is about a month old! What is your damage? I mean... Ok... I get that I'm supposed to be Mr. Voice of Reason because I have a podcast and blog and I should watch my words so as not to offend absolutely everyone, but I'm saying it. Right here. Right now.
I can sort of get Otherkin. I can. Do I buy into it wholeheartedly. Honestly, no. Sorry Otherkin fans, but until I sit down and have a few in-depth, intellectual conversations with an Otherkin... Well, there's just too many scenarios in which it's all just crap. However, I can get it on an intellectual level. I believe in reincarnation. If you attach a hierarchical scale onto the idea of reincarnation - like, if you were a really, really good snail, maybe you get to be a lap dog in your next life - then I can see how Otherkin exist. You might have been a wolf in a past life, and part of you still wants to run with the pack...or...something.
But to outright claim to be something that hundreds of millions of people know for a FACT is a totally fictional creation from the mind of James Cameron is so beyond laughable as to be sad. I feel pity for people that need attention - or whatever psychological need they're trying to fill - so badly that they're attempting to glob on to the media frenzy surrounding the top-grossing movie of all time in such a way.
OMG! In going through the various Na'vi sites, I found this gem. Apparently, I was also right about people practicing the Na'vi 'religion.' VOMIT! Now, you can't really Google Na'vi religion and come up with a website yet, but given the speed with which people have already changed their entire spiritual, psychological, and sociological makeup, I give it about another week.
Ok... Ok... Off my soapbox now and off to bed. My Imbolc ritual was simple, but I felt it was rather beautiful.
How was yours? Email: IncitingARiotPodcast@gmail.com
Love and Lyte,
Fire Lyte
There are now whole discussion groups devoted to the belief that they are either Na'vi reincarnated, or their souls are Na'vi, or they're just Na'vi on a totally different plane of existence.
People! The movie is about a month old! What is your damage? I mean... Ok... I get that I'm supposed to be Mr. Voice of Reason because I have a podcast and blog and I should watch my words so as not to offend absolutely everyone, but I'm saying it. Right here. Right now.
BULLSHIT!
I can sort of get Otherkin. I can. Do I buy into it wholeheartedly. Honestly, no. Sorry Otherkin fans, but until I sit down and have a few in-depth, intellectual conversations with an Otherkin... Well, there's just too many scenarios in which it's all just crap. However, I can get it on an intellectual level. I believe in reincarnation. If you attach a hierarchical scale onto the idea of reincarnation - like, if you were a really, really good snail, maybe you get to be a lap dog in your next life - then I can see how Otherkin exist. You might have been a wolf in a past life, and part of you still wants to run with the pack...or...something.
But to outright claim to be something that hundreds of millions of people know for a FACT is a totally fictional creation from the mind of James Cameron is so beyond laughable as to be sad. I feel pity for people that need attention - or whatever psychological need they're trying to fill - so badly that they're attempting to glob on to the media frenzy surrounding the top-grossing movie of all time in such a way.
OMG! In going through the various Na'vi sites, I found this gem. Apparently, I was also right about people practicing the Na'vi 'religion.' VOMIT! Now, you can't really Google Na'vi religion and come up with a website yet, but given the speed with which people have already changed their entire spiritual, psychological, and sociological makeup, I give it about another week.
Ok... Ok... Off my soapbox now and off to bed. My Imbolc ritual was simple, but I felt it was rather beautiful.
How was yours? Email: IncitingARiotPodcast@gmail.com
Love and Lyte,
Fire Lyte
head, desk, repeat. That is the only response I can come up with.
ReplyDeleteHey Fire Lyte,
ReplyDeleteToo funny-I love when you call bullshit! I appreciate your honest approach as always! I hope you are doing good! Glad to hear your Imbolc ritual was beautiful! Mine was really nice. I met with a new coven and we had a nice ritual in the park-it was pretty gorgeous if I do say so myself.
I hope you have a wonderful rest of the week Fire Lyte!
Love,
Bex
Okay, I like this blog, as a nature loving Right-wing Heterosexual God-worshiping < would like to write good poetry, Gnostic, I find the podcasts and articles very interesting and if I do not agree, they always provoke thought, but this, this,
ReplyDeletethis ..i am speechless, I yeah what elfwench said.
Good on you for calling BS
sorry for parroting your tag line, I wanted people to know that this blog is read and recommended by people that they might not think do so
ReplyDeleteThe parrot is fine MasonPiper. Can I join the *headdesk* movement? I just CANNOT fathom how this is even defensible.
ReplyDeleteReally... If anybody out there is claiming they're a Na'vi Otherkin, PLEASE get in touch with me. I'd simply be overjoyed to interview you!
FL
Greetings,
ReplyDeleteI am Tirea Na'vi, the first Na'vi Otherkin. I am posting here in response to your request of getting in touch with you - what would this interview entail? I am happy to be interviewed. You may contact me at tireanavi@googlemail.com
Regards,
Shey'bu.