When ever someone tells me Jesus is coming, I always think "So is Ragnarok and it's way scarier" and laugh to myself. I know a lot of paths have "something" that is coming. Two part question. Am I the only one who does this (I say it a lot too hehe) and what is your paths "second coming" if you have one?
2007-12-08 01:07:36 · 24 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well yeah Boar but that's not as funny :P
2007-12-08 06:52:18 · update #1
That and lets face it Revelations wasn't meant to be taken literally either, but don't try to tell them that.
2007-12-08 06:53:11 · update #2
LOL!!! I have no "second coming". But reading everyone else's is kinda interesting.
2007-12-08 05:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by Zombie Princess, (2012) 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ROTFLMAO!!
Qt:"When ever someone tells me Jesus is coming, I always think "So is Ragnarok and it's way scarier"
-- this is just priceless! Permission to use this phrase sometime?!
Well, on the subject of Ragnarok - if you think of it as a metaphor or not, but I can forsee a VERY similar scenario in a depressingly close future - a global war, we blow up a country or two too many, the global leaders destroy one another with bombs, the global warming floods half of the world, all those fires darken the sky and cause a huge long winter... Read the text again and keep in mind a modern scenario. It it frighteningly similar...
2007-12-08 10:54:04 · answer #2 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree with you and have a tendency, when the subject comes up, to go on a rather lengthy and verbose dissertation of not only their version of the events, but that of several other cultures as well, including The norse (which is My path, as well as that of the Myan, throwing in Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce and a few other psychics, mystics and prophets alopng the way just to be...well...me.
The cycle of destruction adn rebirth is a common theme in MANY belief systems. What I find interesting about the subject is that so many of the events, while couched in mystic symbolism and linguistic differentiations, all seem to be describing the same events, simply in words appropriate to the language, time and place they are being described from. After all the Norse had no way of knowing what nuclear winter was, but the description of three seasons of winter with no summer between is a very able description. The Mayans described how many things of mans creation would trun against him and well...there is windows Vista...and the list goes on but you see my point.
The main reason that so many culutres have such prophecies is becasue they aer all describing the same events, just different aspects.
Just compare Stanza's 37 to 65 in the Voluspa from the Poetic Edda and compare them to events described in Mayan prophecies, Nostradomus predictions or the Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel and you will see what I mean.
2007-12-08 10:45:42 · answer #3 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Though I tend to take Ragnarok metaphorically... I have thought of this when I see all the end times questions. Especially when some Christians here start that "you better believe before it's too late". Just makes me want to say that they better start talking with Odin before Ragnarok comes. At least know of a good place to be when the wolves swallow up the sun and moon. They better have extra batteries for their flashlights. ;-)
2007-12-08 10:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by River 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My path does not have a "second coming". The Lord and Lady are not going to appear out of the heavens or the bowels of the earth and take the "good little pagans and withces" to Summerland.
They are not going to release on the earth the 4 horeseman, there will be no plauges, and no eternal damnation. Man, in his thirst for power is doing a good enough job of destroying things now.
I worry more about things that are happening now, than something written in a book. Everything we do today, affects the world tomorrow.
2007-12-08 01:15:29 · answer #5 · answered by elder_moon81 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋
I tend to think "Well, something horrible will certainly happen in the future. Why worry about it?" Maybe its Jesus. Maybe it's an asteroid. Maybe it's next week. Maybe it's in 10,000 years.
As a Wiccan I have no second coming-type scenario. As a scientific-minded person I know all things pass with time and that humanity's time is limited, so we should make the best of it.
2007-12-08 07:36:34 · answer #6 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There's a stylistic/linguistic shift in the last section of the "Voluspa" that has always bothered scholars, so even though I'm definitely heathen, I'm not exactly holding my breath waiting for "wolf age, axe age, then comes Fimbulwinter" . . . I tend to see this as:
1. An xian addition by monkish lore recorders
2. A late, syncretic medieval era addition
3. Metaphorical
Much like Valhalla. If you look to Sagaic accounts, for example (post-conversion records of earlier times though they are) you never come across mention of either. Wagner was big on both, but our ancestors . . . not so much.
2007-12-08 06:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My Path does not teach of a "second coming." I'm a Traditional Witch, and we believe that when you die, you go into the spirit world to await rebirth.
When somebody tells me that Jesus is coming, I usually don't say anything. But if they're pushy or preachy, I ask them for proof other than the Bible and stare at them until they become uncomfortable and leave.
2007-12-08 03:54:28 · answer #8 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Once a flustered Christian was questioning my husband about religion while my husband was cooking dinner.
He finally ask him, "What would you do if Jesus came back right now!?! What if he walked through that door?" *pointing*" Hubby said, "I'd make more chili".
Why get your panties in a bunch over a legend? Whatever will be, will be. And if Jesus or Odin walk in the door, (Or better and scarier, if they walk in together) just see if they want some chili.
2007-12-08 07:31:37 · answer #9 · answered by Glee 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the circumstances and the person I either roll my eyes or bite my tongue and try to look... bland. If I'm feeling irritable (or they're pushing), I usually say - didn't your Christ say that his followers would see him again in their lifetimes and that was 2,000 years ago?
As for me - Ragnarok with a rebirth of the earth and gods.
2007-12-08 02:32:25 · answer #10 · answered by Aravah 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
hmm Well its ragnarok for me too. Except that from my point of view the earth (midguard) will still be there afterwards, not the same way it was before, but it will survive. I see it as a cleansing in a pretty extreme form.
as for Jesus Coming well what i think of would most likely get this answer deleted...... :-P
2007-12-08 01:46:02 · answer #11 · answered by freyatru 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋