Scandinavian Greetings

[卍Joel卐]

Hi! happy to find my way here thanks to a tip from a person of whom I do not know the username, guess I'll run in to him here and find out.

I have done some reading, skimming the page in large and some in depth of the first few of the texts for us novises and am happy to find an amazing amount of explanations on thoughts that resonate very well with my own (although much more gathered and intelligent of course).

dont have much experience of the occult practicly really, just starting out, but have had an interest for it for a while and have picked up a bit here and there. I look forward to diving deeper into it.

my look on life right now is very open but sceptical at the same time, I am careful not to take any man made maps of the world for ultimate truth, I love to study everything from psychology to physics to religion to the occult and think one can pcik important knowledge up most everywhere if you just dig to the core of it and dont get hung up on the shallow parts.

I am a tattoo aprentice at the moment and love what I do, an ancient artform much neglected by the art history, our oldest artform after the cavepaintings it seems (Ötzi was tattooed) and it show up in culture from ancient egypt, to the natives of america, to the polynese and south east asia and africa. In my work I get to work with alot of of symbolism high and low and I take a great interest in mans syymbols.

I have always painted and drwn and if it interests you feel free to look at my gallery on my profile, would be great to get som comments from people as knowledgable in symbols and hidden meanings as some of you here.

well thats me, hope to make great new friends and find alot of wisdom here!

[Lamia]

How did you get that swastika in your name?

Hi. I love tattooing. I currently have 3 of them done.

[卍Joel卐]

I copied and pasted from wikipedias article on swasticas, heh!

nice!

[Lamia]

i seriously thought you d/l a front or something for it.

What sort of native symbols do you like?

[卍Joel卐]

hehe!

dont really have any favorites I guess it comes down alot to context but right now the swastika interests me quite a bit, all sorts of symbols are interesting I think from simple pretty simple ones like animals to ones you can disscuss forever like alot of the more abstract ones. maybe I dont get the question right though, I speak english ell but sometimes I'm not sure about every word in its specific context, native to someplace in particular or generally? not exactly sure what it means here. I think native symbols are most interesting when you can compare them I guess, similar symbols in varying cultures and seeing how those different cultures use and interprete them, what similarities and differences there might be.

[Lamia]

I wasn't specific. but what do you like about the natives in the Americas?

[卍Joel卐]

Lamia: really not that well read on the subject of the native american cultures although of course as a kid I had a "indian" phase.

but yeah there are plenty of interesting cultures in that subject and I'm sure I will dig into it sooner or later, is it a specific interest of yours?

[Lamia]

Yeah. I especially love the cultures of Mexico. (Mesoamerica) You seem interesting though. I'm new myself and i am totally whoring myself out here. This forum is great and the people are genuine. It seems like you can find any subject of the occult you're interested in, in here.

[卍Joel卐]

Ah yeah those cultures have alot of treasures of wisdom for sure. dont have that muchh specific knowledge of it except for some Castaneda of course.

yeah just starting to go through it, seems like a great mix of people and subjects.

[AfterViewer]

:)Hey Joel, Welcome to the AF! A number of visual artists on board here, make yourself at home. AV.

[wiz-oz]

Hi Swasti-Joel & welcome.


dont really have any favorites I guess it comes down alot to context but right now the swastika interests me quite a bit

here's a thread on this site as a large resource about 're-claiming' the Swastika:

http://forums.abrahadabra.com/showthread.php?t=1618

cheers from Downunder:rofl:

[dev]

Welcome greetings from Eken!

:cool:

[fr.novumorganum]

hello

[MythMath]

Hi Joel... :yes:

[卍Joel卐]

thanks everyone!

and thanks for the links wiz-oz, shall be interesting to read.

[MSVPVE.218]

Welcome! ;)

[m1thr0s]

Greetings 卍Joel卐 and thanks for the intro! Thanks for your gracious PM as well. Sorry I haven't had a chance to respond yet. We seem to be experiencing a surge of new members of late. I always knew this would happen eventually.
People don't usually trust cutting edge stuff at first but it doesn't take long for the cream to rise to the top once it's all set in motion...

Glad you could make it to our little party! :cool:

m1thr0s

[izi]

Hi I looked through your gallery it has some really interesting and freaky stuff in it. I look forward to seeing more of your drawings and thoughts in the future.

best wishes,

Naomi

[m1thr0s]

here's a little background info on Joel's special characters (since I know at least several members here will be interest in this)...



Extended (Unicode) Character Sets

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Unicode Character Set #5350
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Unicode Character Set #535D
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I am given to understand that if people do not have UTF-8 enabled they won't be able to see these characters...I haven't tested this but it would seem to make sense...


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[izi]

ahahahah I have those nifty characters I feel so 1337

[MythMath]

So, how do I get utf-8...?