User:Gnostrat
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I live mostly in Derby, England. I am a Gnostic Christian by conviction, and have been ever since I read the debates between Simon Peter and Simon Magus in the Clementine literature and realised that Simon Magus got it right. No, I'm not a member of any secret societies. I'm a loner like many of my predecessors.
I'm also a sometime student of the biblical scholar Margaret Barker whose 'radically conservative' reinterpretation of Christian origins I broadly support. I have an abiding passion for comparative mythology and comparative religion, and my own spiritual odyssey through Hinduism, the Goddess scene, Wicca, Odinism, the Elim Pentecostal Church and Christian Identity (in roughly that order of succession) has led me to develop a generally positive interfaith outlook along with a particular fascination for unconventional religious movements and heterodox theologies.
Other interests include radical and fringe politics (particularly concepts with some imaginative power, like anarchism and third positionism, that refuse to fit the hackneyed old 'left' versus 'right' clichés); and anything connected in any way to Modern Human Origins research, including archaeology, paleoanthropology, archaeogenetics and comparative linguistics (especially the long-range hypotheses which connect language families that aren't generally supposed to be related).
I also keep a keen eye on developments in zoological, botanical, fungal and microbial taxonomy, though it's more of a hobby than a calling.
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My editing policy
Wherever possible, respect the contributions of previous editors by writing 'around' them and not 'over' them.
What I've done for Wikipedia
[edit] Pages I've worked on
Some more or less substantial edits to the following articles (both logged-in and anonymous). Actually, a few of them somewhat less than substantial. It's a start.
Linguistics
Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages • Eskimo-Aleut languages • Nostratic languages • Proto-Pontic language • Uralo-Siberian languages
Music & literature
Occult & politics (Well, do you know the difference?)
Anarchism and nationalism • Ariosophy • Armanen runes • Mikhail Bakunin • Anton Drexler • Esoteric Nazism • Esotericism in Germany and Austria • German mysticism • Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft • Rudolf John Gorsleben • Rudolf Hess • Richard Hunt (editor) • Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels • Guido von List • National-Anarchism • Nazi occultism • Nazism • Neopaganism in Germany and Austria • Neo-völkisch movements • Schutzstaffel • Gregor Schwartz-Bostunitsch • Rudolf von Sebottendorf • Miguel Serrano • Peryt Shou • Troy Southgate • Philipp Stauff • Sudeten German Party • Thule Society • Völkisch movement • Vril • Friedrich Wannieck • White Order of Thule • Woden's Folk
Zoology & taxonomy
Afroinsectiphilia • Afrosoricida • Archaea • Australosphenida • Biological classification • Cryptic species complex • Dinosaur • Division (biology) • Domain (biology) • Family (biology) • Ferungulata • Insectivora • Kingdom (biology) • Lancelet • Legion (biology)† • Linnaean taxonomy • List of chordate orders • Mammal • Mammal classification • Metatheria • Monotreme • Morganucodon • Nomenclature Codes • Order (biology) • Ornithorhynchidae • Paenungulata • Pederpes • Phylogenetic nomenclature • Phylum • Prototheria • Rhizodont • Species • Synapsid • Systematics • Taxonomic rank • Taxonomy • Tetrapod • Therapsida • Tribe (biology) • Triconodonta
Redirects
Anarcho-fascism • Armanen-Orden‡ • Werner von Bülow‡ • Cercle de la rose noire‡ • Germanenorden‡ • Germanenorden Walvater of the Holy Grail† • Guido von List Society‡ • High Armanen Order‡ • Lanz von Liebenfels‡ • National-Anarchist† • National anarchism • National Revolutionary Faction‡ • Order of the New Templars‡ • Rank (botany)‡ • Rank (zoology)‡ • Adolf Schleipfer‡ • Sigrun Schleipfer† • Sigrun von Schlichting† • Template:Taxanomic ranks‡ • Theozoology • Others (too many)
Anything else
Legion (disambiguation) • Nomenclature • Occultism and the far right • Template:Anarchism • Template:Chordata • Template:Nazism • Template:Taxonomic ranks† • Template:UK far right
† indicates pages I've created
‡ pages I've turned into redirects
[edit] Debates I've participated in
Opposed deletions of political and religious user categories: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Supported renaming theological user categories: 8
Successfully opposed deletion of article: 9
Talk page discussions: Anarchism and nationalism, Ariosophy, Armanen runes, Mikhail Bakunin, Domain (biology), Esoteric Nazism, Esotericism in Germany and Austria, Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft, Rudolf Hess, Insectivora, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Linnaean taxonomy, List of chordate orders, Mammaliaformes, Mammal-like reptiles, Monotreme, National-Anarchism, National anarchism, Nazi occultism, Nazism, Neo-völkisch movements, Nostratic languages, Prototheria, Scientific classification, Miguel Serrano, Troy Southgate, Synapsid, Taxonomic rank, Template:Anarchism, Template:Nazism, Template:Taxobox, Template:UK far right, Thule Society, Triconodonta, Uralo-Siberian languages, Völkisch movement, Vril, White Order of Thule, Woden's Folk
[edit] Black Ram Group
Black Ram was an anarchist affinity group which was active in my home town in the early 80s and briefly published a zine of the same name. From 1978 to 1980 it could hold its meetings in a telephone box but in 1981-82 it put on a growth spurt, partly in response to the Falklands War, which it resolutely opposed. At the same time it began to advocate an anarcho-nationalist position, predicated on the distinction between state and nation, and between authentic folk-nationalism and the false patriotism whipped up by governing cliques. As far as I know, it was the first group to — almost casually — introduce the terms 'anarcho-nationalist' and 'national anarchist' (indiscriminately, though nowadays a distinction is drawn). It isn't notable enough to warrant its own article, but I have been pleased to get some information about this group on to Wikipedia, drawn from primary sources. I also created and uploaded an image of their anarcho-swastika emblem (the intention of which was to reclaim from the Nazis an ancient symbol that is sacred to many peoples).
Music
My current all-time favourites are listed on Phaedriel's awesome Soundtrack of Wikipedians, which has re-acquainted me with stacks of songs I'd forgotten I liked.
| “ | I believe that one learns a great deal about a person, and can also understand his/her character and ideas better, if one gets to know "their" music...those songs that define their mood and character, those that make them daydream or feel better, those that bring them dear memories...or simply that music that they really like! | ” |
Movies
I confess to getting a taste for the weirder romantic comedies, mostly as relief from the dark, broody science fiction I would otherwise be watching. The following are top of my list of the superb and the memorable:
Alien • Aliens • Desperately Seeking Susan • Dune • Far from the Madding Crowd • Logan's Run • Open Your Eyes • Secretary • Serendipity • The Shining • Silent Running • The Wicker Man
Quotes
There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon....The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever....Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past, and as they will know again.
—D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (artist, novelist and pagan)
Man will once more feel his unity with his fellows, he will feel his unity with the animals, with the mountains and the streams, with the earth itself and the slow lapse of the constellations, not as an abstract dogma of Science or Theology, but as a living and everpresent fact...The meaning of the old religions will come back to him. On the high tops once more gathering he will celebrate with naked dances the glory of the human form and the great procession of the stars, or greet the bright horn of the young moon which now, after a hundred centuries comes back laden with such wondrous associations - all the yearnings and the dreams and the wonderment of the generations of mankind - the worship of Astarte and of Diana, of Isis or the Virgin Mary.
[Gnosis] leads us to the endless and perfect end, teaching us beforehand the future life we shall lead, according to God and with gods....and they are called by the appellation of gods, being destined to sit on other thrones with the other gods that have first been put in their places by the Saviour.
—Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies (Catholic Father and gnostic)
The Aryan spirit considers law to be evil and supports the rights of conscience.
—Dunbar Heath, On the Great Race-Elements in Christianity (19th-century anthropologist)
The most genuine Aryans, those who are most Aryan and most sure of their Aryanism are not anti-Semites...on the other hand, in the aggressive anti-Semite one can always detect certain Jewish traits even when his blood is free from any Semitic strain.
—Otto Weininger, Sex and Character (Jewish philosopher)
What the human being basically is, what his innermost secret, most inviolable possession is, that is the great community of living beings in him, that is his lineage, the commonality of his blood with that of all his ancestors.
—Gustav Landauer (German-Jewish anarcho-nationalist revolutionary and völkisch mystic)
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