Comments by antigeekess | San Diego Reader

antigeekess

He Was a Man

#17: Agreed. :/
— October 18, 2009 9:53 p.m.

got paranormal activity?

Sounds you're well protected, Fish. :)
— October 18, 2009 7:25 p.m.

got paranormal activity?

Wait a minute, Daniels, are you saying you WROTE a history of the swimming pool book, or are you talking about one of these? http://www.amazon.com/Contested-Waters-History-Sw… http://www.amazon.com/Springboard-Pond-Foundation…
— October 18, 2009 5:58 p.m.

Turns out it's a pretty popular amulet, Cuddle: http://cgi.ebay.com/Tetragrammaton-Amulet-Talisma… http://cgi.ebay.com/Tetragrammaton-Yhwh-Amulet-He… http://cgi.ebay.com/Tetragrammaton-Yhwh-Amulet_W0… http://cgi.ebay.com/Tetragrammaton-Yhwh-Hebrew-Go… Okay, so the symbolism on that amulet has multiple associations, including Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), Freemasonry (eye in pyramid, Shriner's scimitar), and Wicca (pentagram). NOT that any of the above are 'exclusively' associated with the groups mentioned, but I'd say those are the most frequent ones. It would also seem that the pentagram is the main feature of the amulet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca My guess would be it was cast for the Wiccan market. Wicca is modern paganism, and it's an eclectic hodgepodge of older occult elements. They don't much seem to care who they borrow from. What looks like a Shriner's scimitar could also be something called a boline. On the other hand, Freemasonry is so inclusive of everybody -- including Wiccans, that I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see one of them wearing that. It's all positive and all very cool, Cuddle. If anybody gives you grief and calls that pentagram "Satanic," by the way, you can educate them to the fact that it is the INVERTED, upside-down pentagram that's associated with Satanism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism Unfortunately, the media gets this wrong all the time.
— October 18, 2009 5:48 p.m.