Something interesting is happening in Iceland right now this is really fascinating soon
Icelanders will be able to publically worship at a shine to Thor Odin and Frigg with construction
starting this month on the Island's first major temple to the Norse to the Norse gods
since the Viking age you can see there's going to be some pronunciation coming in some of
these names I'm about to give you we've got a quote here from Hilmar Orn Himarsson we
got this from the Guardian he said we see the stories as poetic metaphors and a manifestation
of the forces of nature and human psychology the Guardian went on to explain membership
in the Asatruarfelagio John how was that that sounds good that sounded good has tripled
in Iceland in the last decade to 2,400 members since last year out of a total population
of 330,000 data from Statics Iceland showed so this is sort of interesting because we
think of this stuff I guess just sort of along the lines of Greek mythology right and people
starting to pray to Thor and Odin I saw the movies I liked the movies I saw Avengers I
like Thor that probably actually boosts attendance quite a bit I mean what do they say right
don't they say right now that the third largest religion in England is Jeti-ism or something
like that I mean really when people people put Jedi-ism on the census so people let's
have some balance people go for the sith come on does Thor give kids bone cancer too he's
not that kind of god I'm against the god that gives kids bone cancer so whatever god if
Thor doesn't than I'll pray to Thor he's not much a healer he fights ice giants I think
oh ice giants OK yeah frost giants or something I was surprised to find out that Iceland has
a population of less than 330,000 people doesn't that sound not a lot of people but no I'm
totally for this and for the Jedi thing that's not even as many people are in a congressional
district yeah literally that's not a lot of people but beautiful country here I'm not
a fan of traditional religions but these sorts of like quasi-parody like the jedi like the
flying spaghetti monster this if it's just something that produced community and gives
you an interesting way of thinking about your life perhaps structure life in a new way I
am totally fine with that because it's much less likely that people are going to take
it so seriously that they are willing to kill people or to infringe on their rights as a
result of it flying spaghetti monster people never told me what I could do with my body
for instance right so the to that point there is nothing in the doctrine that sounds untoward
or anything like that the temple is going to host ceremonies such as weddings and funerals
they're also going to celebrate the ancient sacrificial ritual of blot with music reading
eating and drinking but they're going to leave out the slaughter of animals Jimmy we were
just talking about animal slaughter you're against it even though you eat animals even
though I eat them so you would sort of be down with this yeah I'm totally down with
that you're Nordic worshipper let's do it I'm all for it yeah I like I like that it's
less dogmatic and more festive yeah those Thor followers they enjoy getting hammered
that's an Avengers joke there for you you see what he did there I got it no but like
I said I if there was a jedi church here I would probably I would actually probably join
some sort of jedi church Thor maybe well the Jedi had a temple it was then burned obviously
on Coruscant when the Empire turned the clones on the yeah yeah when I think of a the younglings
yeah it was a slaughter it was a real slaughter I don't know how much of it is sort of like
is sort of parody I mean people will get involved in this thing to sort of reconnect with their
I guess the history of their country more than a belief in the spiritual nature of it
but overall I think that this is much more positive and it's sort an interesting maybe
inevitable outgrowth of the fact that religion especially in the EU countries and those countries
in that region religion had been going down for a long time you have a period of intense
secularism and then you have sort of a desire for something which might lead to an interest
in science or philosophy or perhaps bringing back these old religions I think we should
stop looking outward for your gods and we look inward right cause that's where the real
knowledge is that's where the real religion it comes from the collective unconscious according
to Jung that we all share that already knows what's going to happen what's going to happen
you know we all have when you have dreams and you have these symbols that come in your
dreams those aren't coming from you those are universal so Jung found that out have
dreams or had these symbols and then he found out those are the same symbols that showed
up in eastern philosophies showed up in island philosophies showed up Africa he's like well
how can they all and it's not coming from my own head so that's why I encourage people
to stop looking outward go inward that's the true journey but Jimmy Thor had a giant hammer
and that's just cool