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Raymond S. G. Foster

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The Fiction of a Deity called Wodan

GET BUTT HURT!
GET BUTT HURT!

The common academic claim mapping Wednes- to a deity of emotional "fury" is a 19th-century linguistic fraud that superimposed the Sanskrit word for agony (vedanā) onto unrelated European words, as proven by the manuscript phrase "for þæra wedna missenlicnesse" ("for the storms' variety"). This maps wedna directly to weder (weather), meaning Wednesdæg (Wednesday) translates to "day of storms" rather than the academic nonsense of "day of fury."


This distortion was heavily driven by a 19th-century academic fad to invent the idea that Sanskrit was a European language. In reality, Sanskrit is natively rooted in India. Historically, ancient contact and migration allowed native Sanskrit words and roots to pass directly into early European systems—spreading through Greek, Roman (Latin), and Etruscan pathways to fundamentally shape Western vocabulary long before modern philologists began falsifying its roots to build political and cultural theories.


Likewise, bidirectional exchanges occurred over time. Native European words passed into Semitic languages from sources like the Hatti,…


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Raymond S. G. Foster

High Elder Warlock

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Druwayu: A Framework of Experiential Faith

True Ways Grounded in Impersonal Truth
True Ways Grounded in Impersonal Truth

Druwayu is an experiential framework, not a revealed religion. It replaces the concept of divine revelation with direct, lived personal experience that remains strictly accountable to impersonal truth and empirical reality.


I. The Nature of Experiential Alignment and Impersonal Truth


Druwayu operates as a modern spiritual framework centered on personal experience and impersonal truth, individual and community connections, and the pursuit of alignment with an enduring path dedicated to impersonal truth above and beyond its foundations.


Free from the constraints of universally enforced dogmas, or the demand to be an enforced universal system, its validity is rooted in both empirical and scientific proof, in harmony with the subjective and lived experiences of its adherents. The framework explicitly rejects the concept of "personal truth," viewing it as a fundamental misrepresentation of personal experience when prioritized over an unyielding, impersonal reality.


Like many centralized, decentralized, or localized spiritual traditions, it prioritizes a lived, dynamic…


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Raymond S. G. Foster

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Suggested Books for Personal Research


BIBLIOGRAPHY

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This bibliography represents by no means an exhaustive list of all the works I have researched, examined, and scrutinized. In addition to the sources listed here, many other cultural, religious, and philosophical materials have informed my studies, research and contemplation.


These are part of the formative influences span the breadth of human thought, encompassing monotheistic and polytheistic traditions, and numerous other systems of philosophy, belief and reflection. When possible I try to find out more about the biography of the authors, when they lived and consider what may have or what they have openly gone record as stating the motivations behind their claims. Without taking that into consideration, you don't have enough data to make a solid or reasonable conclusion.


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Raymond S. G. Foster

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The Missing Narrative of the Nativity and 16 Gods Bullshit

Be an Atheist. Not an Asshole!
Be an Atheist. Not an Asshole!

The Missing Narrative:

Why the Earliest Christian Texts Ignore the Nativity and the 16 Gods Claim is Crap


I also refuse to tolerate fabricated claims, dishonest comparisons, and historically false narratives being pushed as justification to condemn and criticism the religions or beliefs of others, especially when it is all pulled from complete fictions, and detest so called smarter atheists that invent justifications for their atheism and them claim atheism is superior and makes them "smarter by default," which they are not.


Bad arguments remain bad arguments whether they come from religious fundamentalists, militant atheists, conspiracy theorists, or ideological activists. Deceit is deceit even when wrapped in the language of “skepticism,” “science,” or “rationality.” Simply identifying as an atheist does not automatically make someone more intelligent, more logical, more emotionally stable, or more psychologically healthy any more than identifying as religious automatically makes someone irrational or delusional.


Yes, human beings…


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