From: "d." <northcut@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.religion.druid] Re: Summerlands Artwork
Date: 27 Jul 2000 17:44:20 GMT

Subject: Re: Summerlands Artwork 
From: Teacup <tiicupp@aol.com>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.druid

In article <397c1a8e$1@news.star.co.uk>,
  "jjb" <x@x.com> wrote:

>Whether people consider themselves to be druids and are
> actually are the real thing are different things entirely. Are people who
> dress up as (for instance) English Civil War soldiers and take a very
> detailed interest in this whole subject actually real soldiers? No, they're
> not. IMHO, what goes on here (and perhaps in other ngs) is some form of
> re-enactment. Only with something like the druids, alot of speculation is
> involved, plus a large helping of other 'magickal' etc. etc. ideas.

So I'm sitting here reading this after spending the weekend at a comic
book convention and I'm thinking to myself:

Here's a guy who has no qualms about treating religious and other
beliefs he doesn't subscribe to with disrespect and contempt.
Furthermore, he considers the reconstruction of a Druidic religion
based on surviving documents and research into the culture and history
of and surrounding the Druids is completely impossible and akin to
playing dress-up.  Yet he spends a great deal of time posting to a NG
populated mostly by people who are pretty dedicated to doing just that.

So why is he here?

And then it came to me.....maybe he thinks of himself as....the Anti-
Druid!  The newest of the comic book anti-heroes!  I can just hear it--

<Gary Owens voice>
"Armed with the ability to refute mediocre arguments with a single
sentence, the Anti-Druid has been entrusted with the mission of
traveling the Internet to wipe out the interest and belief in any but
completely historical and dead Druids wherever he may find them.  In
order to aid him in his quest, his every inhibition and impulse control
against rude, asinine behavior has been surgically removed with great
care by his secret masters, aliens from the planet Fomor.  The life of
the Anti-Druid is a lonely one, since he cannot help making enemies
wherever he goes, but he comforts himself with the knowledge that
through his efforts Druidry will continue to occupy its rightful place
in the world as a Very Dead Religion."

Wow, that's a halfway decent story concept...I saw worse over the
weekend.  Of course he'll fall in love at some point with a Goth Wiccan
priestess who channels an Atlantean princess--gotta have angst and
moral conflict....  This might work--I could do up a treatment in a day
or three....  That guy at Top Cow I was talking to--they're always
looking for really out-there stuff.  Where'd I put his business card?

Sorry, guys, gotta get to work here--this could be big...