Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 13 – Decline of MCPN

2010
01.18

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1:56 Stuff that happened at the Mystics Cove Pagan Network Summer Frolic of 2006
2:42 Some children are awesome when it comes to metaphysics
3:26 Bunch of asswipe Christian fundamentalists throwing bibles, shooting paintballs and BBs at Pagans
4:21 Having small children in ritual vs. older children – boils down to ability to defend oneself
5:21 Don’t do ritual unless you know what you’re doing
6:00 Make sure they can count to 4 and know what a quarter is
6:28 It’s hard enough to deal with immature adults, let alone including whimsical children
7:00 Having a Pagan event near fundieville then avertising it is provoking the fundamentalists.
7:58 Know when to use common sense to keep things quiet to avoid provoking folks
8:53 What happened to the habit of MCPN events being inconspicuous?
9:55 Overweight feminists attitude of “they will need to learn to live with us.”
10:17 Pagans are always going to be the minority, live with it. Let’s argue ad absurdum, the bloodthirsty sharks will just need to live with me being here.
11:30 Whenever Dave leaves anything, it goes downhill – look at Mystics Cove Pagan Network.
12:00 Dave rants about Mystics Cove Pagan Network
12:34 Pagan music sucks because it’s like Christian music, what can be done about this?
14:20 Sheetz Trip!
15:00 This crosses the line from mismanagement to stupidity by making us all look bad!
16:30 Is this the new consensus of Paganism?
16:45 “Paganism has no rules” – what kind of dumb statement is that?
17:13 How MCPN seems to make up their own religion as they go
17:35 This is what I want to do, so it’s right.
17:53 Paganism is a dumb grouping
19:49 We put a lot of effort into the Clarion group and now it’s gone to crap.
20:38 Paganism is not a religion!
21:12 “I’m the spirit of fire”
22:00 Stupid Pagans, has it become a theme of the show?
22:40 Dave getting kicked out of the Clarion group
23:29 Stupid people rather than stupid Pagans?
23:53 Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers
24:33 Dave copes with a group he led for so long going to crap once he was kicked out
24:41 Starting a separate group, having become the podcast.
25:11 Plans prior to the Clarion group about starting an on-campus Pagan group, desire for more serious discussion
26:00 The 4-year cycle of campus Pagan groups
26:30 PCP is more successful than Pagan study ever was with 200 downloads per episode now.
27:58 PCP, the annual gathering?
29:05 Good thing MCPN didn’t grow into a huge network like it was planned to.
29:20 Are we witnessing the final downfall of MCPN?
29:40 Integrating the podcast with a campus group is impractical
30:04 The danger is Clarion County will think MCPN when they think Pagan, and MCPN going downhill will take the rest of the Pagan community with it.
31:55 It’s one thing when novices are doing dumb things, it’s another when the leadership is having issues
32:45 Weather disasters
33:16 Fluffy Pagans that claim to be an Empath but lack the ability to know when you want them to go away.
35:00 Can the world handle multiple Daves?
35:35 PCP figures out a teleportation spell
37:45 CollegeWicca.com’s guide to pronouncing Pagan terms
38:30 Barrett helped us pronounce words correctly.
38:55 Is there a limit to the size of an Athame?
39:50 Plastic pirate swords – warning, SARCASM!
41:00 Hourglass is the “X” on Playstation controllers. The Konami code for Barrett.