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For the kinky agnostics among you.....

  • 29-04-2009 12:01pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭


    Prudish just because we don't believe in god doesn't mean we are depraved and debased atheists need not apply :P ( yes it's a joke mods please don't spankban me )

    Radical Ecstacy Weekend Workshop July - Kink/Tantra

    There is an upcomonga two-day workshop called Radical Ecstacy, it is being facilitated by Dossie Easton, renowned American author, psychotherapist and kinkster. She co-wrote The Ethical Slut. Essentially, the workshop is about unlocking the potential of BDSM as a sacred practice. No previous experience required - just an open mind. There is no sex involved in the workshop.

    The weekend workshop takes place in Dublin on July 18 & 19 that may appeal to anyone into Paganism, Mysticism, Polyamory, alt sexualities and other esoterics.

    The website is http://www.eros-mutiny.com/

    The couple which are organising this are wonderful people who are involved
    in the kink community and who have been facilitating workshops for the community over the last year.

    This is a big step for them to go form an afternoon workshop to a full weekend and personally I am utter delighted to see this happen for them and
    for everyone who will benefit from this.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    I saw these leaflets last Saturday night in the Academy...lets just say I'm sceptical about the spiritual side of BDSM...though I wouldn't dismiss it as a metaphorical concept.

    I would go, except the fee is like 140 euros...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I was at that event as well ( the venue it's self is an unmentionable one ).
    I am not skeptical about it as all as being a practitioner of kundalini tantra I take the point of view that every orgasm is a step to the path of knowledge and enlightenment.
    It is two full day workshops in a city centre hotel from my experiences that is a good price
    for it and below par for what the likes of Tantra Ireland runs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    why did this thread get deleted only for it to be reposted again :confused:

    I do like a good thread that gives me ample opportunities to flex my paronomasia muscle, but I have to ask, what has this got to do with Atheism or Agnosticism?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    why did this thread get deleted only for it to be reposted again :confused:
    The thread you saw was posted by a new-reg poster with a single post - to promote an event.
    Accordingly Robin deleted it as spam.
    I do like a good thread that gives me ample opportunities to flex my paronomasia muscle, but I have to ask, what has this got to do with Atheism or Agnosticism?
    I think we can let this one slip through the relevance filter - although tbf there is a mention of a 'sacred practice'! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Are you saying that there are nothing which agnostics hold sacred?
    Or that an Agnostic in thier search to ponder the possiblites of the universe and ofshcrodinger's Dieties may not consider such explorations either for personal or philosphical reasons?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    Dades wrote: »
    I think we can let this one slip through the relevance filter

    very well, letting the slipping through continue... giggity!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    I remain sceptical to say the least.

    I also don't see the relevance, I mean if the posts nothing more than a tee hee hee, he said p*&£$, fine.

    Otherwise you may as well open the flood gates to every whacked out new age claptrap, since it 'may' be of interest to agnostics.

    As bad as organised religion is at least people have a cultural or historical reason for buying into it, but this stuff I'll never understand.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    I saw these leaflets last Saturday night in the Academy...lets just say I'm sceptical about the spiritual side of BDSM...though I wouldn't dismiss it as a metaphorical concept.

    I've frequently heard it said that being able to rise above pain gives a sort of higher conciousness or awarness, along the lines of the idea that you are not your thoughts. Certainly thats what a few have said with regards suspension. Personally, due to my not very submissive nature, the idea of that kind of thing in a BDSM scenario doesn't appeal to me, at all, at all (if that indeed is what they're getting at). Each unto their own, however.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    I cannot of course speak for all atheists, but I'm pretty sure most of them who have logically come to the conclusion that god is a load of clap trap, also think the same of all that other hippy, new age clap trap. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    clap trap. :)

    and in this instance, it could mean literally :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Nodin wrote: »
    I've frequently heard it said that being able to rise above pain gives a sort of higher conciousness or awarness, along the lines of the idea that you are not your thoughts. Certainly thats what a few have said with regards suspension. Personally, due to my not very submissive nature, the idea of that kind of thing in a BDSM scenario doesn't appeal to me, at all, at all (if that indeed is what they're getting at). Each unto their own, however.

    Yes, well, I wouldn't know anything about that. :pac:
    and in this instance, it could mean literally

    Careful now. I'm sure you were just making a play on words, but some people might find the insinuation that the fetish scene is somehow dirty to be offensive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭pts


    Careful now. I'm sure you were just making a play on words, but some people might find the insinuation that the fetish scene is somehow dirty to be offensive.
    Now if there was only some kind of legislation which prevented people offending other peoples beliefs......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Sorry, but what's BDSM?

    something... something... sadomasicism?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Sorry, but what's BDSM?

    something... something... sadomasicism?

    Bondage and discipline.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Ah! I'll see you there.

    father_ted_down_with_this_sort_of_thing.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,737 ✭✭✭Asiaprod


    As bad as organised religion is at least people have a cultural or historical reason for buying into it, but this stuff I'll never understand.
    The sacred practice has thousands of years of history, just never saw it approach from the perspective of BDSM.

    *runs off to find the wife*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    You don't have to be a submissive to take part in power exchange and to be on the reciveing end of S&M. Esp when it is not about pain but different sensations and altered states.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Esp when it is not about pain but different sensations and altered states.

    So should I assume when my OH beat me with a spatula when I proposed going to this that she was for it or against it?... I'm confused, was she trying to cause me pain or merely alter my state and give me different sensations to show her approval of the idea? (particularly my conscious state I think as she kept aiming for the back of my head.)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    pts wrote: »
    Now if there was only some kind of legislation which prevented people offending other peoples beliefs......

    Now there's a scary sexy strange thought....imagine BDSM being a belief system?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭Valmont


    *Every orgasm helps you along the road to enlightenment*

    haha:D

    Don't see why this thread has any relevance here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Now there's a scary sexy strange thought....imagine BDSM being a belief system?

    Never heard of Gorians?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Nodin wrote: »
    Never heard of Gorians?

    It all smacks of people playing too much Dungeons and Dragons

    and this is coming from the rpg mod :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    I'll also be running a number of workshops this weekend.

    Self immolation and your inner child.

    Cure your eczema through Dervish Whirling.

    Your cock in a breadbun-a guide to a doughy spiritual path.


    :pac:


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    the workshop is about unlocking the potential of BDSM as a sacred practice.
    The A+A forum is all about the lack of sacred practices -- other than the obvious giggle-factor, can somebody please remind me why this thread is here?

    I'm getting double-vision and my sockpuppetometer is twitching something frightful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    spatula

    I like that word :)

    count_spatula_41074.jpg

    Eh eh eh....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    I don't think it appears very centred around God or beliefs. From googling Dossie Easton I think she seems more of a rational sex therapist than a delusional hippy.

    However, why you've posted this here, I don't know. I replied in S&S as I was interested in learning exactly what a workshop like this would entail, and that is a valid forum for discussing that, however, I don't see what it has to do with atheism and agnosticism (or even agnosticism specifically....).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭Phototoxin


    While I'm not even going to discuss my own sexual interests I do think that since its being advertised as a spirituality that it doesn't really belong here. Surely the spirituality forum would be beteer.

    Also I dont see why open minded christans coulnd't participate. After all if your other half wants to be hancuffed during it then surely its ok?


    But ty to T for showing how diverse ireland has become. I'm giving 3:1 odds that there will be old women outside with rosaries. 666:1 odds that they decide to use them as kinky objects after hearing what its about. and 99:1 odds that the pope will be there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    It all smacks of people playing too much Dungeons and Dragons

    and this is coming from the rpg mod :)

    Bit more Warhammer fantasy, I would have said...However, it predates certainly WH.

    Obviously they failed a few stealth rolls here....
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4996410.stm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Nodin wrote: »
    Bit more Warhammer fantasy, I would have said...However, it predates certainly WH.

    Obviously they failed a few stealth rolls here....
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4996410.stm

    Perhaps less dragons and more dungeons then :)


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    robindch wrote: »
    can somebody please remind me why this thread is here?
    Takes people minds away from carping in the other threads and provided a great opportunity for a Father Ted pic? Sold for me anyway. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    Dades wrote: »
    Takes people minds away from carping in the other threads and provided a great opportunity for a Father Ted pic? Sold for me anyway. ;)

    Excellent idea, we should start pimping a new alt lifestyle, spirituality and medicine every week. I know the recession is hitting my friend hard who does Acupuncture, he probably wouldn't mind some free publicity. It's seriously something all of us shouldn't rule out, I mean how else are you going to keep your qi flowing correctly right?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    It's seriously something all of us shouldn't rule out, I mean how else are you going to keep your qi flowing correctly right?

    Look at pics of nekkid women photographic portrait art on the net?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Nodin wrote: »
    Bit more Warhammer fantasy, I would have said...However, it predates certainly WH.

    Obviously they failed a few stealth rolls here....
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4996410.stm

    Curse you Slanee'sh! :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭ChocolateSauce


    Nodin wrote: »
    Never heard of Gorians?

    No I have not. Should I be aware of anything? Am I likely to run into this?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,353 ✭✭✭Goduznt Xzst


    No I have not. Should I be aware of anything? Am I likely to run into this?

    I think he means Gorean


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    haven't logged on for a while:confused:...I want to be a kinky agnostic..what's an agnostic again? Doesn't matter - where do I sign?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Dades wrote: »
    Takes people minds away from carping in the other threads and provided a great opportunity for a Father Ted pic? Sold for me anyway. ;)

    More like one moderator not wanting to remove another moderators post even though at it's blatant shilling for some crystal ball bolllocks.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055551490
    Double posting?
    Very sock-puppety affair...

    On the positive side it's interesting to note miss Easton was a councilor of psychedelic crisis in the 1960's and managed to be a successful councilor 6 years before she actually received her Degree. So there's hope for all of us chancers yet...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    I think he means Gorean

    Aye.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    studiorat wrote: »
    More like one moderator not wanting to remove another moderators post even though at it's blatant shilling for some crystal ball bolllocks.
    Is that the sound of black helicopters?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    This kind of thing, prophets....they're the travelling entertainers of the intarweb.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    robindch wrote: »
    The A+A forum is all about the lack of sacred practices -- other than the obvious giggle-factor, can somebody please remind me why this thread is here?

    I'm getting double-vision and my sockpuppetometer is twitching something frightful.

    Because of who the original poster is. Like when I get away with cursing and trolling, but on a far grander scale.


    ps, utter poppycock. I'd consider going because I'm sure the amount of laughter I'd have would be more satisfying than most orgasms.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭OK-Cancel-Apply


    Sounds like fun, but I dunno... I wouldn't want to turn up only to find a whole bunch of dudes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Dades wrote: »
    Is that the sound of black helicopters?

    You can't smell black helicopters...


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,539 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    I cannot of course speak for all atheists, but I'm pretty sure most of them who have logically come to the conclusion that god is a load of clap trap, also think the same of all that other hippy, new age clap trap. :)

    Exactly, which is why she targeted the agnositcs, who might appear to be the soft option when it comes to ala carte religious practices.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    studiorat wrote: »
    You can't smell black helicopters...

    You can only telepathically sense them. Luckily I can sell you one of my patented psycho-amplification hats for the one time low low price of 499.99 euro.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    tinfoil_hat_antenna.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    I like your hat, but do you need a license for such a receiver ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭Phototoxin


    Bit more Warhammer fantasy, I would have said...However, it predates certainly WH.
    Bring on the daemonetees.. brings a whole new meaning to 'daemons of slaneshi whipped me in that last game..'

    Still this thread is subbing (har har) for those of us who cannot access the S&M er... S&S forums!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭Rev Hellfire


    Phototoxin wrote: »
    Still this thread is subbing (har har) for those of us who cannot access the S&M er... S&S forums!
    You're missing nothing, its like the PI forum only with less clothes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    I like your hat, but do you need a license for such a receiver ?

    Nope, only for transmission. Which I'm doing now..........


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