Welcome to New Jotunheim

We are not the fools you think we are. We are completely different fools; hence, our url differentfools.com.

Jotunheim of the Norse religions is the realm of Jotnars most often translated as giants. However, the nuance of Jotnar as “giant” excedes physicality and encompasses the largess of the spirit. We, for the most part, believe in all the gods; yet, have little or no faith in any.

Walt Whitman perhaps said it best, "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

Much like the Jotunheim of the Norse religions we tend to believe in all the gods; yet, have faith in none.

We concur with the Nobel Prize winning theoretical Physicist Richard Feynman when he said, “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”

New Jotunheim is a community striving to be separate from the world’s politics. There are a plenty of places to scream about the extremism of governments throughout the globe. This community is rooted in the arts, and the search for a personal moral code that withstands the scrutiny of Socrates admonition that “the unexamined life is not worth  living”. This compelling statement is often invoked as a reminder to continually question our assumptions and strive for self-awareness. It encourages us to break away from mindless routines and societal expectations to cultivate a life filled with deliberate choices and authentic inquiry.