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[andrewducker]

This was half my day and as someone else wrote about it, I don't see why I should.

This is a fab rant about neo-paganism.

This is a different fab rant concerning protecting the children, and why we shouldn't.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

This is a fab rant about neo-paganism.

Valid (but also deeply flawed) if this was the 70s or 80s, dated now. Many novice pagans still believe in the sort of idiocy being described, but almost no one who has actually stick with it past the phase where it is another passing fad still does. More importantly, the thing that both the author and these novice pagans forget is that myths =/history but that both have value. There was clearly no neolithic goddess-worshiping world-wide matriarchy. However, stories of it can be extremely useful and powerful myth that are deeply meaningful to many people who know that it never actually happen. Far to many modern people get myth and history confused.

Also, if one believes (as I do) that gods are actually real, then while rituals significantly differ between the present day and the distant past, there is no reason to assume that people today cannot effectively call upon Brigid or Hermes just as effectively as people 2100 years ago.

This is a different fab rant concerning protecting the children, and why we shouldn't.

OTOH, this rant is very sensible.

Hmm,.... well,.....

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

I both agree and disagree.

A friend and I use the term "crystal crunchers" to refer to such groups of people and yes most of them are young and experimenting and will eventually figure things out.

Unfortunately I have also come across many of them in university trying to talk about the "unbroken druidic tradition" being referred to in such works of lit as "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". I wasn't the lucky one to point out to my "colleague" that the five pointed start on Gawain's shield is the start of Solomon (as mentioned in the next stanza) and therefore a Christian symbol. She took the whole notion personally and accused the prof of being anti-pagan. It was one of the few times I admired his aloofness. He just ignored her.

If she was a young thing I would have just rolled my eyes and sighed a bit, but she was older, supposedly on her second degree and has shown up in more of my classes spouting the same things.

I sometimes am very disappointed with my species as a whole.

Oh well,

Ekatarina

Re: Hmm,.... well,.....

[andrewducker]

Permission to point out that Solomon was Jewish, not Christian?

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

Have you seen lj_nifty recently - you've been googled!