Let’s not LARP in a post-modern way with the religious customs of people, treating their worldviews as a consumerist identity. Find something you truly believe in and dedicate yourself to it, take leaps of faith, find a congregation (god). Don’t just drape yourself in the trappings and aesthetics of others disingenuously
Hellenism and other mythologies are basically dead as you say, but they all have neo-pagan modern day variations that are essentially LARP and have no connection to the original belief systems. The comments above seem to be suggesting we indulge in this purposefully.
These neo-pagans are trying to fill an empty void where community and faith is supposed to go, but is lacking in our modern world. It’s not really their fault but it’s extremely hollow and false, a very “shopping for ideology” identity-confused modern phenomena.
I can make a serious earnest response in a joke thread, you don’t need to act all up in arms about it. Just chill
The cool thing about pre-Christian Norse religion is that they wrote almost nothing down. So it's a completely choose your own adventure religion with source books written by Christians hundreds of years after anyone practiced it.
it’s a completely choose your own adventure religion
The 'chose your own adventure part' is funny, since I think a lot of the little we know of their lore (likely deformed over centuries) ended up being integrated through Tolkien's work as a big part of the basis of most RPGs - the heroic fantasy ones.
Leftists really should be more Hellenistic
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Let’s not LARP in a post-modern way with the religious customs of people, treating their worldviews as a consumerist identity. Find something you truly believe in and dedicate yourself to it, take leaps of faith, find a congregation (god). Don’t just drape yourself in the trappings and aesthetics of others disingenuously
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Hellenism and other mythologies are basically dead as you say, but they all have neo-pagan modern day variations that are essentially LARP and have no connection to the original belief systems. The comments above seem to be suggesting we indulge in this purposefully.
These neo-pagans are trying to fill an empty void where community and faith is supposed to go, but is lacking in our modern world. It’s not really their fault but it’s extremely hollow and false, a very “shopping for ideology” identity-confused modern phenomena.
I can make a serious earnest response in a joke thread, you don’t need to act all up in arms about it. Just chill
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You are reading the aggression into it and reacting with hostility and debatebro language where there was no need to
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Insufferable
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:PIGPOOPBALLS:
:jesse-wtf:
The cool thing about pre-Christian Norse religion is that they wrote almost nothing down. So it's a completely choose your own adventure religion with source books written by Christians hundreds of years after anyone practiced it.
The 'chose your own adventure part' is funny, since I think a lot of the little we know of their lore (likely deformed over centuries) ended up being integrated through Tolkien's work as a big part of the basis of most RPGs - the heroic fantasy ones.
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