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@ForbiddenDreamer @GoodBoyUV BTW IM STRONGLY AGAINST CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY AND NOW THANKS TO THIS GUY THE PAGAN EQUIVALENT OF CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY
ALL OF PAGAN RELIGION, OUT OF ALL PRIMARY AND PRE-MODERN SECONDARY SOURCES AVAILABLE TO US, WAS PREDICATED ON PAGAN GODS EXISTING, AND INTERACTING WITH THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN DIRECT, TANGIBLE, PERCEPTIBLE WAYS
THE PHILOSOPHERS TAKES ON THE PAGAN GODS HAVE MUCH CULTURAL CACHE FOR THE MODERNS AND SHAPE OUR PERCEPTION OF PAGANISM
BUT THOSE TAKES ARE THEIR TIME PERIOD'S EQUIVALENT OF OBSCURANTIST ACADEMIC PAPERS AND TWENTIETH CENTURY FRENCH POST-MODERNIST ESSAYS
SOCRATES GOT KILLED FOR HIS TAKE
ARISTOPHANES WROTE A POPULAR COMEDY ABOUT PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR TAKES CALLED "THE CLOUDS"
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
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@nugger @ForbiddenDreamer @GoodBoyUV
I don't really understand what you're saying but it sounds like you're getting at the idea that the ancients didn't actually believe in their gods, they just followed the rituals. I wonder if that idea comes from the fact that most people in modernity have zero faith, they just pick whatever pop culture story they like best and use that as the common link to other people. "We both really like Lord of the Rings, so we can understand each other." My dad's big on this idea of using pop culture, Marvel specifically, as a common link of culture. It disgusts me that something so passing as corporate entertainment could be your link to your people, but if you have nothing else in common with your neighbor you just make do talking about what you know.
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@ForbiddenDreamer @GoodBoyUV HE'S GOT A WHOLE PROJECT THING GOING ON ABOUT HOW PAGAN RELIGION WAS JUST CULTURAL PRACTICE ENCODED INTO RITUAL
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@ForbiddenDreamer @GoodBoyUV IDK ABOUT HIS POLITICAL TAKES, IM ASSUMING HE'S BROADLY PRO-WHITE
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@nugger You can trust the Lyle man
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@GoodBoyUV @nugger I like the videos he did with Xurious, but iirc doesn't he have shit takes?
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@nugger Mark Brahmin
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@GoodBoyUV IS THAT HIM OR IS THAT THE PROPERTARIANISM GUY IN A SUIT AND MOTORCYCLE HELMET?
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WHATS THAT APOLLONIANISM GUY WHOS BUDS WITH DICK SPENCER
MARK BRIGHT? MARK BROWN OF THE GAME DEV TOOLKIT?
WHO AM I THINKING OF
ANYWAY
WHATS THAT GUY WHO'S INTO "PAGANISM IS ESOTERIC CULTURAL TRANSMISSION" WEEDS THINK OF APOLLO BEING RESHEPH
A SEMITIC GOD OF PLAGUE AND WAR
WHY ON EARTH WOULD APOLLO'S ARROWS BE "ENVENOMED"
HELIOS DOESN'T HAVE THAT STUFF ABOUT HIM