Greco-Roman civilization is the foundation of Western civilization.

CANNOT FORGET FINNIC PAGANISM EITHER

IT ENABLED THEM TO MAKE QUALITY DEATH METAL

The religion has to be true, if not literally then it has to describe some significant part of reality

That's also a good point.

I AGREE

IT MUST BE A REALIST RELIGION

Christianity tells you to live in a way that doesn't work in reality

AND FOR IT TO BE THAT

Roman religion wasn't based on belief, but tradition.

but it's ok because this world is just a test for the next one

IT MUST BE TRANSCENDENT

BUT ALSO MUST ACCEPT THE METAPHYSICAL AS PART OF THE REAL

On good practice, not good saying.

Jung found traces of native American religion in his American Christian clients

It's ugly and it doesn't work

ASIATIC RELIGION IS SORT OF AN AMERICAN TROPE

WE LIKE TO ADOPT IT TO SEEM PROFOUND

THAT WAS THE POINT OF CHARLTON'S CITING THAT ARTICLE ABOUT AMERICAN HINDUS

WHO TAKES THE BEATLES SERIOUSLY?

Roman religion is orthopraxic, not orthodoxic.

THEN AGAIN, GEORGE HARRISON TOOK IT SERIOUSLY

The Beatles is the most overrated music in all of history

It's about right action, not the right words.

He said that the traces weren't consciously known to the people he interviewed

Their only contribution was in technique, figuring out how to have more sustain on a guitar in Helter Skelter

basically his conclusion was that the land affected them in subtle ways.

if you believe in Divine stuff this isn't too far fetched

Connections between races and lands are real

But I don't think it works like that

I'm not too interested in that stuff as you know

@sdlkfmbklfnldneg INCLUDING CLEAR/REALISTIC THINKING

Which is what the Romans gave us.

AND THE GREEKS

AND THE HINDUS

Exactly.

ECKHART IS UNDER-READ

We can't separate Roman philosophy from Roman religion.

Cicero, Aurelius, these men's words still echo in modern thinking.

ANCIENTS VIEWED THEIR RELIGION AS PART OF THEIR CULTURE

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