Message from @εïз irma εïз
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A lot of the LARPers are yeah.
''No I think paganism is pretty gay.'' didn't I explain how Catholicism is a mix of paganism and Christianity
>implying they arent all larpers
But I'm personally familiar with a few well read pagans and they're all really serious about it. It's not a religion in the same sense as Christianity is.
Paganism is integrated into the spirit and animus of the world rather than a deity figure.
I think it was Chesterson that said Christianity animated paganism into a very real religious movement rather than a spiritual one it was previously.
Let me find the quote.
🅱agans must 🅱e 🅱urnt at the S🅱ake
Yes
that includes Catholics
🅱eresy
v2 catholics*
"The pagans of the real Roman Empire were nothing if not respectable. It is said that when Christ was born the cry went through the world that Pan was dead. The truth is that when Christ was born Pan for the first time began to stir in his grave. The pagan gods had become pure fables when Christianity gave them a new lease of life as devils. I venture to wager that if you found one man in such a society who seriously believed in the personal existence of Apollo, he was probably a Christian."
In other words paganism was spiritualist rather than religious until Christianity forced it to double down as a reactionary measure and really become a religion.
Kind of like the Taoist conception of Heaven as a "god" even though a Christian wouldn't recognize it conceptually as such.
This flexibility and belief in universality is why the Romans were able to syncretize almost every religion they encountered into their pantheon.
Because they were all seen as legitimate manifestations of the animus of the world.
Also the reason they were so hostile to Jews and Christians.
@εïз irma εïз Hitler wasnt a socialist, but he wasnt a free market absolutist either
No, but Nazi Germany was very much a private enterprise-driven economy with a high degree of business freedom.
He privatized everything in peace time
Social program expenditures were lower than America today.
It was Goering and especially Speer who mobilized industry for the war effort.
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But even then businesses were on the most part left alone.
Only businesses pertinent to the war were affected.
hitler was you middle man
your
he gases half the jews
and he affects half industry
was the holocaust exaggerated
He was the opposite of a middle man. That was what he ran on, being absolute and unwilling to compromise.
yes i think only 2 million died
not 6 gorillian
Wasnt the term "late stage capitalism" coined by a national socialist?
Grug think big nose grug lie about holobunga
No I'm pretty sure that was invented by Stalinists to justify them losing Germany and Italy to fascists.
But I'm like 25% sure.
Capitalism in decay was certainly used to justify that.
Stalin left the socialists in Germany out to dry because he said that Germany would collapse after they oppressed the proletariat under industrialists' watch.