Message from @Mr. Nessel

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2020-02-03 18:33:29 UTC  

It's not like some pagan religion will suddenly give up on their beliefs and a adopt Christianity out of nowhere, and certainly the reasons you listed above are part of it.

2020-02-03 18:36:23 UTC  

It's not an inevitable process like Marx claimed was true for Communism or Nick Land's Hyper-racist Gigaccelerationist Techo-dystopian Anarcho-Archist Capitalist Helladise.

2020-02-03 18:37:39 UTC  

It's just that the seeds are there- they just need to be nurtured by the Church to bloom into truly enlightened knowledge.

2020-02-03 18:41:19 UTC  

I frankly want to know why pagans believe what they believe. On an intellectual level, what is so appealing?

2020-02-03 18:42:00 UTC  

it's like Nietzsche++

2020-02-03 18:42:30 UTC  

you get ammorality plus demons to give you power and no eternal punishment for doing it

2020-02-03 18:42:56 UTC  

That or it's vitalism like Fr. Seraphim Rose suggested

2020-02-03 18:43:53 UTC  

That people want something to be apart of that feels alive and that liberal secularism and staid/pozzed Protestantism doesn't provide it.

2020-02-03 18:44:15 UTC  

yeah

2020-02-03 18:45:03 UTC  

The problem is that many pagans don't reason there paganism to its logical conclusions. It's usualy a means to justify an end and not an end in itself as any religion should be.

2020-02-03 18:45:04 UTC  

It also doesn't help that paganism secretly helps perpetuate the Promethean Man meme. Which Nietzsche and Evola helped perpetuate unwittingly.

2020-02-03 18:45:54 UTC  

promethean man meme? is that like whig history

2020-02-03 18:46:47 UTC  

Evola's biggest problem is his ego and imo it gets to often in the way of truth

2020-02-03 18:48:33 UTC  

Promethean Man is the term that one based Senator used for the idea of the sovereign individual

2020-02-03 18:48:42 UTC  

Anyway like someone said earlier, paganism is often used as a means to justify extreem tribalism/racialism

2020-02-03 18:49:05 UTC  

hawley?

2020-02-03 18:50:25 UTC  

First of all disagreeing about the nature of god and the emergence of the universe with christians is a good reason to look at alternate systems of belief. People who want to be amoral become wiccans or stay atheists etc.
Then there's the idea of Dharma which had a predecessor in the old IE religion which I very much like and identify with my views of good as an intangible ideal to strive for (which I had since my agnostic phase)
It's not so much about larping in Marvel costumes or necessarily worshipping any god in particular but first an foremost being in line with that intangible good to the best of my ability
Respecting gods, flawed as they are, I think is a good thing but not necessary for it

2020-02-03 18:50:54 UTC  

Anyway I don't like the term pagan

2020-02-03 18:51:21 UTC  

Wiccans are not in the same category as someone who is trying to be a good person

2020-02-03 18:51:46 UTC  

I have to say that paganism on the internet is in a bad state because of bad apples like Varg

2020-02-03 18:52:33 UTC  

People pick it up superficially and then don't bother to do the work to actually behave properly

2020-02-03 18:53:41 UTC  

Regarding the racial aspect, yes it factors into it and it should if you're not someone who thinks in terms of universal salvation and whatnot

2020-02-03 18:53:50 UTC  

@Skellington I think that's the guy.

2020-02-03 18:54:32 UTC  

@Korin Dickman anyways what are your thoughts

2020-02-03 18:57:08 UTC  

Wiccans are definitely a joke. They are about on the level of artificiality as Scientology if you look into the origins of that movement.
>There were witch cults all over Europe that believed these obviously new age hippy things
>No I don't have any really proof, stop asking.
>Avada cadava

2020-02-03 18:57:40 UTC  

Pagans at least have something to work from.

2020-02-03 18:59:34 UTC  

Well, it depends on the nature of power

2020-02-03 19:00:33 UTC  

It's becoming readily apparent that secularism alone cannot support the complex and cancerous network of "rights" that Power creates contingently to justify their actions.

2020-02-03 19:00:41 UTC  

Modern atheists and progressives represent actually what preceded Indo_European paganism

2020-02-03 19:01:00 UTC  

The old matriarchal fertility cults of early European farmers

2020-02-03 19:01:17 UTC  

So BAP claims

2020-02-03 19:02:50 UTC  

If we're turning back to that it's only a question of time old paganism will supplant it too which is highly hierarchical, masculine and idealistic as far as we can tell or another potent meme will do the job

2020-02-03 19:02:54 UTC  

Maybe islam idk

2020-02-03 19:03:16 UTC  

I could see muslims taking over countries and shitlibs converting en masse to avoid paying Jizya

2020-02-03 19:04:00 UTC  

I was just reading another conversation on this server where they theorized that Islam is just as succeptible to being absorbed into the ideological mold that is secular liberalism

2020-02-03 19:05:12 UTC  

I don't actually think so. As German I've seen secularized muslims

2020-02-03 19:05:26 UTC  

Secularized as in tainted by liberalism

2020-02-03 19:05:57 UTC  

First gen guestworkers were pretty ok, behaved well etc.
2nd gen and onwards it only goes downhill

2020-02-03 19:06:12 UTC  

They never really drop islam, jsut violate its principles

2020-02-03 19:06:32 UTC  

Which also leads some of them to want to repent in a typically islamic way

2020-02-03 19:06:49 UTC  

Either they become salafists and do nothing or they cause issues