(The original post is www.auryn.org)
do I have time meditating on an article, and I have concluded that those who are offended, it is because it is reflected and that to me does not concern me. Sorry if someone gets angry, but the record, I criticize both individuals and streams of all kinds I do not in any particular center.
Take this situation. Any place in Europe, 1600. A sorceress / witch / doctor / midwife / pimp / pagan woman enters a shop called esoteric imaginary.
"See, I: two pink candles, a bag of incense (the Arab East the cost of a pulp and it is impossible to find in Europe in the seventeenth century), a silver chalice, yes, that with the pentacle, (for I caught very quickly when the Inquisition comes to my house), a wand calibrated by a Reiki master, and, um ... if you have, put me also four strings of red silk ... today I have too much money and silk is cheap, China has already fallen Price since Columbus discovered America ...
-Oh, wait, just got a shipment of Fluorite from Taiwan. Would you put two stones?
"Yes, I will pay with VISA of the Middle Ages.
Another situation: Gaul, the year 90 BC. A family / tribe gala is going to do a ritual
"Hey, Artius, why do we celebrate this thing called Yule?
I do not know, put it in a treaty that says we celebrate this event, although a bit strange, because the name seems to Nordic or Germanic, and who knows what happens to livestock that this Yule.
"Well, if you put in this treatise, is that true.
-let us begin ... Oh, Dagda ...!
-Dagda, who is this?
-A god we worship ... well, not us, our neighbors.
- Is it not strange? Why do you call if you do not know?
"I put in the treaty.
"Oh sorry, go on.
-O Dagda, Brigantia, Cernunnos, Lugh, Cerridwen, Morrighan you give these potatoes ...
"First, what are all these people? And second, what are the potatoes?
"These people are a list of gods that we theoretically.
- What do they do?
"They're gods of death, the Sun, one of Death, one of the Light ...
" With just two gods we believe, this time does not make much sense to call such people, right?
"Yes, I think it will be more practical if these four trash. And the potato it is apparently a vegetable far away.
- What sense does this give such Dagda potatoes?
"I really do not know. It says here that to reach that state of transit extrapersonal with the deity is to offer a symbol of fertility in order to recognize its power and carry out a cycle do not know why, but after discussing himself and talk about anthropology of a "Celtic."
"Oh, and I wanted to thank you for the harvest ...
not trying to be very offensive, but common sense makes its own limits. Paganism (and also believe that Neopaganism) is a religion, or even more, a way of life. As in all life, practicality is more logical and easy. So just what do we get all these obstacles?
Both the example of the witch as in that of the Gauls I see several flaws:
"No question what we say, the witch buy and buy things that are demanded from above without question, as the Gauls, trusting the authority has been given to a writer who no longer an individual with his objective view of things. That means that we are following a review, it may be true or not. and that happens every fall: if you put in a book is true. Well, most times, is a lie, I'm sorry. In two who claim to follow old traditions, how are you glaring faults often spend long, and it's a shame, because what we theoretically try, is to reach the same point that was reached in antiquity. This is not to say we do not have to adapt what they know and have found what they believe, but do it with some logic.
-not be practical. Most pagans (including me) have a defect that hce often fall into the most profound stupidity: we forget that religion (and culture) is carried inside, and that we should not force it engraved with a shoehorn Triskeles, but has to naturalize ourselves. Forced to hold things that you do not make sense, or to worship things that do not know, as in the case of the Gauls, it makes us more pagan, but causes us to see religion as something distant and artificial, as "end week. " When pragmatism doubt about something, I ask you seriously think that this was done X? If that is possible, there is a plus. If the answer is ridiculous, that would only spend time, money and imagination.
-not be consistent: all of the above has an answer: I do because I get the bow. Well, I'm glad you know what you do, and that you are aware of your acts. If that's the case, then you are consistent. If you say, "hey, I already know that the witches of the Middle Ages did not use candles or roses Mirra call love, but it works for me, then okay, but one must be able to justify what they do and be consistent with it. If you use candles, roses, that's fine, but at least admits that Egyptian priests used them because no fool will make you happier. Give
constantly
-metaphysical explanations of what we do: there really is someone who believes that the Gauls of the first century BC had wondered why what they thought and metaphysical and anthropological concessions of their beliefs? It's funny that I complain about this because I have a forum on reconstruction in the debate that everything related to the Celts, in metaphysical and anthropological areas, but I think that's my role in this case. And not everyone needs the same role to practice a religion. Do I have to remind you to believe in something just need to believe and know why you think so? Sometimes we take too many turns to things that are natural, such as yourself.
Well, this is my critique of the entire paganism (as Reconstructionist, recreation, Neo-Pagan, happy, unhappy ...), and all the heathen, I hope ye laughed a lot, and I await your criticisms and spells satin tie with string black for the occasion.
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