I would. I find no sense in belittling our capabilities any more than I find sense in grandiose exaggeration of them. But this isn't a debate area. :tonguewink:
As someone well-studied in ecology, I've been saying this for years (and my betters in the field for far longer).
Human immigration is a problem, but not for the reasons the authoritarian party in my country drums up. They do it simply to tap into the xenophobic fear of "other" while...
I don't know. Those things by themselves may or may not have much to do with one's religion or lifeway - how you deal with relating to yourself and to others. But religion is notoriously difficult to define and any definition of any word is something of an artifice. The artifice that gets...
In philosophy there are several different schools of thought hedonism can refer to. Not sure which one we're meant to address here, but given the use of the word "good" which is a value judgement am I to assume we're talking about ethical hedonism specifically? That is, we have a moral...
Depends on how you understand religion. My understanding of religion is such that no human lacks a religion and it is impossible for any human to not have one - it's endemic to the human condition. I know of no human (the cognitively impaired notwithstanding) who does not ask and address...
Of course it doesn't. That "random article" is scholarly research on what some real, live Christians do in practice living their traditions. You know, not just what some book says but what people actually do based in part on their interpretations of that book. It's surprising you would be so...
Some traditions do, hence I put that word "puritanical" in front of Christianity as a qualifier. I'm hardly an expert on it - scholars that examine the intersection of religion and sexuality could tell you about it in vastly more detail than I. But here's an example of what I am talking...
So... the OP was making sense up until talking about "higher animal kingdom" (no such thing, misconception about biological organisms) and "most animals didn't evolve as good" (misconception about biological evolution). Then it got worse with the false claims about DNA encoding of various...
I'm not a Hellenic Pagan, so I wouldn't be the one to ask. But in general Pagan cultures don't sex shame. That's a very puritanical Christian thing that, because of their cultural hegemony, has become understood as normal somehow. Suits me fine as an asexual prude who thinks fornication is...
Thus women and men should go around naked so we can see their genitals clearly. That's what "look like women" and "look like men" actually looks like. You know, genitals. Those need to be clearly visible. Everything else has very little to do with being a human male or female. Everyone has...
The purpose of religion isn't to "solve the many problems that are evil and bad with humans." It is to address existential questions of life and living especially relationships with the self, other humans, and the greater-than-human world we are part of. For a limited subset of religions and...
In many respects there is no functional separation between religion and culture, as one's answers to profound existential questions of our place in the world and our relationships with it interpenetrate all aspects of our lives. While religion is often specifically associated with cultural...
I do enjoy being part of religions that don't have nonsensical or sexist dress codes. Or really any dress codes. Pagans are generally cool with just showing up naked. Except if it is hot or cold, then we get concerned about your safety. :laughing:
Could you describe what chanting looks like to you?
It's not a term I use in my tradition, so I'm not sure if I engage in behaviors others would consider to be chanting or not. I don't think I would describe any practices of my tradition as cheating. Cheating what? Cheating implies the...
In spite of having gone through a couple grades with OBOD I never did use the forum. Probably missed out :sweat:
Pagan forums could be... well, they were a special sort of thing. I didn't use the Pagan-only ones that much back in the day. Sounds like that wouldn't have gone much better...
Thanks, I think? Heh.
Curiously, experiences with early web forums are part of what turned me off to "social media" from a young age. I kind went "nah, I'm just gonna not use any of this stuff, not worth it." Folks are never that mean in-person. Well, maybe not never but it is so...
There are different ways to tell the story. All are something of the truth and none are the whole story.
One tale tells of a child who grew up in the woods and was more or less Pagan from the start. They did not change who they were as much as learned there was a word for that and that this...