Well, to me it is.
Maia has become a member of Know Thyself. The ILP Maia I’m presuming. She joined yesterday and already has 50 posts.
Posting in the KT “Pagan religion” thread.
This [I believe] is her first post]:
She makes it clear right from the start that, unlike in regard to Satyr’s own dogmatic “my way or the highway” understanding of nature, she is not an objectivist here. She is not arguing that her own beliefs about Paganism are the only ones that all rational men and women are obligated to share. She’s not going to call someone a “moron”, as Satyr has, because they don’t think like she does.
But: I still grapple myself with understanding her frame of mind.
Suppose John and Mary and Jack and Molly are Pagans. They all have a spiritual connection to nature but they completely disagree about many things revolving around moral and political value judgments. From abortion and gun ownership to gender roles and social justice they often come into conflict.
So basically, it seems, one can have a spiritual connection to nature and believe practically anything at all in regard to right and wrong, good and bad behaviors. Unless, of course, I am simply not able [so far] to understand it as a Pagan does.
And if the feeling – the spiritual connection – is inherent, does that mean that one is born with it? Or, through the actual experiences that they have given the circumstances of the lives they live, do some come to this intrinsic connection while others don’t? The part I root in dasein?
I’d join the exchange there myself but am not able to. Why?
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Ironically, I was going to bring this to Maia’s thread on Paganism here at ILP. But it’s “locked”. Locked because, alas, as with many other exchanges here at ILP, it devolved into…
More irony:
The last post on the thread was from Lyssa. KT’s Lyssa. And the avatar she chose is exactly the same one that Satyr uses over at KT today.
Note to Satyr:
So Lyssa really was just someone you invented over there?!!
Did you invent camus 666 as well?