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    Odin, Thor, Tyr and culture

    See this was a conversation in this thread I was trying to NOT get into ;)
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    Odin, Thor, Tyr and culture

    Well that's one opinion. I feel that the ancient pagans were most likely universally syncretic. Obviously most disagree.
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    Odin, Thor, Tyr and culture

    I've been looking into PIE culture. Tyr comes from Tiwaz, God of war, justice and the sky, coming from Djews Phter, of order, the sky and oaths (whence Jupiter, Zeus and Dyaus Pitar). Thor's changed little from PIE Tonaros (also called Perkwonos). Odin I think had a name change. His minor...
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    Tell me about your religion

    I am a Germanic Heathen. That means I religiously honor my ancestors, somewhat treated as minor gods at least. "Ancestors" include our beloved dead, the elements of nature and the divinities, which are the cosmic gods as well as our divine ancestors. To refer to the divinities, most of us prefer...
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    Your best argument that god exists

    You can't. You can only prove using science the material and tangible. God only makes sense in spirituality, the abstract and religion. Mixing science and religion is like asking "how many inches are in five gallons?" It just doesn't work.
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    Ex-Christians: Tell your story

    My exodus from Christianity was one of the saddest experiences in my life. Firstly, I loved what I was calling "God". I however couldn't wrap my mind around the idea of eternal damnation. Didn't seen just or godly in my unusually progressive mind. In middle school I started learning...
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    science and religion

    Religion and Science shouldn't even be talking to each other. Spirit and matter are completely incomparable.
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    Is Science a Religion?

    Science is concerned with matter. Religion is concerned with spirit. Not only is science so not a religion, the two are completely incomparable. Using spirit and matter to explain or experiment with the same thing is like saying "is 20 months equal to 100 gallons or 40 kilometers?" It just...
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    Science and Religion overlap

    i never thought religion and science contradicted each other. I also never felt they are cooperative. Imo, they're completely unrelated. Science is concerned with matter and physical being. Religion is concerned with spirit and metaphysics. Why use religion in the context of matter and science...
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    Could 'gods' evolve?

    The Lore of the Heathen Gods says that the elements fire and Ice created wights or spirits. Some wights, spirits of the elements evolved into Giants, superwights of primordial elements. Some feel the gods are descended from Giants, so in a way elemental forces evolved into Giants, which begot...
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    Odin, Thor, Tyr and culture

    I've always found fascinating the relationship between Odin, Thor and Tyr (whom I like to call the central gods of war or ruling Aesir) and heathen culture. At first, Tyr was most popular as the sky father, representing morality, order and law. I think heathen culture at first was an...
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    Animal slaughter - blot

    I also keep in mind the hospitality aspect. Here we have Odin, not only an elder ancestor, the Allfather, a god (keeping in mind I'm a human of Midgard), and I get the clear sign that he wants a pig as sacrifice, well I had better find myself a good and fat hog! I should be more than flattered...
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    Tribalism

    Anyone familiar with the term "tribalism"? I've always identified as in the middle of Folkism and Universalism, being not concerned with neither ethnicity nor modern spirituality lacking culture, but demonstrating morality to the tribe (family and those oathed to you) and elders, with the...
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    Secular Spirituality

    I agree. As a whole, there shouldn't be anything spiritual accepted as a fact. I'm talking about justification for personal adherence. I'm saying if your justification is blind faith, you've drunk the kool-aid, and my community and I don't consider faith an honorable virtue. You did something...
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    Secular Spirituality

    I know macro evolution isn't a matter of belief. That's my point.
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    Secular Spirituality

    Thank you! ;)
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    Secular Spirituality

    No I mean realistic religion, where people practice not because they blindly accepted the ideological filter that was downloaded into their brains from infancy involving blind faith (which Heathens equate with ignorance) but because they have convincing UPG, leaving spirit the most likely...
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    Secular Spirituality

    Let me rephrase. I do the rituals because it looks like I've gotten results from them and I keep doing them based on the theory (with the evidence of the events said in the ritual happening, the things asked for suddenly being owned by me or an event that's completely the opposite of events...
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    Animal slaughter - blot

    I've never been to such a ritual, but I feel any (preferably learned in humane animal slaughter) has the right to humanely slaughter non endangered animals for consumption or (if not consumed) by required religious reverence. I feel that the heathen community, where animal sacrifice is...
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    Secular Spirituality

    Coming from a heathen who considers himself very spiritual and religiously reverent, I'm also very secular and I wish other religious people would be so too. I never accept or believe in anything unless it's a proven fact (recreated or observed without room for question). Spiritual entities are...
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