To add, these neopagans of course don’t actually worship the same gods as the pagans of old, just their fanciful (and often christianized) misinterpretations of them.
Converting to Neopaganism is genuinely a sign of severe mental illness. The historical beliefs of pagans died. They ceased to be. Without the installation of belief from childhood there is no way to justify genuine belief in pagan gods besides religious psychosis. Of course-
- most “neopagans” don’t actually believe it, it’s pure LARP, even if they deny it. But those who genuinely do, besides the scant few raised in it, can do so only due to psychosis. There are no classical pagan theological texts to rationalize it.
for the record lenin was just, flat out, wrong about Britain here. Sylvia Pankhurst was completely right. Lenin did not understand the actual situation on the ground of the Labour Party.
This is the female equivalent of guys who want their girlfriends to be their mothers. Women who want their boyfriends to be their fathers. Incredibly off-putting, infantile behavior.
Whoever has been running the Argentine state indoctrination program has to be a genius because argentines genuinely believe that losing a war of aggression is the same as being a victim of genocide
Rare use of AI for an undeniable environmental good: instead of real epoxyslop furniture which will sit on a landfill for ten billion years, we simply generate a video of the same and then nobody has to have an ugly resin table that discolours within a few years
Your supporters may outnumber your activists, but what makes a socialist org unique is that it must raise its ordinary worker supporters to the level of activists & ultimately a ruling class that can govern society. Email polls cannot do that, only real deliberative democracy can