Another Point of View
The real festival of the Aquarians is not Valentines day, as proposed by Fenris in his post Valentines Day rituals, but Groundhog day. Fenris is wrong, and I, Sargon the Magnificent, am right.
Why is this important? Regardless of which pagan system you ascribe to (wittingly or unwittingly), your pagan system will begin to have an effect on you. By participating in the simple rituals of some random pagan diety, you also anchor parts of yourself to pagan systems of behavior; this can feed upon itself, with your subconscious supplying the proof your conscious mind is searching for in the form of selective memory, aggressive affective disbelief, and delusional hysterias.
The pagans were familiar with these things and nurtured them with rituals, mysticism, and culture. You have no such support networks. In fact, their rituals, mysticism, and culture is now generally completely lost to us. When you celebrate Holiday you are with Gaia; when you are with Gaia you dance with Gaia; when you dance with Gaia you better look to taking cover in the month of Sagittarius, when the Horse Archer comes to hunt the children of Gaia. The smallest pagan ritual, from a brass bowl with a flower, to an idol of a frog for incense burner, marks you as not a Christian. Now, you will learn to follow the calendar of Gaia.
Are you a Christian? Is Christ going to protect you? Heck no, you are a progressive, a pagan. You are outside the flock. You choose to be.
You are not a Christian. Then you are now swimming in a growing river of pagans, that reaches in places and at times, into a powerful ocean of subconscious pagan thought. This will buffet many people. It will go worse for the ignorant. It will go well for the crafty, and those learned in the ancient customs. Maybe you are one of them. Maybe, maybe not.
So you know which pagan gods you anger when you favor Valentines over Groundhogs. Who am I to tell you what you already know?
February 15th, 2011 at 10:48 am
Sargon vs. Fenris cage match? I don’t know if I should be intrigued or replused at the thought.
February 15th, 2011 at 10:51 am
The question is rather, would you pay $29.99 pay-per-view?
February 15th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Not to wade into any theological swamps or anything… but don’t Christians regard everyone who is NOT Christian as pagan?
I like those pagan rituals with sacrificial virgins, myself. It doesn’t have to be a REAL virgin, just a woman whose thoughts are pure (and the term “sacrificial” has little to do with death). We recycle, and Gaia likes that.
February 15th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Yes, but the entire edifice of your argument is shattered to rubble by the fact that Groundhog Day is, in reality, National Platypus Day.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090204190822AA9CnEf
It’s not a holiday without a poison-barbed monotreme.
February 15th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
What does platypus taste like?