Interpreting occult/pagan thought

your own idea of religion is just limp wristed protestantism. The vast majority of religions we know of through history have been orthoprax not orthodox, i.e. not stipulated any particular belief in anything, basing religious identity more on what you do than what you think.

I see these occult traditions as proto-education. or education is a sort of mystic tradition, either or.
'you mean there's a special experience that changes how you see the world but can't be explained except to those who have undergone the same experience, or at least one as similar as possible?' sounds like literacy or education to me, because I've undergone the literacy/education esoteric experience. if I was an ancient Greek and was initiated into the nearest chthonian mystery cult then I'd call anything similar to that a mystery cult instead. education is a mystery cult about growing up, and so are all the other mystery cults in the world, whether they have organized doctrines like the Trinity or whether they're just a dude on peyote in California in the 90s.

>open ended, fluid, growing belief system
>intense physical, mental, intellectual feats
>limp wristed Protestant

Your nonstop use of buzzterms is an intellectual crutch and a weak shield from the fact that you have no clue what you’re talking about.

If you can’t quit doing it then you’re larping as an intellectual

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Hes not wrong in that many non-abrahamic belief systems are more concerned with the correct practice of their traditions and rituals rather than the orthodoxy of your personal belief. It really just seems like what you're saying amounts to "everything that doesn't fit my Christian capitalistic worldview is larping".

yes, it's the assumption that all religions are based around belief that I'm critiquing in this guy's posts.

Apologies I come from a place where Protestantism, orthodox, and orthoprax are just foundational vocabulary, not buzzwords

Agreed. You really have to experience it!

my first girlfriend was a wiccan. she fainted when i tried to fuck her in the ass.

I like this post. I really never thought of it this way.

In this case, it is a LARP. They are trying to reconstruct a dead tradition which many of its source texts have been lost hundreds of years ago. How do they make up for those holes in the doctrine and liturgy? You can't unless you make shit up. Hence, LARP.