"So it matters little if at the end of the day thye are speaking textbook french or a dialect french, as long as they all understand each other the meanings are the same."
errr... NO. The Germanic and Celtic traditions rely on complex alliteration for there delivery. This is why worship and songs varied from tribe to tribe. Accent and dialect were CRUCIAL in which God you worshipped and where you even conducted your rite. This is what annoys me about anybody who claims to practice Paganism - they barely know the rudimentary let alone the interpretive modes of discovery within the tradition. And I can promise you these modes are lost...
"there is only one religus truth, how you live and how you die. and the rest is up for interpretation."
No, the whole of Europe is primarily Judaeo-Christian, with a minority of Muslim. The fact that our traditions have similarities to Pagan tradition is merely to make the Christian worship more accessible to the early pagans, who in most cases had become detached from the older naturalistic worship. Christian religion is more succinct than Pagan and is therefore more suited to the civilised world. Paganism is ideal in the primal world of Vikings and Celts, where Thor as the wolf is a living identity... Where do you see a lone wolf in its element these days? Usually wolves are found scrambling around trash cans, scavenging human refuse and this is certainly not the Thor the pagans worshipped! Thor was top down… he gave gifts to humans form nature e.g. the wolf as a guide at night or the bear (in some myths) as the delegate for honey used in traditional medicine - not bottom up … as in taking human refuse from rubbish. This is why animal lore is dead.
Jesus on the other hand is less obvious in nature, and more esoteric in sanctified worship. Jesus loves you, therefore you have meaning... We can find truth in the urbanised decay of the modern world... Pagan traditions cannot. Rome had become so polluted with modernism that it had lost all meaning from the ancien regiem. Christianity (treaty of Milan) brought a new age of spiritualism to Rome and hence Romans became aware of the eternal truth again.
"druids arent extinct...my mother is classed as a druidess"
You need to read your history... Druids went extinct - its just that many people today seek a new identity in the old traditions. My late mother was considered a white witch as she could predict events and astral project... But she did not make this her religion! she still had reverence for the Catholic living tradition. To her magic was just an illusion of this world... it did not contain the unchanging religious truth.
"Of course you carnt go jumping at your roman antagonisers in your class, shaking and threatening to punch them....oh wait you werent at the last wednesdays broadsword class i teach where someone who's clearly roman sparked my celtic blood off enough to teh point i crushed him into teh floor and walked out so that i didnt kill him. Of course celtic, roman feuds are long buried beneath euro goths.
Everything is ment to evolve, if we were meant to stay stagnent the dinosaurs would still be discussing this."
Europeans are mixed, only Icelandic people can claim "purity" these days. The fact that you beat up a student over racial tension, puts into question your ability to instruct courses in swordsmanship. I would never kick the crap out of a guy in martial arts class based on his heritage.
However, I am sure the Euro-gothz would admire such actions.
"dont you have a garden ?"
Yes I do, and I often ponder about Guan Yu when I see the Gingko Biloba, Or of Thor when I plant Digitalis Purpurae BUT I do not take this as my own mode of worship as it is not a valid path. I do not reject the pagan myth, I just reject those who believe it is a valid course of salvation... This does not mean you cannot glean religious ideas from them. Many Christian myths are derived from Greek ones.
"are you trying to say the ancient warrior who became a berserker hadnt had supper the night before or breakfast."
It was an analogy! People today eat Bradshaws honey baked crumpets with Mickey Mouse Jam... Hardly the stuff of a true Berserk! Agree?
"maybe youve never faced down shotgun weilding thugs who were killing rabbits, maybe youve never been in the depths of your own territory"
A wild weekend; though if these “thugs” were shooting rabbits for game (which is what most “thugs” do in their spare time) a shotgun is hardly the choice weapon.
