Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
On Deep Paganism, or: In Which Our Intrepid Blogger Makes Some Lame-Ass Excuses for Occasionally Posting on Non-Pagan Topics
Guilty as charged.
Yes, I do occasionally post on non-pagan topics—Justin Trudeau's butt, for example.
(But is Justin Trudeau's butt a non-pagan topic? ”If you want to understand the gods,” said Socrates, “look at excellence.” ) Yes, I do occasionally get grief about it, mainly from myself.
Please find attached my pathetic collection of excuses, many of them mutually-contradictory.
You can draw your own conclusions.
Just because it doesn't have a pentagram on it, doesn't mean it isn't pagan.
I like to think that I'm writing about the Deep Paganism. Just because it doesn't look pagan on the surface, doesn't necessarily mean that there's no pagan there.
To the pagan, all things are pagan.
Sunsets, recycling, milk. Stupas, church architecture, the Qur'an. Beads, shoveling snow, men's bodies.
To the pagan eye, there's pagan everywhere.
Maintaining a healthy paganism means having outside interests.
To the Deeply Pagan, our paganism touches on everything that we do, think, and say.
Still, the healthiest relationships are always the ones in which all parties involved keep up their outside interests.
I may be a Paganism Bore, but so long as I can maintain interest in at least some non-pagan topics, I'm not completely hopeless.
Well, so I like to tell myself. You be the judge.
It's a test.
Aha! You think this is non-pagan? Look more deeply, my friend!
Everybody needs a break now and then.
The Paganistan Blog is cited in literally hundreds of works by academics all over the world. I post here—for the most part, daily—some of (gods help us) the deepest and most thoughtful material that there is to be found on the topic of the contemporary paganisms. (Humility is not a pagan virtue; truth is a pagan virtue.) By virtue of that fact, I reserve to myself the right to post non-pagan material occasionally.
“I'm pagan; therefore, everything that I think, do, or say is pagan.”
Yeah, yeah, we've heard it before.
Talk about self-indulgent—not to mention lazy—excuses.
Well, for what it's worth, that's my take.
To the obdurately topical, such as myself, let me say: there are plenty of pagan blogs out there.
No need to read this one.
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