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At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: About Almost Anyone Anyone Else Because Else Experience Isolation Like Loneliness Makes Mind More Much Problem Regard Risk Same Say Serious Special Universal

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Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: About Anymore Bias Call Care Case Community Emerging Humanist Intellectual Little More Observer Option Pagan Paganism Part Practices Really Seems Those Want Who Woo

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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Conscious Cosmopolitan Culture Educational Enlightened Environmentally Humanist Intellectually Just Might Pagan Paganism Person Powerful Prejudices Show Socially Sophisticated Stereotypes Stimulating Struggle Those Tool Vibrant Who

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Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Books Complex Every Heritage History Important Including Influential Instruments Intellectual Intellectuals Kind Like Literary Made Mechanism Most Our Pagan Poets Scientists Sky Some The Most Important Those Were Western Who Wrote

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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Alexander Athens Caesar Else Few Great Greatest Hannibal Homer Julius Just Leaders Lived Living Military Name Pagan Plato Political Rome Societies Society Some Time Were

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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Absolute Affirmation Authority Catholic Deity Last Life Me Means My Life Neither Perhaps Remaining Upbringing Will Wise Word Worship You

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I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Bow Obey Worship

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The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Own Philosophical Point Primarily Rely Spirit Thinking

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The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Accept Even God How How Much Matter Much Philosophical Prestige Satisfied Seems Simply Spirit Teller True

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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

~Brendan Myers

Topics: Abstraction Centre Even Happen Home Need Place Relationships

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 4th, 1974

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