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.....I still see it as a kind of a victory that for example every Christmas the eternal Winter Solstice gets recognized (even often unknowingly), you can hear the old gods laughing:)

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And there is alot more....germanic paganism differs from the native ones in Bolivia...or the latin one, the nordic one or the slavic one, etc....the dates differ, the traditions differ....but at some point Christianity took over, and to make conversion easier they adapted the cherished dates. Even the term "paganism" is a christian one...

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Of course the dates differ everywhere....as does nature....Pagans know that....and Jesus wasn't really born on the 24th of December, but it is the time of Winter Solstice in Europe (ca.)

What are we discussing?

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....na ja, Google showed it's rather recent and has more to do with a rediscovering of the old native culture (as is Paganism in Europe and North America).

laprensalatina.com/bolivia-hails-summer-solstice-calls-for-new-relationship-with-mother-earth/

When the christian re-building of St.Johns didn't get such a hold with the Christians then probably because people and kids didn't get to stuff themselves so much! :)

(I'm fairly sure the Pagans in Britain are marking summer solstice too, just not St. Johns)

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Oh I know of summer solstice, these old traditions are not lost.....I meant St. Johns....

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.....no idea....never heard of St. Johns (in Germany that is)....not enough sugar for the kids? :)

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Similiar to Easter (origin Equinox) and Christmas (origin Winter Solstice)....I guess the success till today is the sugar coma for the little ones (and grown ups) the West has made of them! :)

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I find that fascinating!

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The Left is on the way down in Germany too....seems to be a european "thing"!

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Strange.....

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Probably!

I just wish we in Germany would have been asked more often about important questions...maybe I'm projecting....or I need a coffee!


Seriously?

I would call our Scholz gov also left-leaning, but since Russia decided to visit unasked it's neighbour they have become quite the military supporters, ramping up money and plans.

I can't imagine any polish gov becoming now flower-power-hippies! Not in this time and age, with this many hot crises!

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Even so, Gruni! Can't you hold out till the next elections?

Come on!!! Heads up! :)

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I'm sorry to sound arrogant, but my question is meant serious....

When not enough people think that referendum worthwhile that still doesn't make it "pathetic".

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Yes, that is abit surprising....you can be pro Euro, even a leftist and still acknowledge the democratic value of a referendum, any referendum!

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May I ask whats so pathetic about it? Isn't it a good thing that a gov wants to ask it's people about some not quite unimportant questions?

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You are good! :)

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....verdammt!

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We do????

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.....erm!

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.....but when it works..... :)

Our "steel and iron" economy nears it's end and every so dramatic change is painfull!

This energy crisis is only hastening things up, unplanned...to early...but not avoidable.

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....I guess that will be a thing of the past, Germans telling others what to do.

Not in the state our country is right now...that gets ridiculous very quickly!

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Did that really happen? A german politician calling a polish politician and tell him what to do???

Because....frankly....that wouldn't go over really well here either! Germans would prefer Scholz "meddling" in german issues first, actually doing something instead of only nice talking....

(And when a polish politician...or any other foreign one for that matter....would call one of ours only to tell him what to do, we would be p***ed too, it's quite a natural reaction, that's why I'm asking!)

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spiegel.de/ausland/polen-jaroslaw-kaczynski-inszeniert-telefonabfuhr-an-olaf-scholz-a-c1749ad1-cf9b-460b-9bcd-a1b690469479

A bizarre election advertisement is causing discussions in Poland: PiS leader Kaczyński is contacted by Chancellor Scholz, but prefers to hang up. The rejection contains an accusation that has been bothering Poland for a long time. ....

Wow....???

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Thanks....that was interesting!

*backing out now of this thread...landing soon in Random anyhow* :)

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Depends if you are a believer yourself....then "Ungläubiger" (unbeliever/non-believer?) would be meant demeaning....but the usual used term is "Atheist"....and that is quite neutral.


Yeah....that makes sense! "Heide" is an older insult for non-Christians....but rarely used nowadays anymore.

Is it un-believer? Or non-believer???

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....that's what I'm not sure about....for me as a german native heathen is just a word, not necessarily meaning contempt....the same with pagan...but I get that they mean non-christian/non-abrahamic as Torqi said.

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Heh:)

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....aha.....also a heathen is a kind of atheist, unbeliever....and a pagan just prefers Odin!

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.....I'm never sure....are heathens and pagans the same?

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Any scholar?

If that is taught in Russia, there need to be some material presented, right?