roachboy

i'm not sure i see much beyond an aesthetic question in this business concerning the word "paganism" here...if it provides a set of metaphors that you find generative to play with, then fine; if you dont, then you dont.

pan made a general wave in the direction of gaia--smeth raises the meta-question concerning metaphor choice--ustwo inserts a particular (not wrong, but particular nonetheless in terms of scale, in terms of attributes selected to foreground and attributes selected to not foreground)...so we are 4 posts in and there are already 3 repertoires that have been introduced (4 if you count this one, despite my attempt to remain to the side)

so there's another possibility for thinking about the thread that basically agrees with the jist of smeth's post but twists it in a different direction:

let the various aesthetic preferences play out and wonder along the way whether these divergent choices nonetheless allow people to talk about the same thing----or not: for example, between pan's and ustwo's posts above, you get mutually exclusive notions of "connectedness"...at least they appear to be mutually exclusive at first--but are they necessarily so?

just another way to proceed...

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