"Larper" is a term that gets thrown around too loosely

[Skitarii]

"Trad" zoomers who talk a lot of talk, but don't walk the walk are pretty insufferable and do nothing but paint their own community in a bad light.

But then there are actual trads who hardly use the internet, say their prayers, and spend 70-80% of their life outside the house. These trads are the ones that most people respect, however, there is still a segment of the internet who find reason to hate them and go as far as to clump them together with the faceless "LARPer" blob.

It's pretty gay to care about the opinions of delusional basement dwelling stalker children, but how is it larping if you actually walk the walk? Lmao

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

I especially find it ironic when e-tradcaths and orthobros always accuse pagans as being "larpers" when pagans actually are returning to tradition, practicing their faith sincerely, and building it up in real life. I bet none of these e-tradcaths on twitter have actually been to a church or even read the bible. On top of that they like to spread jewish propaganda about paganism being gay while looking up to a gay pedophile mexican (the pagans were heavily homophobic and current day pagans still are against homosexuality).

 

[Vingle]

Can you please turn down the crazy, to something that is comprehensible?

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

Simple terms they think they're faking it.
I hope you understand what LARP stands for because it give you a clue as to why they think that way.

 

[Dyn]

It's pretty gay to care about the opinions of delusional basement dwelling stalker children, but how is it larping if you actually walk the walk?

Posting, or even reading a website like this is fringe as fuck and not at all traditional.

I especially find it ironic when e-tradcaths and orthobros always accuse pagans as being "larpers" when pagans actually are returning to tradition, practicing their faith sincerely, and building it up in real life.

Pagans are following a made-up estimation of what a dead, gay religion might have looked like, because nobody actually knows for sure. It's larping, and it's extremely cringe and gay, y'all might as well be borderline goth chicks who just saw The Craft.

 

[Skitarii]

Posting, or even reading a website like this is fringe as fuck and not at all traditional.

This is not a blogpost. This is a BBC One nature documentary, stalker child

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

I especially find it ironic when e-tradcaths and orthobros always accuse pagans as being "larpers" when pagans actually are returning to tradition, practicing their faith sincerely, and building it up in real life. I bet none of these e-tradcaths on twitter have actually been to a church or even read the bible. On top of that they like to spread jewish propaganda about paganism being gay while looking up to a gay pedophile mexican (the pagans were heavily homophobic and current day pagans still are against homosexuality).

It's an even gayer version of LARPing to pretend to follow a religion that hasn't been practied in 1000 years, left no meaningful traces of its practices and you only follow because of "muh white race" and being against homosexuality,transgenderism and pedophilia when the myths we do have from the pagans are full of that. Everytime someone says they are a pagan, It's because they feel too special to just be an atheist or agnostic who is a white nationalist or socialist or whatever. It's definitely worse than zoomer tradcaths and orthobros or protebros since they are living traditions that have existed for hundreds of years (in the case of Protestantism) to a couple thousand in the other two cases.

It's definitely something you should mock someone for because this person is supposedly an adult and yet acting like BPD white chick.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

LARPer is the title of my political affiliation: LARP, Lad/Las Against Repugnant Policy. I encourage all to join, there are only a few rules. Verify from two sources, be well informed with all available candidates or at least focus on two, denounce all political party affiliations that aren't LARP as LARP is not about tribalism but information and critical thought.

It's because they feel too special to just be an atheist or agnostic

Or, bare with me, they genuinely just worship the natural forces rather than affiliate themselves with religions that are infamously violent in nature, societies that value death more than life, etc. This is the problem with tying politics with the religion. Also these new terms, Trad, orthobros, etc. may have given me a headache.

existed for hundreds of years

You know what has existed since the dawn of man? Paganism.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

@Gehenna is a LARP

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

You know what has existed since the dawn of man?

Mass murder, robbery, cannibalism, and incest, but the cops won't let me do any of that

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

Or, bare with me, they genuinely just worship the natural forces rather than affiliate themselves with religions that are infamously violent in nature, societies that value death more than life, etc. This is the problem with tying politics with the religion. Also these new terms, Trad, orthobros, etc. may have given me a headache.

Philosophical deists/pantheists also do that. It's not unique to paganism. There are also some Orthodox and Catholic saints that embody that ethos in some sense in addition to a lot of 19th century American Protestants. If you can't actually specify what you believe in with completely grounded terms, it's not a real belief, whichbis why modern paganism is a LARP (in addition to the fact that it's based of of Hindu rituals amd religion as processed by foreign white people).

You know what has existed since the dawn of man? Paganism.

Paganism is a type of religion. It's not a specifier like Greek polytheism, Chinese polytheism, Jewish monotheism, Greek monotheism (yes it exists. Read Aristotle and Plato's beliefs on God). There are multiple types of pagans with mutually exclusive beliefs. That's like saying humans have existed since time immemorial therefore thw Slavic race is the master race. Or since prostitution has existed since forever ago, it's magically based now.

 

[Absurdist Laughter]

There are multiple types of pagans with mutually exclusive beliefs.

"Everytime someone says they are a pagan, It's because they feel too special to just be an atheist or agnostic who is a white nationalist or socialist or whatever." Pick a side to argue from.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

"Everytime someone says they are a pagan, It's because they feel too special to just be an atheist or agnostic who is a white nationalist or socialist or whatever." Pick a side to argue from.

Yeah. Everytime some one says they are an Internet/modern pagan, it's because they feel special as your average white girl who is into retarded New Age bullshit and don't want to identify as atheist/agnostic and historical varieties of paganism have mutually exclusive beliefs. Those are both true, non-contradicting realities.

It is an objective reality that modern paganism is a LARP of the highest degree and no one who isn't an actual retard gives these people credence because it's based on something from pre-literate societies or societies that didn't write down the full extent of their rituals and beliefs. It's also that there are different types of historical paganism.

 

[Linako 2.0]

Simple terms they think they're faking it.
I hope you understand what LARP stands for because it give you a clue as to why they think that way.

Weirdest thing I read once is a guy saying that daggerfall is a good game to LARP in or someone saying to quit Larping online.
I think nobody under 30 knows what LARP is an acronym anymore

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

Weirdest thing I read once is a guy saying that daggerfall is a good game to LARP in or someone saying to quit Larping online.
I think nobody under 30 knows what LARP is an acronym anymore

Weirdest thing I've ever seen is people larping in the woods.
It was a university city and I guess some people really wanted to be magic & shit, it's the most ridiculous thing I ever bare witness too.

 

[Wally Paulnuts]

If you can't actually specify what you believe in with completely grounded terms, it's not a real belief

Describe how the color red looks to a blind man.
Oh woops looks like you actually don't believe in the color red! Lol!!!!
An enormous chunk of our regular day-to-day lives, let alone the qualities of our psychological and spiritual existence, are firmly beyond description in the English language. If everything you believe (or, more accurately, everything you think you believe) can be summed up by a dusty old tome then I'm sorry to say you might be nigger cattle and you certainly lack the capacity for introspection that would prove otherwise.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Philosophical deists/pantheists also do that. It's not unique to paganism. There are also some Orthodox and Catholic saints that embody that ethos in some sense in addition to a lot of 19th century American Protestants.

People who larp are desperate for meaning. People who rage about larpers hate being reminded that their own lives have no meaning.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I especially find it ironic when e-tradcaths and orthobros always accuse pagans as being "larpers" when pagans actually are returning to tradition, practicing their faith sincerely

Give me a break. None of those douchebags genuinely believe Zeus is sitting on a cloud and it's all political posturing.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Yeah. Everytime some one says they are an Internet/modern pagan, it's because they feel special as your average white girl who is into retarded New Age bullshit and don't want to identify as atheist/agnostic and historical varieties of paganism have mutually exclusive beliefs. Those are both true, non-contradicting realities.

It is an objective reality that modern paganism is a LARP of the highest degree and no one who isn't an actual retard gives these people credence because it's based on something from pre-literate societies or societies that didn't write down the full extent of their rituals and beliefs. It's also that there are different types of historical paganism.

I mean, sure, but if someone wants to say they're a follower of Zeus or Odin or whoever and set up a little shrine to them then I'd just see that as a bit of quirky, harmless fun. It's not worth the mental energy to get mad about it. The only time I can see any of this becoming an actual problem is if their fanfiction ends up making the study of actual pre-Abrahamic religions more difficult, like with the Book of Veles hoax.

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

I mean, sure, but if someone wants to say they're a follower of Zeus or Odin or whoever and set up a little shrine to them then I'd just see that as a bit of quirky, harmless fun. It's not worth the mental energy to get mad about it. The only time I can see any of this becoming an actual problem is if their fanfiction ends up making the study of actual pre-Abrahamic religions more difficult, like with the Book of Veles hoax.

I see them as retards that don't understand what they are talking about but spout off nonsense anyways. They aren't harming anyone sure, but their worldview is so idiotic, even the Greek philosophers pretty much abandoned their own version of polytheism because they could see the obvious flaws in the logic of having volatile human-like beings ruling over the consistent and constant rhythms of nature, which helped drive scientific/technological, ethical and social progress rather than the whole host of spells and shit that were basically snake oil salesman tactics back in those days.

Add to that the fact they aren't even practicing anything close to actual pagan beliefs, just the shit that happened to be transcribed by monks centuries after the fact. It's really juvenile. At least with atheism/agnosticism, there is an attempt to have a coherent worldview and make sense of the world we see. Paganism is for mentally unbalanced people to LARP that they have superpowers or some shit and it's so readily obvious, that it's a joke in and of itself.

Mind, I do find myths from various cultures interesting and I look at them from time to time, like some Native Mexican tribes that still practice shamanism or the Pueblo mythos. But the difference between those myths and the LARPy aspect of Western paganism is that those myths inform their way of life and try to subtly explaon various phenomena in the natural and social world and how it came to be. Most pagans today don't have that connection to their myths. They just use paganism as a political tool to be against the "white patriarchy" or "Christcuckery" (i.e. their parents who didn't beat them hard enough clearly). It's very clearly a LARP and not a genuine belief, much the same way Episcopalianism is now or certain varieties of Islam, Judaism and even Catholicism/Orthodoxy/Protestantism are to some people: It's about how it makes you appear more than how you internalize the fundamental message of the religion. The only problem with that is even the listed examples have tenets of faith, so you can objectively judge how good you are at following your supposed faith. Modern paganism (and a lot of classical examples of paganism) lacks that, which is perfect for those who have overactive imaginations and an abundance of mental illnesses to make it what they see fit to fit their own agenda, hence, why pagans tend to be far-left or far-right.