What is a Pagan?

[Phil8659]

There are certain plastic words during a time in the evolution of a species towards literacy, when that species entertains plastic words. Many of them are so-called names of religions, beliefs, excuses, etc. which function grammatically as a NOP. No Operation Performed, i.e., it is a word which does not, nor cannot conform to a naming convention, which also implies these words indicate principally, the inability to arrive at a convention of behavior which is either perceptible, intelligible, andor both.

All of grammar is based on conventions of names, but during the evolution of a species, i.e., when it is pre-literate, the NOP function, one can even say pseudo function, acts as a bridge which spans over chaos. It is metaphorically a "don't look down" because, the individual is wholly incapable of achieving a rational, i.e., grammatical, foundation.

During the evolution to becoming rational, no species can actually be rational enough to judge at all.

One is either rational or not, however the irrational cannot make that judgment, by definition. In a rational society, NOP functions are recognized as things to learn, in an uncivilized state, a pretense of knowing which is often expressed as sociopathic behavior.

Education is the process of turning the NOP functions of a mind into OP functions, i.e., from ignorant to functional behavior.

As all systems of grammar are methods of binary recursion, i.e. the recursion of some one thing, it follows that for a rational species "God is the intelligible One" made manifest for the survivability of the species. A preliterate species, is therefore Pagan, those who rightfully claim, they do not know how to do their own work as a form of life. It is wholly impossible to claim that one believes in God, the intelligible unit by which we function, while not being able to do it. Therefore, there are many ways to say I do not know, by using plastic words, but a functional life form uses the realization of that to try and know, the dysfunctional as a reason not to try and commonly as an excuse for sociopathic behavior.

Thus, even a defined religion involves the combination of the two parts of speech, one intelligible to one perceptible. God is the Intelligible One, made perceptible for the survival of life. Or in short, Man is made to have dominion over the environment in order to maintain and promote life.

Personally I like God is the Intelligible One, made manifest, by me and my friends for it is our job. If you are batshit crazy, you claim, in some manner to be god, if you are sane, you are simply environmentally productive. Every illiterate is a Pagan, and therefore, asserting a plastic word as true, batshit crazy.

As a species: "God is the Intelligible One made manifest by doing our own work." If one were literate, one will find that as a paraphrase by actual philosophers.

[Phil8659]

One was informed, a long time ago, that one had to be born again in order to see the Kingdom of God,

I will explain the metaphor.

The first time, we are born, we pass through the physical matrix of our perceptible mother.
The second time we are born is when we learn what we are, why we are, and how to do our own work, i.e., an intelligible matrix, which means we are functioning through the intelligible Grammar Matrix afforded by the Universe Itself, as defined by a thing. This Matrix has historical names for its members: Common Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry. The four methods we use to do our job as an information processor or how we maintain and promote life through judgment. In short, our behavior, i.e., our spirit, is expressible in Truth.
No one can claim to maintain and promote life being illiterate, i.e., lacking the ability of judgment in truth.

Our job is predictive behavior, and mankind was told this time in history would come, using different expressions. How can you teach predictive behavior without demonstration? Knowing the time is not a matter of consensus or guesswork but of recognition.

In the simple, being born again means you need to be correctly educated and pass the course in literacy, or judgment. Metaphor, by the definition of literacy does not translate into mysticism or magic. It transforms into biological fact. The function of learning means exactly that.

[Maia]

I don't think any of that has much to do with Paganism, to be honest.

Paganism is all about an intuitive, emotional link with nature.

[Phil8659]

I don't think any of that has much to do with Paganism, to be honest.

Paganism is all about an intuitive, emotional link with nature.

I completely agree with your first three words.

[Phil8659]

I don't think any of that has much to do with Paganism, to be honest.

Paganism is all about an intuitive, emotional link with nature.

You do not seem to be able to put 2 and 2 together. You bitch for being hassled by the BBC, in short both of you are doing the exact same thing, refusing to join into a convention of names, established not by some particular human being, but by nature, or one can say, the Universe, or even God, does not matter much, it is your inability to agree upon the most fundament agreement required for a civil life.

You are just as hostile, as wild, as the BBC.

[Immanuel Can]

You are just as hostile, as wild, as the BBC.

Well, at least they can spell "pagan." That's a start.

[Phil8659]

You are just as hostile, as wild, as the BBC.

Well, at least they can spell "pagan." That's a start.

I have spelt it both ways, your choice which to act a pussy about.

You seem to like playing the asshole.

So, let me put it phonetically for you Pagan = Pay gone.

Many more recent names in history are actually contractions of two words. Plato even explained it.

But, if you are volunteering to be a spell checker, you have no sympathy for AI, you want to put them out of work. Shame.