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Battle Ground spoilers: Harry’s pairing. What do you think?
forumghost:
--- Quote from: Mogley123 on October 08, 2020, 08:08:42 PM ---I was reading post talking about pagans and whether or not it was a defensive term I consider myself a pagan I don't find a defensive what I found fensive is when they said that pagans have no belief system of their own while I certainly do
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I mean I think the point they were making is that historically speaking, 'Paganism' began as a pejorative catch-all term made up by Christians for all non-christian religions- the term applied equally to Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Celtic, basically any non-monotheistic religion and it was intentionally derogatory and labelled a vast number of different faiths and beliefs as the same, 'wrong' thing- it was the religious equivalent of calling someone an ill-bred peasant.
This is of course distinct from modern Neo-paganism, which is it's own thing, that happens to have the same name.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: forumghost on October 08, 2020, 08:31:21 PM ---It was intentionally derogatory and labelled a vast number of different faiths and beliefs as the same, 'wrong' thing- it was the religious equivalent of calling someone an ill-bred peasant.
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It was almost literally calling someone a peasant. Peasant is "ultimately from the Latin pagus," according to Wikipedia. Also from Wikipedia:
--- Quote ---The term pagan is derived from Late Latin paganus, revived during the Renaissance. Itself deriving from classical Latin pagus which originally meant 'region delimited by markers', paganus had also come to mean 'of or relating to the countryside', 'country dweller', 'villager'; by extension, 'rustic', 'unlearned', 'yokel', 'bumpkin'; in Roman military jargon, 'non-combatant', 'civilian', 'unskilled soldier'.
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StrayDog:
--- Quote from: Telynn on October 08, 2020, 05:34:07 PM ---Is she talking about this here in BG?
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Thank you Telynn, that is the exact conversation I was unsuccessfully trying to remember.
vultur:
--- Quote from: bigdangmoose on October 08, 2020, 07:22:10 PM ---My take on that was that she was talking about the suicide setup back in Changes. That's what she went through, loving Harry and then him being taken away from her with his death.
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Absolutely
--- Quote from: Mira on October 07, 2020, 04:54:01 AM --- Oh she is simply too old for him. ::)
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Is she older than Luccio (about 200-210 when she was dating Harry)?
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: vultur on October 09, 2020, 04:50:57 AM ---Is she older than Luccio (about 200-210 when she was dating Harry)?
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I'm pretty sure Lara is much older than Luccio. Lara remembers Luccio's wild youth. Lara is Papa Raith's oldest child.
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