How isn't it? Why do you wish people good luck if not to lend them the weight of your own luck?
Nilokeras wrote:The Emerald Legion wrote:Entitled is a weird word. It doesn't fit the concept, it's just what you use because you're upset about it.
Everyone is born with a different Orlæg. Different circumstances of birth and pre-ordained abilities. That's not an entitlement it's just reality. Some are born in prosperous countries to wealthy families. Others are born in desperate circumstances, the children of criminals or terrorists, and many are born in between. Some people are born smarter, stronger, or luckier than others.
You're not *stuck* where you start, your Orlæg isn't your destiny, and you can change your circumstances. You can excercise to grow your strength. You can educate yourself to make better use of your mind. But where you start is basically up to fate and there's no system that can change that.
Likewise, what happens to you in life is not up to you. You don't determine if a drunk driver takes your road or not. You don't determine if a meteor hits you. The world is fundamentally not in your hands to control or dictate. And so what your ultimate fate is, is less important than how you choose to meet it. A man born rich, who does nothing with that money is lesser than one who is poor, and remains poorer than he, but still accomplishes something in his life.
it takes some doing to invent a religious doctrine that is even more fatalistic than the wildest orientalist distortion of Hinduism. Doubly so when that doctrine seems to have been invented out of wholecloth by an obscure academic in the 1970s with a weak grasp of philology.
Like being a reconstructionist pagan is fine and all but do the necessary work at the very least.
Which is of course why pretty much every Reconstructionist Heathen that isn't a Neo-Nazi holds to the Well and Tree. Surely we must have all missed that.
Also yes, Norse Paganism is cynical and fatalistic as fuck. Just try reading the myths and Havamal sometime.