presonorek
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....i would love a tibetan sky funeral...they haul your dead ass up a cliff....bust you open with rocks and such....leave you for the vultures...now that is kick ass
I want to be cremated and have my ashes shot into space.
where are the druids, wiccans, neopagans, asatruars, gaiaists, and other pagans on board? Surely there must be a few.
They were killed/converted by Christians and Muslims throughout the course of history.
These religious groups were annhialated. There a few people that have tried to revive these traditions but I doubt there is anybody who has received their religion purely by oral tradition.
They weren't annihilated. The numbers were greatly reduced, but paganism was never truly destroyed. And that was just in Europe.
Eastern, African, and Native American religions are nearly all pagan-based. True enough these cultures were somewhat westernized, and Islam is force-converting Africans, but the Old Ways are still with us.
It won't happen in our lifetimes but the cultlike religions will disappear and be replaced by paganism. Not paganism as we know it, more like The Force from Star Wars. It'll almost certainly happen within the next 100 years. People are tired of wars based on religion, freedom stripped away because of religion, social status determined by religion, and thought itself controlled by religion. As we become ever more global the Karmic Weave becomes stronger.
The big five (Islam,Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity) still exist because their belief systems are powerful. War, violence and social control are natural occurences in human beings. Have you ever seen two siblings that didn't fight given enough time? Of course not. Humans love subjecting others to their way of seeing things. The only people that resents power is the people that don't have it. That doesn't mean the powerful people will stop exerting their control over them. Religions and political systems that cause war and suffering are here to stay until the end of time. Even when the names of the religions change they will still look a lot like the big five. The ideas, the wisdom and the practices of these religions are timeless inevitabilities. If you can't beat them then join them. Trust me. You can't beat them.