02-23-2003, 04:34 PM
I confess that am "slightly" suspicious of this growing fashion/mania of celtic culture amoung certain types of people. It is even growing here in northern Italy.<br>
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I have reason to suspect that it is contaminated and confused with "new age" ideas. Several times I have come across enthusiastic and knowledgeable people of Celts only to be deeply disappointed/annoyed by the side aspects (or central ones?) of their positions.<br>
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We all have hidden agendas, hidden even to our-selves: we all are looking for a sense of self (be cool, be different, be unique) and yet longing for a belonging, doing anything, even surrendering one-self and any notion of critical thinking, just to fit in, into a group, maybe an exlcusive one at that, hence back to being different. Self and non-self: What a wonderful contradiction.<br>
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So now that I have have shown I am empathetic to the human condition.....<br>
All this new-age stuff, the druid nostaglia, the magic stones and swords, the holy graals and round tables is real crap! I really turns me off.<br>
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Hope I didn't offend anyone but sometimes its feels great to let off some steam. Now its your turn.<br>
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p.s. What little I gather was that the Celtic culture was on the retreat, not expanding. Had the romans not arrived, the "germans" would have. Indeed they eventually did several centuries later. Anyone what to play the game of "what if..."? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=goffredo>goffredo</A> at: 2/23/03 5:38:14 pm<br></i>
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I have reason to suspect that it is contaminated and confused with "new age" ideas. Several times I have come across enthusiastic and knowledgeable people of Celts only to be deeply disappointed/annoyed by the side aspects (or central ones?) of their positions.<br>
<br>
We all have hidden agendas, hidden even to our-selves: we all are looking for a sense of self (be cool, be different, be unique) and yet longing for a belonging, doing anything, even surrendering one-self and any notion of critical thinking, just to fit in, into a group, maybe an exlcusive one at that, hence back to being different. Self and non-self: What a wonderful contradiction.<br>
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So now that I have have shown I am empathetic to the human condition.....<br>
All this new-age stuff, the druid nostaglia, the magic stones and swords, the holy graals and round tables is real crap! I really turns me off.<br>
<br>
Hope I didn't offend anyone but sometimes its feels great to let off some steam. Now its your turn.<br>
<br>
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p.s. What little I gather was that the Celtic culture was on the retreat, not expanding. Had the romans not arrived, the "germans" would have. Indeed they eventually did several centuries later. Anyone what to play the game of "what if..."? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=goffredo>goffredo</A> at: 2/23/03 5:38:14 pm<br></i>
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
