slyscorpion said:
The main idea i have always wanted to propose is this.
I would like to see some sort of community events that are free where people come together to celebrate things and do something creative. A little like what I heard some of the ancient pagans did but it could be adopted to our times. Even in the middle ages people had that from what i read where people gathered much more than today but
It was all based on the church unfortunately but still better than nothing and everyone doing their own thing all the time and meaningless stuff.
I think doing this second thing will solve most the problems of people feeling like their life doesn't have meaning and being bored and will allow a positive way for people to make friends.
They could make this every day for different things and differnt types of people as not everyone is going to enjoy the same stuff or events but to have it would be great for everyone. I think this idea would fit nicely with age of Aquarius energy.
Wow, I was just about to start penning a comment saying much the same, but then I read yours. I'm of the same mind here; I think that the main reason why people can't picture a pagan society is because most people haven't ever known anything different. Before the recent generations it was just slaving away at work, going to church, sleep and repeat, and everyone was miserable. There was no life in it. Now with the newer generations there's no social connection at all. Everyone exists on the internet, they eat at chain restaurants, they shop at chain stores, and everything looks gray, square, and identical the way it's all built and organized. Even small towns are following this model and pretending to be cities at this point. So before there was community ties, but they were all miserable with xianity - and now there's no community ties.
An age where everyone has more wealth than they need to just simply survive and get by, where there's beautiful buildings, architecture, and city design that doesn't suck the life out of your eyes just looking at it, and people go to fairs, celebrate pagan festivals and holidays, and everyone is connected again. That's what we need to imagine, and it's something nobody knows because we haven't seen it in our current lifetimes. Most of the time we can only imagine and extrapolate based on what we already know and have experienced, unless we imagine things outside the box. Something different from what we already know.