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Pagans

Hi Wolfie,

I actually really did know people who were real pagans (their family tradition of paganism going back to a persecuted escape from Ireland in the 1600's). They were rural farming people in an isolated area on the East Coast of the USA when I met them. They practiced a Celtic/pagan religion passed down for generations in their family. I knew them personally. Most had never been to College and were dirt (poor/small-scale) farmers. Although one friend of mine from that community was a college student.

It was a very tiny community, a few hundred people at most. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.57.34.8 (talk • contribs)

Interesting, but the question is how far back beyond that does it go, and how much is family legend (we all have them) :) IRWolfie- (talk) 23:41, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I honestly don't know. I have always had some interest in Irish history and I though the neo-Celtic stuff came in vogue in Ireland in the late 1800's and early 1900's (during the times of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce and the like, although Yeats embraced it and Joyce held it at arms length). All of that as a part of the revolutionary movements of the time.

But these people that I knew in the US told me their tradition went way back and had come over from Ireland with their ancestors in the 1600's (sixteen hundreds). But perhaps even they had their own version of neo-paganism even then. There was a certainly a kind of neo-pagan longing in Irish nationalism/seperatism in the early 1900's. Perhaps there were also earlier versions of this in the 1600's. 208.57.34.8 (talk) 23:49, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I forgot to mention. The people that I knew actually practiced this religion. They invited me to one of their farms on a special holiday and we had a feast on that day. There were a lot of traditions discussed but I did not pay enough attention to the details. **It was a living religion for them. Wherever/whenever it originated.208.57.34.8 (talk) 23:55, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

It's probably a family tradition that they've been doing it since the 1600s, but that's four hundred years ago, does anyone (save royalty) know their family tree that well to be able say what they did with certainty? All you need is one exaggerator or person who makes a mistake about dates in that family chain, IRWolfie- (talk) 08:59, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Asaram Bapu's son comment

Hello. You removed the comment from Narayan Sai (Asaram's son Narayan Sai has dismissed the girl as "mentally unstable", saying that she bathes for more than two-and-half hours.<ref>{{cite news|title=Girl's claim of sexual assault by Asaram seems true: cops|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Jaipur/Girl-s-allegations-against-Asaram-Bapu-likely-true-cops/Article1-1114219.aspx|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=August 28, 2013}}</ref>), saying that it can be added only when there is significant coverage. If you Google "narayan sai mentally unstable"[1], you will see how well-covered his comments have been in the news. What are your thoughts now?--Crème3.14159 (talk) 09:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)