Living
Gods Walk Among Us
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How should we imagine the gods of Germanic Paganism? Karl E.H. Seigfried argues for us to picture the gods not as figures frozen in the Viking Age, but as living, vital beings of the here and now.
The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/generative-ai)
How should we imagine the gods of Germanic Paganism? Karl E.H. Seigfried argues for us to picture the gods not as figures frozen in the Viking Age, but as living, vital beings of the here and now.
AI doesn’t have a personal, intimate relationship to the elements around it/us. It doesn’t have a connection to the Divine.
I know I’m in a tiny minority, but – as a practitioner of a tiny minority religion – I’m used to caring about things that are way outside the mainstream of our cultural discourse. And I wonder what we practitioners can offer during this cultural moment in which the majority of us are passively experiencing a major paradigm shift, in which most of us are just unquestioningly along for the ride.