{"id":4359,"date":"2012-06-21T16:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2012-06-21T18:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:09:01","slug":"pagans-preparing-for-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4359","title":{"rendered":"Pagans Preparing for Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archdruid John Michael Greer <\/a>and the Four Quarters Sanctuary<\/a> figure in this article on “doom time religion.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on my limited experience, a strong religious emphasis might<\/em> hold a communal group together. Otherwise, the people you need are not always the ones who want to live in the commune. The hard workers don’t want to have to carry a bunch of parasites and wannabes who think that “communal living” equals “easy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archdruid John Michael Greer and the Four Quarters Sanctuary figure in this article on “doom time religion.” Based on my limited experience, a strong religious emphasis might hold a communal group together. Otherwise, the people you need are not always the ones who want to live in the commune. The hard workers don’t want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,26,14],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-culture","tag-druidry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-18j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6893,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6893","url_meta":{"origin":4359,"position":0},"title":"Animal Sacrifice and ‘Hard’ Polytheism","author":"Chas S. 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