LARP-ing Isn't Evil Nor (to Catholic Sensibilities) Awkward

I get the feeling some people are trying to adapt Catholicism to Baptism or to KGB type "Orthodoxy".

@MilitantThomist
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Catholicism DESTROYS LARPing...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r_wI0EehrhI

Neither the IV commandment nor the other duties of a Catholic are against LARP-ing.

While God put us in the days we are put, for a reason, the reason may be to lament that better days are gone:

And he humbled himself afterwards, because his heart had been lifted up, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and therefore the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Ezechias.
[2 Paralipomenon (2 Chronicles) 32:26]

So, the days of Ezechias were, for instance happier than those of his successors.

Ethnic identity ... a modern costume allows a European, and American and a Pakistani to all wear suit jacket, pressed trousers, white shirt and necktie. If I wear a Medieval hood, that's exclusively European. No one in the Americas wore it before modern larping outside Dominicans and Franciscans and similar who are indeed larping the Middle Ages. Nor did Pakistanis wear them. If I use the kind of cape-jacket the Hungarians call a mente, I narrow down to Austro-Hungarian, and while I'm a Swede, I'm born in Vienna.

If I wear breeches, tied under the knees, I'm seeking common ground between Europeans and Americans. If the breeches are leaned down, 18th C. wise, I am again approaching Austro-Hungarian customs. Austrians wear them. And, still not Pakistanis. In France it has an added flavour of "I'm not a sansculotte" ... which it seems some freemasons want me to regret.

And as Dominicans and Franciscans are larping the Middle Ages, 12th C., so Jesuits are larping 16th C. Academics. Benedictines are larping 6th C. Aristocrats. I just hold, larping is not an exclusive prerogative of men in religious orders.

Honouring our father and mother. I don't think any larper, ever was in the impression that their parents were uncool for simply not larping, and if the parents are larping too, how can it possibly be against the IV? You are making up rules that aren't in the commandments of either God or Holy Mother Church!

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TheJollyViking

@thejollyviking8083

I mean, call it larping, being a reactionary, being a luddite, or whatever else you want, but I see nothing wrong with looking at ways in which past societies were better than ours, or aspects of our society which are bad and saying "let's do the better thing and not do the bad stuff."

Unless this is simply a statement that you shouldn't literally try to live in an identical situation as a 1200s Medieval peasant... in which case, yeah. But I feel as though that makes this statement extremely uninteresting. I'm about as close to the "I want to reject all modern technology and political institutions and retvrn to the 1200s" sentiment as someone can get and even I know I can't live in a replicated situation.

nox play

@noxplay4906

The issue is if you forget about the true aim of life which is union with God and you subsume Catholicism under that worldly ideology (which is unfortunately exactly what we're seeing right now.)

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@hglundahl

@noxplay4906 How can you tell he is forgetting?

How can you tell from this one comment he's subsuming Catholicism under a wordly ideology rather than the other and correct way around?