Wicca and Other forms of Neo Paganism

[DragonMage]

Originally posted by Mouse: Believing in a sort of animistic spirituality outwith the bounds of "established" religions. Neo pagans think they have discovered this brand new method of interacting with the essence of creation/existance. The phrase "reinventing the wheel" comes to mind......

Heeyyy! Some of us already know that this is an ancient belief system, thank you very much, sir!

To answer your question, Mr. Diogenes, sir...I don't describe myself as 'neo-Pagan', but (as I've posted before), I am Wiccan. I have always had a strong bond with the 'natural world' and therefore worship in accordance with that and the realization that we MUST live in harmony with Nature.

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The day we stop learning is the day we start dying!(c)

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Mage extraordinair.
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Hopeless Romantic *sigh*

"Allright! We'll call it a draw."

[Ed]

So more burning virgins on the stake and stuff?? Wooooo, would certainly make my day more interesting....

PS, I don't have to grow a flowing beard and live in a cave to join do I??

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Platinum Fighter of ALSB

[Mouse]

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Nature worshipers usually tend to leave other people alone. We don't go around knocking on doors trying to convert people - far more likely to be making love in the long grass. I know what I like

Please feel free to elaborate, using training videos, slide shows or other audio-visual methods to illustrate your preference.

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Regards



Mouse

[This message has been edited by Mouse (edited 09-28-2001).]

[Mouse]

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa: Yes, absolutely, Silver. We do seem to have reached the point where we believe we are separate to nature, and are almost fighting the fact that we are dependent on it for our own survival.

I have never separated the human race and it's effects on the planet from "nature". As a philosophical concept, I believe we should accept that whatever effect we have on the future evolution of the Earth is only a small paragraph in the billion year long diary of our planets journey from creation to destruction.

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Mouse

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[This message has been edited by Mouse (edited 09-28-2001).]

[Diogenes Of Pumpkintown]

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Nature worshipers usually tend to leave other people alone. We don't go around knocking on doors trying to convert people - far more likely to be making love in the long grass. I know what I like

[Silver Cheetah]

Originally posted by Mouse: Please feel free to elaborate, using training videos, slide shows or other audio-visual methods to illustrate your preference.

If you could UPS a camcorder, I'll get onto it straight away.........



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Ascended Mistress of Illumination OR Paws R Us

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Mouse:

What's with the smilie? I can't tell whether you agree or disagree

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Goddess and Sorceress of the HADB, and her sidekick Pink

[Silver Cheetah]

Originally posted by Aelia Jusa: What's with the smilie? I can't tell whether you agree or disagree

Yeah, elucidate!



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Ascended Mistress of Illumination OR Paws R Us

[Mouse]

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: If you could UPS a camcorder, I'll get onto it straight away.........

There are soooooooooooo many bad things I could say to that

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Mouse

[This message has been edited by Mouse (edited 09-28-2001).]

[Yorick]

Quoted by Silver Cheetah:

Nature worshipers usually tend to leave other people alone. We don't go around knocking on doors trying to convert people - far more likely to be making love in the long grass. I know what I like

I must have been hanging around the wrong nature worshipers then.....

The main problem I have with it is it's kind of like buying a CD and acting like the CD is the best thing in the world and disregarding the artist that made it.

As a Christian I believe in "the understanding on a spiritual level of the importance of natural ecology and environment."

I also think that "only such a deep change in prevalent world views will provide the will to make the changes we need to do regarding our approach to the environment. "

Wiccans don't have a monopoly on this thinking.

I decry magik/magic/witchcraft though as a perversion of the earths laws, of an individuals right to non-interferance from external forces, and the removal of hope when the future is described to them.

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I am the walrus!.... er, no hang on....

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