pagans

[tasiasolon]

Hi, I wanted to see if there were other pagans on the forum. I don't want to get into any sort of discussions against pagansim though. I completely one hundred percent respect everyone's beliefs about their own religions. I just noticed in my dream spell thread a couple had mentioned they were and I came here to talk more about that. I've been a pagan for a few years, previously Christian. I follow Epona, Goddess of Horses. I love working with candles. I'm still learning quite a bit about the Path.

[joey11223]

oh my friend is into that, i think she wants to become a wiccan though. She's getting some tattoos related to a symbol, it was like a sun with two half moons facing away from it. Oh and i can see this thread turning nasty so. Sets up flame barrier and i big lead sign saying " If you don't like the views of people in this thread, don't be a flamer, cos i'll shove you in an ice cold shower!!"

[tasiasolon]

The tattoo sounds like the Moon in it's phases, waxing and waning. It's a very popular symbol for Wiccans and Pagans. I'd hope that no one would come onto a thread, knowing what it was about just to be mean. I know it's a tempting thing since many people don't approve of this sort of Path. Personally, I think that as long as you believe in something you have something. There are many paths to the Divine.

[joey11223]

i don't have a path at all, but more importantly, i need to find an English pet store near me or that can deliver because i need another praying mantis or a jungle nymph!!!!

[Moonbeam]

i don't have a path at all, but more importantly, i need to find an English pet store near me or that can deliver because i need another praying mantis or a jungle nymph!!!! What's a jungle nymph? Why do you need more of those things? Do you keep them as pets? I've caught praying mantises a couple times; they are so cool when they look at you with their little triangular alien faces. Joey, I have a kitty that looks almost just like yours; maybe a little fatter (mine I mean).

[joey11223]

yes i keep em as pets, i love to watch praying mantises eat. Jungle nymph is like this leaf version is like this: or they are classed as stick insects usually, but the first one isnt at all, Second too count as forms of stick insects, i love large insects. Also i like how they adapt to their environment like that, after generations they will change depending on plant matter to blend with. Obviously thats thousands of years, but i mean i like them.

[Moonbeam]

Whoa, those are amazing! We don't have ones like that around here! Just the regular semi-big, semi-freaky kind. Thanks for the pics, those are really cool. I used to have a tarantula, Fang, who lived for about ten years.

[Swank]

Whoa, those are amazing! We don't have ones like that around here! Just the regular semi-big, semi-freaky kind. Thanks for the pics, those are really cool. I used to have a tarantula, Fang, who lived for about ten years. "Fang". Nice.

[joey11223]

c'mon there must be some pagans here? If your out there come, come to the light of this thread *turns on torch and wildly shakes it*

[Neruo]

Nice pets Joey! - I better not comment on paganism. =) (I am not the biggest fan) Ah well, at least it's all jolly for the most part, not as imperialistic as real religion.

[thegnome54]

I've been a pagan for a few years, previously Christian. I follow Epona, Goddess of Horses. I love working with candles. I'm still learning quite a bit about the Path. Hey, I mean absolutely no offense by this, I'm just curious - do you really believe in Epona, or do you just think it's cool/rebellious? For example, I love Norse Mythology, and if I had to pick a religion I would follow them, but I don't really believe they exist deep down. It just seems odd to me that someone could change from Christian to Pagan with no crisis of faith.

[Seeker]

I'm glad this conversation got back on track. At DV, we try to maintain a neutral view of religion and encourage open and friendly discussion. One of my very dear friends is a wiccan. It's kind of interesting to talk to her about it and compare her beliefs to my own and others.

[A dreamer168]

thegnome54, ur into Norse myths? So am I! I like practically any myth,

[joey11223]

since we are back on track... What made you choose Epona rather then the many Pagan Gods/Goddesses?

[Incomplete]

Im an Eclectic Pagan, meaning I don't believe that just one religion has the whole truth. I think the truth is too big for us to comprehend. If you want to get technical, anyone who is not a Christian, Jew, or Bhuddist is a Pagan.

[SilverZero]

If you want to get technical, anyone who is not a Christian, Jew, or Bhuddist is a Pagan. Or, to get etymologically technical . . . Pagan: c.1375, from L.L. paganus "pagan," in classical L. "villager, rustic, civilian," from pagus "rural district," originally "district limited by markers," thus related to pangere "to fix, fasten," from PIE base *pag- "to fix" (see pact). Religious sense is often said to derive from conservative rural adherence to the old gods after the Christianization of Roman towns and cities; but the word in this sense predates that period in Church history, and it is more likely derived from the use of paganus in Roman military jargon for "civilian, incompetent soldier," which Christians (Tertullian, c.202; Augustine) picked up with the military imagery of the early Church (e.g. milites "soldier of Christ," etc.). Applied to modern pantheists and nature-worshippers from 1908. Paganism is attested from 1433.

[Xoffen]

I am wiccan i follow mainly solitary practices but with a group of people if you can understand that i would like to meet real actual wiccan on this site who would be interested in speaking if so send me a message thank you and im new here so so mote it be peace peace ~Xoffen

[Taosaur]

I considered myself a pagan in college, and my first 'online community' in the '90s was a pagan listserv, The Solitary Practitioner. In hindsight, I would describe my practices at the time as more shamanic, deriving from the land I shared with my American Indian ancestors and my own explorations of the numinous, whereas proper paganism connects with old European traditions. At the time I was in more or less constant contact with a personal deity that intervened on my behalf on the scale of large, complex systems I couldn't hope to influence in any directed way personally. It was kind of a middleman between me and eternity, or unity; whatever entity expressed itself for a brief time physically as me also expressed itself at another level of organization and over a longer scale as my deity. I also practiced a lot of visualization/movement/breathing techniques with my personal energy, derived mostly from bits and pieces of info about auras and chakras, but more analogous to working with Chi. I had a falling out with my deity, took some hallucinogenics and got a little jaded with my personal light show, took a meditation class from a philosophy prof trained in Cambodia by Buddhist monks, my grandmother died, and I read Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, spent a year eating very little and meditating quite a bit, and I came out of it a Buddhist.

[Pyrofan1]

I'm a solitary eclectic Wiccan. I really don't have any of the stuff such as an Athame, but i do have I Book of Shadows. what else do you want to know? Blessed Be

[Xoffen]

sweet are you warlock witch male witch wizard etc good dark nuetral?

[Pyrofan1]

What kind of Wiccan are you? I would think you should know that Warlock means Oath breaker. and what do you mean with the whole good or evil thing? I would assume you couldn't call your self Wiccan if you didn't at least some what follow the Wiccan Rede, i.e. "An it harm none, do as ye will"

[Xoffen]

yes i know the rede and no dark is not evil hence in some tarot cards they have light magus nuetural magus and dark magus that is just an example. i am nuetural more towards the light but my power is open eventurally when i come to full power i will be all light and stronger than sorcerer but that will be a while and all is due when it is time. Your interpetation of warlock phases me none it is a class a level of being and power sometimes even what purpose you have warlocks use magik for their own purpose to bring themselves power money success they stomp on others for their own gain. there are many who may call them selves wiccans and could care less about karma and the 3x and 10x rule but that is their fault but i tell you not all dark is evil you can use dark for good just tricky

[Xoffen]

i am a solitary wiccan who learned from others and books. i learn with groups from all over and with other solitary wiccans as well there are many different types im sure you know and not all belive the same thing i belive what i can see is true and believe to be right

[Barns]

Xoffen, I must say I agree with you there, darkness is not always a signal of evil. I have been pagan for a short amount of time. I have some friends who are still strict pagans.

[Needcatscan]

Xoffen, I must say I agree with you there, darkness is not always a signal of evil. I have been pagan for a short amount of time. I have some friends who are still strict pagans. Do pagans do any witchcraft and/or spells or is that just Wiccans? BTW, nice avatar Barns. Starcraft 2 is taking waaayyy to long to get here.