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Najakcharmer -> RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People (8/15/2007 12:09:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: e01n
"Y'know, I believe I can help you use this crystal to stimulate your root chakra... Lemme show you how..."
"Great Rite - your place or mine?"
The other thing that drives me nuts about granola Pagans, other than creepy pickup lines and thinking that "Wicca" is a code word for "easy sex", is the notion that you can actually accomplish something just by wishing for it and talking about it. Putting on funny clothes (or taking off all your clothes, for Gardnerians and the faux-Pagan wannabe-swinger set) and dancing around in circles while lighting pretty colored candles and chanting for the health of Mother Gaea is less likely, statistically speaking, to have a positive effect than GETTING OFF YOUR ASS AND CLEANING UP A BEACH.
Back when I was involved in that community, one of the non fluffy (and pitifully small) Pagan groups I was involved in sponsored regular activities like a roadside volunteer cleanup day, beach cleanups, ministering at prisons and rest homes and serving food at a senior's soup kitchen. We got off our asses and did shit to make a difference. Everyone else in the rather large Pagan community in California decided that all this stuff was boring and didn't bother helping. They just wanted to chant and pray and dance in circles for an end to hunger, universal peace and cleaning up the environment, as that was much more fun than actually GETTING OFF THEIR ASSES AND DOING ANYTHING.
Yeah. Fuck that noise. I'm solitary now, in terms of spirituality and religion anyhow. My companions on the path I walk are the people who are making a difference for the earth and for all of Her children, regardless of their religious beliefs. Everyone else can go peddle their bullshit about loving and serving the Mother somewhere it doesn't annoy the people who are actually doing it.
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