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Happy Shiny Pagan People

Gardnerian/Alexandrian Wicca

3% (1)

Other Wiccan Tradition - but definitely from the Saxon heritage

6% (2)

FamTrad - something my family's practiced for more than 3 generations

0% (0)

Asatru/Heathenry - Northern European tradition

13% (4)

Eclectic - the smorgasboard approach

20% (6)

Hellenic Paganism - the Southern European traditions

3% (1)

NeoTaoism - informed by Tao, but not the traditional practices

3% (1)

Animism & Shamanic beliefs - very much the mystery of things

10% (3)

Something completely different that doesn' really fit any of the above

37% (11)

Total Votes : 29

(last vote on : 8/15/2007 4:35:47 PM)
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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/14/2007 6:01:34 PM

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Huh?

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/14/2007 7:26:03 PM

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I'm one of the Scary Ones... ;)

Boo!

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/14/2007 7:31:09 PM

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runs and hides under the bed.

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 9:31:25 AM

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Since I apparently can't edit my previous posts in this thread, a translation or 5:

Thelemite - specific branch of hermetic neopaganism whose main credo is "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." I tend towards the more Rabelaisian take. The Wikipedia entry -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema
VDSA - if you don't know what this is, then chances are you don't want to know in the end...
Hellenic - Greek, but of the later period as opposed to the Achaean/Homeric. Somewhat montheistic, but still expressing the Higher Power that is Inexpressable via different "faces" - the gods of the Homeric era.
Coptic - Egyptian of the same period. And really oriented towards making things work rather than blind submission... Also, possible source of historic onolatry. Which is highly appropriate here... ;)

Still makes me one of the Scary Ones... but in a clearer way, I hope.

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 10:13:06 AM

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Non fluffy bunny, science focused animism that can border on the shamanic. Grew up in the Wiccan faith, and while there is a lot to respect and admire there, the granola bowl aspect of the community disgusted me. Eg, too many fruits, nuts, and flakes. I value science and good critical thinking too highly to be able to spend a lot of time with the crowd that dangles crystal pyramids over their third eye chakras so they can talk to their ancient Atlantean spirit guide named "Dances With Credit Cards."

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 11:11:36 AM

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lmao.....I am now hunting for a towel to wipe the tea from my computer screen....

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 11:16:18 AM

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Ummm, I think she might actually be serious... <weg>
It's part of why I'm no longer involved in the pagan/magickal community... I may charge a modest fee for doing a chart or doing a reading for people - but it's pretty much just the cost of supplies. Fuck this bullshit of paying to sit through a sales pitch for a book or video...

"Y'know, I believe I can help you use this crystal to stimulate your root chakra... Lemme show you how..."

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 11:23:04 AM

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sad thing is, I know she was serious...it was just the "way" she said it that cracked me up.....

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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 12:09:29 PM

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quote:

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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RE: Happy Shiny Pagan People - 8/15/2007 12:40:05 PM

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Agreed - the people talking about doing something aren't doing something except talking...

Then again, I often find myself saying the same thing about Xians...

Resolved, the pagan community is troubled and something should be done to change that... but not via this thread.

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