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just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 9:00:51 AM   
CollaredChicklet


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Status: offline 		just wondering... :D
It'd be nice to find people of like-minded interest (well, more than we all share on here anyways!)
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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 10:10:41 AM   
fearghus


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Status: offline 		Yeah, a whole fat pile of us.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 10:54:01 AM   
YourhandMyAss


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Status: offline 		Daddy is a pagan but he doesn't hang outon this site. He don't have time to get online either.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 12:28:25 PM   
hizgeorgiapeach


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Status: offline 		There are probably more of us who are pagan than there are who are nominally christian, jewish, or islamic - though I would by no means guarentee that or say it's "fact."  It's simply that - in my personal experience - pagans (practicing pagans, not those who simply grab onto any idea they percieve as "new" or "hip" or "against the establishment") seem to suffer fewer guilt associations concerning their sexuality than those in more conventional religious practices.
 
This isn't said to denegrate other religious beliefs, it's simply a statement of personal observation.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 12:48:40 PM   
Aneirin


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Status: offline 		The trouble is with pagans, is there is often no like mind, pagan in it's meaning of a man from the heath or common man, encompasses many things non Judeo Christian in origin. The old ways, whatever they were beyond what the Victorians created, are largely lost.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 12:51:54 PM   
SL4V3M4YB3


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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 12:54:57 PM   
SageFemmexx


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Status: offline 		Lots of pagans around. Just have to look in the right places.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 1:24:11 PM   
Aneirin


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Status: offline 		Everything pagan will have to be neo pagan, as it applies to most. But there are some around who believe they are hereditary, they practice something which would be alien, perhaps abhorrent to the new.

Neo-paganism to me, is largely a supermarket belief, take what you like and discard what you don't like.

But in it's defence, taking what is good and discarding that which is not so good, maybe a way to a better common belief.


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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 1:38:59 PM   
LadyEllen


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Status: offline 		Asatru is the only form that has any claim to ancient precedent A - albeit even so quite a lot has had to be interpreted, and as an evolving tradition that was never a set form in any time but rather variant from tribe to tribe, it ought in the modern world to be evolved to current circumstances too, though too often it is not.

If you think of Asatru as being the nordic form of the same Indo-European religion that in India became Hinduism, except Asatru was interrupted and submerged (rarely lost) by Christianity, it gives some idea of its claim. Interestingly, you can get what looks and feels like Buddhism from Asatru as readily as you can get Buddhism from Hinduism.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 1:57:21 PM   
Aneirin


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Status: offline 		I agree much has been lost or misinterpreted throughout what is the dark ages to those that wish to be pagan. The dark age I refer to, is the age where the West's dominant religion has ruled for some 1900 years, at least here in Britain. I am a spiritual vagrant, in that I am constantly searching for my truth, I have adopted paganism as a cover all, but in all honesty, I see truth in many beliefs, some of them Judeo Christian and Islam.

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RE: just wondering if there are other pagans out there??? - 11/9/2008 2:51:02 PM   
HisNani


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Status: offline 		Wiccan =)

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