What does Pagan mean spiritually to you?
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It means that I have found a REALLY annoying way to be "different" than everybody else (so I can feel sepcial about myself) and has the added benefit of allowing me to make unreasonable and annoying demands on my employer because they have to tolerate my "religion".\n\nSo pretty much it means that I'm an assclown with low self-esteem. And I need constant attention.
523196
The "hell" is a christian concept.  I was a christian for many years.  In my desire to become more enlightened I find that I'm more spiritual than religious.  I've looked into some pagan religions.  The idea is about finding peace and a spiritual path. (I would like that for all of us)
319157
There are two senses in which the word 'spiritual' is commonly used. One refers to spirits and deities and life after death. Most atheists don't believe in this (although it appears you do).\n\nThe other version of the word refers to living a life full of hope, of beauty, of connection to others, of amazement in the world around us, of love. This version of 'spiritual' is very compatible with atheism. I consider myself a spiritual atheist in this sense.
518380
Christmas is about Jesus, however most of the "traditions" is paganistic. When I used to be a witch, I celebrated winter solstice-which falls almost on the same day. To celebrate with a tree, wrapped presents, and food is the same way a pagan  or wiccan celebrates winter solstice.So if someone who isn't christian is celebrating, maybe they are giving thanks to mother nature for winter. By the way, as a christian now, I celebrate christmas without the wreaths, tree, etc because it says in the bible not to entwine the paganistic traditions with God. Give thanks to God that He allowed His son to be born to save our souls!!
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yes in fact true spirituality supercedes any religion. Spirituality is the ability to look at things from the standpoint of divinity, or from their essense. Religion is reliving or basicially living by a set of rituals to constantly remind oneself of the supreme being. Religion can be and is usually practiced devoid of any real spirituality. Most people do the things that their 'religion' dictacts without really understanding why or what it means (holidays, fasts, prayer five times a day, easter). When one is spiritualy connected all of that becomes unneccesary. One does not have to have reminders to put themselves in harmony with god's will, they have understanding of how all things relate to God and operate from that.
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I'm a Pagan.  I don't find Christianity offensive as much as I find some of the ignorant, abusive followers of Christianity offensive.  Christianity is supposed to be a religion of peace and love, yet we see much name calling and abuse directed at us from certain followers of the faith.
503381
No a pagan worships gods other then The God.\nYou may be an athiest or agnostic.\nWhat do you worship?\nRomans 10
119343
yes, very much so.  many religions, such as tantric hinduism and tantric buddhism claim that you become spiritual through sexuality.  I think paganism might sometimes take a similar stance.  Even (especially) if you are outside of a formal religion, you are free to find spirituality in any activity, including the sexual.  Personally, i think that there is something inherently spiritual in sexuality.
337452
To me being spiritual means that I can constantly finding out who I am really as a "spiritual being" rather than a physical being. It means that I am always working on bettering myself. It just also means being more aware of what I create in my life. I find that people who follow a spiritual path are much more in tune with who they are and much more sincere. I find them to be more loving.\n\nReligion is more of a cultural aspect and way of life with rules and practices. Religion serves so many different purposes for different people. Some religious people are not spiritual and some are spiritual. It just means that they truly apply the teachings and wisdoms from their religion to themselves. There are religious people that do not make an effort to understand what it really means to follow the teachings with love in their heart.\n\nAlso people who are spiritual are just more open-minded and aware that God exists everywhere and that one does not need to be religious in order to experience and understand God.\n\nI follow the teachings and wisdom of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. She only teaches love. I am not religious at all as I only walk a solidary path. I follow my own inner teacher.
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I have looked for and found personal experience with the spiritual world. I was raised Christian, but found the dogma and blind faith to be not enough. I got into witchcraft and formed a relationship with ancient Germanic dieties. I can say from personal experience that spirituality is real and not just all about blind faith and social conformity. Something is there, but it conforms to your expectations so its something that science can easily dismiss as fantasy. I read that some recent study on particle physics showed that some particles can 'pick up' on the expectations of the researchers and thus ruin an experiment by always created the 'desired results'. \nReligeon is a social contruct for the purpose of explaining the unexplainable to many other people who have not directly witnessed the original events or situations. Spirituality, on the other hand, is an innate and highly individual part of each human's psyche. You could try an experiement on this. Choose an ancient god or goddess, look up their associations, create an altar to Him/Her, and pray to them regularly for a specific thing and see if it happens. Dietal associations are things like colors, flowers, stones, metals, incense, objects, animals and other stuff that are representative of that diety. Praying has several parts. Giving of adoration, like saying a flowery speach about he good things you admire about the diety (try to mean some of it). Petitioning is the part where you ask the diety to help you do something, bring something to you, or cause something to happen. Thanksgiving is at the end and its when you thank the diety for its attention.\nPersonal experience is not very scientific and it generally cant be reproduced for another person it exactly the same way with the same results. Religeon is the attempt to replicate the spiritual experience for others. Thats the nature of the spiritual.
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Religion, meaning a cycle or continuously practiced, it’s a sense of belonging or getting involved to your present state, it could be spiritual or political, but you have to have a sense of belonging in whatever society, place, situation or state you are in to achieve harmony. \nIt’s like the saying, “ do what the Roman’s  do” or “go where the river flows”, if you’re in an Islamic county, practice and respect their ways, if you’re in any other places where majority religious faiths like Christians, Buddhist, Hindu or any other faiths, respect them and be  harmonious, if your in a society that bans “chewing gum” then respect it. There’s nothing wrong if you change certain practices and ways one time after another to achieve harmony, as long as you don’t change the greatest belief, which is you are “yourself” and no one can ever change that!
1823
I think the word spiritual comes from spirit. It's originally from the Latin "Espiritu."
600712
Anything anyone prays to is being worshiped. Catholics have thousands of Gods (saints) they worship. Nice spin, but the fact is Catholicism is a pagan religion.
596118
You called?  ;-)  :-)    I am a spiritual atheist.   I am one who does not believe in "god" or "goddess" or in the divinity of Jesus, but I do still practice a form of spirituality that helps me with my life.  I like some of Jesus' teachings, I glean some wisdom from various religions and apply them to my life.  That is spirituality, in my personal definition.  \n\nSOME, not all, atheists ARE spiritual to various degrees.\n\nEDIT:  In re: confusio; don't worry, that happens.  We all learn something new everyday.  :-)
427585
Well they pray to statues.  That is a pagan tradition.
640052
I have noticed that many who call themselves ' vampires ' gravitate to Paganism, but all Pagans are by no means ' vampires'. It really depends on what branch of Paganism they practice.
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i'm not christian i'm pagan. i don't call it sixth sense though. ever since i was little i would have dreams that would come true all the time. that diminished somewhat as i grew older but i still get them occasionally. i can also tell when people are behind me and if i stood on a street with my back to every one i can tell how many people are behind me. i can also read playing cards, although i've never been able to read tarot. and i can tell what's going on with people, like if some one is far away i can think of them and know how they are doing. that's really helpful right now cuz my friend is in iraq.