Great Hera! This is so strange! What is this pagan hating nonsense?
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Hey! Wonder Woman! How's it hanging girlfriend? :D Big fan, gotta say.
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Well, Idspudnik I don't know what you seen but there is being visiting this earth some are "Angels" and some are being from other star constellations We are not alone! But it funny you mention Ezekiel wheel....now think hard if you and I seen Ezekiel wheel we would run and say that a @#$%^&* UFO...right? But Ezekiel would say stop running those are the Gods....Now think on that....
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I stay away from certain labels because they carry so much negativity with some people.  While they may be accurate, other people's reaction to them are unpredictable.  In normal conversation when things like reincarnation, ancient mythology, magic, etc. comes up, I simply share my views on that subject.  New people get to understand my views one at a time.  Eventually they learn enough about me to figure out that I am a neo-pagan.  I'm in no hurry---they can learn about all of me, not just my religion.
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What's your question?  And why is this in mythology and folklore?
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You see this is the sort of behavior ill never understand. Why if you are secure in your own beliefs would you be so threatened and so angered by someone who has different beliefs. Whether you agree with them or not. I'm a Muslim and it  makes absolutely no difference to me if the person next door worships Jesus, Buddha, Vishnu, the moon or the fairies they think live at the bottom of there garden. Go figure ??
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Exactly my friend....Exactly....Sadly Christians will never understand full what they are talking about....they can easily write off any other story ever written about Gods or things like that...but when it comes to what they believe it has to be real and true! Mucho props to you!
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I am a pagan myself in uk. I attend a pagan group every month and the group has about 50 members. From Wiccans to druids. You've got to remember paganism started in this country. I only live in a small town of 180,000 population, and in this group alone are three covens of 20 members, most of whom do not attend this group plus various others who do rituals etc in large groups. Paganism is very open in UK, especially where I live. You very rarely get someone chastise you for your practices over here. Anyone who does, we simply try to explain what we do. I have many christian friends who are quite open to my religion, but then I don't berate them for theirs.
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Whoa... It's interesting to note that sharing Christianity raises the hackles of so many people. You would think they are the only ones out there cramming their opinions down others throats. There's certainly enough answers on this one doing the same thing. This person is sharing their heart out of love for all of you, and the majority stomp on it.\n\nThe conflict does not lie with the individual, but the differing beliefs. Talk about respect...  that goes both ways. To be sure, there are some zealous Christians out there, but the majority simply are sharing what they have found to be true to those who are asking, especially in this forum, for some answers. A quick survey of some of the answers here on YA will show that most of the personal "attacks" are coming from the non-Christians. Even the avatars reflect the hatred that is so blatantly spread on here.\n\nDon't shoot the messenger who says things you do not want to face or hear. Just because their beliefs counters yours, or hits some spiritual nail on the head, it does not justify your anger to a complete stranger. The motives are readily apparent. Are you coming from a place of hatred or love. Most of the Christians here, and elsewhere, are operating on the love side... are you?
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Pagans,wickens new agers etc are the best...\n\nThey are not nasty like chrisitians who only ever used to repress people and quote their nasty bible whilst burning people alive, relgious wars  etc...\n\n\nPagans like sex and sexuality and beauty and affection and fun.\n\nThey are not sexist and see males and females as two parts of a whole and equal. And that includes behavour like you being flirty, wanting to be kissy  and pawy with boyfriend.\n\nIts all part of nature.\n\n\nThey have no problems with gays either.\n\n\nTheir ethical system is as long as it harms none do as you will.\n\n\nThey are the true relgion in the sense of many of the christian and other relgions stole their festivals (ie easter... the easter bunny was origonally the easterous hare (or sounds something like that) a pagan fertility god of spring... look it up.\n\nThe wickens were early doctors and the herbs still work. Other magic is based around psychology.\n\nThink hippies.\n\nWomen are empowered unlike in christianity this is why they say its immoral and wicked ...\n\nIts their way of keeping the girlies down.\n\nCheck out new age shops.\n\nAs you said if you mention the P word it shows chrisitn scum in their true nature. Best described in the iris magdelen laundry system\n\nsee\nhttp://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/magdalen.html \nhttp://www.netreach.net/~steed/magdalen.html\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380703/ \nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/drama/sinners/interviews/annemarie.shtml \nOrigonal documentry available from \nhttp://cgi.ebay.com/SEX-IN-A-COLD-CLIMATE-DVD-DOCUMENTRY-REG-0_W0QQitemZ6437066430QQcategoryZ617QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem \n\n\nPagans would never be that nasty.\n\nAnd this is from an athiest not a pagan... I just see that pagans have the right idea even if I don't Believe in astrology... Pagans are soo cool.\n\nNothing nasty about them...\n\nThe other relgions make up all the nasty burn in hell stuff up about them as they are competition and actually they are nicer.\n\nAs for getting in touch as said crystal new age shops should help. Other then that check the net.\n\n\n\nor just quit on all relgions...\n\n\nPAganisiam is not about worship though
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I won't bash a fellow Pagan, but I agree that we should rise above, not rise against. Why should we lower ourselves to petty insults and bashing? If we are angry or hurt because others have attacked us, we should not seek to become that which has caused us pain. To carry that negativity around with us is far more harmful than to walk away and leave it at its source.
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She very much has the right, I know the case you speak of, I believe his name is Patrick Stewart, i don't remember his rank.  I think that its horrid that the military has not taken the steps to allow the pentagram to be an accepted religious symbol.  Afterall, it was taken of the hate symbol list a long time ago.  \n\nThis is a story you might enjoy about the military who is trying to put up appearances to get Wiccan solidiers to join,but then dropping the ball of equality.  \n\nI was recently on a military base visitin a friend of mine, she's Gypsy Pagan and I'm Wiccan.  The military ONLY recognizes Wicca and no other pagan religions, so if she wants to go to circle on base, she has to do it with the Wiccan group, but on Andrews AFB, there is no Wiccan group, because they require you have specific accredidations to be the Chaplain representative for that base, you can't just go get a ULC http://www.ulc.org/?destination=ordination ordination, you have to go to college.  (Very hard to find college classes for Wicca)  But there is a circle of nearby Fort Meade, they meet in the chapel like every other relgiion and their meetings are even mosted on the sign outside with all the other meetings with a day of the week and time.  \n\nSo we go to Fort Meade on April 30th for the Beltane ritual and meet in the parking lot, we arrived a little early and were suprised to see what seemed like a SOuthern Baptist group heading into our part of the chapel.  As our chaplain representative arrived, she became bold enought to enter and ask them to move out because, as the sign outside stated, we are alotted this time and had reserved it as an ongoing reservation.  The person she talked to, I believe one of the deacons, asked her what group she was from and then, when she answered, started laughing, he said they had reserved the time slot with the chaplain last week and that they weren't moving.  We called the chaplain, but he never picked up his cell phone, we left several messages, but then just continued our ritual outside while children from the Baptist group continued to gawk at us and make comments.
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originally, it came from the pagan/druidic belief system and evolved from there. It is NOT a form of satanic worship or any of that crap!
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Where did you get that!? lmao There are no Goddesses in Christianity; there is only one God.
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This controversy has existed from the very beginning, and\nthe writings of the "Church Fathers" themselves reveal\nthat they were constantly forced by the pagan\nintelligentsia to defend what the non-Christians and other\nChristians ("heretics")4 alike saw as a preposterous and\nfabricated yarn with absolutely no evidence of it ever\nhaving taken place in history. As Rev. Robert Taylor says,\n"And from the apostolic age downwards, in a never\ninterrupted succession, but never so strongly and\nemphatically as in the most primitive times, was the\nexistence of Christ as a man most strenuously denied."5\nEmperor Julian, who, coming after the reign of the\nfanatical and murderous "good Christian" Constantine,\nreturned rights to pagan worshippers, stated, "If anyone\nshould wish to know the truth with respect to you\nChristians, he will find your impiety to be made up partly\nof the Jewish audacity, and partly of the indifference and\nconfusion of the Gentiles, and that you have put together\nnot the best, but the worst characteristics of them both."
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:) Isn't it great to see how much Christianity is Pagan?\n\nDon't forget the Holy Water (Water), Candles (Fire), Incense (Air), and Eucharist (Earth) used at Catholic Masses. Oh, lookie there, all the Alchemical Elements that have always been used by Pagans!\n\nAlso, the entire Rainbow means God's keeping a promise... Hera had a Winged Goddess go across the sky with a bowl and dump out the contents -- a rainbow -- whenever the Gods kept a promise with the people.\n\nDon't forget Osiris, who came back from the dead.\n\nHell was named after Hel, the Norse Goddess of the Underworld.\n\nSatan was created based on how Pan was supposed to look.\n\nJesus was "born" on December 25th... around the time of Yule/Saturnalia, thus making it easier for Pagans to convert. However, based on Astrology, they said Jesus would be an Aries, meaning he was born sometime in April... around the middle.\n\n"Easter". Funny, spelt just like Ester, the Goddess whom is celebrated on Ostara, about March 23rd. Which is about when EASTER is celebrated.\n\n:3 Heehee. Silly Christians. Your stories are for Pagans!\n\nNote: Paganism first came about in 10000 BCE, and Zoroastrianism (first monotheistic religion) came about in 5000 BCE.\n\nTo davlynark: Your Jehovah wasn't even around at that time. Pick up a history book. You learn about the people from the Ice Age. They were Pagan. You keep learning about Pagans, too, for such a long time. Think for a change, won't you?\n\n- 16 yo Pagan
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Thing is that are differences in all cultures and religions.  We are people with different ideas and different beliefs.  That shouldn't mean because I am different from some one else they have a right to hate the difference or me.  We are different, we should celebrate that not hate it.  The religious hatred has been going on as long as one can remember I am sure.  Why?  Does it make one better than the other? No.  Just makes you look like an ass when you scream hatred and have no valid reason for it.  \nAnd as far as on this forum goes.  Its sad, I am genuinely curious about other faiths.  Though I do not follow them I do enjoy learning about them and I am constantly bumping into people trying to convert some one.  This should be a place of education and nothing more.  If you are interested in converting people do it else where.. Thats my take on it.  and the VonJumbo character and Schneb, to me, fuel the fire for forced conversion and hatred on this forum.. But again this is only my opinion.
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It's a bunch of junk based on the rantings of L. Ron Hubbard.  They believe because there is a lot of hypnosis involved in it.  It is a religion that uses a lot of psychobabble as it's base.  They teach that all mental illnesses can be cured with vitamins and exercise  It involves thetens (aliens that live in all our bodies), There is also auditing session and garbage about the earth being a prison planet for aliens.  Toss in there Hubbard was a good friend and great admirer of Alister Crowley and some of what is in it is almost word for word some of Crowley's rituals.  There is also rumors and stuff floating around, how true it is I haven't a clue, that when you reach OT8 you learn that Hubbard called himself the anti-Christ and that humans have it all wrong, that Lucifer was God and God was the evil one.  It's whacked out!