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Post by Mairi on Nov 28, 2007 20:46:57 GMT -5
Do you see any real difference between the path's that people follow with their witchcraft?
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lyoness
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Post by lyoness on Dec 1, 2007 16:05:57 GMT -5
supprisingly yes.
You will find alot of people in analytical jobs or Intell type jobs follow along a pagan path. Not so much the conventional paths. Alot of them would have started out in a rather strict path after leaving a conventional religon. And then they branch out onto a path that is almost uniquely their own.
You will also find the poeple that walk outside society because they are labled, cheesy, weird, loser, or any other such negitive status (no offense to anyone) tend to fall along what the more serious pratitioners consider, fuffy, or fluffy bunny, on account they want to at least fit in somewhere. And sometimes the best places to fit in are the place that are considered unconventional, much like they are. Though they don't put any real pratice in it.
Shamens in my experance tend to be more contimplative, and good people readers. They can be quiet at first, then warm up.
Wiccans tend to be bubbly and very accepting. (unforutnily because of the wide missunderstanding of Wicca it has the most fluffy bunnies)
Gregorians or Hermatics (SP?) tend to be more serious and very orginized, and I hate to say this a bit of a bore and a bit too prideful.
Unitarians, Though they are neither christan or pagan...I like to think of them as the borg because they accept and intergrade EVERY thing, are very inqueistive and try not to intrude while being so, though they always do.
Satinists...they have a mixed bunch, but with them much like the Caos (sp?) Magi (they are almost exactly alike in attitude), in these two you will find the most that want to play the biggest dick contest. Once you get over that, they aren't bad, but many will consider them misguided.
This is not ment to offend anyone, these are just a few opersvations, not all prationers fall into these groups, these not not ment to pigon hole anyone, and as said before these are opservations of a general group not a single person.
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Post by pagancarebear on Dec 8, 2007 21:49:38 GMT -5
Well, I don't think I am a fluffy bunny and I try to fit in somewhere I feel I am part of. I do put in everything I got. But because I do so much in different path. Alot of people just say, I am not being real or I am not a real pagan. I think everyone needs to really know someone before calling anyone anything. bb
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arrwyn
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Post by arrwyn on Mar 18, 2010 1:58:04 GMT -5
There are some people who have met me, who know me, who will say I'm being a snob but I generally look at people who practice "Wicca" as white fluffy bunny type magic users. Most Wiccans would not curse anyone or anything if their lives depended on it. I have one perfect example in a friend who is such a "white witch" that it's a good thing she was never a mother because her kids would run rough-shod over her. She can't even bring herself to discipline her animals! I'm a great believer in natural consequences. If asked to help someone with a discipline problem I'm not above using "shovel in the face" magic to get the job done. No matter how harsh the magic may seem, if it ultimately teaches then it's good, to me.
Other than that, it's a matter of degree of belief. Some pagans hold that their gods (gleaned from any of the world's mythologies) are REAL entities and deserving of worship but they ignore the prime source of all power, some are animists who see divine power in all things and some don't even bother with "gods" and stick strictly to their own creative magic to accomplish their desires. As for Satanists ... again it is a matter of degree of belief and exactly what they envision their mythology to be about. I've met LeVey type satanists who are actually only id-deists and I've monitored "satanists" who twist the mythology to suit their own purpose and choose to "worship" aliens from an Antediluvian Pluto as the genetic engineers of the homo sapien species. I don't worry about the former and I fear for the followers of the latter.
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Post by auroradarkstarr on Sept 9, 2010 17:06:40 GMT -5
Each person magic is different. I think people who are wiccan do not all view the path the same nor are their magic and energies the same. Each path is personal to the person that is walking it and as a result is different. I do not like labels. I often think if we were all forced to study each others paths the result would be less hate. It is harder to save than to kill. the path of wicca to me is not fluffy or a white cloud. Its one of the hardest paths to walk, its the path of nature , creation and avalon where you are to police yourself and your own magical ethics. Its a path of healing, and being a healer means you battle all the forces of evil there is ...evil is an action and an emotion.
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