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Pagan?

If you are pagan what kind ?

  • Wiccan

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  • Druid

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  • Other

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  • Do'nt define yourself

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Just out of interest I was wondering how many people here are pagan? If you are I was wondering what sort. I'm wiccan and have been for about 10 years.
 
You could have added more choices - Asatru, Northern Tradition, Shamanic, Animist, Odinist, Traditional, Solitary.... All to be crammed into 'Other'.
 
Sorry! I started writing it then my mind went blank! I apolegise to all those who have to be shoved into other. Tell you what forget the poll just leave a reply stating what tradition you follow if any.Even Wiccan and Druidery are too broad because it does not take into account all the traditions within them. I'm solitary wicca by the way , influenced by the Faery traditions , druidry , and celtic traditions.
 
if i had to i would class myself as pagan but i don't fit under a definition...
 
David said:
What's wrong with being an agnostic?

It is after all a religious perspective!!!
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Theres nothing wrong with any religious perspective .I just wanted to know how many members were pagans just out of interest....
 
Not sure how I'd define myself.

Was brought up in a rather strange environment that encompassed CofE, lapsed Catholicism, Theosophy and, ummm, tree hugging.

It was the 70s!

Now I believe in the healing power of chocolate.

:)
 
I'm not a pagan myself, Whyteowl, and didn't know there were so many different traditions. Can someone please define these different traditions?

Carole
 
right...... define pagan .....well first you need a goat and then you..........hang on i think that may be devil worship, i dont know what a pagan is but if they hurt them goats im on the phone to the RSPCA and will report them....

i personally dont believe in anything religious, i think when you die you rot and that's it you dont live on there is no god but then again that is my view

cas
 
I used to be a practicing Pagan, then I started to get it right. Thus I didn't need to practice any more ;)

Niles "Egotheist" Calder
 
I'm a joyful Pagan in that I embrace all of Nature and especially cheesecake and some chocolate.

I was raised a dour Methodist (no card playing, elbows off the table, Sunday School etc) and regularly beaten just to show how much Jesus really did love me.

In my work I find a little belt of Christianity now & then almost as good as morphine for soothing distressed patients and I say prayers and psalms with them. Dying and semi-conscious patients often have prayer cards to hand which I willingly read aloud to them. Colleagues think I must be a Christian, but to me it's all part of the service!
 
Niles Calder said:
I used to be a practicing Pagan, then I started to get it right. Thus I didn't need to practice any more ;)
Niles "Egotheist" Calder
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Me too! If I had to define myself further, I'd say I was an eclectic Pagan.
 
I agree with you escargot & have done the same sort of thing.

If someone, is on the "way out", who are we to disturb them & exert our own opinions?
 
Yeh, but we still don't have a definition of 'pagan', etc, for those who aren't in the know!

Escargot, I think it's wonderful that you give your patients what they need, despite your own beliefs.

Carole
 
I was raised Catholic but began to be drawn to Paganism when I was about 14. I agree what Escargot does is great. Paganism should be about tolerance and respect for others beliefs.
 
David,
You're so right. Dying patients need comfort and if they ask for Jesus, they can have Jesus, as far as I'm concerned.

One suffering soul recently asked for Dr. Shipman but I couldn't promise him!

They often see their mothers & other dead rellies too of course. It's a little creepy to be told that Ma and Uncle Bill are waiting in the corner!
 
whyteowl said:
Just out of interest I was wondering how many people here are pagan? If you are I was wondering what sort. I'm wiccan and have been for about 10 years.
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Ever since Wicca was invented then? :)
 
Meanderer said:
so is paganism the same as humanitarianism?
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when you look at the history of christianty, it might as well be.

ps nice one lard:D
 
I see alot of labels.
Its nice to know that if you have a belief system of sorts,and it sort of matches an existing BS, you are labeled with a name and all the prejudices that goes with it.
Does it really matter what you call yourself as long you are not hurting anyone(inc yourself) or anything.
Personally I'm of the "against anything that can be (ab)used by individuals to influence the many to the detriment of others" denomination.
Believe and you can have chocolate , not and its the burning fires of the cup tea i'll make you:D
 
Let's ignore any possible predjudices, etc, as previously mentioned, we're all a tolerant, broad minded lot, so please give us a straight definition of pagan, wiccan, etc!!

Carole
 
Does any one know anything about the 'Green Man' - apparently he's a pagan chappie and his likeness is in Lichfield Cathedral!
 
You'll see him all over Birmingham too if you look closely.
 
When reading prayers to very ill folk, and incidentally I only do this if it seems apprpriate to the individual, I'm comforting them (I hope) psychologically just as I comfort them physically with medicines and other modern paraphernalia. My own beliefs don't come into it. In fact, my beliefs are private and personal and not discussed lightly so it's amusing to be mistaken for a Christian.
 
Where abouts in Birmingham could I see the Green Man, and what is he all about?
 
For Carole, and other curious creatures (that is, creatures that possess curiosity about something, not that are curious in theselves, although they ay be.. uhhh.. what was this about? Oh yes...)

UK Pagan Federation

Scroll down for their three main principals of modern paganism, or go straight to

http://www.paganfed.demon.co.uk/info_trad.htm

for their description of the main types.
 
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