Pagan Backgrounds

[Stegral]

Bless'd be Druid... your words are wise

I am glad She has you helping her in her time of need
I do my best as on good days I give her any excess I have but also ask for a bit extra on my bad days...
I have never felt so balanced as I do now as a Pagan

 

[Dhalgren150]

yes give back is good, I give offerings every week.

and balance comes from feeling connected to the earth.

the rythm is there all we need is to seek it and become as one with it.

sometimes I seek it more often than others.. but always bare feet to the earth I seek it's powers.

 

[Stegral]

yes give back is good, I give offerings every week.

and balance comes from feeling connected to the earth.

the rythm is there all we need is to seek it and become as one with it.

sometimes I seek it more often than others.. but always bare feet to the earth I seek it's powers.

You know what? you just made me realize that with tonight's full moon here I need to go somewhere & sit & talk with her.
Thank you so much.. I try NOT to ask too much of her.. but tonight I think I need to.

 

[Dhalgren150]

Arianhod the Gray Goddess is the healer Goddess.

I seek her often.

and she is just risen .

she is of the Grains this time.

and we are as her grain ponder and answers will come.

 

[RocknRoll]

I hate to say this, but there is really no such thing as Paganism, Its a derogatory term introduced by the Christian Church to define all non Judo-Christian religious groups...

So a pagan is just an insult by Christians, these are the same people who, of course, put "pax" on xmas cards... pax meaning 'peace though war'.... but I'll keep my lips sealed there.

So if you want to define yourself though a negative thats undergone some PR then feel free...

Personally I class myself as a free thinker, the true rebel of society (i.e. not a stereotyped societal “rebel” of sub group persuasions.) Catholic primary school, Church Of England secondary school and lost faith in God(s) at about age 13

Call me a rationalist, call me a moron. I call myself a cynically warped thinker, possibly towards Nihilism... which does make me a Pagan in the original context of the phrase

 

[Dhalgren150]

a country person Pagan.

 

[mistertripps]

she is calling and we do not hear.

I leave the earth as I find her. I give back as I take.

and I keep the trees as sacred.

they give us more than we ever repay.

all things make the spiral turn... and when one is gone from it from our doing then the spiral tuns less.

we take more than we give.

and we care not for what we destroy, in the name of comforts.

Well said Dhalgren. I am currently studying the Druid path though I am not sure how far I will follow it. I am fascinated by the Celtic ways.

By the way, I am he who used to be paganmysterious. This was my original identity and I recently changed because I thought I was being stalked. Turned out to be a joke, so I have decided to return to my old self.

 

[Dhalgren150]

Well said Dhalgren. I am currently studying the Druid path though I am not sure how far I will follow it. I am fascinated by the Celtic ways.

By the way, I am he who used to be paganmysterious. This was my original identity and I recently changed because I thought I was being stalked. Turned out to be a joke, so I have decided to return to my old self.

a path is many ways blended into what one hears.

I try to be true to mine.

nature is the one path to me.

we come from the earth and there is where we go back.

to be a good steward of what we have is a simple way, but it works well and makes one see simple is not.

and all things are needful and equal.

 

[Dana Gallagher]

I hate to say this, but there is really no such thing as Paganism, Its a derogatory term introduced by the Christian Church to define all non Judo-Christian religious groups...

So a pagan is just an insult by Christians, these are the same people who, of course, put "pax" on xmas cards... pax meaning 'peace though war'.... but I'll keep my lips sealed there.

So if you want to define yourself though a negative thats undergone some PR then feel free...

Personally I class myself as a free thinker, the true rebel of society (i.e. not a stereotyped societal “rebel” of sub group persuasions.) Catholic primary school, Church Of England secondary school and lost faith in God(s) at about age 13

Call me a rationalist, call me a moron. I call myself a cynically warped thinker, possibly towards Nihilism... which does make me a Pagan in the original context of the phrase

Well, isn't it good to take a negative term and own it for oneself and create something positive?

Anyways, he's right about the origins, so says Wikipedia... it's interesting, you should read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism

It was only after the Late Imperial introduction of serfdom, in which agricultural workers were legally bound to the land, that it began to have negative connotations, and imply the simple ancient religion of country people...

Like its approximate synonym heathen, it was adopted by Middle English-speaking Christians as a slur to refer to those too rustic to embrace Christianity.

As mentioned previously, pagan began as a derogatory term for the rural peoples holding to conservative beliefs and through evolved colloqialism to pre-Christian/ non-Christian beliefs specifically held in the face of the new and predominantly urban Christianized Roman society. In a temporal twist of faith, the rural peoples of our western culture continue to hold the conservative traditional values (as advocated by the bible belt or red state) but these rural conservatives now face off against the post-religious secularized urban areas of the United States. While the term pagan is now firmly entrenched with the concept of pre-Christian shamanism rather than as "a rural person holding to conservative traditional beliefs and values", the rural conservative Christians of the 21st century could be argued as mirroring the same cultural traits as the pagans of the first and second millenia.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

i dabble, but kinda make it up as i go along.

 

[RocknRoll]

Well, isn't it good to take a negative term and own it for oneself and create something positive?

Well, yes it is, in terms of ones personal self...

but to many Christians (and can be said to inculde the other 2 Abrhamic faiths) the term Pagan is not only an insult directed at people (if they incudle that orginal meaning) but also can be used as an insult back...

The term Pagan is often found in modern slang to mena anti-Christian values, or just anti-Christian... but from people that go around with a chain bearing the symbol of the punishment for non-Citizens for crimes of Treason or higher realm crimes... *shrugs*

needless to say, I find many symbols of modern socity troubling due to peoples ignorance of them... as mention before the use of the word pax, pagan and now the cross as it were...

On the other hand it is very comical to view it from a Medevil Christian or a Roman at the height of it's Imperial power (under the Emporers, not the return to the Sente or the split)

But that is just me Im werid like that...

Life Motto (one of): its not "how far you can push the boat out" but "how willing are you to push towards and past the socital boundaries"

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Well, yes it is, in terms of ones personal self...

but to many Christians (and can be said to inculde the other 2 Abrhamic faiths) the term Pagan is not only an insult directed at people (if they incudle that orginal meaning) but also can be used as an insult back...

The term Pagan is often found in modern slang to mena anti-Christian values, or just anti-Christian... but from people that go around with a chain bearing the symbol of the punishment for non-Citizens for crimes of Treason or higher realm crimes... *shrugs*

needless to say, I find many symbols of modern socity troubling due to peoples ignorance of them... as mention before the use of the word pax, pagan and now the cross as it were...

On the other hand it is very comical to view it from a Medevil Christian or a Roman at the height of it's Imperial power (under the Emporers, not the return to the Sente or the split)

But that is just me Im werid like that...

Life Motto (one of): its not "how far you can push the boat out" but "how willing are you to push towards and past the socital boundaries"

sometimes it takes a 'leap of faith', and not so much analysis. 'feel' the moon instead of 'know' it's a hunk of lifeless rock...

 

[Dhalgren150]

solitary

 

[Explaura]

a bit different

I have an odd religious background.
When I was growing up, my mother was new age/pagan leaning.. My dad was non practicing Jewish and I went to Catholic school for seven years (including high school). When I was little we went to all different churches.. We celebrated a somewhat random assortment of holidays loosely based on the wheel of the year. And of course in school religion was a required class every year.. The year I started Catholic school I read the whole bible, to "catch up" Hmmph!. Now, I have a personal philosophy that is more pagan than anything else. I am just getting into Thelema which I am especially interested in because it is a spiritual practice that is apart from religion but that is interesting and also profound and involves a community. I have been looking recently for pagan spiritual teachers that I can talk to because I feel like I really want to better and more deeply understand certain aspects of my spirituality. And to bounce ideas off of.. etc.

also rock n roll.. I peleive pagan came from the roman word for common.. like the common people.. the peasants that stuck to "supersticious" traditional beleifs. It mostly means traditional religions.. like colonized peoples'

Are you sure you're not thinking of the word heathen? That has a much more negative non-christian connotation.. Lol.. as in "converting the pagans.. and purging the heathens"

Although some groups do prefer to be called that.