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[Lord DragonsWing]

Thats the trouble the word Pgan is taken to mean unholy mother molesting child shagger in the allegedly normal world. in fact it means quite the oposite. most pagan reigions worship the very things that give us life ie the elements

That is very true hotchkiss. I've been a pagan for ages. The one thing that bothered me at the meeting was not the people staring. It was the one's I call fluff. Dressed in black, silver everywhere, pents hanging like a medal. Ironed on t-shirts with skulls and pents displayed. Some I would ask about subjects and they knew nothing about it. Others I'd ask why they chose Wicca? A few gave excellent responses. Others just kinda thought it was cool.
At 45 I was close to being the oldest one there. The others my age did not interact with the younger ones. And the younger pagans stayed to themselves. I made friends in both age groups.
It's the fluff, as I call it, that worries me about the religion. It's bad enough here that everyone tells you you're going to hell for being a pagan.
Welcome to the Southern Bible Belt. lol

 

[sweetnpetite]

There are 'fluffs' in every religion. Especially, dare I say it, amoung the young.

Christians who wear flashy crosses and think that they can behave however they want because of 'grace.' Who don't know anything about their own religion beyond what the preacher tells them. Youth group kids who only go to make out in the back of the church van!

(and not to knock christians, it was just an example that I have knowlege of)

I'm sure there are Jews who use it as a status thing, but aren't really all that Jewish, just as there are flakes who tie a red string around there wrist and say, "that's because I'm into like, Kaballa- it's so spiritual!"

Sometimes though, I think being a 'fluff' is just a natural beginner stage, that some grow out of. Like it says somewear in the bible, "when I was a child I saw things as a child, but now those things have passed away and I see things as a man" or something like that. And then there's something about milk and meat. (spiritual food that you can handle at the right stage of your development)

Yes, I will quote the bible to make a point. I don't think it's infailable, but it does have much wisdom within. I've never been to a UU church, but I definatly thing I'm a Unitarian.

Even as a child I always figured that everyone must worship the same god, they just call him by a different name. (not a popular idea in sunday school, but oh well)

I don't believe it makes a difference what you *call* god/ess/es. I don't believe it makes all that much of a difference what you believe either. I think it matters what you do. I do believe that what's in your heart matters, but I sure don't believe anyone's going to hell because they don't believe that dancing is a mortal sin.

Ramble... Ramble...

appologies.

 

[entitled]

Indeed good points, and very much along the lines of what i believe. Then again, that's what makes me a 'freak' here in the bible belt.

It's largely not accepted to think that we all worship the same being. It was at one point accepted, but all the religious dogma got in the way, too many preachers out of every religion decided that all other religions are just so much BS, and we end up with the mess we've got today. So far as i'm concerned, as long as a religion teaches its followers to be good moral people, there's nothing wrong with it.

Each religion has both the good and bad in it. They all have something to teach, if we open ourselves to the idea that they're not evil or bad because they're not what we ourselves practice. They're just a little different.

 

[sweetnpetite]

so- how does your paganism effect what you write?

what about your other religious influences (for those who grew up in strong religious homes very different from paganism)

ARe you're sex stories more spiritual?

Does it get in the way of being able to write pure smut?

Does it free you from your past beliefs about sex and the body?

Or does it not have any re- hmm, interupted and forgot what I was going to post here! lol.

do you blend paganism and writing in any way? (stories about mythology or special writing or muse finding rituals)

 

[Pure]

just so there's a little counterpoint to the hymn singing-- a noisy revelling of 'unwashed' pagans.

about the writing, sweet, depends if it's celebration au naturel, or truly corrupt prurience you want; if the latter, it doesn't hurt for the writer to at least be a former Christian.

 

[sweetnpetite]

just so there's a little counterpoint to the hymn singing-- a noisy revelling of 'unwashed' pagans.

about the writing, sweet, depends if it's celebration au naturel, or truly corrupt prurience you want; if the latter, it doesn't hurt for the writer to at least be a former Christian.

"Keep sex dirty" and all that

 

[curious2c]

Well, I am offically a practicing Pagan of sorts...Druid.

I grew up in the Assembly Of God Church...and all that entails...holy rollers to extreme.


I became a Druid late in life...but my path is so clear now as it wasn't when I was 'Christian'.

Of course, I feel that I can't tell my 82 year old mother that I am a 'Pagan'...don't want to break her heart.

I'm a writer...well...I think I'm a writer. Not real sure what others think of my 'works' honestly though.

I guess that makes me a Pagan Writer then...huh?