Can someone do me a brilliant favor... sum up paganism in a few sentances.
Thanks
Darach
Can someone do me a brilliant favor... sum up paganism in a few sentances.
Thanks
Darach
That might be a tall order,but you could look here.
http://www.neopagan.net/Pagan_Glossary.html
"Large Umbrella Term for practices which do not fit within traditional applications of Abrahamic faiths"
Maybe...good luck finding 2 pagans with the same response, though
Well, "pagan" is a five letter word, so "paganism" would be the belief system which surrounds five letter words.
I don't think anybody can honestly do that, ThomFewkes. If you pop into this thread over here -
http://www.paganforum.com/showthread...ining-Paganism
- you'll start to get a feel for why.
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Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
Heck, we have an entire thread on the subject...Originally Posted by Dez
"Large Umbrella Term for practices which do not fit within traditional applications of Abrahamic faiths"
Maybe...good luck finding 2 pagans with the same response, though
IMO, its the practice of a number of the overlapping characteristics of a set of distinct religious traditions and mythologies that are outside of the major historical religious traditions. How and what is practiced and what beliefs are adopted vary by group or practitioner, but it generally involves some variation of polytheistic practice and/or belief and/or earth or nature-centered practices and/or beliefs. Often practices and/or beliefs are based upon the religion and/or mythologies of the Ancient world, either as a reconstruction or just as a source of inspiration.
“You have never answered but you did not need to. If I stand at the ocean I can hear you with your thousand voices. Sometimes you shout, hilarious laughter that taunts all questions. Other nights you are silent as death, a mirror in which the stars show themselves. Then I think you want to tell me something, but you never do. Of course I know I have written letters to no-one. But what if I find a trident tomorrow?" ~~Letters to Poseidon, Cees Nooteboom
“We still carry this primal relationship to the Earth within our consciousness, even if we have long forgotten it. It is a primal recognition of the wonder, beauty, and divine nature of the Earth. It is a felt reverence for all that exists. Once we bring this foundational quality into our consciousness, we will be able to respond to our present man-made crisis from a place of balance, in which our actions will be grounded in an attitude of respect for all of life. This is the nature of real sustainability.”
~~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
"We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes--one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximal freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way."
~~Stephen Jay Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Humans are not rational creatures. Now, logic and rationality are very helpful tools, but there’s also a place for embracing our subjectivity and thinking symbolically. Sometimes what our so-called higher thinking can’t or won’t see, our older, more primitive intuition will." John Beckett
Pagan Devotionals, because the wind and the rain is our Bible
Another?
*Headsplosion*
*Body wanders off to grab a spare skull*
Being semi-serious, Paganism has a multitude of different and sometimes contradictory uses and meanings. Attempts to give it a clear definition tend to have interesting results.
"It is not simply enough to know the light…a Jedi must feel the tension between the two sides of the Force…in himself and in the universe."
―Thon
"When to the Force you truly give yourself, all you do expresses the truth of who you are,"
Yoda
Yoda told stories, and ate, and cried, and laughed: and the Padawans saw that life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
so a pagan is mostly with ancien wisdom and\or with different belief than the main religion of this world am i right or wrong?
Some people believe they can practice one of the Big 5 religions & still be Pagans... but...
No, no, never mind. Yanno what? I'm not going to indulge myself in yet another one of these threads. I'm going to finish my beer and go to bed instead. :P
The forum member formerly known as perzephone. Or Perze. I've shed a skin.
Neither. Both.
Again?
"It is not simply enough to know the light…a Jedi must feel the tension between the two sides of the Force…in himself and in the universe."
―Thon
"When to the Force you truly give yourself, all you do expresses the truth of who you are,"
Yoda
Yoda told stories, and ate, and cried, and laughed: and the Padawans saw that life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
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