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 Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 5:28 pm
Would you not be happy as simply a Buddhist?
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:38 pm
I am looking at that possibility but I have a few major problems that don't mesh with it. " Living in a unharmful way" from what I gather means being vegetarian which I won't do, ribs are delicious, as wellas commitments I don't think I could keep. I would aslos need to find an "unharmful " job which seems fairly impossible this day and age and would bar me from worjing as agent in law enforcement. Lastly while I deeply respect and appreciate the idea of not getting attached to things I want those things for.ke and my family. Soo it's on the backburner. In short.
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:37 am
Well I have been doing a lot of thinking and I had two breakthroughs maybe.
One, my imagination is overly, highly active and I think that it's getting in the way of things. I might be seeing things when they arent there or envisioning things wrong. Etc
Two, I have an issue with emotions. I dont like to share my deepest emotions, I have a hard time expressing them and I really really hate bottling them up. So any religion that kinda smothers my emotions are suggests that you should kinda always be at peace wont work for me. XD
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:49 am
PersianPapiiChulo Well I have been doing a lot of thinking and I had two breakthroughs maybe. One, my imagination is overly, highly active and I think that it's getting in the way of things. I might be seeing things when they arent there or envisioning things wrong. Etc Two, I have an issue with emotions. I dont like to share my deepest emotions, I have a hard time expressing them and I really really hate bottling them up. So any religion that kinda smothers my emotions are suggests that you should kinda always be at peace wont work for me. XD An active imagination isn't a bad thing! But that's one reason why we check experiences against lore. Sometimes what we want can cloud our judgment and our thoughts, so we check to see if, for example, our experience of the goddess we think we were speaking to matches up with what that goddess is actually like.
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:03 am
Sanguina Cruenta PersianPapiiChulo Well I have been doing a lot of thinking and I had two breakthroughs maybe. One, my imagination is overly, highly active and I think that it's getting in the way of things. I might be seeing things when they arent there or envisioning things wrong. Etc Two, I have an issue with emotions. I dont like to share my deepest emotions, I have a hard time expressing them and I really really hate bottling them up. So any religion that kinda smothers my emotions are suggests that you should kinda always be at peace wont work for me. XD An active imagination isn't a bad thing! But that's one reason why we check experiences against lore. Sometimes what we want can cloud our judgment and our thoughts, so we check to see if, for example, our experience of the goddess we think we were speaking to matches up with what that goddess is actually like. You just made soo much sense. That works. Danke!
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:15 am
I just want to say thanks for answering my silly questions. heart That and I have two more.
I kinda came to a slight realization that words and chants seem to me to have a very powerful effect on the psyche. Like I can imagine myself actually yelling and shouting a chant and moving around in a ritual manner. That has and odd rightness to it. So is there any Path that has this kind of ritual at it's heart?
Secondly, I had a thought. I am not even sure if it's a belief I hold but a lot of the world and life can be viewed as a rythmn, a flow. And I thought what if Life and Death have that same flow. That when we achieve that flow, we would complete the rythmn and Life and Death become a cycle of Reincarnation. Have you guys come across this anywhere else?
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:00 am
PersianPapiiChulo I kinda came to a slight realization that words and chants seem to me to have a very powerful effect on the psyche. Like I can imagine myself actually yelling and shouting a chant and moving around in a ritual manner. That has and odd rightness to it. So is there any Path that has this kind of ritual at it's heart? Off the top of my head the rosary/worry beads used with in Catholic context provide that kind of mediation. Hinduism has prayers they say to their gods in a specific format, that I was led to believe is similar to chanting. I thought Buddhism particularly Tibetan Buddhism could involve chanting (though I might just have picked that up from the "new world" cd section where there is always a ton of Tibetan monk chants for sale). You're not alone in finding chants highly effective as I know they are often used in eclectic practices (pretty much everyone I know who's an eclectic myself included has at least on chanting ritual they do often) and it's used within psychology some as well. I think that it can be integrated into most practices, though there are some faiths where actions over words or in conjuncture with words would mean more. Quote: Secondly, I had a thought. I am not even sure if it's a belief I hold but a lot of the world and life can be viewed as a rythmn, a flow. And I thought what if Life and Death have that same flow. That when we achieve that flow, we would complete the rythmn and Life and Death become a cycle of Reincarnation. Have you guys come across this anywhere else? More details please? When I see the word rhythm I think of pacing/tempo/predictability and I don't think the world is particularly predicable or constant. Likewise when I see the word flow I think of something fluid/smooth/happening in a way that is not jarring and that one has a certain amount of foresight towards. I mean life can be like that, but I find that just when one settles in, the tempo changes randomly and people die and are born in unexpected and painful/joyous ways all the time. Is this an misinterpretation of your stance?
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:17 am
blindfaith^_^ PersianPapiiChulo I kinda came to a slight realization that words and chants seem to me to have a very powerful effect on the psyche. Like I can imagine myself actually yelling and shouting a chant and moving around in a ritual manner. That has and odd rightness to it. So is there any Path that has this kind of ritual at it's heart? Off the top of my head the rosary/worry beads used with in Catholic context provide that kind of mediation. Hinduism has prayers they say to their gods in a specific format, that I was led to believe is similar to chanting. I thought Buddhism particularly Tibetan Buddhism could involve chanting (though I might just have picked that up from the "new world" cd section where there is always a ton of Tibetan monk chants for sale). You're not alone in finding chants highly effective as I know they are often used in eclectic practices (pretty much everyone I know who's an eclectic myself included has at least on chanting ritual they do often) and it's used within psychology some as well. I think that it can be integrated into most practices, though there are some faiths where actions over words or in conjuncture with words would mean more. Quote: Secondly, I had a thought. I am not even sure if it's a belief I hold but a lot of the world and life can be viewed as a rythmn, a flow. And I thought what if Life and Death have that same flow. That when we achieve that flow, we would complete the rythmn and Life and Death become a cycle of Reincarnation. Have you guys come across this anywhere else? More details please? When I see the word rhythm I think of pacing/tempo/predictability and I don't think the world is particularly predicable or constant. Likewise when I see the word flow I think of something fluid/smooth/happening in a way that is not jarring and that one has a certain amount of foresight towards. I mean life can be like that, but I find that just when one settles in, the tempo changes randomly and people die and are born in unexpected and painful/joyous ways all the time. Is this an misinterpretation of your stance? Hmm. Thanks for the information on the Chanting. I shall have to do some digging of my own as well. As for my idea that I had. Well yes I agree that life can be and often is very jarring and chaotic and such but thats kinda what I think I was getting at. To us its like that but in reality there is actually an underlying rythmn or flow that we can get it. And that when we do perhaps we move into a cycle of Reincarnation. Really as I look at it myself I think the first part, that there is perhaps and underlying method to the madness of life makes sense but that we would start being reincarnated...doesnt work really. Most it was just a thought I had. A pondering
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:12 pm
You might well find those things in various forms of Neo-Pagan witchcraft, Papii. Have you looked into Reclaiming?
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:07 am
Sanguina Cruenta You might well find those things in various forms of Neo-Pagan witchcraft, Papii. Have you looked into Reclaiming? No. I haven't. I think you've mentioned it before. I shall do research during my break in a while but if you have info dumps or sources those would be greatly appreciated. So I have an idea of whether I am looking at a source that is relevant exactly what is it?
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:11 am
PersianPapiiChulo Sanguina Cruenta You might well find those things in various forms of Neo-Pagan witchcraft, Papii. Have you looked into Reclaiming? No. I haven't. I think you've mentioned it before. I shall do research during my break in a while but if you have info dumps or sources those would be greatly appreciated. So I have an idea of whether I am looking at a source that is relevant exactly what is it? Reclaiming is Starhawk's baby. It's primarily a monotheistic goddess-worshipping form of witchcraft. I don't have any links on me but someone else may have some good ones. But essentially books by Starhawk and her Reclaiming posse will probably be good. Just keep in mind dates of publication.
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:16 am
Sanguina Cruenta PersianPapiiChulo Sanguina Cruenta You might well find those things in various forms of Neo-Pagan witchcraft, Papii. Have you looked into Reclaiming? No. I haven't. I think you've mentioned it before. I shall do research during my break in a while but if you have info dumps or sources those would be greatly appreciated. So I have an idea of whether I am looking at a source that is relevant exactly what is it? Reclaiming is Starhawk's baby. It's primarily a monotheistic goddess-worshipping form of witchcraft. I don't have any links on me but someone else may have some good ones. But essentially books by Starhawk and her Reclaiming posse will probably be good. Just keep in mind dates of publication. Thank you very much. Now I might be wrong but I think saw somewhere in the Guild you guys saying something about her being 'fluffy'? Or am I thinking of someone else?
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:42 am
PersianPapiiChulo Sanguina Cruenta PersianPapiiChulo Sanguina Cruenta You might well find those things in various forms of Neo-Pagan witchcraft, Papii. Have you looked into Reclaiming? No. I haven't. I think you've mentioned it before. I shall do research during my break in a while but if you have info dumps or sources those would be greatly appreciated. So I have an idea of whether I am looking at a source that is relevant exactly what is it? Reclaiming is Starhawk's baby. It's primarily a monotheistic goddess-worshipping form of witchcraft. I don't have any links on me but someone else may have some good ones. But essentially books by Starhawk and her Reclaiming posse will probably be good. Just keep in mind dates of publication. Thank you very much. Now I might be wrong but I think saw somewhere in the Guild you guys saying something about her being 'fluffy'? Or am I thinking of someone else? She has a blind spot for history but that's about it. My personal issues with her have more to do with my own tastes in authors, writing styles and ideas than with her being a moron.
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Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:51 am
Alirghty that didnt take long to turn into a big fat no. Not for me. I am all for equal rights of the sexes but it seems to be waay to in your face Feminist, and too politically active. I like to be quiet about my religion thank you. Thanks for the suggestion though Sang.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:42 am
Hello guys. I got two questions both are kinda related but not.
First I think I mentioned to Afro that I have recently felt a bit of a connection with Thor. What originally got me started thinking about it was the movie coming out, BUT, I began to examine situations and occurences more closely and I do feel like there could be a connection regardless of what got me thinking about it. The first thing was that I was driving about a year or more ago, and I am a terrible driver mind you, when a hugggggeeee storm hit. I wanted to pull over but my father said it will be good to drive in it so I did. I prayed, without thought, to Thor to guide me through the storm and I made it. No biggie. That is the first time though. Ever since then though I am fascinated by storms. I can feel their power, and if I didnt live with my parentals, would sit on the porch and just watch them.
I am getting long winded here. The question I am tryin to ask is there anyway I could test this connection? I've tried asking Thor himself but I cant concentrate enough to really make it a prayer, and 'sides I nearly always feel awkward praying.
The second question is one I may have asked before. August marks the year anniversary of my choice to become Pagan. I want to celebrate this somehow but I dont know how. I also and am unsure if I should try to honor Thor in whatever I do then either.
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