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 Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:05 pm
I was wondering what everyone else's opinion was on labeling Buddhism Pagan. I agree with it since we share so many ways of thinking with the other Pagan Religions, like Wicca.
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:22 pm
One who is not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew, especially an adherent of a polytheistic religion in antiquity.
--dictionary.com
I would say that Buddhists are not Muslims, Jews, or Christians.
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BritishRoxtar Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:01 pm
Wow.. guess I'm a pagan. heart
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:53 am
BritishRoxtar Wow.. guess I'm a pagan. heart
*lol* Me too! -[Haruko]
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Zeek-the-Mistborn Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:23 pm
[Haruko] BritishRoxtar Wow.. guess I'm a pagan. heart
*lol* Me too! -[Haruko] Does that definition sound a bit ignorant to anybody else?
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:53 am
Mathin [Haruko] BritishRoxtar Wow.. guess I'm a pagan. heart
*lol* Me too! -[Haruko] Does that definition sound a bit ignorant to anybody else?
Yeah, it does...
*but it's still kind of fun to pretend*
-[Haruko]
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:57 am
cool-lol
maybe pagan refernces to non-monotheistic religions?
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:42 pm
Since many of the beleifs are similar,
I suppose they could be considered
in the same category. Like, if you were
to draw a Venn diagram, their circles
would cross and have many ideas within
in the same center area. I don't know if
this makes sense to anyone, but I tried.
*lol* I believe that I am Buddhist first, and
then, quite possibly, Pagan as well. -[Haruko]
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:46 am
doesn't matter to me its all a label anyway
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:43 pm
animegirl_89 doesn't matter to me its all a label anyway
Ooh... very true... valid point. -[Haruko]
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:53 pm
[Haruko] animegirl_89 doesn't matter to me its all a label anyway
Ooh... very true... valid point. -[Haruko]certainly
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:25 pm
I'd say it's a member of the Pagan family. One because Hinduism is very pagan in every way and Buddhism stems from that. If you really believe the Buddha's story you'd know he was reincarnated from Shiva, and Krishna and so on.
I personally am a Eclectic Pagan. Most of my firmer beliefs lie in Buddhism.
Pagan however the word in it's self is derogatory. The Christians gave us that name as a put down. So was the word witch. Words are not just labels. They have more meaning that one can see.
As a Polythest I feel using such words can do more harm to my faith. Though it takes someone from the inside of any said religion to either accept or reject the use of these words.
Do with this what you will.
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:00 pm
3nodding I think that being pagan and being buddhist are one in the same.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:16 am
*looks up at previous enteries*
to be for or against something is the mind's worse disease
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:20 am
when you really look at it, pagan is about the worship of nature. mother earth, her ferility, loving and caring for her
buddhism doesn't deal with that. it's about the connectedness/ the interdependance of ALL things... think, indra's net
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