Re: When people tell you about your own religion.
Rae'ya, Thorbjorn, your tangent is:
Rae'ya, Thorbjorn, your tangent is:
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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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Re: When people tell you about your own religion.
Some of my favourite ones about Shinto.
"You can't be Shinto because you aren't Japanese."
"Shinto worships the Emperor of Japan as a God."
"Most Shinto practitioners outside of Japan are that way due to being obsessive anime fans."
"Shinto is a sexist religion which enforces traditional, patriarchal,social structures."
"Shinto cannot be practised outside of a shrine."
"Kami only exist in Japan so its pointless for people to worship in Kami outside of Japan."
"Shinto has a set dogma which is drawn from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki."
The list goes on and on...Comment
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Your display picture isn't helping your cause there"Most Shinto practitioners outside of Japan are that way due to being obsessive anime fans."
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Cheers, MO.Originally posted by MaskedOne View PostComment
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Man isn't that one slapped on every metaphorical wall on the internet xDOriginally posted by LunarHarvest View Post
Honestly I'd go with Gardener founding Wicca in the 50's more than Wicca as an 'ancient' religion, I'm researching into this topic a lot at the moment and I haven't found very many relations between 1400s-1750s witchcraft to that of Wicca, though there IS enough to speculate either way, if you really try hard. But witchcraft as defined by the maleficarum and old Catholic Church isn't really held as a religion.
People that are offended by the witch burnings are the ones that get me, it was so much more complicated than a bunch of Catholics picking out women and burning them. Though those people also tend to be the ones with cloth in their ears and wool for brains, so I don't care that much.Work hard Play hard.
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Wicca was invented by Gardner. The practices that he constructed it from existed prior to Wicca, both within a religious context and without. But anyone who tries to argue that Wicca itself predates Gardner is completely ignoring history. There is argument for non-Wiccan witchcraft traditions going back hundreds of years... but they aren't Wicca.Originally posted by Amadi View PostComment
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Fair enough, OH OH; do you have any links to origins/methods of those pre-Gardner practices (oopsies, Gardner isn't a Gardener) etc? I've been looking for a few good examples of witchcraft before wicca (if that makes sense?).Originally posted by Rae'ya View Post
I suppose I separate witchcraft and Wicca a lot more than those that argue it's a couple-thousand years old :SWork hard Play hard.
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There's historical basis for it being traditional, but there's no doctrine specifically condemning it. At least not in any of the bibles I've studied, but there's a lot of denominations and sects out there and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if there were some with that tenet.Originally posted by Ophidia View PostTrust is knowing someone or something well enough to have a good idea of their motivations and character, for good or for ill. People often say trust when they mean faith.Comment
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That depends on which practices you're talking about, though I presume you mean witchcraft rather than the ceremonial and Hermetic influences. You could start with British Traditional Witchcraft and the (controversial) Pickingill coven.Originally posted by Amadi View PostComment
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Yup, thanks I'll have a lookOriginally posted by Rae'ya View Post
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I just saw this and wanted to acknowledge. I'm a day late and a dollar short, as usual. Thanks.Originally posted by MaskedOne View Postśivāya vishnu rūpaya śivaḥ rūpaya vishnave
śivasya hridayam viṣṇur viṣṇoscha hridayam śivaḥ
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Aye, that's true enough. x3Originally posted by Aeran View PostYour display picture isn't helping your cause there
The difference is stating that "A person is a Shinto practitioner because they watch anime", and "A person who watches anime also happens to be a Shinto practitioner." I just happen to watch anime, and practice Shinto, but I doubt that Rev. Koichi Barrish, and other Western Shinto priests, are avid anime watchers. :PComment
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