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Post by Senbecc on May 11, 2006 23:03:31 GMT -5
Lately I've been noticing a trend among many Pagans, and Pagan communities. While it's true we don't actually walk up to peoples door, I think many Pagans have found another way. This constant bantering and intolerance of others belief systems being "invalid", "pseudo-religions", "Oxymoron", and others IMO is a form of prostelyzing by which one person shows another person that the path that they follow isn't a "good enough" path, that *my* path is better, and I will prove this fact by pulling out from under you everything you believe, thus leaving you with only one viable option.
Would this not be a form of prostelyzing?
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Post by moonwind333 on May 11, 2006 23:46:44 GMT -5
Or intimidation!
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Post by Senbecc on May 12, 2006 0:21:16 GMT -5
I sometimes am inclined to put the two in the same boat.
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Post by Sojrn on May 12, 2006 0:30:18 GMT -5
Especially confusing to the newly interested.
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Post by Senbecc on May 12, 2006 0:49:28 GMT -5
Especially confusing to the newly interested. I know when I started anyone could beat me in a debate, and many times it cut me to the very core, even to the point I was ready to give up. These things can be enough at times to bring tears to a grown man's eyes, and no matter how "tough" some one thinks they are such defeats hurt badly. This is why I preach to people to NEVER just drop what has been embraced for an entire life time up to such and such point.
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Post by ihrian on May 12, 2006 5:28:58 GMT -5
isnt it great how everyones so big headed these days?? everyone thinks that theyre better than that guy, ormy hats better than urs, or im better than u coz i wear cool clothes..ive noticed that some of my christian friends are more open minded and accepting than any of my others..
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Post by Senbecc on May 12, 2006 13:31:10 GMT -5
isnt it great how everyones so big headed these days?? everyone thinks that theyre better than that guy, ormy hats better than urs, or im better than u coz i wear cool clothes..ive noticed that some of my christian friends are more open minded and accepting than any of my others.. It's becoming ridiculous! I've been posting on a myspace group focused on the practice of Wicca. She *claims* to be an initiated Gardnerian, and everyone in the group evidently is fuzzy except for her. Even going so far to tell me that pantheism is a "new-age fluffy idea". They all most had to wheel me out of here in a straight jacket! Once on a chat site I mentioned my Druidic path and a "Wiccan" proceeded to in form me that "she was more pagan than I am". We all have been subjected to these forms of "Prostelyzing" on the other site with the mentioning of certain forms, and the shooting them down with out so much as an explanation as to what the path is, or why the path is so dreadfully wrong. We've all experienced these examples in some form or another. It seems frustrating to watch others try to share their own discoveries with others who have already discovered their own foundations of being. Once these things are found I suppose it comes to a point that "hey this works, that means you must be wrong". By the same token, one should not be so open minded that their brains fall out either.
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Post by sistersarah on May 19, 2006 15:45:29 GMT -5
Oh my...let me collect (reign in) my thoughts on this one....
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Post by Senbecc on May 19, 2006 15:51:41 GMT -5
Oh my...let me collect (reign in) my thoughts on this one.... I'd definitely be interested.
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Post by moonwind333 on May 19, 2006 16:24:06 GMT -5
By the same token, one should not be so open minded that their brains fall out either. Stuffing brains back in, tho, (specially with a few things added) is a heck of a lot easier that trying to pry open that padlocked, steel framed, titanium reinforced closed mind!
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Post by Senbecc on May 19, 2006 16:30:51 GMT -5
By the same token, one should not be so open minded that their brains fall out either. Stuffing brains back in, tho, (specially with a few things added) is a heck of a lot easier that trying to pry open that padlocked, steel framed, titanium reinforced closed mind! ROTFLMAO! Very true!
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Post by ihrian on May 20, 2006 22:55:12 GMT -5
oooh, ive had someone tell me that he was more of a pagan the i, even tho he's only just started..he asked me when i became wiccan, i sed i never did, im pagan interested in celtic stuff, and he sed ohh thts stupid, im more pagan than u are...i think his idea is the more hated by everyone else u are the more pagan u are, or sumfin like that..i dunno, but hes a friend so yea....
brains? what brains....
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Post by Senbecc on May 21, 2006 3:21:52 GMT -5
oooh, ive had someone tell me that he was more of a pagan the i, even tho he's only just started..he asked me when i became wiccan, i sed i never did, im pagan interested in celtic stuff, and he sed ohh thts stupid, im more pagan than u are...i think his idea is the more hated by everyone else u are the more pagan u are, or sumfin like that..i dunno, but hes a friend so yea.... brains? what brains.... Does that not crack you up though? Also it seems to be a bit of what Paul was experiencing on myspace, though that was a bit more evolved. What he was looking at was look at it my way or not at all, if your going to be Pagan this is the only way. However down through history Paganisim has had to many forms to be so easily defined by two people who through some salt in a bowl and said "I'm Wiccan".
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Post by ihrian on May 21, 2006 19:17:25 GMT -5
so well put! he just thinks its 'cool' , lol, coz he goes to a private guys school, and hates his teachers, its a way of rebelling...hilarious
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Post by nevyn on May 25, 2006 7:38:57 GMT -5
I've stopped going to the MYSpace groups that I belong to because here I don't have to put up with the shee-it that I saw going on there. I like being accepted as a thinking person with opinions that sometimes differ from others, we might not have exactly the same beliefs, but we (seem) to accept each other anyway. Thank You, Senbecc, for directing me to this site!
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