pls help me on my thesis!

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Permalink Reply by Magickal Hummingbyrd on December 23, 2010 at 6:15pm

♥)O(♥ ATTENTION EVERYONE! : Please ***NEVER*** Give Your Legal Name & Home Address & Contact Information & Email Address To ***ANYONE!*** ... That Is Not A Long~Time Well~Known Trusted Friend! ♥)O(♥

 

MANY Spammers & People Seeking To Use & Steal Your Personal Private Legal Identity & Bank Accounts Are Joining Witch School & Using ALL Kinds Of Deceptive Ploys To Do It! ~~~ If A Person Is L@@KING For Information On A Thesis ~ They Do NOT Need ANY Personal Information From You! ~~~ They Can Do What Everyone Else Doing Thesis Essays Does ~ Research It Themselves By Searching The Internet For Information & Reading B@@KS On It! *** BE AWAKE & BE AWARE! ***

 

 

♥Bountiful Blessed Bees!♥

 

 

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Permalink Reply by khanzekha liona on December 23, 2010 at 10:30pm

im not a spammer or what...

im going to include your name in my thesis, on the acknowledgement portion.

i understand your point of view... anyway, thankz.

 

as atated above... kindly indicate your name and whatever.. IF YOU WISH TO.

 

bright blessings!

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Permalink Reply by John Thomas on December 23, 2010 at 7:40pm

Greetings Khanzekha,

  Please capitalize the first letter of each new sentence. Also, informations --> information[]

Non-Pagan people should not be afraid of Pagans because we aren't a violent religion. We don't teach that it is o.k. to kill people. We allow ourselves to protect ourselves from violence only.

Furthermore, Non-Pagan people don't even need to know anything about Pagan people (other than we are non-violent) unless they directly ask about it. We know our religion isn't for everyone and so we don't go preaching to a lot of people. It isn't our job.

 

Who are the Pagan Gods? Well, if you are Wiccan the first Goddess is the Goddess of the Moon. The three shapes of the Moon are found on the crown of our High Priestess indicating this truth. The first God is the Horned God of the Woods and Sun. If you are an Eclectic Wiccan, that means that you also have many Gods from many places in the world. All Pagan Goddesses and Gods are life affirming and of Nature even though they may be of darkness or light. Actually GOD IS NATURE. Goddesses and Gods are personifications of this truth.

 

Once again, I agree with Hummingbyrd, NEVER! give out your name and address or any other personal information[] out on the internet.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by khanzekha liona on December 23, 2010 at 10:31pm

thank you.

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Permalink Reply by khanzekha liona on December 23, 2010 at 10:54pm

i know a lot about paganism and the wicca culture... but everything i know isn't enough.

thank you to those who'll comment on this discussion..

i just need more information and knowledge about the said religion.

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Permalink Reply by Rev. Aphren on December 24, 2010 at 1:15am

I guess I will take a stab at this. These questions you ask are very general and I think any of us here could write several pages on just one of the questions you asked. As we all know, Wicca is a nature religion, and unlike what the Correllian Tradition calls "The Book Religions"- we as a Pagan religion place a high level of reverence on Nature. The changing of the seasons, the moving of the tides, the changing of the moon phases and the rise of the Sun and Moon are all natural things we observe and try to attune and become one with: The Natural Rhythm of life. This is the basic goal of Wicca, although Paganism at large may have a somewhat different approach to such issues, more often than not the two are grouped into one understanding.

 

Paganism is a group of religions which are considered to be "Pre-Christian" or "Non-Christian". In this way religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism as well as Taoism would be considered to be "Pagan". I think many of us here would consider "Paganism" to be religions indigenous to Europe, such as the religion of the Germanic Tribes of early Europe, or the pantheon of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Many of these forms of Paganism have been revived into what many consider to be "Neo-Paganism" or New Paganism, with modern adaptions. The Germanic beliefs of the old Norse Religion have been "modernized" -in a way- to the Neo-Pagan sect of Astaru to name one example. In this respect, Wicca is considered to be "Neo-Pagan." Wicca is a modern form of ancient Celtic Paganism- many would say- although it shares similarities with other forms of European Paganism. I think everyone here would agree with me when I say that I non-Pagans do not need to fear Pagans/Wiccans/Witches. (Although maybe Witches, since that word in itself has many meanings, some of which may be on the "negative side").

 

As John said, we are non-violent, Passive. As they say "The only thing to fear is fear itself." And obviously, what people don't understand is frightening to them, so I say, educate others on our beliefs and our religion, and there would be less to fear. Aside from that, Paganism or Wicca is nothing that should be feared, it is not dangerous. And, in my opinion, I think that many of us have become the opposite of afraid by finding Wicca or Paganism, we have lost our fear when we embarked on this path.

 

The God/s of Wicca and Paganism are different depending on which sect one belongs to, and it also depends on the individual person themselves. Some denominations or "traditions" of Paganism and Neo-Paganism worship a specific group of gods, while others only worship two. Still others might worship a group of Gods while they are in a group, but the individual may have their own God/s aside from the group. So- to put it simply, to speak of Wicca and Paganism, their Gods are all, and none. But to be more specific, many Wiccan traditions believe in one Female entity and one Male entity representing the opposing yet equal parts of the universe which balance it and create life.

 

I hope that was of some help to you. I hope your paper goes well. Although I do not think you can write it all on the basis of "interviews" or replies on a website, it may also be helpful to use book sources to gather your information.

 

Blessings

~Aphren

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Permalink Reply by Fantumofthewinds on December 24, 2010 at 8:37am

click on send me a message and I will be glad to give you my points of view , as for my name sorry, I am the unseen BB

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Permalink Reply by khanzekha liona on December 26, 2010 at 10:27pm

i like it!!!
=)
being an unseen being is so cool!
love it!

BB

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Permalink Reply by Drakill Tannan on December 24, 2010 at 3:07pm

I'll add a bit of my own.

Should people be afraid of Wiccans and/or witches?
It depends. Witches are generally easy-going hippies, so as a whole they are harmless. Furthermore most witches will stop themselves from doing harm because of the three fold law, Karma, law of atraction or simply because they follow the wiccan rede (...as long as you harm none, do as you will...) even if they have a good reason to. Find a witch that doesn't care about any of this, and make her angry enough, however, and you've got yourself into real trobule. So satanist witches, and (i think) chaos magic practicioners you should be afraid of. I, for example, would be warry of Laveyan Satanists, who are atheist witches, because they have no moral code, and their philosofy is rather selfish, while harming others is not encouraged, it isn't discouraged either, and they know how to cause harm, so...

Afraid of wiccans though? No, really. Among all religions wiccans are the most easy going and pacifist i've met. It's like being afraid of a budhist monk. They won't kill a fly, not even in self-defence. (note: exageration)

Who is/are the gods?
This is an answer that depends a lot. Since there is no "holy text" or ruling about what Wicca actually is, a wiccan can say pretty much anything and he'll be accepted. But in the corellian tradition there aren't many gods, just one. It's pantheism: Scott cunninhamg also descrives it like that as well. Basically we are all an expresion of the one and only god, but only partially, a fragment of it. This god is androginus in nature, but since we humans cannot harbor the idea of something male and female at the same time, then we must divide this divine entity into several faces. The god is a face that represents certian aspects of the diety, so is the goddess, but in the end, they, as much as we, are but a part of the only diety.

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Permalink Reply by Sparrow on December 24, 2010 at 11:58pm

I would say that to understand the nature of how Pagans and Wiccans are viewed is to understand the amazingly true fact that "History is written by those who win" So when the Christians conquered certain areas they would of course adopt or lie about those that they conquered for the purposes of Propaganda or control.
For example The Pagan God Pan became the image of the Devil (Baphomet ,Lucifer). Yule traditions combined with Christmas , and of course the combined "All saints Day" (Halloween) with Sahwain.
Convenience for those in power has alot to do with Pagan public image Good and bad.
As for fear, I would not fear an unprovoked Pagan more so than anyone else of any practice.
Most Witches want to be left alone and be treated (If public or discovered ) with a little tolerance. Blessed Be

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Permalink Reply by Judith A LaBonte on December 25, 2010 at 2:41pm

for a long time i have had a theory that people turn to the "dark side of the Force" so to speak, when they are oppressed.
Look at the scary magical users that people fear- Witches/Pagans of earlier days, like during the Inquisition, People who practice Afro-Carribean or Afro-diaspora magic, many times i think people who have nowhere else to turn, turn to magic as a way to defend themselves or try to do so. i've not researched this, it's just an idea i've had.

So i guess i would say, No, people should not be scared of magical folk - as long as they are treating them humanely and not with cruelty. Whether magical folk are to fear or not, depends more on the perspective of the person or people doing the fearing or not doing it. it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy!
j/L - Matrika

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Permalink Reply by khanzekha liona on December 26, 2010 at 10:32pm

wow...
thank you so much for these information.
i have to translate it into other language...
coz my professor opt for Filipino medium than English.
furthermore, she've chosen this language for better understanding and interpretations about the said topic.
once again,thank you so much.
coz instead of going to the shrine. i simply post a discussion and wait til somebody post a comment.
this helped me a lot!
bright blessings!

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