Poll: are you some form of pagan?

[Matt Oliver]

I am not a pagan, or anything personally but if there is something to be gained by learning stuff from druids,pagans,witches, etc. I am all up for it and my ex-girlfriend who I love very much still is a Wiccan, and I've learned so much stuff about her and I will always remember what she has taught me and as well as a friend who would be the closest to being called a druid. So if you have anything you'd like to share about what can be learned from people who just want to use their knowledge for the better, post it. PLEASE no Bashing of religions.

Edit: the poll answer saying no but I, is supposed to say No but I want to learn more about them.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Poll's broken.

As long as they don't try to convert me or do illegal practices, I jjust do not care.

 

[seidlet]

i was a practicing neo-pagan (with a unitarian universalist pagan group) until about age 16 - at that time, i identified heavily with both classical and celtic mythology and the typical wiccan wheel of the year. my husband and i are both atheists now (well, i was always more or less an atheist - i was a 'soft' polytheist in the softest possible sense, even when i practiced), but my husband connects deeply to norse paganism, while i connect with the gnostic catholic church (there's some degree of crossover, of course. i must admit i prefer the idea vallhalla or folkvangr to any idea of 'heaven' that i've run across). even though we don't actually believe any of it to be literally true, we enjoy the mythology and ritual and plan to raise our children with asatru rituals and holidays and the nine noble virtues.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

I feel like if I say something about how most modern religions have many pagan elements in them, then I'd be missing the point.

 

[Matt Oliver]

I know the poll is broken. I don't know why though. I am tech. catholic but I'm more so agnostic. I just seek knowledge.

 

[Ambi]

No, the myths sound as far-fetched as any others to me, but I listen to pagan metal. The lyrics are often beautiful and the sound reminds me of the nice feeling of the cool air of nightfall outside or when it's raining, and of childhood fantasies of heroism and adventure.

 

[Matt Oliver]

Nah, man you totally wouldn't be missing the point, people still got shit to learn about how paganism has affected them

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Not Paganism, personally I find it to be the sort of religion you'd bring up to sound edgy or something. I'm sure it's not like that for some people, but I can't quite get the image out of my head.

As for myself.
I'm more or less agnostic. I'm not too sure about the existence of these cosmic beings outside of our knowing, but then there's no solid evidence that they couldn't exist at all, either. Demanding proof either way never ends well for either party involved.

I love Celtic, Viking or Pagan metal though, much for the same reasons Ambi does.
I feel its appropriate to leave you this song, by Bathory.


For a band that went from pioneering Black metal to pioneering Viking metal, this is a pretty unique song for them.

 

[Matt Oliver]

Not Paganism, personally I find it to be the sort of religion you'd bring up to sound edgy or something. I'm sure it's not like that for some people, but I can't quite get the image out of my head.

As for myself.
I'm more or less agnostic. I'm not too sure about the existence of these cosmic beings outside of our knowing, but then there's no solid evidence that they couldn't exist at all, either. Demanding proof either way never ends well for either party involved.

I love Celtic, Viking or Pagan metal though, much for the same reasons Ambi does.
I feel its appropriate to leave you this song, by Bathory.


For a band that went from pioneering Black metal to pioneering Viking metal, this is a pretty unique song for them.

good song, not a huge metal fan, but my ex is and this is ok.

 

[Matt Oliver]

question to yall, is paganism the main sect then it breaks down into diff sects like christianity is the biggest sect then it breaks down into like 50000 diff sects?

 

[Mace Tulio]

I'm not a pagan, but I have studied paganism and I quite like it. I wouldn't practice it (or any other religion), but it's definitely among the most interesting.

 

[KefkaCultist]

well I like wiccan beliefs and I was interested in them for a while, but I wouldn't consider myself wiccan for the most part. I do meditate and believe in karma though.

 

[Matt Oliver]

well I like wiccan beliefs and I was interested in them for a while, but I wouldn't consider myself wiccan for the most part. I do meditate and believe in karma though.

karma oh hellz yes! that is something i love/hate I hope a certain person has karma kicking his ass soon enough for what happened friday >

 

[Matt Oliver]

also do you use your "shield"?

 

[iblis666]

im agnostic but i can appreciate all religions and pagans have some nice ones

i remember a story about one of my ancestors who said something like he would pray to the christan god while on land but he would pray to odin while at sea

 

[thedoclc]

The correct term for my belief is "infidel," as in lacking fidelity to the Church.

Having seen karma mentioned a few times, I'd like to just clear up what it means. The original Sanskrit means "action." Being is action and is therefore becoming. "Good karma" did not mean a cosmic pat on the head for good actions. No act, not even sitting quietly doing nothing (ahem, reference obscured), was without karma.

Karma created self. Being and becoming were seen as the same thing. It was the later Buddhists who saw karma (good karma included) as damning one to samsara, the continual cycle of existence, and the later Hindus who saw it was the cosmos bearing fruit for all your actions in whatever life. No tradition saw it as "punishment" as much as they did a consequence.

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

The correct term for my belief is "heathen" because I believe in the Norse Gods. I like the term heathen, I actually refer to myself as a heathen sometimes.

 

[Matt Oliver]

The correct term for my belief is "infidel," as in lacking fidelity to the Church.

Having seen karma mentioned a few times, I'd like to just clear up what it means. The original Sanskrit means "action." Being is action and is therefore becoming. "Good karma" did not mean a cosmic pat on the head for good actions. No act, not even sitting quietly doing nothing (ahem, reference obscured), was without karma.

Karma created self. Being and becoming were seen as the same thing. It was the later Buddhists who saw karma (good karma included) as damning one to samsara, the continual cycle of existence, and the later Hindus who saw it was the cosmos bearing fruit for all your actions in whatever life. No tradition saw it as "punishment" as much as they did a consequence.

thank you for the enlightenment but still the guy i know is still gona get a bad consequence

 

[StellarViking]

I am, though I don't go around waving a flag about it. I connect very strongly with Norse paganism. I am tolerant of everyone else's beliefs, though, and I don't go out of my way to try to convert people or say "Oh, you're wrong" or "Oh, Christianity is stupid", because I don't like it when people do it to me. Unless it comes up in conversation, I rarely even mention it as I try to distance myself from people who do it "because it's cool".

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

**snip**

I'm a pagan. Did you want to know something specific?