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Ah, that explains it.... a bit.... :p

I heard Asatru was an official religion in Iceland, alongside Christianity. Personally I think magic is unlikely to work if you don't believe that it will. It's not just a matter of doing the actions, but focusing will or energy. I don't do it very often at all. The things one tends to do...

First I would like to say ... huh? :confused: And after that to say ... Welcome MomWolf!

Enlightenment, there are a section of white supremacists who twist northern pagan traditions, rather than twisting Christianity, to fit their messed up ideals. One showed up on the forum on Paganism I'm a member of a while back and it was a shock to see how indoctrinated and narrow and hateful...

A handfasting is a pagan wedding. :D

This thread makes me laugh...... :p

Thankyou! :D

Welcome! Sorry it's so late. Somehow I managed to miss your post the first time around :o. Yes there is destruction and sadness, but every spring the daffodils will flower and the trees come into leaf. Most of the destruction is wrought by humans and so we can work to do something about it...

I am making this thread for those times when you're reading another thread and come across a term you don't understand. Wikipedia doesn't help, neither does a dictionary :confused: but you don't want to derail the thread by asking. So ask here. Remember - there are no stupid questions! (At...

I see it! I see it! (There was no-one in the room this time.... :p)

I have to admit the buddha escaped me... probably because I felt such a twit trying....

I'd also like to throw in the issue of translation. Even if you can read hebrew, the translation for a word that you have learnt may not convey the connotation that it would have done to the original writer. (Is this what you meant by synchronic overtones Tao? Sorry - I'm not up on the jargon :o...

But we don't think we're drowning (or should I say we *know* we're not drowning), and for some people the fact that a lifeline keeps slapping them round the head is just plain annoying. That's an interesting point Saltmeister and I think it illustrates why just quoting the doctrine at people...

I have to say, the bloody one gave me the heebie-jeebies too. Though I wasn't brave enough to go to the site .... I got more than enough of a feel for it from the ad :mad:

They came to a low room with a sloping roof (a penthouse, it seemed, built on the north end of the house). Its walls were of clean stone, but they were mostly covered with green hanging mats and yellow curtains. The floor was flagged, and strewn with fresh green rushes.

Lol, no but generally I find ten Pagans means at least fifteen opinions. :D

Surely though as we are capable of sinning we are flawed? Didn't he create us with a sex drive? If so then to punish us for listening to it seems unfair, hypocritical even. Or is sex a gift of the devil rather than god? Though again, as our natural drives (sex and selfish need for survival to...

Exactly what I do. :rolleyes: Women! We're all the same..... :p I have pretty days, ugly days, thin days and fat days. Not that anything actually changes about me, mind, just the way I feel about it.

Very true :) but when I am in the audience I can't help feeling faintly peeved at being ignored, although as I'm in such a small minority it's quite reasonable behaviour on the part of the speaker. Gods help us if Pagans ever become the majority! No-one will ever agree on anything! :p

I don't think the hanky-panky is separate from the spiritual though. I'm sure if my partner and I were to find ourselves suddenly unable to have sex, we'd cope (though it'd take some getting used to :eek:). The physical side of our relationship is only partly sex anyway, hugs and kisses and...