I’m slowly finding that the word pagan is no longer describing my beliefs. I shall come up with a new one that is more appropriate.
In other news, I had many arrivals today. My poly book showed up, along with my book on shinto meditations, and *dun duh duh da!!!* My skull showed up at work today.
I’ll be posting more, including pics, later. But it’s late, must work in the morning, and I’ve got a headache.
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😛 Something that just sounds so wrong about your skull just being showing up for you at your job. I like it!
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I’m slowly finding that the word pagan is no longer describing my beliefs.
Labels are for other people, not yourself. At this point, and in this place, “pagan” simply means “It’s complicated and would take too long to explain, and you’re as likely to make a snap judgement (positive or negative) based on an incomplete and poorly-communicated description, so you might as well make a snap judgement on the label instead, as it will save everyone a lot of time.” So, don’t break your heart over it fitting or not.
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The most commonly used definition has never fit me either. Most people, around here at least, assume “pagan” equates with “wiccan.” ::shudder:: not hardly for this gal. I also try to steer clear of “druid” as that tends to conjure images of people prancing about the meadow wearing white sheets and hugging trees. At this point, I can only say I don’t consider myself christian and labels are for cereal boxes. I’m just me.
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While I’m curious as to why you don’t feel it applies, I’m not going to second (or rather, third) the idea that labels are for other people or products. In this case, we’re talking about something that is inherently an identifier, both to the world at large and as an example of thought process. As you and I both know, pagan is usually equated directly with something Wiccan-esque and that is a misnomer that has been foisted on everyone by the neo-pagan and Wiccan community. While “they’ll” never say it, the language used shows that they consider themselves the only real pagans and damn anyone who’s fusty enought to actually belong to an ethnic or Traditionalist faith and doesn’t participate in their little game of self-assurance and role-play. None the less, the heathens, the CRs, the Kemetics, the Greco-Romans, the Balts, and a miriad of other ethnic faiths are pagan religions, just a different branch of the over-all religious style classifier. Remind me to show you a diagram of how I divide the different pagan religions.
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I’d be interested to hear why, too. It is a comment I hear quite often from people praticing ethic or culturally based Paganism. I’ve wrestled with it myself a time or two.
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