en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/308941 Comments by Awena http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/11/missouris-camp-zoe-faces-government-seizure.html#IDComment109462746 Daily Mail = garbage I try to ignore them. I get so annoyed when people treat that rag like a legitimate news source. Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:39:41 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/11/missouris-camp-zoe-faces-government-seizure.html#IDComment109462746 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/11/missouris-camp-zoe-faces-government-seizure.html#IDComment109462585 Can you cite a source for that info, please? That doesn't sound right. Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:38:18 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/11/missouris-camp-zoe-faces-government-seizure.html#IDComment109462585 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/11/missouris-camp-zoe-faces-government-seizure.html#IDComment109461934 Not in my experience. If anything, I was MORE aware of whom I was talking to. Their energy and our history and everything. Have you ever been stoned, or were you just making a joke? Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:33:24 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/11/missouris-camp-zoe-faces-government-seizure.html#IDComment109461934 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/10/a-few-quick-notes-10.html#IDComment42025478 So you make one mistake (and serve your time, I might add, and get your name(s) forever on the sex offender list) and you get no support for any spiritual pursuits or anything else ever again... your Human Being card is revoked? I think not. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 05:06:01 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/10/a-few-quick-notes-10.html#IDComment42025478 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/earth-day-2.html#IDComment19656291 How random. Of course what you say is true, but my point was that there's only one jewel we know of, and we ourselves are resultant and dependent on the planet NOT being another rock. My point IS to keep both. I wasn' t really devaluing rocks. Planetary science is one of my favorite subjects. I value all the individual, unique rocks we know about. =) I just want more humans to value the jewel, and even just stop to think about planets and their value. There is no planet B. We can't screw this up. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:05:27 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/earth-day-2.html#IDComment19656291 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/earth-day-2.html#IDComment19650822 Precious planet, brimming with life, I hope I can help in the quest to keep you blue and green. A living jewel is more valuable than another space rock. We know of no other font of life in this universe - May we have the wisdom not to burn down our one home. "O Great Mother bless this Earth through our actions" Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:03:47 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/earth-day-2.html#IDComment19650822 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/witch-hunts-then-and-now.html#IDComment19623811 Damon has it. Human rights are important to all humans. Pagans have not only the stewardship of the Earth to be concerned with, but the humans along with the rest of nature to protect. So how can anyone think that witch-hunts in far-away lands aren't our problem? Even if I wasn't Pagan I'd still consider it my problem! Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:59:32 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/witch-hunts-then-and-now.html#IDComment19623811 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/sometimes-pagan-groups-simply-end.html#IDComment19620807 Darlings, if you want to have a Council of Nicea, I'm outtie. That didn't go well at all, when the original took root. I will have to change my "religion" to the worship of Freedom, if Paganism starts trying to throw weight around. There's a reason "organized religion" is a dirty word, and not just 'round these parts. Sure you have good intentions, and it might be kind of nice for awhile... until the founders die and the new guard takes over and turns it to their own ends. Then you've armed them with an organized behemoth. Way to go! I'm more attached to personal spiritual autonomy than to being called Pagan, or finding others to do spiritual work with. I'll go it alone if I have to. It would be a shame if Paganism became the authority figure I or my children have to run and hide from. Freedom IS the core of spirituality, for me. If that threatens you or holds no value for you, try escaping a cult that is also the dominant regional religion and claiming your religious (indeed, personal and political) freedom at your own peril, like I did. Then pray that your kids and their descendants can stay out of authoritarian clutches when you're gone. I'd be happy to work with others toward certain goals... but you have to be so, so careful that your monster doesn't get out of hand... and that's the nature of the beast. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:35:32 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/sometimes-pagan-groups-simply-end.html#IDComment19620807 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/sometimes-pagan-groups-simply-end.html#IDComment19617946 Most of the groups I'm aware of don't even have "leaders". Needs change, and we value our freedom to seek what we need, and let things that are no longer necessary die. (Knowing when death is necessary is a very witchy trait.) People who want lasting things with certain cores can go ahead and serve that mission and be tied to that, long-term. Or find a way to pass the torch to another who cares just as much, if they tire or have their own needs change. But don't decide, please, that the phenomenon is a problem. Let it exist. Create your thing without deciding the other thing needs to die. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:14:05 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/sometimes-pagan-groups-simply-end.html#IDComment19617946 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/sometimes-pagan-groups-simply-end.html#IDComment19614882 Heh! And like Apuleius says, colloquial usage would contradict this, too. "Sect" implies, without looking at a dictionary, a group that is part of the larger group, just a specialized flavor. "Cults" tend to be the groups that claim to be special and different and exclusive in holding the keys of truth. Sect is a much more "respectable" word in mainstream usage. The definition of cult I'm familiar with doesn't place few demands on members - quite the opposite! Cults are the ones that demand people fit into their mold, while sects seem to have schismed off the more orthodox main body so as to fit the changing form of people and the wider culture and philosophy of the times. BTW, I love this article's concept that a healthy phenomena in Paganism might be mistaken for an unhealthy one if it was a traditional religious group. We're more on the sect side, beyond it even, when the group changes so far as to dissolve to fit the members, rather than obligating them to its upkeep. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:57:29 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/sometimes-pagan-groups-simply-end.html#IDComment19614882 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/the-misinformed-opinions-of-people-who-dont-know-you.html#IDComment19611957 I don't think they see them as the "chosen people" since they think that honor transferred to them when they followed Christ out of Judaism. (Not that there was such a person, mind you.) As I understand it, the Jews have an important part to play in Christian prophecy about the end days and what has to happen in Jerusalem before Christ can return and take over the earth (scary!). They play nice with the Jews because they want access to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Israel is happy to play along and get U.S. support and weapons. Peace isn't in the prophecy, btw, until we get a Jebus monarchy. Oyay. Not much motivation for them to make peace. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:28:55 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/the-misinformed-opinions-of-people-who-dont-know-you.html#IDComment19611957 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/pangaia-ends-merges-with-newwitch.html#IDComment18693833 This seems like you're being allergic to the word "Witch" in the name of the magazine... because what's happening is the opposite of what you claim... the specialized magazines are combining into a more general magazine of content of interest to a wider range of pagans than either of the old ones on their own. Perhaps they should have combined under "PanGaia" to capture a sense of this, better, but hey... then the non-Gaian Pagans might have a wibble. Let's give it a chance and maybe someday a more suitable name will develop along with the content. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:14:44 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/pangaia-ends-merges-with-newwitch.html#IDComment18693833 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/quick-note-those-mystic-pyramids.html#IDComment18641925 I would hope that sarcophagi that are offered for such activities are replicas, or of lesser importance (maybe there are scads of that particular type?) Anyone who knows anything about archaeology (and who wouldn't, in Egypt?) would know not to touch things without permission. Anyway, I don't like to see people assuming that what pilgrims are doing is disrespectful of any particular set of gods or the long-dead. I doubt they spent all that money to go on a spiritual tour intending to be disrespectful. And really, how do you know the gods themselves didn't ask them to lay in sarcophagi? Nobody owns the gods. You don't have to have a DNA license to worship, or an initiation with extensive historical education to connect with the ways of another culture or time. I don't buy into the "cultural appropriation" concept. And perhaps the native gods will appreciate the continued attention and help to liberate the area from the grip of the intolerant new one. My respect and hope is with them. Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:34:29 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/quick-note-those-mystic-pyramids.html#IDComment18641925 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/pangaia-ends-merges-with-newwitch.html#IDComment18636577 I look forward to the new combined magazine! I'd much rather see the whole of paganism represented. This could be awesome! Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:56:29 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/04/pangaia-ends-merges-with-newwitch.html#IDComment18636577 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/01/post-christian-anxiety.html#IDComment14312792 I love this post and the discussion in the comments! Good stuff... Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:45:50 +0000 http://wildhunt.org/blog/2009/01/post-christian-anxiety.html#IDComment14312792