[ SECRET POST #2456 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2456 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[China, Illinois]


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[The Mortal Instruments]


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[Community]


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[Hunter x Hunter, Senritsu/Melody]

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[Hetalia]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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[Ghostbusters]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Malik Ishtar from Yugi-oh Duel Monsters]


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Comments

Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

When I was in high school, I was really drawn to Wicca and earth centric paganism, and I was genuinely moved by it, not in a like, trying to be an edgy teenager kind of way. I really found a lot of the stuff inspiring. I'm an atheist in mind, but spiritually feel at home with pantheistic new age polytheism. I decided to write an article about Wicca for my blog today and dug out a couple old books I had and got all nostalgic. It made me want to identify as neopagan or Wiccan again.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[chardmonster]

I'm a neoatheist in mind, but neospiritually feel at neohome with neopantheistic neoage neopolytheism. I decided to dictate a neoarticle about neoWicca on my Google Glass today and neodug out a couple of old analogbooks I had and got all neostolgic. It made me want to neodentify as neopagan or neowiccan again.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

there's this thing called "spiritual humanism/atheism/agnosticism" which sort of edges on nature worship, but more in a general "wow the universe is a pretty cool place". spiritual practice like meditation, minus the god part.

that might be your kinda thing, idk.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[chardmonster]

Isn't that the people who post all these Neil deGrasse Tyson quotes but don't actually care about science, just the idea of it?

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, it's just a thing that exists.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if my life would be better if I felt it necessary to come into threads and poop all over well-meaning responses/

Re: Any neopagans here?

[ill_omened]

Doesn't 'traditional' wicca date back to like the late fifties.

I imagine half the people here have parents older than that.

Get a real religion pls.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

OH PLEASE.

Call me back when you're worshipping Taimat and Abzu.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

*gets popcorn*

Re: Any neopagans here?

[chardmonster]

What the hell is a "real religion?"

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

Jesus, I'm all for dogpiling on Stella's bullshit, but Wicca IS a real religion. New does not mean invalid. And yes, there is a difference between religion and cult - cults are inherently dangerous, and there's nothing wrong about Wicca.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

Lol you. Spirituality should be about picking what works for you. I cannot stand "traditional pagans" who take magic seriously and actually believe they practice ~the old religion~.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[thene]

Pagan reactions vs reactions of people in mainstream religions

Some religions seem to view new followers getting involved as a good thing, weird right?

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

Though most religions don't take very kindly to the modification of traditions or dogma. Got a bunch of people in a lot of trouble back in the day, I hear.

Don't get me wrong,I think this is all balls to the wall hilarious, but it seems to be just how religions work.

GET OFF MY NEOLAWN

[chardmonster]

Just ribbing. I imagine this might grow from a faith that doesn't have a canon (there might be with British Traditional, I'm talking about paganism in general). You're going to have dabblers. Hell, there's christian dabblers (I'm a follower of Christ! That means I care a great deal about Old Testament law and demand everyone be perfect, completely negating the value of that whole Crucifixion thing in the first place! Also my religion centers around a horrible execution and I support the death penalty!) and there's a damn Bible to point to.

It's like those Astaru guys who are frustrated with the racist norse worshipers. Obviously the racists are awful but where do you point (religiously) to tell them they're wrong?

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

God, you're like a crotchety old Catholic saying protestants are not real Christians. Except Catholic would imply there is some kind of validity in your ~traditional~ Wicca, when Wicca was invented in the 1950s. Congrats that you were raised neopagan - because yes, you were, all Wicca is neopagan - but you don't own the term Wicca. Nope. You don't. Half a million people the US alone identify as Wiccan per census, and most of those people found faith on their own. You don't get to take their religious identity away from them. And yes, they are allowed to call themselves Wiccans, because let's face it, Wicca isn't a strictly defined religion in the first place.

And what the fuck, seriously, are you going on about your "discipline" and shit? Religion SHOULD be adjusted. There is nothing stupider than a religion (or adherents apparently like you) that scream at others for finding their own paths. If you're not finding your own path, feeling spiritual with what you've learned, and doing what feels natural to you, you're doing religion wrong. Fuck, religion isn't classical ballet.

Just... what is wrong with you. Was this post purely to brag about your ~magical roots~? I mean, I can't imagine any other reason you'd give a shit about other people's spirituality.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[thene]

Yes, but I'm fairly bad at talking about it these days. I'm not exactly a theist - my earth-leanings are more about experiencing what's directly there rather than making any supernatural claims about things that are not there. Gods are interesting though, so I'm an agnostic polytheist? idk idk

Re: Any neopagans here?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'm an accidental Discordian. My god phone gets nothing but crank calls and heavy breathing. Someone must have scribbled my number above a urinal somewhere.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[tabaqui]

I used to be. Late eighties, 'The Spiral Dance', all that. Had a good friend and pagan teaching us stuff, joined an awesome group of people in Lawrence, Kansas for rituals and celebrations and protests, heh. Marched in the first Earth Day parade (Anarcho-Pagans For Turtle Island!!), ended up having our own little coven and teaching and whatnot.

I still kind of *feel* it - i post stuff on my FB about the quarters and cross-quarters and stuff, but we're just not terribly active anymore. Still have a house altar. Identify as atheist but...yeah, still that connection to the Mother.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

Do whatever you want, OP. But keep in mind that it's going to be really confusing when you purport to be an atheist who's cool with deities as long as they're pagan because that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. It's like saying you're a vegan in mind, but spiritually feel at home with the family size bucket of original recipe at KFC.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[(Anonymous)]

There's a huge difference between "spiritually" believing in gods and physically believing in gods, though. Spiritual belief implies not physically real, but it's a go-to for inspiration, meditation, centering yourself, whatever. Physically believing in gods means you believe they're real, do real shit, and actually interfere with reality.

Re: Any neopagans here?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Uh? The idea that deities are useful metaphors and thoughtforms didn't actually start with psychoanalysis and modern magickal traditions. They picked that idea up from certain flavors of Mahayana Buddhism and classical atheists who didn't have a problem name-dropping Venus in their treatises on atomism.