Originally posted by steerpikeThere is absolutely no way you could have read anything I wrote and gotten that out of it. Numerous times in other threads I have said the exact opposite.
You are right but the "christians" on this thread are not interested in equality -they want their point of view put forward by the state and other beliefs suppressed.
Wonder if any of them are pilots on American Airways?
Originally posted by jimmi tPrecisely my friend. 🙂
at no point have any of them mentioned the fact that they want other beliefs supressed. infact I believe they're talking about the supression of all beliefs, even when that belief is inherant in the thing in which its being supressed. The Red Cross, was at one point a christian organisation. I have no idea if they still are... Christmas is the celebration o ...[text shortened]... beliefs from things of a christian origin purely in the cause of political correctness.
Jim.
Originally posted by belgianfreakThink about it. Paganism, as its stereotyped, orginated in Nothern Europe. Who in their right mind is going to be frolicking naked with maidens in our weather. You'd get very wet and cold. I can almost honestly say that if england doesn't get some sun soon. I'm going to start suffering from vitamin deficiency. Also the maidens might object.
Awww! I came to this thread hoping to find instructions on how to be a Pagan, especially the frolicing with naked maidens and talking with nature after drinking too much 'apple juice' bits.
Instead I just find people arguing. :'(
Jim.
Who in their right mind is going to be frolicking naked with maidens in our weather.on the face of it this might seem logical, but you only have to look at the Scandinavians who, whith their long winters and lack of entertainment, like nothing better than to get naked in a sauna, hit each other with birch twigs, then go roll naked in the snow. Or are my Nordic friends pulling my leg??
Originally posted by belgianfreakYou actually have a point there. I'd not thought about that. Although, could it be said that to role in the snow naked you would have to be 'not in your right mind'.
on the face of it this might seem logical, but you only have to look at the Scandinavians who, whith their long winters and lack of entertainment, like nothing better than to get naked in a sauna, hit each other with birch twigs, then go roll naked in the snow. Or are my Nordic friends pulling my leg??
Jim
Originally posted by jimmi tBeing from Star Valley Wyoming... people who play in snow, or even pretend to do so are perverted!<edit spelling> Off With their heads! Shame forever!... etc...😞
You actually have a point there. I'd not thought about that. Although, could it be said that to role in the snow naked you would have to be 'not in your right mind'.
Jim
thanks again Phlab... I just watched my beautiful valley and star that you made me. I got shivers remembering a certain night up Swift Creek canyon... walking the pipe. Alone at twenty below zero. Thinking about the world. I wish I could return to that childish point...
Oh Well...
Here are some signs that you, yourself, may be a redneck Pagan
If your ceremonial garb consists of cut-offs and a tube top
If you think a "family tradition" is a dating club
If your ceremonial chalice says Budweiser on it
If chewing tobacco is considered a sacred herb
If your coven's secret names for the God and Goddess are Cooter and Sweet Cheeks
If your circle dance includes the words dosey-do
If your altar pentacle is a photo of John Wayne's star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame
If your coven choses it's High Priest at a belching contest
If they chose their High Priestess at a wet t-shirt night
If your annointing oil smells like Old Spice
If you have ever refilled your chalice from a keg
If the cakes and wine are done with a bowie-knife, a can of Foster's and Little Debbie's,
If your pantheon includes Yukon Jack, Jim Beam, and the St. Pauli Girl,
If your ritual music has ever included Johnny Cash singing Ring of Fire
If you think the Wiccan Rede is good for making twig furniture
If you believe a pentagram is a Western Union message to 5 people
If your altar cloth says Holiday Inn or Howard Johnson's
If your Goddess picture says Miss September at the bottom
Or your God statue looks a little too much like Elvis Presley
If you have ever written a spell on the back of a Denny's menu
If you have ever cancelled a coven meeting to watch Pay-Per-View wrestling on TV
Or if you have cast a love spell on livestock. you are definitely a Redneck Pagan.
If your broom has 4 wheel drive and South Carolina plates.
If you have ever used your athame to clean and gut a fish.
If you pray nightly to the God of Big Tires.
If you have a combined Maypole dance/Tractor pull/Turkey shoot for Beltane.
If your Covenstead is propped up on cinder blocks.
If you pray to the Gods of cheap beer and NASCAR.
If your robes are made of denim with Harley-Davidson patches.
If you Invoke the spirits to make your beer last longer.
If you sacrifice barbecue and pork rinds on an altar made of old car hoods.
If your altar cloth is a confederate flag.
If part of your Rite includes throwing shotgun shells into the fire.
If you shoot guns into the air when the Priestess says "The circle is open but unbroken"
If when your Priestess says "Blessed Be"; you respond by screaming "Yeeeehaa!".
You might be a Redneck Pagan.