Official Pagan Thread!

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

Kinda finny, but around here anytime I tell someone I am a pagan, the most common response is "oh, have you read this book about....." or "have you been to the..." People are always excited to meet someone else who may have common interests. So many people in this town are following an alternative religion that its mostly the christians who keep quiet while us heathens openly talk about what we believe!
Although I have to be honest and admit it might just be that the other sort isn't as inclined to talk to me, so maybe its just the folks I meet who are cool. *shrug* I sort of look the type I guess. Can't go anywhere in my hometown without getting looked at like I am carrying a poisonous snake. Don't ask me why. Although I don't follow trends or own anything from the Gap, I also seldom wear black and do not even own a pentacle or any other misunderstood religious symbol. I don't know what it is, but people on both sides can spot me. (if they notice me at all, which is an entirely separate issue)

 

[deb1]

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We lived for a short well in the Northwest when my hubby was stationed near Spokane, Washington. We have talked about going back but my hubby would have to find employment there first.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

I think a lot of it has to do with what part of the country you are.

Folks in the Pacific Northwest and parts of the North East are more open to other way.

Still lots of Puritanical beliefs in the midAtlantic area. I grew up there I know.

Southern East Coast to about Texas, up towards parts of the mids west back across into to WV, PA and Va and around, you have the Bible belt. If you aren't thump somone on the head with your Bible you aren't right. But the folks in the city don't want to talk about the folks out in the rural and hill country where old ways meet with even older way. Haints, haunts and hoodoo is all part of southern religion even if it's not out in the open. Parts of the Deep South have even though you have very strict Catholics and Christians, they still know what all Voodoo is all about and fear it just as much as practitioners do.

Southwest becomes a blur of Christianity, Catholism, Native American Traditions and the "New Age" movement.

And EVERYBODY know that people in Calif and New York are just plain nutty!!

 

[deb1]

Does anyone ever get annoyed with the show, A Haunting? It seems that all shows on tv about experiences with ghosts depict the family as being terrorized. I don't think that is usually true. Why would the spirit of a dead person wish to harm you? Because most people are decent, most ghosts are probably not harmful and the majority of hauntings must be benign.

Although it is fun entertainment, if you look up the individual haunting cases on that show, there is some doubt about the veracity of some of the claims.

 

[CoopCrazy]

Sadly Deb1 those shows are just for entertainment.. I hate the way they speak to the spirits.. Just like that jerk on whatever show that thinks its fun to tease and mock spirits.. No wonder he gets attacked everytime...

I just had a "talk" with a spirit in my home two nights ago.. My adopted childrens great grandfather passed away a few months back, well my mother who is PT for a broken foot needed a treadmill, after finding that his widow was trying to sell his old treadmill I purchased it for my mOther... Now had my mother not known it was Richards she probably wouldnt have had this "experience". The other night someone brushed the hair from her earwhile she was asleep and a young friend staying the night saw him by the treadmill. Had my mother not known then she wouldnt have given soo much energy to him .. I spoke to him the other night both with my tarot and thru clairvoyance.. I found that he had confused my mother for his wife.. He was a little confused but i feel he was able to move on .. no more issues since..

 

[sune42]

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All in the name of exciting TV. There is a place right by me you may have seen on one of those shows. It's Bobby Mackey's. I was there only once, but I didn't notice anything too crazy. Then again, I didn't go into the men's bathroom either.

 

[sune42]

Forgive me for sounding stalkerish, but Coop Crazy I just noticed you are in IN. I took the liberty of going to mapquest and we are only 2 hours from each other. I am not very clairvoyant, but I see a lunch in the future.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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I thought the same thing when I saw Northern kentucky... We'll defintly have to orchestrate a meet up...

 

[sune42]

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I thought the same thing when I saw Northern kentucky... We'll defintly have to orchestrate a meet up...

Whew! I thought I might have killed the Pagan thread by being creepy. Then I would have cried.

 

[deb1]

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I thought the same thing when I saw Northern kentucky... We'll defintly have to orchestrate a meet up...

Whew! I thought I might have killed the Pagan thread by being creepy. Then I would have cried.

You weren't being creepy. Of course if you had written, "I see a lunch in the future' followed by this smilie

, crazycoop might have wondered if he was talking to Hannibal Lecter.

I bought a stick of sage at a shop. How exactly do you use it?