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- From: torin@netcom.com (Darren/Torin/Who ever...)
- Subject: Church of All Worlds FAQ Part 2/7
- Message-ID: <torinCnrtKB.I5x@netcom.com>
- Followup-To: alt.religion.all-worlds
- Summary: This posting contains a general outline about the Church of
- All Worlds, a neo-pagan church and alt.religion.all-worlds.
- It is *not* for all religions. It should be read by anyone
- who wishes to post to alt.religion.all-worlds.
- Reply-To: c-a-w@netcom.com
- Organization: Church of All Worlds
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 05:21:47 GMT
- Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
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- Archive-name: church_all_worlds/part2
- Alt-religion-all-worlds-archive-name: FAQ-part2
- Last-modified: Thu, 24 Mar 1994
-
- I. SUBJECT MATTER OF NEWS-GROUP
-
- A. What is encouraged and of interest to regular
- participants
-
- Questions about CAW and about CAW and Pagan events are
- certainly encouraged. CAW members who use the newsgroup seem to
- enjoy discussing CAW activities, ecology and environmentalism,
- PAGAN philosophical issues involving CAW and relating CAW to the
- general Pagan scene and similar issues.
-
- Issues and topics from "Green Egg" have provoked some
- interesting discussions. Posting of comments is encouraged but
- let us try not to post copyrighted articles.
-
- Another fertile topic is the relationship of some current
- neopagan practices to other "religions" or practices, for
- example, chakra and vision quests, etc. Some would say that
- this amounts to the theft of the practices of others, others
- seem to feel that it is more a recognition of the value of the
- "shared whatever".
-
-
- B. What isn't appreciated
-
- While no one individual "owns" the newsgroup, controls
- the newsgroup or has any sort of proprietary authority, most
- users don't appreciate bashers, flamers, trashers and cross-
- posters, nor evangelizers regardless of subject or whether CAW
- or other religions or individuals are being beaten about. IMHO
- cross-posting is an abomination and it is especially
- discouraged.
-
- Discussions of monotheistic issues, for example, the
- existence of "god" (any and all flavors of monotheistic deity)
- are generally not appreciated, if not downright resented,
- especially those which are cross-posted and prolific. If I
- were in charge, (and I'm not!) I would outlaw fundo Xtian-
- bashing. It is my personal opinion that I have better things to
- spend time on.
-
- Please go discuss christianity, islam, judaism, etc.
- somewhere else, say; "talk.religion", Alt.atheism,
- soc.religion.christianity, talk.religion.misc, or ???
-
- C. How ALT.RELIGION.ALL-WORLDS is different than ALT.PAGAN
-
- Some, perhaps many things discussed on Alt.Pagan, for
- instance, Gaia, fit just fine on Alt.Religion.All-Worlds. On
- the other hand, discussions of Wicca specific issues, arguments
- about specifics of ancient traditions for modern use or to
- authenticate current usages or to "validate" a specific
- tradition or group or whose "fam trad" outranks whose, etc.
- will find more takers in Alt.Pagan.
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