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- From: hz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Micaela Pantke)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: PAGAN, was You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 10:20:47 +0100
- Organization: University of Duisburg
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- Reply-To: hz225wu@unidui.UUCP (Micaela "Stayka" Pantke)
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- Hi there - Stayka is here!
-
- Finally... Finally here is MY addition to the current thread.
-
- Well, as I am quite new to the whole pagan-thing - in fact, about three
- weeks ago I even didn't know what 'pagan' might be at all - my opinion
- may be relatively 'fresh'.
-
- I watched this group and found out that there are lots of different
- views of life, the universe and everything, all of it summarized under
- one expression, namely pagan.
-
- I use to call myself 'Amyshica Priestess' but that's always a lot of
- explaining work to do. Fact is, that this my philosophy/belief/view
- of the things-that-are features ideas that also seem to appear in lots
- of other postings. Of course not completely, because in my opinion
- there are as many philosophies/religions/beliefs as there are indivi-
- duals in the universe, but over all there are lots of statements that
- sound familiar.
-
- That brought me to the decision that I could safely adopt the
- nomenclature 'pagan' for myself, but that doesn't mean that I have to
- abandon my other 'description(s)' for myself. In my eyes it's an
- ADDITION to the words one would otherwise use to describe hirself. If
- you try to describe a person, you wouldn't leave with saying: "Well, the
- person is fe/male." You would add several other terms until it's clear
- about whom you are talking.
-
- It's just easier to start a discussion with someone you know as to
- have a ROUGHLY similar background and start explaining further what
- you are really about than with someone whose category you don't know
- anything about.
-
- Of course there is that everlasting problem of what a pagan is - and
- it seems there are at least as much definitions as pagans in the net (I
- don't want to quote any of them, it has been done in enough postings up
- to now) - But I sincerly do hope that the other ones' definitions match
- mine at least in several places. I really don't care if pagan has Xian
- origin or if it is even older - In my eyes and here it's just a term to
- define the connections of people with widely varying backgrounds.
-
- I think everybody should call hirself as s/he thinks fit - but also
- think of a way to make communication with others easier. What would you
- have said if I had introduced myself as "Hello, I'm that amyshicaan
- astherys from the next probability plane"? :-)
-
- Well, that's only my humble opinion. If someone has another, it's also
- okay - for I still believe that there's no ultimate truth we could
- grasp with our limited minds!
-
- Walk in the Light!
- Stayka deyAvemta
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