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- From: Sirbyte'@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Sirbyte')
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- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: PAGAN, was You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
- Message-ID: <725482216.AA07890@urchin.fidonet.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:14:06 -0500
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- AB> In article
- AB> <25DEC199214323283@elroy.uh.edu>
- AB> lib1p@elroy.uh.edu (Tammy Stark
- AB> Blandino) writes:
- >
- >A "witch" was (as I understand it,
- >please correct if wrong) a member of
- >the
- >wiccan. Members of the wiccan
- >studied wicca. Wicca means
- >something like
- >"ways of the wise ones" or "ways of
- >the old ones". Therefore the original
- >meaning of the word witch is
- >"practitioner of the old ways" or
- >something like
- >that. I really wouldn't call that devil worshipping.
- >
- >
- >Tammy the tired of such bullshit
-
- AB> Can you back this with anything
- AB> verifiable or academic?
-
- AB> Grendel the tired of the folklore passed off as fact
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-
- AB> ---
- AB> * Origin: 1:106/88.0 [urchin.fidonet.org] (1:106/88.0)
- Well, just curious but can you come up with any thing to the contrary
- ,acedemic and verifiable. Now to insinuate insult or impolitness but
- why is there always such a haeted arguement to the precice meaning of a
- word or of a name of a belief system. Should'nt just either pool our
- resorces and come up with one single working defintion to discuss, or
- keep our own opinions to our selves and educate and share knowledge as
- opposed to having a pissing contest every time a new question is asked.
- Now just from my own ideals I don't really care 'whos got the biggest
- god on the astral block' i just would like to hear experiances support
- and thoughts. We are all on the same side here. Lets try an open mind
- for a change, it is us who is supposed to be the open minded ones. If
- it were the Xians we might have avoided things like the inquisition and
- Salem.
-
- (by the by I heard that wicca ment 'to bend' as in according to your
- will)
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-
- -The voice of a true Magickian is an awe ispiring thing to behold-
- SirByte'*
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