home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!uw-beaver!news.u.washington.edu!hardy.u.washington.edu!mimir
- From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: PAGAN, was You should be a Christian because (30 words max):
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 08:21:12 GMT
- Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
- Lines: 46
- Message-ID: <1hmddoINN33l@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- References: <725482216.AA07890@urchin.fidonet.org>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu
-
- In article <725482216.AA07890@urchin.fidonet.org> Sirbyte'@f88.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Sirbyte') 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.
- >>
- > AB> Can you back this with anything
- > AB> verifiable or academic?
- >
- >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.
-
- Well, GEE, I guess we can just say that Wicca means crystal using
- survivors from Atlantis that live on Venus. Can you you come up for a
- reference that says I'm wrong? After all, we have to have an open mind...
-
- Be careful your mind isn't so open that it falls out.
-
- >-The voice of a true Magickian is an awe ispiring thing to behold-
-
- Maybe you should find this voice then.
-
- Wassail,
- Grendel Grettisson
-
-
-