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  1. Cassandra

    What is in a Name?

    Have you asked on the Jewish and Muslim forum if they object to giving their children names of Pagan Gods?
  2. Cassandra

    What is in a Name?

    I was giving my view why our first name is important spiritually for Pagans and that is what you reacted to. Then I find this comment rather shocking: My view: We were not talking last names here. The first name identifies you, the last name only the family. The last name has no spiritual...
  3. Cassandra

    What is in a Name?

    My view: It is true we receive our names mostly from others but it is not invented by the community. The most important name is our call name, our FIRST name. That is given by our parents. Parents use their own spirituality to find a good name for their child, they often weigh several names...
  4. Cassandra

    What is in a Name?

    My view: Those are nice Semitic names for people of the Semitic tradition who feel special connection with the Skygod El, these days also known as Allah, but previously also known as Uranus and Ahura Mazda. El should not be confused with later Jahweh. Temple priests fused gods to create Gods...
  5. Cassandra

    Identifying with Multiple Religions

    My view(s): It does not assume that. If they have a clear individual identity, it becomes a new separate syncretic identity. For Westerners it has become something of an ideal to create purely individual identity. It is a universal but not universally shared ideal, nor is it the path to the...
  6. Cassandra

    Identifying with Multiple Religions

    Of course it is possible. People do it But rather than accept people as being in more than one box I regard them as a new box. Do not forget that religions as Christianity are themselves syncretic religions taking from many other traditions. I see it like this. When someone says I like to have...
  7. Cassandra

    Bill+Hillary vs Hillary+Bill

    People in the US were enraged and wanted revenge. Bush fueled it and the climate thus created was such that you were something of traitor if you questioned his policy, and the American people believed him. Besides how were the other senators to know it was all based on manufactured lies by their...
  8. Cassandra

    Bill+Hillary vs Hillary+Bill

    To an outsider like me it seems irrational I just read on Wikipedia: How do you Americans say: Never change a winning team? Why the wide resistance against a winning team? Why did this all change into the opposite? Are these Americans really ungrateful people driven by jealousy and suspicion...
  9. Cassandra

    Bill+Hillary vs Hillary+Bill

    I got the impression a majority of Americans regard(ed) Bill Clinton's as a good president My question: (Why) do you think that Hillary + Bill will be much different than Bill + Hillary? I wonder about that as the people that reject Hillary stress that Hillary is so loyal to Bill. They are...
  10. Cassandra

    What is in a Name?

    My view: Personal views are personal views. No question about it. But they can raise some interesting questions. So let us look at names in a wider perspective: Is a name "just a label". My answer would be. Tell people your name is "Adolf" and find out if it is "just a label" or a word that...
  11. Cassandra

    Hellenistic Polytheism Dress Code?

    My view: I think the Noble Gods are more interested in a pure heart and mind. What we are wearing everyday are: - the results of our actions - our character, personality, moods, thoughts - our body If we keep those healthy, they take care of us, we feel happy and grateful and share that with...
  12. Cassandra

    What is in a Name?

    In my view, Pagan religions have little to do with ideological systems. It is about the spiritual connection with the ancestors, one's people, the Land, local spirits, customs, traditions. Sure, Pagans create great poetic stories that are told and retold with great joy but nothing people have...
  13. Cassandra

    The word Pagan

    I do not see the problem with the term Pagan. My view: For one, people tend to forget that names are not something people give to themselves, but mostly receive from others. If you look at the original meaning of names created by people themselves, then the name for a people often originally...
  14. Cassandra

    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu... incarnation of Krishna?

    My view, and please think nothing of it. I think the difference in view here is to see Hinduism a monolithic thought structure. Rather than one religion, Hinduism is a label given by foreigners to the various religious traditions in India. For Christians it was inconceivable that so many...
  15. Cassandra

    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu... incarnation of Krishna?

    Forgive me Aupmanyav, I did not mean to criticize that. I am sure Sage Tulsidās would say that, because it is indeed true what he says about good and evil people, but I think there is something more essential to it. It is not about being good for goodness sake and a wise man is not being wise...
  16. Cassandra

    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu... incarnation of Krishna?

    Aupmanyav, Thank you very much for your insightful post and kind translation. Tulsidas tells us about the true nature of the evil. Now about the story of the scorpion: Now let us suppose the man that was stung had neither the nature of scorpion nor of a sage but something in between. On...
  17. Cassandra

    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu... incarnation of Krishna?

    Words are rarely read with the same understanding they were written. What does this mean to you?
  18. Cassandra

    Mana

    My view: As I see it, once one accepts fantasy as real, there is no end to one's delusions as from one fantasy springs another and finds proof in the first. This kind of acceptance created the idea that the Universe was created out of a fantasy of a (male/mind) super being. That is belief and...
  19. Cassandra

    Mana

    My view: Mana has nothing to do with witchcraft. Sorcery and witchcraft were rejected and persecuted in civilized Pagan traditions long before monotheism. The Greek loathed the Persian Magis and their sorcery. They also persecuted cults that did that. It is actually Abrahamism that itself is...
  20. Cassandra

    Mana

    My view: Frankly I never heard of mana before. Looking it up it seems to mean something like the spiritual force in things. I know Pagans used to be able to feel this force in beings even stones very clearly. Some stones had detrimental effect and were circled anti-clockwise to ward them off...
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