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Topic: Any other Neopagans? (Read 11336 times)
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rolsby
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I'm a neopagan, specifically a Druid, and am looking for same!
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Alex Libman
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I just made up a religion in which God wanted to create a perfectly symmetrical and ordered universe, with all particles being uniform and equidistant from each-other, but He slipped on a skateboard and dropped it and here we are! So now God is running around like crazy trying to clean up the mess before the wife gets home, but 10^100 particles are flying all over the place, sticking to the carpet, forming into lumps, growing moldy 'n stuff...  I think the ancient Druids believed pretty much the same thing. Hey, prove me wrong. |
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Durruti
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The Druids had a purely oral tradition, so what information we have about them was written by enemies and perhaps a heretic or two.
I'm a neo-pagan myself, but I don't claim lineage from any of the old oral traditions. I just claim it to my own parents and the adults who decided they wanted to do something different with teir spirituality. They may have been inspired by Celts, Goths, Native Americans and Quakers, but no more so than the Catholics are.
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kallen
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Not a Druid but would definitely like to meet one. I have always found the Druidic order interesting.
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Can New Hampshire end the exhausting trail of wandering for Kallen??? Kallen is counting on it.  |
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rolsby
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Durruti, yes, the Druids of Brittain supposedly had a purely oral tradition; however, there is still the symbolic language of Ogham. Also, the Druids were the intellectuals of the Iron Age Clets that interacted with Rome. Agreed, there are very few scholarly sources (Tacitus and Julius Ceasar), but what we now know as anthropology didn't exist. These are the same people who came up with the term "paganus" or a derogatory term for the country dwellers who didn't adhere to the state-sponsored religion. I also don't claim any lineage. I'm part of a neopagan organization. However, I do depend on scholarship with a balanced amount of unverified personal gnosis. My organization allows for any indo-european cultural focus: celtic, norse, hellenic, roman, vedic, etc. Kallen, there are numerous Druid organizations with various online and real life iterations: Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD), Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF), and so on: http://www.neopagan.net/CurrentDruidGroups.htmlOf course, if you ask a neopagan what it means to be a druid, you'll get several different answers. Heck, if you ask several different druids what it means to be a druid, you'll get several different answers! Not unlike the Free Staters I imagine. |
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Dionysus
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"Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
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davidesanders
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Anarchist, neopagan, nudist, polyamorous
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There are aprox. 40 established neopagan Covens in New Hampshire. Are there other groups, not covens, general Pagan groups in New Hampshire? I've never found witchvox.com (or any other source, such as the Circle Guide to Pagan Groups to be helpful for informal groups. I have a Pagan spirit, but also a dislike for organized groups. I would rather live in a community where a nature spirituality exists as a given, where thealogy/theology is unimportant, and where Pagan ritual is a matter of course. I love the fire, dancing, music, drumming etc of most Pagan events, and if pressed I would have to say that I believe in Nature=God, any of the old gods=non-supernatural supermen/aliens (I'm not a big believer in the alien origin of mankind. At one time I was active in the Pagan Community Council of Ohio, and have attended one Starwood festival. I am something of a nudist, polyamorous, used to consider Church of All Worlds but the organization and formality was just too much. Not that CAW is really a viable option at this time. I have had the opportunity for in-depth face-to-face discussions with people like Isaac Bonewits and that Zell person who keeps changing his name. I have come into contact with others like Trish Telesco, Ted Andrews, etc in a more cursory way. Anyhow, are there other Pagans like me in New Hampshire? David E. Sanders |
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Flash
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Yes I like paganism, specifically Indo-European pagan traditions, but I'm not really a fan of Neo-Paganism. I prefer to just stick with what we know the Ancients believed and work off of that.
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rank420
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new to me but sounds interesting
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Porcupine The Godful Heathen
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There are also plenty of non-Neo Pagan, pagan/heathen/polytheist/reconstructionist groups and individuals. Me being one of them.
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"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods." - Einstein
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plasma1010
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I'm not a neo-pagan, but a Traditional Germanic Preservationist. I follow the older Vanir concept of the Vættir, pre-Aesir / idol worshiping, in the oldest sense. Extremely nature based.
Can't say I fully understand what the core Druid belief system is, maybe you could enlighten me a bit ?
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