OK, as I understand, no religion just says, ‘your here cos you are’. every one has purpose. I believe that as I continue to live out my true purpose, I will learn why i am here. Right now I am here to be the best I can. I am to live by not being a general meanie, By being kind, trying to be civil, and becoming the best I can be. My destiny is for destiny to decide. While i love control over my life, there are certain things that are out of my hands.
No, it was more like, every where I turned in the Catholic community, they were saying something I really didn’t agree with, such as condemming Homosexuals, Talking about how evil condoms are, etc. I just disagreed. Wiccan leaves alot of room for innovation. hope it helps.
Why not start two threads on condoms and homosexuality?
In all sincerity I ask, why? Why be the best you can? And what standards will you use to judge “best”?
Again in all sincerity, why be kind? Why not be mean? Why restrict your behavior for the sake of strangers? How does that benefit you?
mjolnor is a ‘man’ baby! Thor wouldn’t have it any other way.
Any sociologist can answer this.
But Eden, a Rose by any other name is still a Rose.
There have been many societies that practiced cruelty. The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, Germans certainly weren’t kind to the Jews, and the Turks tried to commit genocide against the Armenians.
Yes, but where did this system come from? And how is it known?
So the deepest meaning in life is found in the pseudo-science of sociology?
And yet no tyrant has ever ruled by kindness. So there would seem to be vast benefits to wielding an iron fist over others. To be part of the harmony of the iron fist wielders can be the finest sort of life in any age. Surely the top Nazis were comfortable. Surely the top communists were (are) comfortable. Surely slaveholders throughout history have been comfortable.
Then how do you explain the fact that nobody follows the rules of navigation completely? Or the fact that many of those who don’t follow those rules do very well by themselves (think e.g. Robber-Barons, or just regular barons).
What is nature’s own reward? Ultimate pain, suffering, death and oblivion as far as I can tell. Does Wicca offer another, more meaningful answer?
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Hello Wammy101,
The magic circle is cast before anything else, especially before spell-casting, in order to prevent malicious spirits and counter-spells from affecting the spell caster. Before someone leaves it, he must create a door or path, so to speak, to safely leave the circle. One cannot step over the circle, or else it breaks the protection it holds. Casting the circle starts at a point towards the north, then the caster goes in a clockwise movement casting the circle, until he closes it at the point of origin.