faith
NeoNote — Religion & morality
“Well done is better than well said.”
Innocent faith
Thursday, 28Feb2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.”
Ro3 № 27
Thursday, 31Jan2019 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
❝A living faith draws from three sources. There's what others have done before you. There's who you are and what you've done. And finally there's the link you make to the Divine. The dynamic tension shapes your faith.❞— NeoWayland, Faith Triad, see also Rules of Three
Left alone with our faith and our Journey
Thursday, 20Dec2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ sex
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
NeoNote — Taking a stand against politics in paganism
Tuesday, 27Nov2018 Filed in: NeoNotes⭐︎ modern adult pagans
Redux: Christians & Pagan Tolerance
Thursday, 11Feb2010 Filed in: beliefs⭐︎ entertainment
So the paganism bothers you too.
Tuesday, 04Sep2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
“In which Mike Rugnetta teaches you about the hero of The Congo, Mwindo! Mike will tell you the stories of Mwindo's birth, his many deaths, and his evolution from a braggy superhuman baby to a wise, superhuman leader of his people. Along the way, we'll learn about the Wiki game, and when you should and shouldn't drink banana beer.”
Read More...Attention
Friday, 11May2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ beliefs
Journal 23Mar2018
Friday, 23Mar2018 Filed in: thinking by blogging
I try to give Christians the benefit of the doubt, mainly because I expect the same. Some make it harder than others. Live and let live works mostly.
For space reasons, this entry has it's own page.
Read More...Vital & fresh
Friday, 23Mar2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Giving away your power
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Tainted frisson
We've not had one of these in a while, have we?
I've been busy, but that is not the reason. Politics has tainted paganism in my mind and I am working to re-establish the separation.
Paganism is about the relationship between you, the World, and the Divine. Politics is not a part of that.
This author is Officially Approved this week, but that doesn't mean anything about next week. Next week it may be old fashioned. The week after there may be some scandal as defined by Today's Morality that wasn't immoral when it happened. If it happened.
This isn't new. One of my favorite symbols is the wheeled cross. But it has white supremacist connotations, so I can't use it in "public" pagan discussion. Never mind that it makes more sense to me than the pentagram. It's racist. Off limits. Not allowed.
Sex play and flirting that was allowed a decade or so ago is now denounced. And everyone who participated is expected to abase themselves before the new morality.
As this leaks more and more into how pagans act, it's less about paganism and more about doing the "right thing." Enforcing the echo chambers. Closing out dissent or contrasting opinions. Expelling all that might be tainted by immorality or evil. Part of it is politics, but it goes beyond that.
Some pagans want to change paganism from an experienced faith to a revealed faith. Something with all the bumps and twists and turns ironed out. No unexpected surprises. Nothing not previously declared. No uncomfortable truths. No juice. No frisson. Everything nice and neat and perfectly defined.
The experience has been sanitized for your protection. Truth will be revealed, but only if you do as you are told.
It has been approved by the powers-that-wanna-be.
Not necessarily the gods.
It's politics, not faith.
Some things will be revealed. If you pay attention and ask the proper questions. In the proper order. And no more. Politics will advance you more in this new pagan faith than experience.
Except those people aren't really a part of paganism.
It's about your Journey. Not about their Story.
Paganism is about the experience. The juicy, sexy, messy, screwed up experience that you struggle to make a part of your life. It's about embracing the passion. It's about where the gods point you. It's about finding and living your own way.
Paganism is about the relationship between you, the World, and the Divine. It can't be revealed, it can only be experienced.
Will you live it?
Or will you avoid the taint?
I've been busy, but that is not the reason. Politics has tainted paganism in my mind and I am working to re-establish the separation.
Paganism is about the relationship between you, the World, and the Divine. Politics is not a part of that.
This author is Officially Approved this week, but that doesn't mean anything about next week. Next week it may be old fashioned. The week after there may be some scandal as defined by Today's Morality that wasn't immoral when it happened. If it happened.
This isn't new. One of my favorite symbols is the wheeled cross. But it has white supremacist connotations, so I can't use it in "public" pagan discussion. Never mind that it makes more sense to me than the pentagram. It's racist. Off limits. Not allowed.
Sex play and flirting that was allowed a decade or so ago is now denounced. And everyone who participated is expected to abase themselves before the new morality.
As this leaks more and more into how pagans act, it's less about paganism and more about doing the "right thing." Enforcing the echo chambers. Closing out dissent or contrasting opinions. Expelling all that might be tainted by immorality or evil. Part of it is politics, but it goes beyond that.
Some pagans want to change paganism from an experienced faith to a revealed faith. Something with all the bumps and twists and turns ironed out. No unexpected surprises. Nothing not previously declared. No uncomfortable truths. No juice. No frisson. Everything nice and neat and perfectly defined.
The experience has been sanitized for your protection. Truth will be revealed, but only if you do as you are told.
It has been approved by the powers-that-wanna-be.
Not necessarily the gods.
It's politics, not faith.
Some things will be revealed. If you pay attention and ask the proper questions. In the proper order. And no more. Politics will advance you more in this new pagan faith than experience.
Except those people aren't really a part of paganism.
It's about your Journey. Not about their Story.
Paganism is about the experience. The juicy, sexy, messy, screwed up experience that you struggle to make a part of your life. It's about embracing the passion. It's about where the gods point you. It's about finding and living your own way.
Paganism is about the relationship between you, the World, and the Divine. It can't be revealed, it can only be experienced.
Will you live it?
Or will you avoid the taint?
NeoNotes — A long hard look
❝Sending kids to "get religion" instead of practicing it with them is one of the surest setups for failure I know.❞
Next step
Saturday, 06Jan2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Whenever I see these ads for shamanic weekends, I'm suspicious. Because shamanic ecstasy is terrifying.”
Defined
Wednesday, 03Jan2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ modern adult pagans
Choice
Tuesday, 02Jan2018 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
❝Faith is a personal choice. So are politics. One does not define the other.❞— NeoWayland, Paganism is not political
Syncretism happens even if it offends
Wednesday, 13Dec2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Concede the war
Tuesday, 12Dec2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
Celebrate
Sunday, 03Dec2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
This week's thinkum
Thursday, 23Mar2006 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ philosophy
This is a page from the third version of Technopagan Yearnings. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.neowayland.com/C1982366546/E20060324050200
Do you live your faith or does your faith live you?
I've been thinking about that a lot this week.
I've been thinking about that a lot this week.
Dreams seem small
Thursday, 10Aug2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ practicals
❝No American judge should have the power to decide matters of faith…❞
Saturday, 27May2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
NeoNotes — A strong woman
Thursday, 30Mar2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums⭐︎ NeoNotes
Our nation in particular calls back to the classical Greeks and the Roman Republic.
Read More...Inspiring space
Monday, 21Nov2016 Filed in: Gallery⭐︎ rite & ritual
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for incarnation. The other eight are unimportant.”— George Burns
Faith Triad
No, it wasn’t responsible. No, I’m not proud of it. And yes, it lasted longer than it should have with me.
Read More...A dangerous pagan
Tuesday, 01Dec2015 Filed in: modern adult pagans⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
No, I am not quite foolish enough to do it on my own. I don’t know enough about explosives and I don’t own an anvil.
Read More...Praxis
Tuesday, 12May2015 Filed in: practicals
Beyond the details
Tuesday, 31Aug2010 Filed in: book⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
On Pagan Leadership
Tuesday, 11May2010 Filed in: modern adult pagans
Systematically
Thursday, 08Jan2009 Filed in: practicals
