the other night i was upset and decided to pray to god.
i was outside looking at the stars and wondering if i was talking to myself or if he is really out there somewhere.. as i prayed i didnt know who to address, i have said jehovah, jesus, father, who ever is out there please hear me.
i don' t mean to be disrespectful in saying it that way , but just confused.. many of you know we havent been to a meeting in over a year .
Hi Czar
Pan? Isis? Those gods are deader than dead!
I'm sure they don't care what you think. LOL.
Although I do appreciate a good Dionysian revel every now and then. Wanna get all freaky and nature luvvin' with me, Ravyn and Sirona? New Age and free love, yeah yeah yeah!
LOL! Very funny. I'd rather remove my own eyeballs with skewers. No, I'd rather remove your eyeballs with skewers. No, I'd rather just not meet you.
Sirona
the other night i was upset and decided to pray to god.
i was outside looking at the stars and wondering if i was talking to myself or if he is really out there somewhere.. as i prayed i didnt know who to address, i have said jehovah, jesus, father, who ever is out there please hear me.
i don' t mean to be disrespectful in saying it that way , but just confused.. many of you know we havent been to a meeting in over a year .
Ravyn,
Excellent post! Thanks for sharing that.
<<The veil is thin at this time of the year. Now is the perfect time to start praying again if you have stopped because you did not know who was listening.>>
I agree!
Sirona
(we would like to thank brent lanford, b.a., m.a.
for providing us .
with an objective, secular analysis of this tradition.
As someone said on the other halloween thread, nancee, Halloweens ORIGINS are Pagan, not Christian. Christians have changed aspects of it to suit themselves and chose to have an All Saints thing on the next day. Doesn't mean its a christian holiday in its origin though,
Sirona
(we would like to thank brent lanford, b.a., m.a.
for providing us .
with an objective, secular analysis of this tradition.
Thanks for posting that. However, I'd like to point out the following:
"Theres a distinct lack of historical or archeological evidence that the ancient Druids ever sacrificed anyone other than criminals, prisoners-of-war, or volunteers if them. The human sacrifices called missions, inquisitions, crusades, and pograms, however, have killed innocent men, women and children by the millions and this is very well documented by mainstream historians."
Taken from Halloween Errors and Lies at http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween-Lies.html
See also http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween-Origins.html for an essay on the real origins of Halloween.
Sirona
This really made me laugh!
some fundamentalists believe halloween is the devil's holiday.so are you doing anything on halloween?
Hi Minimus,
Yes I will be celebrating Halloween. I plan to have a huge pumpkin in the window of my new house! The first one I will have been allowed to have.
I'm also meeting up with my local pagan group for Samhain (Halloween) aswell. Should be great!
What are your plans?
Sirona
the other night i was upset and decided to pray to god.
i was outside looking at the stars and wondering if i was talking to myself or if he is really out there somewhere.. as i prayed i didnt know who to address, i have said jehovah, jesus, father, who ever is out there please hear me.
i don' t mean to be disrespectful in saying it that way , but just confused.. many of you know we havent been to a meeting in over a year .
Hi
I still call on God, but I do not call God Jehovah.
In my mind it comes down to this: "Jehovah" is the god of the jews as outlined in the bible. I do not accept the bible anymore for many reasons, one of which being that its writing appears to have been influenced by pagan religions yet twisted into a patriarchal control tool. (deep breath...) So therefore I see no need to call God Jehovah.
God to me is a power that we cannot begin to imagine. Most religious writings touch on God in some way, yet none can portray God's real essence. Due to mankinds inability to actually *grasp* what God is, we tend to put God into a category or two so that we can understand God better. E.g. many put God into a "male" category, despite the fact that God has no sexuality that we know of. Some say God is both male and female, some say God is neither. I do not personally believe that any of these interpretations are wrong, they are simply the only way we can imagine God.
So in answer to your question, I think that it does not matter what actual name we give God or how we imagine him/her. If we pray for healing, we are appealing to the compassionate, healing nature of God. If we pray for justice, we look to Gods justice to carry out our wish. Pagans put names to these aspects of God and many people vehemently oppose this practice. However, I personally think that if I call on Jehovah, Diana, Pan, Isis, whoever....I am simply talking to different aspects of God.
Sirona
recently i was watching a documentary on this woman who claimed that she could heal people with the power of her mind.
the documentary went into interviewing people about their experiences, and many of them actually had medical signs of improvement that could be documented and shown.
while watching this, i was seeing it as a example of psychic energy healing someone?
Hi
I think that you are right about the power of our own minds. Positive thinking helps a lot when you are sick.
However, I do think that healing energy can be used without your knowledge, as Robdar said. I too had a very calm feeling wash over me recently when I was ill. It turned out that the coven I associate with were sending me healing energy.
I believe that we can affect our reality with our minds and people do not have to believe in it to experience the effects of it. That is just based on my previous experiences. Of course, many people think its a load of rubbish. lol.
Sirona
