Boy, don't I know how that feels. Even my mom, whose own religion wholeheartedly embraces the notion of a "calling," thinks it was my idea to go the way I did. But really, having an unusually vivid and coherent dream where the actual Goddess picks you out of a crowd and sends you on a sacred quest isn't the sort of thing a sensible person can simply disregard.
You guys are lucky if you can remember your dreams. You guys are REALLY lucky if you have a calling of any kind in life. Remember that.
Misanthrope SupremeThe last dream I remember was being eaten alive by a huge black dog. It was really weird because I saw it happening to another me.
I also had a dream where it was Thursday instead of Wednesday. ...Seriously, that's all that happened. It was only significant because I had a test on Thursday and it was a really vivid dream. But most of the dreams I "remember" are when I wake up in the middle of slowly drifting through absolute nothingness. It's quite shocking to wake up from that.
I wish I could remember my dreams more. I know less about my own subconscious than my teacher does.
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Misanthrope SupremeAre we... SUPPOSED to be chosen for certain paths? Or are we supposed to choose for ourselves? Or can it go either way?
Misanthrope SupremeI personally was never chosen for a path, or at least haven't been. I haven't quite found who I want to follow; I thought it might be Diana for a while, and Brigid before that, but now... I don't think so.
But until I discover who 'My Lady' is, I'm comfortable just calling her 'My Lady', and she certainly doesn't seem to mind it.
Victory! Honor! Destiny! Mutton!I'm Wiccan. I'm sexist against my own gender because females are biologically superior. I hate absolutely every human being on the planet because of what we've done to it. I am possibly a bit autistic. I haven't been chosen for anything as far as I can tell. I can't interact with spirits or the god & goddess very well (all I can do is talk to the sky and hope they're listening). The most direct response I've ever gotten from them was walking straight into a street sign. I don't have a specific god or goddess that I follow, just a vague concept. I CAN'T F*CKING MEDITATE.
Is it just me or am I the worst neopagan ever?
Misanthrope SupremeI can't meditate or read Tarot or anything, either. I could if I wanted to, but I'm not that diligent with most things.
Which is why I stick to crow-watching
, general bird omens,
and dream interpreting.
Tarot isn't that hard if you have instructions... Of course, I just do it one card at a time :l So maybe it is.
I'd take the time to learn dream interpreting, if only I remembered my dreams more than once a year...
Misanthrope SupremeWell, randomguy, I don't think people, Neopagan or otherwise, can be ranked like that. You obviously have a few things going on in your head that do not seem to be to your greatest benefit, and they're probably acting as obstacles to your spiritual development.
On the subject of divination, I got the cutest astrological divination dice the other day. They're d12s, one with planetary symbols and the other with the zodiac signs. I don't intend to use them for anything serious, but...dude! Astrological d12s! How could a Neopagan gamer nerd resist?
Morven: I do think it's fairly common for gods to choose people rather than the other way 'round nowadays. Happened to most of us, it seems.
Random:
I'm Wiccan. I'm sexist against my own gender because females are biologically superior.
This is false. Simply false. One sex was not made superior to the other. The God and Goddess are equals, in the Wiccan faith, just as males and females are equal on Earth.
I hate absolutely every human being on the planet because of what we've done to it. Hatred, especially such broad-spectrum hatred, is generally considered something we are supposed to try to move past, not embrace.
I haven't been chosen for anything as far as I can tell. I can't interact with spirits or the god & goddess very well (all I can do is talk to the sky and hope they're listening). The most direct response I've ever gotten from them was walking straight into a street sign.
Part of this may be a thing with said misandry and misanthropy. I find that when I'm angry, everything spiritual goes dead.
I don't have a specific god or goddess that I follow, just a vague concept.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Some people (like Karalora and Crewe) are just fine with that, while some (ex. Morven and Shary) favour a specific god or goddess. Find what works for you.
I CAN'T F*CKING MEDITATE.
How hard are you trying?*
My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.Regarding tarot: I never got past needing a guide to tell me what each card meant, but it tended to be eerily accurate even by the standards that tarot reveals things in vague round about ways. Loved looking at the elements...
My wife would admit the same thing (not sure if she ever considered elements), and she’s pretty much strait Muslim.
Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.1. Greater life expectancy at birth =/= superiority. The disparity in male and female life expectancies is largely due to a culture that encourages male risk-taking while discouraging the same behavior in girls and women. And even to the extent that it is biological...so what? We are more than our biology. I am near-sighted; does that make me inferior to someone with perfect eyesight? Does my robust health and lack of allergies entitle me to look down on people who are not so blessed?
2. Meditation isn't really for everyone. You don't need to do it to be spiritual, and if you have trouble with it, then you're better off adopting another spiritual practice than trying to force it.
3. All animals are inherently selfish. They would all fuck up the planet if a) they had the ability and b) it served their short-term interests to do so, because natural selection is short-sighted like that. Humans are not uniquely evil; we are uniquely technological. We are in a position of unprecedented power, and we still haven't worked out how to check ourselves. That's all. And the Earth would be as impoverished by our extinction as it would by the extinction of any other species.
4. It's easy for you to sit there and glibly say "We all suck and we all deserve to die," masking your contempt for others by throwing it in with your self-contempt. I would like you to tell me, individually, why I suck and deserve to die. Not as an undifferentiated piece of the abstract concept you call "humanity," but as a real, concrete, individual person. What's so bad about me? Why would justice be served by my death? I won't be offended by whatever you say; I just want to challenge you to remember that "humanity" isn't some seething mass of wickedness, but the sum total of all the people in the world.

^ Care to spare some details about that? I'm very interested.
Misanthrope Supreme