pagan moonshine Derived from the latin paganus meaning Rustic dweller or villager. Used as an insult by the Roman military to anyone who was a civilian or imcompetent soldier. 000718 ... Aimee some of my closest friends are pagans.... I was one for a while... then the white_anglo_saxon_lutheran in me just popped out and said.. bad girl 010816 ... Gollum bohemian/pagan 010816 ... monadh I know the divine feel the sunshine and the rain forest trees whispering pines meandering streams ragged and wild stars in the sky surface of a cool reality And I, reflections of the same 010816 ... Gollum we talk to trees, yes my precious, and we hug them too. 010816 ... unhinged "so i eat meat on fridays. i'm a pagan and i like it." 010817 ... Alexander Beale I cannot take seriously anyone who calls themselves a "pagan". I mean, why else would someone intentionally do that except to flip the bird to the Church, when there hasn't even actually BEEN a capital-C Church for so long, it's ridiculous? 011030 ... sabbie funnily enough alexander, thats what ive always thought about satanists. i wonder who they think that about? 011217 ... beavises in my head echo things that you say huhuh, she said pag-anus 011217 ... User24 sabbie, that's true, but at least they admit that that's their only raison d'etre. Alexander; paganism is quite different to anti-Church-ism, in fact, some people are happy to be Pagan Christians, because, while Christianity is a monotheistic system, Paganism is pantheistic, and therefore can accept the existence of the Bible's God, while still retaining it's identity as an earth/nature loving 'religion', or, perhaps more accurately, 'set of beliefs' 030828 ... ... ... 030828 ... User24 from http://www.cam.za.net/humour/jokes/20ways.html made me laugh: Twenty Ways To Be Kicked Out of A Circle Take the ritual sword from the altar and make sounds like Darth Vader..."Luke, I am your father!"...and start making light sabre noises. Start skat-singing when chanting. Take the ritual athame from the altar and start cleaning your nails with it. When taking a sip of the ritual wine, act like a wine snob and comment on it. When doing the spiral dance, make a conga line. Call down the Goddess with "Get your ass down here, Big Momma!". Call down the God with "Our father, who art in heaven..." When chanting the names of the Goddess, randomly include Poke Môn names. When being smudged, complain about second-hand smoke. In a drumming circle, laugh insanely and start drumming the beat to "Wipe Out". When in a sky clad circle, randomly point and laugh. When the ritual wine goblet is passed to you, chug it and ask for more. Invoke Satan. Take out a bible and start evangelising. Light up a cigar. Bring a cute furry creature and offer it as a blood sacrifice. Talk a lot about casting spells for revenge against people who have offended you. At a hand fasting say "Thank God! Maybe now I'll get some grandchildren!" When in circle, answer your cell phone. Respond to "So Mote it Be!" with "Amen" 030914 ... Spare Change And she stood in the swirling storm arms raised to whatever God would hear her and she screamed aloud his name. Her face so terrible with the pain that I felt I should look away, but I could not. Her pale form shadowed in the night and lit with the crashing of thunderboltd held my gaze and I saw what others could not. She who seemed so ethereal gained substance in her circle. The others swirled about her chanted, but I did not see them. Her face dominated me and filled me with a thing I could not understand. And she reached toward the sky calling them down her voice lifting over the wailing of the wind, "So mote it be!" and there was silence, I heard no more. And my eyes were dark. I knew only her glorious face. 030914 ... misstree i *have* called down goddess with "get your ass down here, big momma!" and various permutations thereof. silly buggers thought it was a good thing to have the discordians represented... afterwards, only about half still thought so... 030914 ... ambermoon Blessed be. :) 040217 ... emmi my ancestors were pagans. they worshiped mother nature and other gods/spirits derived from nature. a lot of those traditions remain... now incorporated into christian celebrations like easter. little girls dress up as witches and go from house to house offering people decorated willow twigs for good luck... originating from the belief that there is a protective spirit in the twigs. i like the idea... 050922 what's it to you? who go blather from