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Well, around last Halloween i started feeling a bit empty with christanity, i was raised southern baptist but just have felt something worng about it.
How so? Was the doctrine confusing? Did you feel your sacraments were invalid? What attempts did you make in order to rectify your relationship with YHVH?
If your sacraments were valid, what effect does breaking your vow to YHVH have?
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anyway i found out that some of my friends where pagan and wiccain and i started reasearching the paths.
May I inquire as to how old your friends are? What tradition are they initiated into?
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i bought a book someone said that books about the religions where goo starts....
Usually depends on the religion. See, for mainstream traditions, books are good because they can cover an established understanding quickly and easily.
For cults such as Wica, where there are Mysteries and the like, books aren't useful because the things that make Wica Wica are secrets and experiential Mysteries. That means that anyone telling you that you can find them in a book doesn't really understand the religion that well. It also means any book you buy won't have the actual religious tradition within it, at best you'll be buying things that are ernestly mistaken to be Wica by those who don't know any better, at worst, you're paying Oathbreakers and Liars for their lies.
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this is kinda where things got a bit hairy...my mother is like HARDCORE Southeren Baptist and thinks i'd be sumoning demons if i converted. so i've had to keep it hidden.
What kinds of ethical standards do you hold that it is acceptable to violate the Hospitality of your mother's home?
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i've also tryed being buddest but i still felt a bit off but i did take some teachings of it, like karma and rebirth.
What elements of Karma do you believe in?
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well i should start with my deities but this is where i'm confused because my research draws up two
Which two? What research? Which books, links ect have you used?
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but my heart is telling me of three
Why only three?
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well i reconise two goddesses and one god they represent the moon the earth and the sun. that's all i know for now.
The way this is phrased, it sounds like you're saying the deities aren't actually real, but instead your imagination putting an anthropomorphic wash over celestial (and terrestrial) bodies. Is this intentional? Is it indicative of an error in reasoning?
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i believe that everything has a soul, there is rebirth but from the threads i've read sofar i think the process is quite different from what i've been reading. you see what i think happens when you die is that you are born back into a spirit world and age in reverse and then you are reborn back here but you don't always come back the same as you were in your past life.
Have you read
The River Why?
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i apoligise i have failed to mention a intrest in Druidery,
How much research have you done into what is commonly called Druids? Have you had a chance to look at the actual cultural implications and the racism that is prevalent in the US when it comes to misrepresenting the Celts?
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Wicca and simuler faiths.
What aspects of Wica attract you? What source material have you investigated?
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