So non-Pagans, why do you like MW?

[Sage Rainsong]

Hello everyone,

I know that there have been similar threads before, usually specifically aimed at Christians but I am just curious (seriously, no animosity here). For all people who are not Pagans (that goes for all non-Pagans, not just Christians) Why do you like MysticWicks?

[Amelserru_halqu]

Well... I don't know really, probably because the people are relatively nice and most know something about magic. But really I'm mainly here to get information which is also why I'm a member at a number of other sites as well. Of course I also happen to like many of the people here so there's that too. Plus the political forum is interesting to view and I like the philosophy forum as well. So I guess there's a lot a reasons.

[Jolixte]

Gives me something to do when I'm bored. :)

Oh, and some of the people are nice too!

[LacyRoze]

I enjoy learning about other religions and paths as well as their history. I also enjoy learning about herbs, oils, candles, etc. There's a lot of interesting topics here and I enjoy the people as well.

[Merrilyn]

I dig the lil sense of community and the topics discussed in PP and other forums. Lots of knowledge and personality on this site.
It's...comfy.

[WokeUpDead]

Sometimes I like seeing what people come up with when they offer to do free tarot readings and you can get some interesting points of view that you probably wouldn't see from other groups even on some non religion related issues. The arcade is a good time waster too.

[Lahmi]

Hello everyone,

I know that there have been similar threads before, usually specifically aimed at Christians but I am just curious (seriously, no animosity here). For all people who are not Pagans (that goes for all non-Pagans, not just Christians) Why do you like MysticWicks?

lets see here:

I spent enough years as an eclectic witch to have an odd
perspective on life. :)

I'm less likely to get banned here than at many christian forums. :cheers:

And there are some interesting people here. :)

[Sage Rainsong]

Bump!

[BlueEyedWolf]

I'm a mix of a little bit of everything. It's nice to see different ways of things, thoughts, and opinions.
And I like to this to CE...._wedgie_ .:yikess:

[MysticMoggie]

I long ago decided that Christianity had its own mystical and paganistic side, which was evident when I moved from town to country and shared in the rural Anglican worship here in rural Berkshire. I have been brought up a Christian and will probably stay within the church - my sort-of-grandfather put it well when he said he joined the political party he did not because he agreed with their views but "to change them for the better"...that goes for me both for religion and politics - but I needed a forum where people were open-minded about magick, tarot, other forms of divination and I could discuss them. I have also been brought up to respect people of all faiths and none; my generation was probably the first in the UK to have been grown up in a true multicultural environment (Christian-Muslim-Hindu mostly - we learned about others' faiths and shared their festivals, within a school run by the CofE and with a "faith" ethos and visits from the local Christian vicar; not unusual in Britain btw), where my parents and grandparents still harbour some prejudices about other faiths. I personally have both a Bible and a Koran on my shelf - books with their own unique message - and I regularly dip into them for spiritual guidance alongside the I Ching/Tao Te Ching which I use more as oracles.

The people I know through the church IMHO are more pagan than they realise. Rural Christianity in this country is actually a very moderate and simple faith rather than the hardliners in the towns. While some of them would balk at the fact I do tarot, divination and so on, and I wouldn't necessarily try and get them into it (the person who runs the church fete wouldn't even allow people to watch the football World Cup England game on his premises...god(dess) knows what he'd have thought if I turned up wearing my headdress - for full effect; I don't use it if I'm reading for someone online - and toting a tarot deck), they are a lot more spiritual than people I know who are towndwellers; there was something a while back when someone tried to strip the hymnbook of "nature-worship"; the local rector has now however resurrected some of the ancient agricultural services like the Rogation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogation_days) - link to Wiki - (the spring equivalent of Harvest Festival, ie blessing the crops about to be sown) which are probably pre-Christian in origin.

I have nothing against the charismatic and evangelical churches though - spiritually speaking they are among the happiest and most joyous of worshippers of any kind of Divine that I have had the pleasure to witness, and although some might be very narrow-minded about other faiths, when you get them in a good mood you can really feel the Spirit among them. The winter I got confirmed I went to a Baptist service where some young people got baptised; the room pulsed with some kind of otherworldly atmosphere which you could feel...so something was there among them; just like a few weeks earlier at my own confirmation where, due to personal issues at the time, I felt the sadness and deep love of Jesus giving his own life for others: even if only an allegorical story, allowing oneself to be sacrificed for a greater good holds a resonance for me as a profound spiritual act. Similarly in the depths of the forests here in Swallowfield, Nature itself can be felt in the same way. Every religion has its own way of expressing this feeling pertinent to the human culture in which it exists, so sharing the ways and means to channel and focus it for specific purposes - healing, divination, protection and so on - is what I am concerned about, rather than debating whose God is bigger than whose.

[Aina]

The people here are nice and really opened minded...though sometimes I think a bit too opinionated, but that's okay.

And my friend conned me into getting on here.
So, here I am.

*waves*

[Rachel]

I'm a pretty freaky Jew with pantheistic tendencies-- I more or less fit here, I guess.

[LostSheep]

I long ago decided that Christianity had its own mystical and paganistic side, which was evident when I moved from town to country and shared in the rural Anglican worship here in rural Berkshire. I have been brought up a Christian and will probably stay within the church - my sort-of-grandfather put it well when he said he joined the political party he did not because he agreed with their views but "to change them for the better"...that goes for me both for religion and politics - but I needed a forum where people were open-minded about magick, tarot, other forms of divination and I could discuss them. I have also been brought up to respect people of all faiths and none; my generation was probably the first in the UK to have been grown up in a true multicultural environment (Christian-Muslim-Hindu mostly - we learned about others' faiths and shared their festivals, within a school run by the CofE and with a "faith" ethos and visits from the local Christian vicar; not unusual in Britain btw), where my parents and grandparents still harbour some prejudices about other faiths. I personally have both a Bible and a Koran on my shelf - books with their own unique message - and I regularly dip into them for spiritual guidance alongside the I Ching/Tao Te Ching which I use more as oracles.

The people I know through the church IMHO are more pagan than they realise. Rural Christianity in this country is actually a very moderate and simple faith rather than the hardliners in the towns. While some of them would balk at the fact I do tarot, divination and so on, and I wouldn't necessarily try and get them into it (the person who runs the church fete wouldn't even allow people to watch the football World Cup England game on his premises...god(dess) knows what he'd have thought if I turned up wearing my headdress - for full effect; I don't use it if I'm reading for someone online - and toting a tarot deck), they are a lot more spiritual than people I know who are towndwellers; there was something a while back when someone tried to strip the hymnbook of "nature-worship"; the local rector has now however resurrected some of the ancient agricultural services like the Rogation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogation_days) - link to Wiki - (the spring equivalent of Harvest Festival, ie blessing the crops about to be sown) which are probably pre-Christian in origin.

I have nothing against the charismatic and evangelical churches though - spiritually speaking they are among the happiest and most joyous of worshippers of any kind of Divine that I have had the pleasure to witness, and although some might be very narrow-minded about other faiths, when you get them in a good mood you can really feel the Spirit among them. The winter I got confirmed I went to a Baptist service where some young people got baptised; the room pulsed with some kind of otherworldly atmosphere which you could feel...so something was there among them; just like a few weeks earlier at my own confirmation where, due to personal issues at the time, I felt the sadness and deep love of Jesus giving his own life for others: even if only an allegorical story, allowing oneself to be sacrificed for a greater good holds a resonance for me as a profound spiritual act. Similarly in the depths of the forests here in Swallowfield, Nature itself can be felt in the same way. Every religion has its own way of expressing this feeling pertinent to the human culture in which it exists, so sharing the ways and means to channel and focus it for specific purposes - healing, divination, protection and so on - is what I am concerned about, rather than debating whose God is bigger than whose.
I like that. that's very nice.