Practice what you preach?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Practice what you preach?
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Sat, 12-30-2006 - 4:06pm

I spent several hours last night reading up on Pantheism--the idea that 'God' is an impersonal universal force, within all things, both living and not, versus a separate sentient being--and came across the phrase "God is a verb, not a noun" more than once.  For Pantheists, there is no set doctrine, no sacred texts... for them, all of Creation is sacred, and they worship by how they treat the rest of Creation.  It's a lifestyle more than a religion.  It got me really thinking about what I do versus what I believe... so often we tend to talk in the abstract:  "I believe..."  Yet religion is supposed to be a guideline for living. 


So I thought it'd be interesting to compare some of the ways we live what we believe.  What are some of the ways you act out your spiritual beliefs?


 






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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 01-08-2007 - 7:56pm

Are you interested in Wicca specifically, or paganism in general?

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Registered: 12-05-2006
Tue, 01-09-2007 - 9:27am

Thank you for the information you gave me. I will look into that shortly in the mean-time I'm glad that I came into this board I thought I was the only one with this wonderful gift. However my friends think that I'm weird and nuts because I talk about spirituality and stuff, they think that I live in the outter world than the inner world.
Because I am the way I am (which I just found myself a year ago) I have lose a lot of friends, I feel lonely most of the time. I do have this one friend, she's my sister in the spirit world, (she's a witch like I am) she has been so busy latley that we will talk once a month, I miss that.
So when I found this borad I was glad that their are more ppl like me and are not afraid to express thier thoughts. As most ppl thinks that it's not right to show everyone who you really are and that's not want I want to protray myself to be is something I'm not.
I want to learn more about this gift we all have within us.

Thank you ALL

Monalisa

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