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Paganism

  • 25-06-2015 08:53PM
    #1
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    I was introduced to a friend of a friend at a party there last weekend when we got into our hobbies and interests.

    Instead of informing him that I have almost 30,000 posts on an internet forum I was telling him about my other passions (exercising, languages etc) and he told me that he was a pagan witch.

    "Excuse me?"

    Apparently, it's true. He is a pagan witch of some sort, away with the faeries and dancing in the woods or whatever with the other... witches.

    I couldn't stand to be seen with such a loser any more so I let him know his beliefs were complete bobbins and decided to join my other friends for a game of beer pong instead. We lost. Your man probably cursed us.

    Anyway. Have you met any witches? Are you a witch? Is this a form of mental illness?


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    We've all met some nutjob at some time or another. This one just took the form of a pagan witch.

    Such is life.


  • #3
    wp_rathead
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    Blaire Faithful Swatter wrote: »
    I was introduced to a friend of a friend at a party there last weekend when we got into our hobbies and interests.

    Instead of informing him that I have almost 30,000 posts on an internet forum I was telling him about my other passions (exercising, languages etc) and he told me that he was a pagan witch.

    "Excuse me?"

    Apparently, it's true. He is a pagan witch of some sort, away with the faeries and dancing in the woods or whatever with the other... witches.

    I couldn't stand to be seen with such a loser any more so I let him know his beliefs were complete bobbins and decided to join my other friends for a game of beer pong instead. We lost. Your man probably cursed us.

    Anyway. Have you met any witches? Are you a witch? Is this a form of mental illness?

    Brilliant :pac:


  • #4
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    wp_rathead wrote: »
    Brilliant :pac:

    Well, he definitely would've thought the same thing.


  • #5
    The Adversary
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    I hope you told him about how you're a Satanic Priest.


  • #6
    NachoBusiness
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    There was a witch who used to post in AH a lot. Not sure if she still posts. Try here.

    I used to have a few DVDs by a band of witches called Rockbitch, who have since broken up.

    Not the type of group you'd see booked to play the Bord Gais Theater, that's for sure but maybe if they reunite, you never know. Fingers crossed.


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  • #7
    suicide_circus
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    People who join religions/cults later in life rather than through birth seem to become over zealous eg born again christians or converts to islam. Paganism is basically just sun worship, not unlike christianity. Total pony obviously.


  • #8
    Not a NSA agent
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    Its as much a mental illness as any other of that religious and spiritual stuff. Never met one but cant be any worse than some of the other religious people Ive met.


  • #9
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Total pony obviously.

    Complete lunacy.


  • #10
    suicide_circus
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    Blaire Faithful Swatter wrote: »
    Complete lunacy.

    Was he a crusty?


  • #11
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Was he a crusty?

    A bit crustyish. More like a fat metal dude with long hair and a mental beard.


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    [Deleted User]
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    People who join religions/cults later in life rather than through birth seem to become over zealous eg born again christians or converts to islam. Paganism is basically just sun worship, not unlike christianity. Total pony obviously.

    I'd say you'd get a fair bit of action pretending to be into the whole scene though.


  • #13
    crockholm
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'd say you'd get a fair bit of action pretending to be into the whole scene though.

    Yeah,but probably only with women who have their armpit hair dreadlocked.


  • #14
    suicide_circus
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    Blaire Faithful Swatter wrote: »
    A bit crustyish. More like a fat metal dude with long hair and a mental beard.

    A vague whiff of bong water and smegma?


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
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    crockholm wrote: »
    Yeah,but probably only with women who have their armpit hair dreadlocked.

    Hopefully!!


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    Blaire Faithful Swatter wrote: »
    A bit crustyish. More like a fat metal dude with long hair and a mental beard.

    You should have told him he's not a witch, but a warlock. Thereby appearing to be well informed in the ancient terminology and polytheistic ways of the Wiccan.


  • #17
    Hande hoche!
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    A vague whiff of bong water and smegma?
    I wretched slightly.


  • #18
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    A vague whiff of bong water and smegma?

    Definitely not a stranger to "da herb." He was trying to get me to taste this weird craft beer as well. I declined in case it meant we were married in his religion.


  • #19
    Buona Fortuna
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    People who join religions/cults later in life rather than through birth seem to become over zealous eg born again christians or converts to islam. Paganism is basically just sun worship, not unlike christianity. Total pony obviously.

    It is, but don't they all get their kit off and dance round a fire? Just sounds like a really top BBQ.

    If there was a branch nearby I'd join.


  • #20
    failinis
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    I know a troubled girl who is a witch as such - she likes spells and crystals and all that.
    She is not doing any harm to be fair to her.
    I think its all horse shíte, but if its harmless for the person/not hurting others its like any other religion.


  • #21
    nullzero
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    °°°°°


    I'm sure he's desperately upset that you're not going to be his friend the loser.


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  • #22
    Custardpi
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    To be honest if you're going to get into the whole "spirituality" malarkey anyway Wicca is probably one of the least harmful of belief systems you could choose. I'd be far more worried about someone getting into radical Islam, evangelical Christianity etc. So long as he's not trying to terrorise people into dressing a particular way or trying to prevent people getting married to those they love etc I'd say more power to him & let him at it. It's bollocks of course, but so long as it doesn't impinge on anyone else's liberties what of it?


  • #23
    The_Valeyard
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    I'd take a pagan over a vegan any day.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    I know a self-professed witch. She abandoned the irrational and unreasonable belief system of traditional Christianity to embrace the altogether more reasonable and rational belief system of Wicca, with it's many gods, magic spells, and reliance on props.


  • #25
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Candie wrote: »
    I know a self-professed witch. She abandoned the irrational and unreasonable belief system of traditional Christianity to embrace the altogether more reasonable and rational belief system of Wicca, with it's many gods, magic spells, and reliance on props.

    Sister Carrot Top, Princess of the Forest.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
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    If anything was going to convert me to Wicca, it'd be the outfits.

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/16/54/26/165426b5ef395217aa6edb53aebb7e09.jpg

    I'd look good in Witchy dresses. I already have the laugh and the cauldron.


  • #27
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Candie wrote: »
    If anything was going to convert me to Wicca, it'd be the outfits.

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/16/54/26/165426b5ef395217aa6edb53aebb7e09.jpg

    I'd look good in Witchy dresses. I already have the laugh and the cauldron.

    And the warts.


  • #28
    Cold War Kid
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    Candie wrote: »
    If anything was going to convert me to Wicca, it'd be the outfits.

    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/16/54/26/165426b5ef395217aa6edb53aebb7e09.jpg

    I'd look good in Witchy dresses. I already have the laugh and the cauldron.
    Yeah I love those Hammer Horror movie chicks' outfits from the 60s/70s.

    Vurry sexy.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Candie wrote: »
    I know a self-professed witch. She abandoned the irrational and unreasonable belief system of traditional Christianity to embrace the altogether more reasonable and rational belief system of Wicca, with it's many gods, magic spells, and reliance on props.

    Who doesn't rely on props once in a while though, eh?


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
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    I wouldn't mind a cloak either. Its a versatile item, you can play Batman or Jane Austen or Little Red Riding Hood. Of course it has to be red for the last one.


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  • #31
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    Candie wrote: »
    I wouldn't mind a cloak either. Its a versatile item, you can play Batman or Jane Austen or Little Red Riding Hood. Of course it has to be red for the last one.

    Batman or Jane Austen. Hmmmmm lemme think.


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