Do you think that you live in a magic world.
2006-10-05 05:44:46 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Um, Pagans actually worship *multiple* Gods.
And yes, we literally do believe we're living in a magickal world, where everything is animated by spirit.
2006-10-05 05:46:51 · answer #1 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
How dose one define magic, is it the act of bring something into being out of nothingness, then if that is how you define magic then yes even you believe in magic. Magic is nothing more that the use of the energies that flow around us in our daily lives, but to most people it is what they see in TV shows like Charmed and Bewitched, but sadly for those people that is not the case. It is like Morgan Freeman said in Bruce All Mighty: Parting the soup in your bowl and walking on water that's a magic trick, but a single mother working two jobs to support her kids and getting those kids off to school every day; now that's a miracle.
I am probably miss-quoting hear but I agree with that statement, what you call a miracle I call magic. Divine it may be, but it is still magic by the above definition. I am not without my own faults, so do not think I am casting the first stone here because I am not. I was Christian long before I was a Pagan, so I have seen a lot of people trying to use certain lines from the Bible to justify their own beliefs, but they fail to realize that the Bible has been translated so many times that I will not believe a single thing any Priest tells me unless they show it to me in the original Coptic or Latin text, and if they cannot then they themselves are committing blasphemy.
2006-10-08 10:04:17 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenix Summersun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A person with "God" and a Person without "God"... both catergories have the same problems, want the same thing ( to be happy and healthy ), need to eat drink and ...errr... evacuate, both fall sick, both grow old and eventually both dies,
Only difference comes from what happens after the curtain closes?? An atheist doesnt believe in that... so who cares? A pagan has a believe in a Spiritual Evolution, if this life wasnt so well lived, just take rebirtha nd try again.
Free-thinkers.... no such thing I believe. Oh Wait... yes... the only free thinkers I know are those in a Mental healthcare institution... All "guests" think VERY freely there :)
2006-10-05 06:14:05 · answer #3 · answered by Kenz K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you live without magic? Yes, I do think I live in a magical world. And a scientific one. The difference between the two? Some stuff that happens that is incredible and wonderful to me we CAN explain, and some of it we can't.
I know that you think you worship the only god. We don't believe that. I believe that I worship gods who do just as well by me as yours does for you. I may be wrong, you may be wrong, but from my polytheistic point of view, it is possible for us to both be serving our own gods, and there is no reason for your arrogance.
Atheists think we're BOTH wrong. I'm ok with that, too, as long as they don't call me a cute little primitive, or a slave to my beliefs, or anything like that. Basically, life's too short to try to cut everybody down all the time. Why not just live how you're happy and try to make a difference where you CAN? You're not making your religion look good, here, and you're only preaching to the converted. The rest of us just become angry and won't take you seriously. You want me to be a Christian? Why? Give me a reason that makes sense to a non Christian, and we'll talk.
2006-10-07 03:33:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think Pagans are living without God(s)? Assuming a bit much about people you obviously have no knowledge of. And to which "God" are you referring to? There are many images of "God" even within One religion. Just why do people like you assume that the beliefs of others are as You want them to be?
And "magic world"... just what do you see as a "magic world"?
2006-10-05 05:58:07 · answer #5 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow... that's some pretty twisted thinking. The world WITHOUT god is magic? LOL.
Lookee here, Buckwheat... we are ALL living in a world without God... a world that does NOT contain such MAGICAL things as talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, a shepherd staff that turns into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people raised from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from a dust bunny and a rib, a magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush... and ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
In a SANE world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.
It disgusts me to know that in our society, irrational, deluded people who ACTUALLY BELIEVE such nonsense is TRUE are permitted to vote, hold public office, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
It disgusts me to know that these same people think that there is something wrong with those who DON'T believe all of this ridiculous crap.
Get a grip.
2006-10-05 05:52:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What does "magic" have anything to do with being an atheist or free thinker?
I do not assume I can live with out the concept of god, I am living without the concept.
2006-10-05 05:47:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I do think I live in a magic world. Every time I look around me I see, breathe, feel, smell, know magic and it is beautiful. I don't know why you direct these questions to Pagans though. We do not live without God(s)
2006-10-10 05:41:30 · answer #8 · answered by kaplah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Why (atheist, Pagan, free thinker) assume that they can live without GOD.?"
Because I do as a free-thinker and agnostic/atheist, you see I wrote this while living. Why do you ASSume that the PRONOUN "God" means the Judeo/Christian?
"Do you think that you live in a magic world."
No, but if one believes in god then they do.
2006-10-05 05:48:51 · answer #9 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm. I'm Pagan, I do believe in something more powerful and it resides in all things. I have been living without your god all my life and I'm still here so it's pretty safe to say that it is a fairly safe assumption that I can do so. And YES, I do live in a magic world. How sad that yours is not.....
2006-10-05 05:55:48 · answer #10 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually it's the theists who live in a "magical" world. Christians in particular believe in talking snakes, dogs, asses, and voices from the sky. Not to mention impossible floods, exoduses and battles that didn't happen, and a supreme being who "magics" things into or out of existence on a whim.
Who's the one who indulges in magical thinking here?
2006-10-05 05:49:37 · answer #11 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋