[Jo Freddie]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Thanks for your input, chuckles, but unfortunately I'm already engaged to somebody else.

You had a lucky escape there Rodie!

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Your sources are biased and therefore irrelevant. You're really very bad at this aren't you. Find unbiased, objective sources that intend to describe what happened in history on a factual level and maybe we'll talk about who knows what.

Here ya go.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_hist.htm

Joanna Hautin-Mayer has written:

"We know tragically little about the actual religious expressions of the ancient Celts. We have a few myths and legends, but very little archeological evidence to support our theories. We have no written records of their actual forms of worship, and the accounts of their culture and beliefs written by their contemporaries are often highly biased and of questionable historical worth." 1

Ms. Hautin-Mayer is particularly critical of recent Neopagan books which she demonstrates to be largely fictional accounts of the history of Witta 3 (presented as an Irish Pagan tradition), Faery Wicca 4 (presented as an ancient tradition), and 21 Lessons of Merlyn 5 (a somewhat racist and sexist account of Druidism).

Silver RavenWolf wrote in 1998:

"Wicca, as you practice the religion today, is a new religion, barely fifty years old. The techniques you use at present are not entirely what your elders practiced even thirty years ago. Of course, threads of 'what was' weave through the tapestry of 'what is now.' ...in no way can we replicate to perfection the precise circumstances of environment, society, culture, religion and magick a hundred years ago, or a thousand. Why would we want to ? The idea is to go forward with the knowledge of the past, tempered by the tools of our own age." 2

Or do you think Silverbunny Ravenfluff, author of the seminal Teen Witch, is also biased?

Now go self-flagellate yourself like Jesus says.

Where does Jesus say this? Chapter and verse.

Then we can talk about who knows what.

Thanks for your input, chuckles, but unfortunately I'm already engaged to somebody else.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

I was thinking of Rhodes, for example. Would I be safe there?

Rhodes is a wonderful Island, I spend a lot of time there.


The water is warm, clear and great for swimming.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

… [animist propaganda deleted] …

Thank you for your detailed reply: I have deleted all of it. It is very difficult to escape atheistic and animist sex rites at this time of year, and I find it all rather confronting. One thing did stand out at me in your post, though - 2 things actually viz:

. and .

These are exactly the sorts of things associated with heathen saturnalia that repel decent folk, the things I wish to avoid. Perhaps you could advise me whether a safe haven may be found somewhere? I was thinking of Rhodes, for example. Would I be safe there? Your comments would be appreciated. And as for your salacious remarks about sex, I can assure you that it is a subject I never think about at all.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Knock it OFF, Jo! I am NOT some sort of "dyke" lezbean obsessed with acting like a man! I'm just as much of a weaker vessel as any other woman!

I have no doubt that you would show any man you marry the appropriate level of respect due to him Lycra.

Just try badmouthing me like that again and I'll personally track down your leaky sloop and sock you one!

A perfect example of your spirit Lycra, and I actually admire you for it, just a shame it is a false fire that ignites your passions.

[Lycia The Repentant]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

I am not insinuating any such thing, I am just saying that I get the feeling that you a lot less vulnerable then many of the women in this place.

Knock it OFF, Jo! I am NOT some sort of "dyke" lezbean obsessed with acting like a man! I'm just as much of a weaker vessel as any other woman!

"Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." 1 Peter 3:7

Just try badmouthing me like that again and I'll personally track down your leaky sloop and sock you one!

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

I'm going to be polite here and ASK you not to insinuate I'm some sort of man-hating feminazi that doesn't know my place, Jo Fettucini!

I am not insinuating any such thing, I am just saying that I get the feeling that you a lot less vulnerable then many of the women in this place.

[Lycia The Repentant]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Please pass on my commiserations to your fiancé

Thanks, I'll let him know.

We may have many differences and disagreements Lycra but I think any man that tried to exploit or abuse you would have to like hospital food.

I'm going to be polite here and ASK you not to insinuate I'm some sort of man-hating feminazi that doesn't know my place, Jo Fettucini!

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Thanks for your input, chuckles, but unfortunately I'm already engaged to somebody else.

Please pass on my commiserations to your fiancé

I didn't want to mention it here primarily because you seem to be doing your utmost to break up any couples you see lately.

I only voice my concerns when I feel that it is not a good idea, as you can see in this case, when I feel that it would be a good thing I show my support.

Yes I have had a past history of naysaying many advances that men from this place have made on women, but that is due to wishing to stand up for the vulnerable who are in danger of being exploited and abused.

We may have many differences and disagreements Lycra but I think any man that tried to exploit or abuse you would have to like hospital food.

[Lycia The Repentant]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Rodie I think that is a WONDERFUL idea, such a union can only be for the greater good, it will save two other people from a life of misery.

Thanks for your input, chuckles, but unfortunately I'm already engaged to somebody else.

I didn't want to mention it here primarily because you seem to be doing your utmost to break up any couples you see lately.

[Jo Freddie]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

As you may recall, I am an eligible bachelor with his own congregation in North Salem, Indiana. I have my own house, and a steady, rock-solid income. My church is well-funded, and I have amassed an endowment which is the envy of all Indiana. I'm sure I would make a wonderful husband for Sister Lycra the Repellent, the Experienced, and the Recently Tested STD-Free, according to Pastor Ezekiel.

My marriage to Sister Lycra would reduce the competition for Cassandra, who could then choose from any of the remaining True Christian™ men presently unwed: Brother Cranky, Old Man Hatchet, BAB, Aaron Portway, and yourself.

Rodie I think that is a WONDERFUL idea, such a union can only be for the greater good, it will save two other people from a life of misery.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

How about this site's laughable attempt to be spooky?

Gerald Gardner is perhaps one of the best known and talked about figures in modern witchcraft to date. An English hereditary Witch, he was the founder of contemporary Witchcraft practiced as a religion.

An English hereditary Witch, he was the founder of contemporary Witchcraft..

[Pastor William Nathaniel Sampson]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Your sources are biased and therefore irrelevant. You're really very bad at this aren't you. Find unbiased, objective sources that intend to describe what happened in history on a factual level and maybe we'll talk about who knows what.

Now go self-flagellate yourself like Jesus says.

Is this non-biased enough for you, toots?

How about this?

How about this website?

The mission of this site is to provide biographical information and resources on Gerald Gardner and to continue to serve to raise awareness of Wicca's modern history in general and Gardner's historical influence in specific.

How about this site's laughable attempt to be spooky?

Gerald Gardner is perhaps one of the best known and talked about figures in modern witchcraft to date. An English hereditary Witch, he was the founder of contemporary Witchcraft practiced as a religion.

How about this too?

Gerald Gardner launched Wicca shortly after the end of World War II, and went public with his coven following the repeal of England’s Witchcraft Laws in the early 1950s.

The Gardnerian Book of Shadows was created by Gerald Gardner with some assistance and editing from Doreen Valiente, and drew heavily on works by Charles Leland, Aleister Crowley, and SJ MacGregor Mathers. Within a Gardnerian group, each member copies the coven BOS and then adds to it with their own information. Gardnerians self-identify by way of their lineage, which is always traced back to Gardner himself and those he initiated.

Now, admit you follow a religion that was made up in the 1950's.

[BelieverInGod]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Not biased politically you twit.

So does calling your intellectual superiors stupid make you feel smart? I mean you're average basset hound is smarter than you, so you must spend a lot of time calling other people, and rocks, stupid.

Proverbs 10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Please supply one of your "unbiased" sources. My minor was in history, so if it's a book, I may even have access to it.

[The Omega]

Re: Enjoy a blessed Eostre everyone!

Not biased politically you twit.