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How I got Wicca  

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Flipperox asked me what got me involved in Wicca,

I am curious as to the path that led you to wicca. I know the starting point ... and your current beliefs but what was your motivation???
Many pagans, and I can't say I was much different, start out in Christianity, usually being raised in one variety or another. As they grow older, they begin to ask questions and often aren't satisfied with the answers. Christianity makes no sense to them, for one reason or another.

In my case, I cannot and probably never will accept the concepts of ultimate good or ultimate evil as active forces in the universe. Ultimate good could well have given us free choice, without suffering or evil; ultimate evil usually isn't evil at all when examined from its own point of view. I call myself a Gray Witch because good and evil are only an infinite variety of shades of gray.

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5 comments

Darius099  

I really consider defining yourself by circumstantials to be the best approach to life. Each situation is unique, you can never paint more than one thing with the same brush.

March 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Viri Cordova  

I think most people call that, "keeping an open mind" :)

March 28, 2008 at 12:18 AM
Stan Johnson  

Concerning the comments on being given choice without the possibility of suffering and pain, I have a couple of questions.

First, how did you arrive at that conclusion?

Second, given your assumption, what, then, would be the purpose(s) of sorrow and pain, if they are not required for freedom of choice.

On a different note, how do *you* define "ultimate good/evil," and how would a lack of such ultimate affect the existence of absolutes?

April 1, 2008 at 12:30 PM
Viri Cordova  

This is part of the answer - more to come. http://paganwife.blogspot.com/2008/04/creation-myth.html

As for how I arrived at that conclusion, the LDS Church believe it or not. No parent inflicts suffering on their children by choice. I learned that raising them. You spare them as much as you can. For sure, no other Christian explanation even came close to explaining things to my satisfaction - that came closest. But even it missed the mark, I think.

April 10, 2008 at 2:50 AM
Viri Cordova  

Ultimate evil is evil without hope of redemption, with no redeeming qualities; ultimate good is harder to define but it obviously could have no evil in it.

I'm not sure what "how would a lack of such ultimate affect the existence of absolutes?" is asking, to be honest.

April 11, 2008 at 12:25 AM

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