Everything Under the Moon

Present, try health food stores they'll usually have a few herbs and essential oils on hand.

You betcha, it's done in Tibet to conserve land so what little arable land isn't divided between multiple sons. They'll marry the same woman and keep the land in the family. It helps that one brother is usually away with the herds while the other is at home (assuming there are only two). If there's ...

Here's some info on moral relativism Moral relativism may be any of several descriptive, meta-ethical, or normative positions. Each of them is concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures: * Descriptive relativism describes the way things are, without sugges...

I mostly write comic book scripts and short stories.

I think what Juniper is referring to is when an outsider takes teachings from a culture or tradition and then misrepresents them - either deliberately or through ignorance - in order to gain fame, power, etc. Sadly it's very common.

Well generally most persons I've run into don't mind being called pagan, they might tell you what 'flavor' they are if you ask but I've never had someone get all offended and demand to be called Wiccan etc instead of pagan. So that's probably acceptable. I'm really off now lol, gotta clean out an ov...

"Most of these people probably have good intentions but are too lazy or set in their own philosophy to back up what they're teaching with good sense and legitimate research" ^ is referring to the authors, not the readers. I would hope that the authors at least researched or practiced what ...

yeah sorry that was vaguely worded, I was addressing you presentcharisma. I ask because moral relativism can be a dangerous philosophy and a lot of new age thinking veers suspiciously close to it at times. Just curious

Pagans?

What's a pagan center??

I wasn't referring to you specifically but just offering my two cents regarding research in general. Far too many people are taken in by bad information and fluff from 'reliable' aka well known but poor teachers like Silver Ravenwolf etc. Most of these people probably have good intentions but are to...

Everyone has pagan ancestors because pagan means non-christian or more loosely non-abrahamic, therefore if you exist now you had ancestors prior to christ so we ALL have pagan ancestors. That's just a fact. As to whether or how this influences your current beliefs and choices, that's solely up to yo...

Before taking any book or teacher to heart as the be all and end all it pays to verify their sources with at least two other sources, investigate their background and claims online and use your common sense. There are loads of charlatans and so called scholars eager to sell you on an idea and more t...

Are you familiar with the concept of moral relativism?

Sorry about that. I'll see if I can get 'em loaded to a third party site.

A point regarding the situation w/your BIL (hope he's doing better btw), your sister specifically requested prayers. The person in the scenario above did not because she wasn't consulted.

Lol either would be a bit odd.