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OK, Winter's halfway over: time for a completely unscientific survey. Complete this sentence:

 

The thing that drives me craziest about pagans is that we....

 

  • Please keep it short: no more than three sentences. (One would be best.)
  • Let me know by what name you'd like to be cited, what flavor pagan you are, and where you hail from.
  • Remember, please: we're talking about us here, not them.
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Update: I finally admitted to myself that almost no one is going to take this survey. And that’s as it should be. It’s not safe to publicly discuss details of gun ownership online anymore. Big Brother is here.

 

I’m going to keep the post here anyway. Perhaps just reading it will be informative for someone, or otherwise useful to them. There are also a couple of comments that someone might find useful. Here is the post:

 

Are you a gun owner and Pagan? If your weapon is for self-defense (as opposed to, for example, hunting), please participate in this survey.

 

Its purpose is show a diversity of personal opinions, as well as their commonalities. I don’t believe personal viewpoints can ever  represent how other people should think or act. Instead, my hope is that folks sharing about the intersection of gun ownership and Paganism in their own lives will provide food for thought for folks who read this post, including those taking the survey. This mental stimulus might help someone gain greater clarity about what that intersection currently is in their own lives, whether they want to change it and, if so, what they want it to become.

 

Since I’m hoping to show diversity, some people might be puzzled by my not creating another survey for those who don’t own guns. My reason is twofold:

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  • Patricia Deneen
    Patricia Deneen says #
    Thanks for thinking of us. I mean that sincerely.
  • Francesca De Grandis
    Francesca De Grandis says #
    Patricia, I only received notice of your comment just now. Argh. Thank you for your kind support.
  • Anne Newkirk Niven
    Anne Newkirk Niven says #
    I'm Pagan, and a gun-owner. If you want to have a conversation on this topic, dearest one, you know where to find me. (I'm not goi
  • Francesca De Grandis
    Francesca De Grandis says #
    Ooh, Anne, a chance for another juicy phone call with you, thanks so much for offering it. Immediately prior to reading yr comme
  • Erin Lale
    Erin Lale says #
    Hi there. If you want to do an actual survey, I'd recommend posting a link to a survey. If you just want comments, here's mine. I'

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In my previous post I talked about how I was contacted by the director of pastoral services at Duke University Hospital.  Once a month, the chapel invites speakers from various faith traditions to talk to doctors, nurses, social workers, and other hospital staff.  The director had contacted me almost a year ago, asking me to give a short presentation focusing on a Pagan perspective on health, healing, life, and death. 

 

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Last May, right after I finished graduate school and earned my master’s degree in social work, I was contacted by the director of pastoral services at Duke University Hospital. This fine gentleman has been working to put together interfaith lectures and dialogues, and asked if I’d be willing to offer a Pagan perspective to the mix.

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Idea originally taken and adapted from asksecularwitch on Tumblr.


1. As a Geekomancer or Practitioner of Geekomancy, where do your moral and ethics come from?

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  • Taylor Ellwood
    Taylor Ellwood says #
    When I wrote Pop Culture Magick, I got a lot of flak for it. It's truly nice to see pop culture magic (or Geekomancy as you call
  • S. Rune Emerson
    S. Rune Emerson says #
    Cool, feel free! I happened to like Pop Culture Magick, btw!
  • Taylor Ellwood
    Taylor Ellwood says #
    I'm glad you like it! I'm actually working on Pop Culture Magic 2.0. So much has changed in the last ten years, it's time to updat
  • S. Rune Emerson
    S. Rune Emerson says #
    Ooh... that could be fun! Get in contact with me privately, we should totally discuss this.
  • Taylor Ellwood
    Taylor Ellwood says #
    What's the best way to get a hold of you privately? You can email me at magicalexperiments [at] yahoo [dot] com

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