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void
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eek! another pagan survey! :)
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Mar 28 09:59 UTC 2000 |
wendy-who's-not-a-grexer, my roommate, is in her final year as an
anthropology student at eastern. for one of her classes, she is doing
a research project on the current state of neopaganism/wicca/etc and
is looking for respondents to a survey she has written for this
project. if you're interested in filling out her survey, please send
some e-mail to wallers@online.emich.edu. thanks.
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otter
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response 1 of 93:
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Apr 2 13:00 UTC 2000 |
OK.
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void
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response 2 of 93:
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Apr 3 03:26 UTC 2000 |
thanks! :)
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gypsi
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response 3 of 93:
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Apr 3 19:33 UTC 2000 |
I sent her email.
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otaking
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response 4 of 93:
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Apr 5 14:22 UTC 2000 |
Me too.
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robh
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response 5 of 93:
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Apr 5 18:59 UTC 2000 |
I sent mail last week, and haven't goten a response yet. >8(
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otaking
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response 6 of 93:
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Apr 6 14:19 UTC 2000 |
I filled out the survey and returned it. I'm looking forward to seeing the
results.
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kami
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response 7 of 93:
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Apr 7 00:41 UTC 2000 |
Same here. A bit open-ended to make for easy data, but nice questions.
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otaking
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response 8 of 93:
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Apr 7 13:36 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, it gave me a lot to think about for later. I hadn't been asked some of
those questions before.
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void
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response 9 of 93:
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Apr 26 04:12 UTC 2000 |
wendy-who's-not-a-grexer finished the paper yesterday and is working
on sending out the results. she still has a paper to finish, two more
finals, and graduation on sunday. she said something today about
sending out the e-mail, but i haven't received mine yet so i'll ask
her about it the next time i see her. i could have misunderstood what
she said.
thanks to everyone who replied. :)
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kami
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response 10 of 93:
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Apr 26 05:15 UTC 2000 |
Got mine, will reply tomorrow if I can. It's not bad, but definitely
undergrad work.
Boy, have I gotten snobbish! Sorry.
How's it going?
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voodoo
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response 11 of 93:
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Jun 1 20:31 UTC 2000 |
Hi all, haven't been by in couple...more than a couple years. My
previous ID was taken when I tried to get it, Phaedrus! What's that
about?! :)
Anyway, hi Kami, Rob and everyone! Not sure if anyone will remember
me, but hello:)
How did this this survey turn out?
-Scott
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robh
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response 12 of 93:
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Jun 2 16:14 UTC 2000 |
Well, that's what happens when you take your login id from a
popular book, someone else will want it too. >8)
I'm busy doing priestly things and computer programming and such.
Are you still working for the hospital?
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otaking
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response 13 of 93:
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Jun 2 19:23 UTC 2000 |
Well, Wendy wrote her paper, then she went away for the summer. I haven't
heard from her lately. Hopefully, she'll respond when fall comes around.
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kami
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response 14 of 93:
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Jun 3 01:08 UTC 2000 |
Hi! What a long time. What's new?
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void
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response 15 of 93:
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Jun 3 20:32 UTC 2000 |
otaking, are you talking about wendy-who's-not-a-grexer?
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kami
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response 16 of 93:
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Jun 3 22:24 UTC 2000 |
Void! Another voice back from oblivion... Good to hear from you.
So- anyone have an opinion about the various pagan surveys, their findings
or what they might find? How many of us do you think there are, anyway?
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void
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response 17 of 93:
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Jun 4 01:39 UTC 2000 |
i'd guess as many as 10-15% of the population as a whole.
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brighn
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response 18 of 93:
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Jun 4 06:11 UTC 2000 |
*blinks* 10% of the general population is pagan? you've been living in AA too
long, void.
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gypsi
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response 19 of 93:
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Jun 4 12:18 UTC 2000 |
Are we including world population?
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jazz
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response 20 of 93:
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Jun 4 15:20 UTC 2000 |
Then there's your definition of "pagan" too. It leads me to think of
something descended (however indirectly) from Gardner, whether it shares any
beliefs or rituals with Gardnerian Wicca or not.
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brighn
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response 21 of 93:
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Jun 4 15:55 UTC 2000 |
true...
let's capitalize and define:
Pagan (with a capital P): A practitioner of a religion which is in whole or
in part developed from assumptions about and/or research on European or
Mediterannean pre-JudeoChristian and/or folk religion.
Wiccan: A practitioner of a religion which is in whole or in part developed
from assumptions about and/or research on European folk religion integrated
into a paradigm similar to the one presented by Gerald Gardner.
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jazz
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response 22 of 93:
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Jun 4 16:15 UTC 2000 |
So the Golden Dawn and their ilk wouldn't qualify under either of the
definitions you're proposing ... ?
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gypsi
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response 23 of 93:
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Jun 4 16:46 UTC 2000 |
When I hear "pagan", I think of those who practice earth religions.
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void
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response 24 of 93:
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Jun 4 18:06 UTC 2000 |
i was thinking in the broader sense of pagan, since it seems to be
becoming an umbrella term. just as you can have baptists,
pentecostals, lutherans, catholics, etc etc who all call themselves
christians, there are wiccans, taoists, druids, buddhists, strega
(what's the plural for that? stregi?), etc etc who call themselves
pagan. even leaving out the eastern religions, i don't think it's
unreasonable to estimate that there are as many pagans as there are
gays/lesbians/etc's.
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