Ask the Penguin! (beliefs, pagan, God, religion, Wicca)

[Wandered Off]

You have mentioned being scientific. Do you find any tension between a scientific outlook and your beliefs? Do they overlap or are they dealing with entirely different questions?

[Reverend Rick]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

I'm trying to answer all the questions posted, I wouldn't let it fade without answering something.

I never for a moment thought you would intentionally.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Wandered Off

You have mentioned being scientific. Do you find any tension between a scientific outlook and your beliefs?

Good question! One I was waiting for

Sometimes there is some tension, but most of the time there isn't. I sometimes find myself separating my spiritual side from my scientific side, but not always. In most cases, I am able to blend the two quite nicely (I think, anyway). The scientific side usually comes first, and the spiritual side complements it.

For example, ornithology (study of birds) is my specialty, the Common Loon in particular. The calls of the loons range from greeting other loons to driving out other birds from their territory; the Native Americans of the area also believed that the call of the loon carried their prayers up to the gods.

Do they overlap or are they dealing with entirely different questions?

When trying to find answers to those difficult questions, I try to look at things from both perspectives. Sometimes those answers come in either the scientific realm, or just the spiritual, both of none. I remember that both science and spirituality are constantly changing and that though I may not have an answer now, that doesn't mean that there isn't an answer. Unlike other people, I'm comfortable with unanswered questions. I accept that they are unanswered as of now.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Reverend Rick

I never for a moment thought you would intentionally.

Just making sure

[Panda]

Muhaha I bet you thought you had answered all the questions i could ask but you were wrong :P

Do you think people treat you differently when they find out you are pagan. ie do they treat you like a tree hugging hippy (STEREOTYPE ALERT)
Do you prefer a normal or diagonal hug?
Do you think being a pagan changed you hug prefrences?
Do you prefer dark, white or milk chocolate?

Has you belief influenced you in the Coke or Pepsi war?

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Panda

Muhaha I bet you thought you had answered all the questions i could ask but you were wrong :P

Do you think people treat you differently when they find out you are pagan. ie do they treat you like a tree hugging hippy (STEREOTYPE ALERT)

Only one person has really treated me differently, and oddly she's my oldest friend. She's Methodist and a devout one at that. She thinks this is a phase, and often says "I'll get you back." She insists on quoting scripture whenever I talk to her about some hard times I'm going through, or when I have any sort of lifestyle question. So now I don't really talk about such things with her.

Hehe, it's kinda funny, a couple of years ago she started sending me Christian e-cards for her holidays. I would delete them and be on my way. She finally stopped sending them when I started sending e-cards for the Wiccan holidays

Do you prefer a normal or diagonal hug?

Hmm... after careful consideration, I think the normal hug.

Do you think being a pagan changed you hug prefrences?

I don't think so, but I have gotten more hugs since I became pagan ::thinks about this correlation::

Do you prefer dark, white or milk chocolate?

WHITE!!! I don't care if it has no actual chocolate in it!

Has you belief influenced you in the Coke or Pepsi war?

Lol! I used to swear by Diet Pepsi (GC can vouch for that one!) but I've switched out of that completely because of the aspertame. I now drink Weight Watchers caffeine free Diet Cola sweetened with Splenda. Although the great Goddess Caffeina doesn't much like it, I feel a lot better since making the switch.

[Isabella Lecour]

The Coke vs. Pepsi question got me thinking.
Has your belifes changed your views on political issues, like the enviornment, animal rights, human rights, religious rights, ect?

Has your belifes led you to become more politicaly active or even unactive?
Has there been an major changes in your lifestyle sence becomeing Pagan?

What plant based food stuff is honored by to your Sun God or is craved by your God?
Do you eat broccoil?

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Isabella Lecour

The Coke vs. Pepsi question got me thinking.
Has your belifes changed your views on political issues, like the enviornment, animal rights, human rights, religious rights, ect?

That's hard for me to say, really. I think I've always been leaning left on the political scale, but I went to an environmental college with a starting focus on Wildlife Conservation (I later changed to just Wildlife) and I became pagan there. I found those things (environmentalism, equality for both humans and animals, various religious rights) to be very important in my life and I happened to find a belief system to match.

Has your belifes led you to become more politicaly active or even unactive?

I'd love to be more politically active, but at the moment I don't have the means. Having just graduated from college, I'm trying to find my footing; though once I do I want to be more active.

Has there been an major changes in your lifestyle sence becomeing Pagan?

Not really, like I said above, I found the things most pagans find important, important to me. It just fit so well, I didn't have to change much, if anything.

What plant based food stuff is honored by to your Sun God or is craved by your God?

Anything that grows, all plants need the sun to photosynthesize, after all

Do you eat broccoil?

I do! And it's delicious.