Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 111 – Pagan Community

2009
07.21

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4:52 What makes a Community?
5:47 Why Paganism is not a Community
6:49 Sub Communities
7:49 Pagans are too selfish to have a healthy community
8:45 How PCP is not selfish
9:32 Online vs. Offline Pagan Communities
9:59 Pagan Groups More Accurately Portraying what they do at their gatherings
10:21 Even psychic shops are being honest
10:42 Do the mundane, not just the metaphysical!
11:26 Our selfish self-destructive culture
12:54 Selflessly give up something you want for the greater good.
13:40 Stop with the whining that no one is helping
14:33 PPP as a community
15:22 People looking for validation
16:18 Wild Hunt Article, are we deterioriating into a fame-based economy
17:11 Power struggles in Pagan groups
18:06 Just beause an organization has done something a certain way for a long time doesn’t make it the right way
19:30 Pagans in the forefront tend to be fanatical or looking to pat themselves on the back
20:12 We would be better as a community if we just did things without regard for recognition to be received etc.
20:43 People complaining about Authors, but you’re supposed to disagree with something in all books
21:48 People have lost their connection with Spirit
23:21 People don’t want to look at the Boogeyman in the Closet to see if they are being themselves
24:05 People don’t want to realize they’ve been wrong for many years
24:33 Nothing wrong with being wrong as long as you do something about it when you realize you’re wrong
25:07 The slave mentality rather than being free, and free to make their own mistakes
25:42 People want someone to blame for their failures
27:28 People are Dicks
27:56 Delegating tasks in a mundane and religious sense
29:26 How to become a Pagan leader, fill the Pagan leadership void
31:53 Leadership in Generic Pagan Groups vs. Special Pagan Groups
33:05 Diaper Changing and Online Generalized Pagan Communities
34:35 What happened to supporting our spiritual leaders?
35:26 Das Indian!
35:56 Lawls: what are they?
36:19 Lawlers vs. Coyotes
37:16 People being in your face since they have no idea of their own
37:25 Intellectual Discussion is a good thing
37:40 Stop provoking the Christians and then complaining they’re attacking Pagans
38:04 Things about Pagan Vidcasts that piss people off
39:40 Conversations have an Off Button
40:19 Please stay out of Jail
40:40 Ashlee wants to be a postergirl
42:38 If someone has “Pagan” in their nicknname, don’t assume they’re Pagan
45:06 Has the Pagan community changed over time?
45:44 Naked Pagans
47:20 Earth Day is a Pagan Holiday now?
48:45 Raspberry Crazy Ants
50:09 You may be the first Pagan someone’s met, don’t screw it up for the rest of us.