Inara - a Wiccan perspective
POSTED BY: incongresswiththebeast
UPDATED: Friday, May 12, 2006 15:14
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Forgive me if this has been said, but I got bogged down by the nasty arguement going on and couldn't possibly dig through all the viciousness.
I see Inara's view of sacred sex as far older and more Eastern/Buddhist than Wiccan.
The practice of Tantra- Living in the full senses of the body- encompasses harnessing and using physical desire to strengthen the soul and spirit. This goes back far deeper in Eastern civilization than the Celtic Wiccan practices.
Today's Wicca encompasses portions of Tantra as part of it's collection of beliefs, and I think that is where the comparison takes place.
Everything that we see and know of Inara points to the practice of the Sacred Tantric- She lives in her body. The slow sensuality of the sponge-bath- a ritual cleansing. The way she holds her cup of tea close to her, smelling it's fragrance before sipping- living with all of her senses.
Frankly, Bitter, you are attacking the religious views of another member. Which, if I'm not mistaken, is called Prejudice and Intolerance. I'm sure you think that it's perfectly all right for you attack others on the basis of their religion. You mentioned Nazis before. Notice any resemblence?
I'm not saying that it's the case with you, but I have to mention here that all the 'trained philosphers' who I know have all the spirituality of a dung-heap in summer.
Of course, some Buddhists would argue that a dung-heap in summer has it's own fragrance, it's own life-source in the worms and insects that break it down, it's own beauty as part of the process of nature, imbueing it with it's own spirituality.
I'm a Priestess of the Goddess, not a Buddhist monk, so I'm afraid I stand by my original interpretation of such.
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I really think this is an interesting discussion topic (Inara, Wicca, Sacred prostitition, the church, eastern versus western sexual values) but I think that many will not bother to read the thread due to the serious hijack.
Should we start a new thread? Any why doesn't this forum have an IGNORE MEMBER option??
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Good call.
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I really think this is an interesting discussion topic (Inara, Wicca, Sacred prostitition, the church, eastern versus western sexual values) but I think that many will not bother to read the thread due to the serious hijack.
Should we start a new thread? Any why doesn't this forum have an IGNORE MEMBER option??
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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."
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Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
I really think this is an interesting discussion topic (Inara, Wicca, Sacred prostitition, the church, eastern versus western sexual values) but I think that many will not bother to read the thread due to the serious hijack.
I agree entirely.
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Should we start a new thread?
Not sure that would help. Those that we don't want to come with us would just come anyway.
It would make the thread shorter though
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Any why doesn't this forum have an IGNORE MEMBER option??
Up until very recently, it hasn't been even close to necessary. Everyone just respected eachother (for the most part). Perhaps it's time that something like this be implemented.
*sigh* 'Tis a sad day when we start talking about something like this.
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-David Suzuki
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The sad thing it is it's mostly my fault, if I just ignored BitterBierce we'd have no problem... Or would we just have an ignored and vieled problem? Blah, don't really care. I felt Bierce needed to be taken down a coupla notches, I did my best to do it (I think I suceeded, he thinks I'm a moron[feeling is genuinely mutual], everyone has their own opinion), and I'm done talking to him, probably forever.
But I do think a new thread would be better suited to continuing the discussion. I promise not to flame unless someone starts to be condescending/disrespectful without cause in their opinions.
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This was very interesting on both sides.
I had always thought that Wicca was a type of furniture. :)
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*sigh* 'Tis a sad day when we start talking about something like this.
I think everyone's over reacting here. There are much more offensive and hateful types on internet messageboards than old BB here.
Nobody's suffered sever psychological trauma from this thread have they? No? Good
, then lets carry on as we were before.
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*sigh* 'Tis a sad day when we start talking about something like this.
I think everyone's over reacting here. There are much more offensive and hateful types on internet messageboards than old BB here.
Nobody's suffered sever psychological trauma from this thread have they? No? Good
The problem isn't just this thread, it's the general tone right now on these forums.
Perhaps I am overreacting, perhaps not. Time will tell.
One thing's for certain though, I hope I'm wrong about this.
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-David Suzuki
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I know what's wrong.
It's bitterness. We're all so bitter because our firefly fixes are simply repeated episodes, watching the deleted scenes, and searching the net for paraphenelia. When we get Firefly back, we'll all be less snappy.
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I am a 17 year old male, brought up in a Christian household, going to a United Church, but in the past year or so i have been practicing Wicca, because my old girlfriend is wicca, and it really interested me, because it made a lot of sense to what was and is going on in my life. It is kindof annoying to get past the stereotypes, as my parents don't really take it seriously, and my friends critisize. THERE CAN BE MALE WICCANS!!There just aren't as many as female. Aside from that i have been practicing it and getting away from the "Fluffbunny" stage, and getting into it more in-depth.
I'll try and bring this back on topic:
Very interesting topic, i must say INCONGRESSWITHTHEBEAST! It brings up many interesting points, such as Inara's views towards sex and sexuality. this may be a a neat topic to explore, but perhaps not in this area. Perhaps we could get a group together and make a site to discuss or somesuch, because it would be pretty cool.
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