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Newsgroups: alt.religion.all-worlds,alt.answers,news.answers
Path: bloom-beacon.mit.edu!hookup!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!torin
From: torin@netcom.com (Darren/Torin/Who ever...)
Subject: Church of All Worlds FAQ Part 2/7
Message-ID: <torinCnrtKB.I5x@netcom.com>
Followup-To: alt.religion.all-worlds
Summary: This posting contains a general outline about the Church of
All Worlds, a neo-pagan church and alt.religion.all-worlds.
It is *not* for all religions. It should be read by anyone
who wishes to post to alt.religion.all-worlds.
Reply-To: c-a-w@netcom.com
Organization: Church of All Worlds
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 05:21:47 GMT
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
Expires: Wed, 4 May 1994 05:00:00 GMT
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Xref: bloom-beacon.mit.edu alt.religion.all-worlds:674 alt.answers:2333 news.answers:17680
Archive-name: church_all_worlds/part2
Alt-religion-all-worlds-archive-name: FAQ-part2
Last-modified: Thu, 24 Mar 1994
I. SUBJECT MATTER OF NEWS-GROUP
A. What is encouraged and of interest to regular
participants
Questions about CAW and about CAW and Pagan events are
certainly encouraged. CAW members who use the newsgroup seem to
enjoy discussing CAW activities, ecology and environmentalism,
PAGAN philosophical issues involving CAW and relating CAW to the
general Pagan scene and similar issues.
Issues and topics from "Green Egg" have provoked some
interesting discussions. Posting of comments is encouraged but
let us try not to post copyrighted articles.
Another fertile topic is the relationship of some current
neopagan practices to other "religions" or practices, for
example, chakra and vision quests, etc. Some would say that
this amounts to the theft of the practices of others, others
seem to feel that it is more a recognition of the value of the
"shared whatever".
B. What isn't appreciated
While no one individual "owns" the newsgroup, controls
the newsgroup or has any sort of proprietary authority, most
users don't appreciate bashers, flamers, trashers and cross-
posters, nor evangelizers regardless of subject or whether CAW
or other religions or individuals are being beaten about. IMHO
cross-posting is an abomination and it is especially
discouraged.
Discussions of monotheistic issues, for example, the
existence of "god" (any and all flavors of monotheistic deity)
are generally not appreciated, if not downright resented,
especially those which are cross-posted and prolific. If I
were in charge, (and I'm not!) I would outlaw fundo Xtian-
bashing. It is my personal opinion that I have better things to
spend time on.
Please go discuss christianity, islam, judaism, etc.
somewhere else, say; "talk.religion", Alt.atheism,
soc.religion.christianity, talk.religion.misc, or ???
C. How ALT.RELIGION.ALL-WORLDS is different than ALT.PAGAN
Some, perhaps many things discussed on Alt.Pagan, for
instance, Gaia, fit just fine on Alt.Religion.All-Worlds. On
the other hand, discussions of Wicca specific issues, arguments
about specifics of ancient traditions for modern use or to
authenticate current usages or to "validate" a specific
tradition or group or whose "fam trad" outranks whose, etc.
will find more takers in Alt.Pagan.