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Question to some of you pagan parents out there..

Oct 05, 2007 20:44

Ok, for a long time, I'm a verrrry big advocate in my little "family" of having your freedom to choose religion. Now, this being said, I'm coming from a witch of a mother who found her religion after I found out I was a pagan... I grew up in a southern baptist/prodesten (fathers side baptist, mothers side prod..) house.. and during my "religion ( Read more... )

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ladymairwen October 6 2007, 01:01:39 UTC

Captain Planet. Action/adventure, Gaia as boss, environmentalism.

lol poeticalsuicide October 6 2007, 01:09:15 UTC

wow, I remember Captain Planet. I didn't even think of that.

Re: lol ladymairwen October 6 2007, 01:12:53 UTC

It's fabulous.

ynfytyn October 6 2007, 02:09:31 UTC

I haven't seen it, but a pagan mama friend of mine likes the Avatar show that's on now. I guess it deals with the elements and magic.

nacho_cheese October 6 2007, 02:42:51 UTC

It does. :) I don't watch it, but my brother does, and he loves it. (He and the rest of my family are Catholic, but they don't look for Pagan elements in it.) I also agree with Captain Planet -- I plan on buying the series on DVD, if it can be done, for my own kids!

ynfytyn October 6 2007, 03:08:52 UTC

Just in terms of general values, we do a lot of Mister Rogers Neighborhood and Fraggles. Not pagan persay (although the Fraggles episode where they call down the moon is pretty damn cool), but in line with "An it harm none, do what you will."

readin_storms October 6 2007, 03:32:54 UTC

i know what those tapes are like. I used to watch them myself. Some of the reason why kat might like it is because its bright colors, music, and full of movement. I've noticed that justice prefers those types of movies like Cars.

Its irritating that he dismissed your feelings when you are being open in your relationship and about how your children are being rasied. Jr and I have agreed that our kids will be able to choose when they get older we are going to inform them and let them diecide. Justice has a pagan god parent (melissa) and richard (jr's gay christian brother). I want to give justice the freedom I never had about religion growing up.

Jr and I have are "disagreements" about religion, among other things but we are trying to be understanding of each other and our beliefs its hard.

i really hope everything goes well if you need to talk leave me a message. take care hun.

Oh, there are a few I can think of off-hand... wykkdspet October 6 2007, 04:00:17 UTC

I'm afraid I'll have to do this in two installments, since LJ won't allow this many characters.

David the Gnome was an excellent cartoon about a nature-loving, grandfatherly gnome who lives out in the middle of the woods and acts as a doctor for the woodland animals.

Ferngully, which is about a heavy-handed teen-aged kid named Zach who's working for a logging crew in the middle of the Australian jungle. He accidentally gets shrunk by the magic of a well-meaning fairy, and has to help the fairies of Ferngully save their world (and the human's world) from Hexxus, the evil ancient spirit of toxic destruction that the humans having unwittingly set free. Zach learns a lot about himself, how to look at the world of nature through different eyes, and the reality of magic.

The Secret of NIMH is about a courageous mouse who, to save her sick son's life, must brave the terrors of the Great Owl and the Rats of NIMH (escaped and highly changed lab rats from the National Institute of Mental Health). She is constantly underestimated ( ... )

Re: Oh, there are a few I can think of off-hand... wykkdspet October 6 2007, 04:00:40 UTC

Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki is an animated tale of a young girl whose family accidentally stumbles from our everyday world into the fairytale world of gods and dragons, witches and frogs, spirits and magic. Her parents are transformed into pigs because of their gluttony at a table set for the gods, and the girl must find a way to set them free. Her courage and unflagging kindness help her to endure the task that that are required to first learn the rules of this strange new world, and then to save her parents.

Princess Mononoke would be good for older children as well. It's an animated tale of a young prince who leaves his tribe on a quest to discover why his village was attacked by a forest god that had transformed into a demon and infected him with a deadly curse. In a realm where the giant gods of nature and the early industrial revolutionists of Irontown are warring, the young prince is the only one who can see with eyes unclouded by hate. In order to avoid disaster and to heal himself from his curse, he must come to ( ... )

Re: Oh, there are a few I can think of off-hand... wykkdspet October 6 2007, 04:07:49 UTC

My boyfriend reminded me of Watership Down as well. He says something about nature worship, but my cell-phone is acting up.

So, um, enjoy!

Re: Oh, there are a few I can think of off-hand... wykkdspet October 7 2007, 23:57:47 UTC

::slaps her forehead:: And how could I forget Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within?! A story that deals directly with the existence of Gaia as the spirit of the earth?

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darkfurie October 6 2007, 05:15:56 UTC

I have to agree with pretty much everything wykkdspet suggested, although Pan's Labyrinth scared the bejeebers out of me (but I guess that's about my own issues...). Really, in a way, most fantasy stories are incredible for Pagans. They're like our parables.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of veggie tales, but I've been forced to watch them, and I don't suppose they're /that/ bad. More disturbing is the dismissal of your feelings and values. As much as it may be against your feelings right now, spending time helping your boyfriend and children see the similarities between Christianity and Paganism might help everyone to keep an open and searching mind.

Blessed Be!