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: 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 Lines: 60 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.