Praying/wishing - what's the difference?
Post 1
Started conversation Oct 23, 2007
"Praying has a religious connotation, while wishing is simply a matter of superstition and childish hope."
Superstition and childish hope sounds a pretty accurate description of prayer to me.
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Praying/wishing - what's the difference?
Post 2
Mr. Dreadful - Give a man a fish and he might not like fish and you've just wasted a fish...
Posted Oct 23, 2007
Praying/wishing - what's the difference?
Post 4
Posted Oct 24, 2007
"Praying has a religious connotation, while wishing is simply a matter of superstition1 and childish hope."
I'm sure that the wicca people that read this are going to be very upset - Candle Magik = childish!
Praying/wishing - what's the difference?
Post 5
Mr. Dreadful - Give a man a fish and he might not like fish and you've just wasted a fish...
Posted Oct 24, 2007
Well no, Candle Magick (
hate that term... it's just as bad as 'Vampyre') isn't simply 'wishing' in the way described here. With the exception of the crap you find in those stupid "1,001 Pink and Fluffy Spells for Teen Witches" books any Wiccan/Pagan stuff is quite heavily ritualised (or at very least more ritualised than blowing out a flaming cake to the applause of ones family).