Haha yeah, don't even get those two started on the potential for passive-aggressive wackiness involving thank-you notes, either.
All of this does bring up a question I have had since becoming aware of the JMG forum and associated acts about a year ago, though. I am from a Protestant background, am now mostly in the spiritual but not religious category, and had never heard of the practice of asking people's permission to pray for them before I saw it done on the JMG forum. Is this specifically any sort of Pagan doctrine, or is it simply a human courtesy to humans who have been burned by prayer chains turned gossipy and the like?
The latter makes sense to me because I think we as humans have pretty much the same problems whether we call ourselves Christian or Pagan or anything else, and I can imagine someone who was on the receiving end of praybullying finally flipping out and going to the absolute opposite extreme of saying you MUST ask for consent for every little thing. Whatever anyone's label, that's understandable! I'd be curious to know the official story, though.
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Date: 2022-08-21 05:27 am (UTC)All of this does bring up a question I have had since becoming aware of the JMG forum and associated acts about a year ago, though. I am from a Protestant background, am now mostly in the spiritual but not religious category, and had never heard of the practice of asking people's permission to pray for them before I saw it done on the JMG forum. Is this specifically any sort of Pagan doctrine, or is it simply a human courtesy to humans who have been burned by prayer chains turned gossipy and the like?
The latter makes sense to me because I think we as humans have pretty much the same problems whether we call ourselves Christian or Pagan or anything else, and I can imagine someone who was on the receiving end of praybullying finally flipping out and going to the absolute opposite extreme of saying you MUST ask for consent for every little thing. Whatever anyone's label, that's understandable! I'd be curious to know the official story, though.
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