Druidry is officially declared a religion (78)
Im curious that the title of 'religion' would suggest respectability... Druidry is one of the oldest thought systems we have - Ive got some amazing Tarot cards based on the Druidic principles - it blows most other thought systems right out of the door 
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I find it interesting that the Druidic tradition has such close ties with Gnostic beliefs. Truth is truth I guess. 
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At LAST! Druidry is finally recognized after being in existence longer than most mainstream religions. Woo-hoo. I have a henge and a giant wicker man cage. Who wants to sacrifice some dorks? 
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Witchaywoman: At LAST! Druidry is finally recognized after being in existence longer than most mainstream religions. Woo-hoo. I have a henge and a giant wicker man cage. Who wants to sacrifice some dorks?
I'm up for it 
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The Man in Rome gonna be busy excommunicating People!
Another blow to his "Authority".
Soon there will be none left!
Another blow to his "Authority".
Soon there will be none left!
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Conrad73: The Man in Rome gonna be busy excommunicating People!
Another blow to his "Authority".
Soon there will be none left!
People are starting to think for themselves!Another blow to his "Authority".
Soon there will be none left!
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Galactic_bodhi: I find it interesting that the Druidic tradition has such close ties with Gnostic beliefs. Truth is truth I guess.
Nice one GB, how do you think it compares with Budhism?
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Conrad73: People are starting to think for themselves!
YEAH !!!
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gininitaly: I'm up for it
I think we have to do a Maypole dance first, after a night of drinking and debauching. Debauch! Debauch! Debauch! Debauch!
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That's fabulous. More exposure for alternates to the mainstream, new religions 
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If it's an official religion now, then that probably means the government will recognize it. Does that also mean that a person has to belong to a group to be a druid? What about solitary practitioners? Will they be legitimate in the eyes of the law? I'm just saying ... because a lot of Pagans and Wiccans are solitary practitioners.
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I don't know much about it, to be honest, but then I don't know much about Jedi either......
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trish123: Nice one GB, how do you think it compares with Budhism?
The four virtues of the Buddha are: Courage, Compassion, Wisdom, and Vitality.
The courage to undertake the elimination of delusion, and seek truth, requires that we renounce selfishness, and live with truth in our hearts. Through strong and wise example, we lead others to compassion and enlightenment. Its all really just semantically different ways of treating the same material.
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Galactic_bodhi: The four virtues of the Buddha are: Courage, Compassion, Wisdom, and Vitality.
The courage to undertake the elimination of delusion, and seek truth, requires that we renounce selfishness, and live with truth in our hearts. Through strong and wise example, we lead others to compassion and enlightenment. Its all really just semantically different ways of treating the same material.
The courage to undertake the elimination of delusion, and seek truth, requires that we renounce selfishness, and live with truth in our hearts. Through strong and wise example, we lead others to compassion and enlightenment. Its all really just semantically different ways of treating the same material.
eliminating delusions is quite something in its own right - have we actually known each other long enough to subject them to our particular form of semantics.........
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One of the hardest jobs the Buddha had, well, at least according to the Lotus Sutra anyways, was to express in words what could not be expressed in words.
Semantics, all semantics, are useless in expressing this ultimate truth. We know, in our hearts, what is required of us. Avoiding that responsibility to ourselves is ultimately the cause of all of our suffering.
I think this is why the world is so divided. People consider their semantics to be better than another semantics in expressing that which exists beyond semantics.
"My word of Dog is better than your word of Dog" Said the self-righteous Dyslexic delusionary.
Semantics, all semantics, are useless in expressing this ultimate truth. We know, in our hearts, what is required of us. Avoiding that responsibility to ourselves is ultimately the cause of all of our suffering.
I think this is why the world is so divided. People consider their semantics to be better than another semantics in expressing that which exists beyond semantics.
"My word of Dog is better than your word of Dog" Said the self-righteous Dyslexic delusionary.
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Galactic_bodhi: One of the hardest jobs the Buddha had, well, at least according to the Lotus Sutra anyways, was to express in words what could not be expressed in words.
Semantics, all semantics, are useless in expressing this ultimate truth. We know, in our hearts, what is required of us. Avoiding that responsibility to ourselves is ultimately the cause of all of our suffering.
I think this is why the world is so divided. People consider their semantics to be better than another semantics in expressing that which exists beyond semantics.
"My word of Dog is better than your word of Dog" Said the self-righteous Dyslexic delusionary.
Semantics, all semantics, are useless in expressing this ultimate truth. We know, in our hearts, what is required of us. Avoiding that responsibility to ourselves is ultimately the cause of all of our suffering.
I think this is why the world is so divided. People consider their semantics to be better than another semantics in expressing that which exists beyond semantics.
"My word of Dog is better than your word of Dog" Said the self-righteous Dyslexic delusionary.
To which my response is:
Woof!
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Galactic_bodhi: One of the hardest jobs the Buddha had, well, at least according to the Lotus Sutra anyways, was to express in words what could not be expressed in words.
Semantics, all semantics, are useless in expressing this ultimate truth. We know, in our hearts, what is required of us. Avoiding that responsibility to ourselves is ultimately the cause of all of our suffering.
I think this is why the world is so divided. People consider their semantics to be better than another semantics in expressing that which exists beyond semantics.
"My word of Dog is better than your word of Dog" Said the self-righteous Dyslexic delusionary.
Semantics, all semantics, are useless in expressing this ultimate truth. We know, in our hearts, what is required of us. Avoiding that responsibility to ourselves is ultimately the cause of all of our suffering.
I think this is why the world is so divided. People consider their semantics to be better than another semantics in expressing that which exists beyond semantics.
"My word of Dog is better than your word of Dog" Said the self-righteous Dyslexic delusionary.
here I am, the self actuaraliaist dyslexic proponent of reality...
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Big words. Big life. Big deal. 
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Is that cool or what... I may have just found my calling?
I've just been reading up on it and seems quite a most reasonable way to be.
Ethics:
Perhaps one of the more popular ways is to quote the Motto of the Fianna (an Irish warrior band), one translation of which runs:
"Strength in our hands; Truth in our hearts; Fulfilment on our lips".
This is subject to interpretation, but many would see the strength as a reference to courage, to facing up to ones fears, living honourably, using ones personal strength (be that muscular, intellectual, or whatever) to help those weaker, living life passionately to the full; Truth is also praised in many Welsh and Irish triads, here the Fianna were exhorted to speak honestly (though not necessarily without tact or diplomacy, qualities that Druids were famed for), most especially to know the truth of ones own nature ~ the Truth within the Heart ~ and shun self-delusion; fulfilment on the lips can be taken as the power to speak with eloquence ~ it refers not so much to using fancy words but as to being prepared to speak out rather than hide timidly in the corner, to speak in praise of that which is good and honourable, and to condemn that which is wicked and false.