Different Belief Systems

This thread has been moved to Other Paths from Spiritual Creatures.

Olwyn, you have seen a Mandrake in Ireland? I didn't know Mandrakes grew in Ireland! And why would you wave to a plant?
Oh, wait a minute! You've been reading Harry Potter!

Thanks Brysing for moving this to the proper thread. And no, clearly your a bit confused. In Harry Potter they are plants or roots, right? But, as I seen a mandrake, it wasn't like that. It looked like a tree. Ah yes, some may believe it was my imagination or simply me lying, but that is what I saw. If you watch the movie Maleficent you'll see that the Mandrakes in that look more like trees, but it was not, or not that I believe a figure made from my imagination.

You should not believe what you see in movies! But you are young, and the young tend to believe what they see. Until I was about 10 years old, I thought Errol Flynn really was Robin Hood!
My old witch teacher told me to write this in my notebook:-
"Do not believe everything you read. Do not believe everything you hear. And only believe half of what you see!"

Hi, fullmoon!
You wave to inanimate objects, like trees, too!
Neat.

That's a very good saying! I do infact believe in alot of things, so maybe that should stop. But if it wasn't a mandrake I'm not sure what I seen then!

I do infact talk to trees all the time, but what I believe to have seen was a little bit more than a tree! But I respect your beliefs! :)

Name: My name is RhiSabelle, Rhisa, Rhi, or any other variation of that

Nationality/Region: I live in the United States. I have a significant amount of Native American heritage though, but I don't claim the culture as I have never been to a Native American tribe and been accepted into the culture.

Beliefs: I basically consider myself agnostic. I don't think it is possible to truly know if there is a certain or right god or if a god even exists. Although, I also consider myself a sort of pantheist and animistic. Pantheist in the sense that I believe everything has a bit of divinity in it and animistic in the sense that I believe everything has a spirit.

Path: I have been following a lot of ideas of shamanism recently. Along with that, I practice chaos magic, and various forms of divination.

Age: 18

Experiences: Eh, I can't think of anything too significant right now. At least, that I'm comfortable charing.

Convert or born into it: I converted to my current beliefs. I was A Christian early in my life.

You said you follow Main Wicca. What do you mean by that? Do you care to elaborate? How did you come to convert to where you are now? How does your family feel about it/ do they know?

Brysing is quite right, you should not guide yourself by what you see in movies; considering the fact you're gathering the information from movies like "Maleficent". You are, of course, admitted to believe in whatever you wish but by believing in things from movies; you will just be fooling yourself into believing something that is mere fantasy.

Hi, Olwyn. I'm Shelly. My beliefs are rather different from most people, I don't really fit in one certain belief system.
Obviously, I practice witchcraft. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here. I believe in karma and that everything you do comes back to you threefold (The Threefold Law). I do not believe that wrongdoing is the result of an evil spirit (i.e. the Christian devil), or any other supernatural being. I believe that to do wrong is simply a part of human nature. Likewise, there is no supernatural reason for suffering, it's simply just the way things are.
I believe in a creater God and Goddess. I believe that the universe has always existed because they are the universe. I believe that they created all lifeforms on earth in the way science believes life came to be-evolution. I believe that there are different clans of spirits and that many of the pagan gods (Artemis, Anubis, Neptune, etc.) are actually the Spirit Mothers and Fathers of these clans and that the spirits existed on this earth long before humans were even thought of. I believe that the Spirit Mothers and Fathers are the offspring of the creater God and Goddess. I also believe in what I call Shadows, or what Christians might call demons. Shadows were once normal spirits, but they devoured another spirit's essence which caused them to become Shadows, which are evil and are bound to earth.
My beliefs on the afterlife: I believe that everyone reincarnates until the creater God and Goddess decide to destroy the world. When the world is destroyed, you soul will be weighed against a feather (like in Ancient Egyptian beliefs) to determine whether your good deeds throughout your countless lives outweigh your bad deeds. If your soul is lighter than the feather, then you will go to something akin to heaven, a place in between the planes of existence where the God and Goddess dwell, along with the Spirit Mothers and Fathers and all the Spirit clans, where you will live with them for all eternity. However, if your soul is heavier than the feather, you go to a place akin to hell, which is not a world of fire, but a dark never-ending put where there is no light and complete silence, where you will be alone for all eternity.
Those are my beliefs. I'm not sure what religion I'd fit into, but its what I believe, what I feel in my soul is the truth.