What is most importent for wicca? How does wicca avoid paradoxes? ?
I started doing research on Wicca for a story, but the more I researched the more the religion started to appeal to me and now I don't know how to incorporate it because researching the rules and beliefs totally change some of what most people think of Wicca, it also changed what I thought, u see my original idea was to have my main characters get their "magical abilities" from nature, but further study altered my ideas of Wicca, and got me actually wanting to become Wicca, but I wonder one thing some of the rules of Wicca are help all and harm none, but what if helping all involves harming others how does Wicca get around this paradox?
Any tips on how to start learning Wicca, any help will be appreciated.
to clear up any questions about what "paradoxes" I am talking about and when i talked about "help all and harm none" was an accidental combination of something I read about mentioned a phrase maybe a "rule" that a Wicca can only help, and another phrase or rule said vicunas have to avoid harming anything or anyone and the paradox was what if helping involves harming someone or something in order to help, hopefully this clarifies the question better.
Wicca is a denomination of paganism there are more denominations of Wicca as well one says you can hurt people but dint be surprised if there will be consequences
paradox free!!!!
I'm not sure what paradoxes you're thinking about.
I mean, sure, some people have views of Wicca that are silly and will result in paradoxes (and worse, things that don't even make partial sense) but people who understand the religion don't have this problem.
Wicca doesn't teach "help all and harm none" it teaches that we DO things that do no harm freely. That's not the same thing. No Wiccan can "help all."
Really, where did you get that phrase from?
Also, not all forms of Wicca are created equal...and if you take one thing from one trad, and another thing from another they often won't fit together. Decent tr ads, however, won't have paradoxes.
Here are two quick starts for you:
http://wicca.timerift.net/wicca101/index.shtml
http://www.cuew.org/whatiswicca.html
The only "rule" we have is the Wiccan Rede, and it can be very paradoxical if you read it inaccurately and interpret it as "harm none". However, this is a false interpretation to which people tend to cling and that people like to quote very loudly. The actual wording of the Rede states, "An it harm none, do what ye will." Many neophytes, and almost all Fluffies like to drop six of the eight words and say that it just means "harm none". It doesn't, never has and never will. It is eight words for a reason. The Rede gives us permission to perform any non harmful actions, but it does not say what to do when an action causes harm. However, by stating that harmless actions are permissible, it causes the individual to weigh all actions by a standard of harmlessness and implies that a person should take the path that leads to the least unnecessary harm. Sometimes harm is unavoidable and even necessary, so the Rede never actually prohibits harm at all. This is why I much prefer the Lycian Wiccan Rede. It states things much more clearly by adding an extra line, "An it harm some, do what ye must." So, the only paradox that exists is if our own personal ethics allow for one to exist.
Venus Bless
There is no rule that says "help all" nor "harm none." There's the Reed, which is advice, that says "an it harm none, do what you will." That does NOT mean harm none.
Wicca is NOT about cute little inflexible rules. That is the opposite of Wiccan ethics. Wiccans should consider the specific circumstance and base their choices on those circumstances. Causing harm is certainly applicable in some situations, but not all, for example. And there's certainly nothing that says "help all." That's absurdly self-denying. You do not owe the the entire world continual blind service as a Wiccan. That's insane.
What is most important in Wicca is that your spiritual path is fulfilling. If that is not the case then you are free to move on. In Wicca there are no paradoxes because there are no rules or commandments. Wicca teaches its adherents that the acceptance of personal responsibility is necessary for spiritual fulfillment and It is assumed that each individual is responsible enough to make their own moral judgments
The Rede is not a commandment. It is a sound rule of thumb. Wiccans understand that the Rede expresses an ideal which is impossible to live up to since all actions have consequences, but not all consequences can be foreseen and what's good and bad or harmful for all persons in the path of each action is impossible to know beforehand. Sometimes good actions have bad consequences and sometimes bad actions have good consequences so really all that one can do is to guesstimate the balance of good and bad and make your moral choices from there. No one can make those choices for you because the ultimate responsibility lands squarely on your own shoulders,