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Hi Jez
Researcher U1025853 Started conversation Dec 23, 2004
Kaz here in new garb for a new begining.
I really needed a fresh start, things were getting too much.
Talking of things getting too much, heres a rant about the PF.
Myself and Moonglum are totally hacked off with the PF. We have been told that if we cannot sign the 3Ps then we can be associate members when the new stuff comes through. But associate members are not deemed appropriate people to be RCs. A few of the people at our moot whom we have spoken to have said they would follow us rather than stay in the PF.
So thats what their 3Ps are going to get them, perfectly good people leaving because we don't want to be in an elitist organisation which has a lesser degree of membership. We think its getting a bit creepy now to insist on people signing these bloody Ps, is almost as though they are setting themselves up as a sect within paganism.
Numbers are falling, there is no clear guidance on many situations. Then you look at WiccaUK where numbers are rising, they work with PEBBLE without feeling there is a need for 3ps, they are a lot more open minded and welcoming then the PF. Yet I would still like to be an RC, I don't care about the bigger picture anymore, yes my own group of local pagans and I don't want to lose their contact details.
Still there are ways out of this, but its a shame the PF would rather lose good members for the purposes of divisive paperwork then keep people who have inspired a lot of new people to join recently.
Rant over!
Hi Jez
Ragged Dragon Posted Dec 24, 2004
Come and join BritPoly. Rant there, we're used to it
Jez
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Hi Jez
Researcher U1025853 Posted Dec 27, 2004
I had better not rant anymore where there maybe PF members around!
Hi Jez
Ragged Dragon Posted Feb 7, 2006
Yep. And the 3Ps are gone and I shall be joining the PF finally, after waiting many many years.
But I am also a founder member of the Association of Polytheist Traditions, and that, though small, is a better place.
Jez
Hi Jez
Researcher U1025853 Posted Feb 8, 2006
Blimey, they finally did it!
I know your involvement in the APT, I believe its a worthier cause then the PF.
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