zianuray

I tend to think I babble on about myself and everyone knows more about me and my business then they really want to. Some few have said different, at various times -- not that I don't babble, but the I haven't mentioned what they want to ask about.

So.

Ask.

I may answer here in comments, or in an email or PM if I don't want the whole world to know -- or I may, depending on the question, say N-O-Y-B! (Which may give you the answer right there!) But you've a darn good chance of getting the unvarnished truth.

I saw a sign on Springfield for "Eckankar" recently, and this has piqued my curiosity.  I looked it up online, but....anyone here have knowledge of this religion?

I'm gonna screen comments for now, as some people feel such things shouldn't be for public discussion (though debates on sex, politics, and religion can be QUITE stimulating....)

Just wondering--how many people who read this are "in a relationship" (anything from going steady to married to handfasted) with a (a) partner(s) of the SAME religious persuasion? How many mixed (and by mixed, i include Jewish/Baptist, Catholic/Methodist, &c., as well as Pagan/Xtian or Buddhist/Hindu, for that matter) and how do y'all handle it?

If you don't want to leave your name, feel free to post an anonymous reply on this one--just remember, flames will be deleted.

How this question happened:

When i went Pagan a decade or so back, i was wondering how it would work out, since i truly had no idea where to find others of like mind...there are xtian dating services, for cry-yi, or "let it be known at meeting," or the way JW's handle it (decided by the Elders), or .... But a Pagan "dating service" doesn't seem to exist.

Most of my dating was with "xtian" "men"....incuding one who was cheating on a steady GF with me, and one who was cheating on a WIFE...and both those were over as soon as i found out.

(Not saying that Pagan men are perfect; they're human, like all of us.)

But with the xtians, it was like "the kids mustn't find out, my folks mustn't know..." and i refuse to live in a broom closet. There's a difference in lying and in "the subject just hasn't come up."

Now? Happily handfasted to a Pagan (well, Heathen) man, not having to watch my step, wheee!

And i've heard that some Pagans/Witches/Wiccans actually hide their Path FROM THEIR SPOUSE??????? I can't imagine trying to live that way. I'd make a lousy secret agent.