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How Do You Tell The Difference Between Wicca and Witchcraft – Demystified

In the modern day and era, more interested people are looking towards the practices of witchcraft. They find a strong allure to the charismatic ideals they can find in the principles and values of Wiccan witchcraft. It means going inside yourself and using your deep unlocked potential to bring about change in the physical reality, with the help of ethereal forces all around us.

There are now spellbooks available online, you can read up on free spells that are available, and think you have been initiated into this tradition. What must be said, however, is that Wiccan witchcraft is much more about the transformation of energies within yourself in relation with the natural world. It’s not so much about what you see all around you in physical existence, like the accesories used in spells. That is nothing but a visual cover to distract yourself from the real powers. If you look at a witch performing a spell, you cannot really get to understand what is happening inside them.

So what exactly is Wicca? Truly, Wicca and witchcraft cannot be disctinctly and clearly separated as two entities – Wicca practitioners use witchcraft as a ritualistic tool. So it’s very common that when people first hear about Wicca it tends to be about the spells and about witches – this is because of the misconceptions surrounding it. What’s even more important, witchcraft can be defined as a separate activity only when it is practiced without the spirit and the purpose within the Wiccan culture. So things are quite blurred here.

Let’s take an example which I think fits well. Christian rituals such as blessings have been an important part of that faith for many eras. If you have seen the movie The Exorcist, then you will remember Father Karras reading from the Bible while casting holy water on a possessed child. But we still hold this activity in high esteem, while witchcraft is looked down upon. Are the rituals actually that far apart, and so fundamentally different in their natures? Consider that on your own for a while.

Question by dbsahowardcounty: What is the difference between depression and bipolar disorder?
Depression is prolonged sandness or unexplained crying spells, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, irriability, anger, agitation, worry, anxitey, pessimsim, indifference, loss of energy, persistent lethargy, unexplained aches and pains, feeling of guilt, worthlessnes and/or hopleness, inability to take pleasure in former interests, social withdrawal, excessive consumption of alcohol or use of chemical substances and recurring thoughts of death or suicide.

Bipolar – Increased physcial and mental activity and energy, heightened mood, exaggerated optimism and self-confidence, excessive irriability, aggressive behavior, decreased need for sleep with out experiencing fatigue, grandiose delusions, inflated sense of self-importance, racing speech, racing thoughts, flight of ideas, impulsiveness, poor judgement, distractibilty, reckless behavior such as spending sprees, rash business decisions, erratic driving and sexual indiscretions, and most severe cases, delusions and hallucination

Best answer:

Answer by elric101
yoiu’ve answered it yourself,with bipolar you have ups and downs,with depression only downs.

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The Network Marketing Times Review – Difference Between Traditional Vs. New-Age MLM Strategies?

History of MLM
If we think back to the late 60ties when network marketing got first introduced to the world of business, many people would have not given it a chance to survive. In recent years MLM has increased its acceptance in particular because of the recessions that we experienced, which are always good network marketing times. Anyhow this profession has still a fair bit to go, to be fully integrated and accepted in our main stream society.

Technological Change
Since the beginning of MLM we continuously have witnessed the evolution of technological change, which made the application of network marketing to connecting to as many people as possible much easier, especially on a global scale. Anyhow, the technological innovations we are currently experiencing are bar none the most powerful and potent ones that we have ever witnessed.

These technological shifts have certainly made the daily business of network marketing professionals much easier. Many people argue whether or not the traditional way has been superseded by the new-age of MLM, which I consider to be a false perspective. It rather has broadened our potentiality to applying different strategies that ultimately drives our success

The current MLM mindset
Even though the technology has moved on and demands a change of approach and attitude, many network marketers still only teach the traditional strategies of connecting to people face to face, utilizing their own circle group of influences through cold prospecting strategies, such as cold calling, etc. But why not utilising the entire playing field in MLM, in particular if you have not achieved your desired goals yet?

by Shira Golding

Question by Rebekah: What is the difference between Metaphysics and Epistemology?
I am trying to see how many people posting in the Philosophy category know the def. of these words.

I am not claiming that you don’t know what these words mean, I am just curious.

Best answer:

Answer by …Sky the Limits…
Metaphysics:
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Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of “first principles” and “being” (ontology).

Metaphysics as a discipline was a central part of academic inquiry and scholarly education since before the age in which Aristotle coined the word. Long considered “the Queen of Sciences”, its issues were considered no less important than the other main formal subjects of physical science, medicine, mathematics, poetics and music. Since the Age of Reason, problems that were not originally considered metaphysical have been added to metaphysics. Other problems that were considered metaphysical problems for centuries are now typically relegated to their own separate subheadings in philosophy, such as philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science. In rare cases subjects of metaphysical research have been found to be entirely physical and natural, thus making them part of physics.

A somewhat informal way of considering metaphysics, particularly in its more modern applications such as the “philosophy of …” subheadings cited above, is to say that it is “thinking about thinking.” A major concern of metaphysics is a study of the thought process itself: how we perceive, how we reason, how we communicate, how we speculate, and so on. The subject matter is usually abstract, and, it might be said, concerns itself with how we deal with such abstractions.

What might be called the core metaphysical problems would be the ones which have always been considered metaphysical. What most of such problems have in common is that they are the problems of ontology, “the science of being qua being”.

In modern times, the meaning of the word metaphysics has become confused by popular significations that are really unrelated to metaphysics or ontology per se, viz. esotericism and occultism. Esotericism and occultism, in their many forms, are not so much concerned with inquiries into first principles or the nature of being, though they do tend to proceed on the metaphysical assumption that all being is “one”.

Epistemology:
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Epistemology, from the Greek words episteme (knowledge) and logos (word/speech) is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge. Historically, it has been one of the most investigated and most debated of all philosophical subjects. Much of this debate has focused on analysing the nature and variety of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth and belief. Much of this discussion concerns the justification of knowledge claims.

Not surprisingly, the way that knowledge claims are justified both leads to and depends on the general approach to philosophy one adopts. Thus, philosophers have developed a range of epistemological theories to accompany their general philosophical positions. More recent studies have re-written centuries-old assumptions, and the field of epistemology continues to be vibrant and dynamic.

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