Is wicca the western version of buddhism?
Buddhism is a philosophy and a way of life.
Wicca is hardly more than WE WUZ WIZARDS N SHEIT
>>788749
Buddhism relies on karma and chakra. That's literally Naruto-tier.
>>788744
>when she wakes up the next day covered in shit with mascara running down her face dired and caked
dat shits wikka nigga
>>788767
Karma isn't some crazy life force.
It is more reflective of a positive/negative mental state which is created by repeated moral/immoral actions.
Bad/Good karma is a frame of mind and way of being
Also. no shit a japanese cartoon would take inspiration from a one of the biggest religions in the country
>>788800
>It is more reflective of a positive/negative mental state which is created by repeated moral/immoral actions.
And it is no different than magical afterlife punishment or crazy life force that brings balance to the world, since morality is subjective and therefore there is no determined positive or negative outcome of one's actions.
>>788767
>Buddhism relies on karma and chakra. That's literally Naruto-tier.
Have you considered that maybe Naruto literally copied those words and applied them to unrelated concepts like all Jap animes do?
EVA takes a bunch of unrelated old testament Judeo-Christian concepts and terms and slap them on giant robots fighting aliens.
>>788767
you should stop watching cartoons meant for children desu
>claims to be a successor of the original druidism
How is this not a dead giveaway that it's fucking bullshit?
Nah, Buddhism has a very long tradition of scholarship while Wicca is a recent syncretic movement for starters.
Wicca is closer to other new religion movements, combined with neo-paganism.
>>788910
Druid was just the celts term for an intellectual. Doctors, Poets, Philosophers ect. They're druids
>>788816
Its actually just the concept of having a positive outlook and doing positive things yeilds positivit and vice versa. It's like this, if you spend your life helping others, letting go of anger, refraining from negativity, you're more likely to experience positivity. This isn't universal and nothing is stopping you from getting hit by a car or developing cancer just for doing good things.
However, take for example always being polite whenever you are in a public setting. This can effect your environment by both putting others in a positive frame of mind and also perhaps drive others around you to be polite as well. Again this isn't universal and nothing is stopping someone from maintaining a negative frame of mind despite your good intentions.
Karma simply speaks to the propensity of people to act righteous and treat you righteous in response to your own righteousness.
>>788744
No.
That would be Christianity.
>>788744
Chopped and screwed Hermeticism for fat women and gays.
No, you're thinking of Platonism.
Wicca is Western Daoism.
>>788744
It's the religious version of atheism, if that makes any sense.
>>789525
In what way?
>>788816
>morality is subjective
normie twat
>>788744
According to Caesar, the Druids had views on incarnation etc. very similar to Hinduism and Buddhism.
Wicca, however, is a modern impostor-religion/artificial concoction.
So, to answer you question,
>Is wicca the western version of buddhism?
Yes in the sense that Wicca can be anything their believers like since it is literally no-thing.
And no in the sense that it really isn't.
>>792667
>According to Caesar, the Druids had views on incarnation etc. very similar to Hinduism and Buddhism
Let me rephrase that.
According to Caesar, the Druids had views on incarnation etc. that we, modern people, would consider similar to Hinduism and Buddhism.
>>788820
>tfw normies harp on about how good eva is when the only people who truly appreciate eva are those who are actual hikkis and autists who are virgins at 28 and go to sleep every night wondering where life went wrong.
>>788744
It's more like the western version of the western version of buddhism.
>>788744
its more of western version of shintoism than buddhism, wicca is nature worship, buddhism is more of philosophical approach to life
Literally edgy feminism. It worked though. The 70s wicca revolution did a lot of good for women's rights. They try to tie it to old pagan doctrine with their book of shadows etc., but it's as baseless as other grimoires.
>>788749
>Buddhism is a philosophy
Nope, it's a religion through and through
>>796106
This. Buddhism is a religion for the simple fact that its main focus is soteriology, despite how modern westerners try to spin it.
>>796152
What does that even mean? Western "Buddhists", man. Not even once.
>>796174
I'm not a Buddhist, I'm just a Westerner.
>>796175
Well I'm a Buddhist and I can assure you that it is very much a religion.
>>796188
A real one or a western one?
