Which may be different than the others on this subject because to me, being a RWW is:
1. Staying sober, and honoring the gods with my healthy body and mind. Being drunk does not make me rebellious, it just makes me drunk. Going against the drunk crowd at the pagan events makes me rebellious!
1. A: Going to AA meetings and not saying the Lord’s Prayer, no matter how much pressure there is to do so, and still going to AA even when the other pagans think I’m nuts. It’s not nutty, it’s healthy individualism, a.k.a Rebellion!
2. Eating right, and being careful what I eat, and loving my body through right food and exercise.
3. Being in a happy relationship (see 6 below) by doing what I need to do in self-work and my own personal ethical system.
3a. Walk away from a guy that treats me poorly, even if he is a big shot single guy in the community. Go to therapy, work the steps, but make myself stronger than that. I see a lot of the more feminist women in the community just take crap from bully-boy boyfriends/husbands/consorts. It’s so weird.
4. Respectfully, questioning the 3rd degree HP/s in the community, (and other such poohbahs) no matter how exalted they may think they are. And be ready to walk away from their B.S., even if they damn you to the rest of the community, and tell lies and do whatever they can to harm you. Always question authority and believe in yourself. I have found my true pagan friends by doing so.
5. Being a true polytheist in the pagan monotheist community:
The common pagan ‘We all come from the One Source’ is still monotheism, the one god concept. It’s just wrapped up in different packaging, and the times I’ve been berated and laughed at won’t change my mind (see #4 above lol).
I honestly believe their are multiple gods and goddesses, they come from various sources, they are not necessarily connected, and the universe started from different forces colliding, not some one source Big Bang.
This explains why some people are so different, they really do, in their essence, emanate from different places. And the key to me is just accepting that, instead of trying to find out where we’re all alike. Some times it works to find our differences instead of similarities (all one source stuff).
I don’t have to understand/explain why I am different than someone who literally follows the Bible for instance, just know their essence comes from a different place, and we don’t have to meet in the middle. Just avoid them and let them be.
And actually, science is finding out the evolution is actually more a web with different sources connecting, instead of the one source tree that was previously accepted. And there are quite possibly other universes and dimensions with their own trees and webs that are not even remotely connected to this one!
And the whore part? Be wild when I want to be, monogamous now cause that can rock at this part of my life, and never let society define me, or my opinion of anyone else sexually. Let gays marry!
6. Oh, and stick to my personal principal that other womens’ men are strictly Off Limits, no matter what. No matter what. A RWW does not scheme on another woman’s man just because their is a scarcity of straight men in this community. That does not make me a prude to say so, and to have practiced that belief. It makes me have pagan ethical principals. I found my very own single pagan man by waiting, and working with the gods. I don’t understand a lot of women I see throwing themselves at attached/married men.
A RWW (I don’t think some of the other posters here are witches, they’re using it as a term (rather unfortunately,
IMHO, tho I do understand the context for non-witches, and I use it as my spiritual path, so I’m aiming this to witches, and specifically myself as a witch), defines her own ethical system by examining herself and her values, a constantly growing and thriving entity unto itself. Even other pagans/witches/etc. can’t tell you what that is, it’s personal self-responsibility. = )
Oh, and
WITCH: Woman In Total Control of Herself! That’s Rebellious with a capital R! (For the gals, sorry guys not personal, it just about my thoughts and opinions. Do as ye will with the acronym.)