learned from a wiccan

I took a biology class at Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC, respectfully pronounced Pee Pee Ka Ka) and my lab partner was a wiccan:

bri: so where did you meet your fiance?
lacy: at a Wicca party.
bri: oh... good place to meet men.
lacy: well yeah, he was actually one of the only real witches there.
bri: ... oh (like I understood)...
pause
bri: so wait... he is a witch? why isn't he a (please don't sound stupid)... wizard?
lacy: oh no no. wizards are people who have left the Wicca faith.
bri: OK... so whats a warlock?
lacy: like a higher up witch. someone who really practices the rituals. my fiance and i don't practice much, we just believe in the principals and reincarnation.
bri: what sort of principals?
lacy: I'm not offending you?
bri: of course I'm not offended! I'm the one asking questions aren't i?
lacy: well basically we believe you should strive to be a good person and make a moral decision, because of karma for every one person you wrong, something three times as worse will happen to you. reincarnation is basically coming back again as someone else.
bri: i thought you could come back as an animal? (apparently that is Hinduism)
lacy: no, i believe you die then spend some time in heaven or hell then are reborn as a child. my fiance believes you'll just take over someone else's body, no heaven or hell. he remembers the 20s...
bri: wow
lacy: i can also remember them too. i just remember seeing a louis armstrong concert.
bri: bet that was cool.
lacy: and i remember being a knight.
bri: you can be a guy too?
lacy: yeah, that was back when i was a guy...
bri: geez.
lacy: ... and the dust bowl sucked.
bri: dust bowl? (looking through lab equipment for a dusty bowl)
lacy: like the great depression.
bri: oh... right. (i forgot that she was there)

we also went on to talk about the old testament a little bit. she thought it showed a dated and angry God. i politely defended such principals in the old testaments such as the ten commandments were still applicable today and prove to live a moral life. i did not want to get into a heated debate or offend her, because she was not asking me the questions i was asking her... but apparently her family was Protestant, so she already knew most of that.

Ashley here is a wiccan. fave scene from Baby Mama.