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Rules tend to get in the way of having fun, don't they?Thanks for this post, very interesting, and this approach to having a spiritual component in our lives sounds a lot more fulfilling than adhering to rules because the alternative is eternal punishment. It seems to give you a lot of freedom and control over your own spirituality.
Rules that depend on the God you claim made them existing, and he inspired people to write his instructions down in a book, that many different sects of christianity and Judaism don't agree on the interpretation of - it's seeming a bit of a stretch to me lately.Rules tend to get in the way of having fun, don't they?
Rules tend to get in the way of having fun, don't they?
If they're both the same, then please explain this statement:They just don't have to come from gods because we're more than capable of figuring out it's generally wrong to lie, steal, cheat, or kill on our own. And some religions have rules that are outrageously idiotic.
It's like saying, "I don't need traffic laws. I know not to drive like an idiot. And it seems to give me more freedom and control over my own choices on the highway."It seems to give you a lot of freedom and control over your own spirituality.
Me too:I'm sensing a theme!
Those would be the ones.Rules that depend on the God you claim made them existing, and he inspired people to write his instructions down in a book, that many different sects of christianity and Judaism don't agree on the interpretation of -
Would you like a Biblical response? While I don't know which ones actually exist by name, there were originally 70 of them who did and who interacted with mankind. They are the ones described in these verses:I'm curious about how polytheists and neopagans determine which gods exist. Additionally, which historically identified gods from different cultures are the same entity worshiped under different names?
To clarify with an example, for those who adhere to the Hellenic pantheon, do all the gods of the classical Greek myths exist? Are those that exist the same entities as similar gods of other cultures (e.g., Zeus = Jupiter = Ahura Mazda, etc.)? How is this determined?
What does it mean for gods to exist?
It's like saying, "I don't need traffic laws. I know not to drive like an idiot. And it seems to give me more freedom and control over my own choices on the highway."
In the spiritual life, Love is the only rule that goes towards making us a more human, Human Being. And an interesting aspect of Love is that it has a funny way of freeing a person of rules. Love makes people crazy with freedom.Rules tend to get in the way of having fun, don't they?
This is a very interesting idea. Within this theory, do you think that if, in a hypothetical future, humans colonized other astronomical bodies, gods would come with us? Or perhaps there are already gods abounding in the cosmos away from other material sapient life. I like the idea of lonely gods of interstellar asteroids as the inspiration for modern and future mythology.
Within this theory, can gods be organized into sets based upon their reach and complexity? There are local deities; there are cosmopolitan deities; there are cosmic deities. On an ontological level, are these different types (or "sizes"?) of entity?
I've encountered this idea within attempts at explaining historical Egyptian, Maya, and Nahua theology and cosmology. Wicca's reduction to a single male and female figure is interesting. Does Wicca look at gender and/or sex as a foundational attribute of divinities, or is this more of a way for practitioners to put divinities into relatable categories?
Does this theory tacitly assume pantheism or panpsychism or something similar?
Me too:
God knows us better than we know ourselves.
If God didn't exist, and man was left to run on autopilot, the Jews would be wiped off the face of the earth by those who would have justified it to the rest of mankind.
Didn't Hitler justify his actions to the satisfaction of most of those who were on the outside looking in?
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
God didn't kick Hitler's psychotic butt and save the Jews from the holocaust, man did. The whole world spoke up for the atrocities against the Jews.
The only thing these groups seem to agree on is he's 'the only really real god that's good and don't dare worship any other god - that's bad and will land you in Hell because he'll put you there - but he loves you'.
That is so cool.We don't have such restrictions. I can subscribe to my pantheon and learn about other religions, interact with their followers, attend their services, and even actively participate in their practices. And I have.
I did read about the Pope being silent on the issue. Not good. Didn't know about the US, that's interesting.Well, not really.
A lot of countries looked the other way.
I remember reading about a push to get the Pope to speak up and he declined.
Even the US took in less than the quota of Jews at the time using the defense that German spies might sneak in pretending to be Jews.
But yes, they were liberated eventually by people after fighting a war that consumed the planet.
That is so cool.
I may be somewhat bitter towards the Abrahamic religions right now and go on slightly exaggerated tangents lol.
I'd watch it but I can't see it! it saysThose would be the ones.
How many people do you see break the law every ... single ... day?
Cruising through STOP signs and justifying it by calling it a "rolling stop"; passing you on the highway, while you're driving the speed limit; scams; fights; etc and so on.
I want to give my own answer. Me and the rest of my family exist. I will call it personal Transcendent polytheism, or Elohim. The only permanent and primordial being is divine being. Father already said it, the stars of Heaven are suns. Yeah they're even galaxies. The body of Christ is a bunch of stars, symbolically speaking.What does it mean for gods to exist?