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Ignorance and yes.

Turncoat said: 

Xena said: 

My Pantheon are NOT demons  :P

I don't believe in demons.

They're all demons when you ask someone else. 

Want to add to the list? 

 Only backwater hillbilly Quiverfull type fundamentalists think my Pantheon are 'demons'

:P

Feathers said: 

The coolest demon (even tho I don't like demons) is Pan. Mostly cause he reminds me of peterpan. He's still going to hell!

 lol Pan is the god of the forests and a guide to shepherds.

He is a fertility god. Part of herding is animal husbandry.

Duh lol what the heck did you think it was made of?

Yeah yeah... that's the watered down 20thc version.

The Greeks and Romans did have some nasty ways of worshipping their gods.

But so did early (and some contemporary) Xtians.

Turncoat said: 

Friedrich said: 

Do you believe in them, TC? Other than as symbols etc?

I see it as people personifying philosophy, which is why I have deified concepts as equally relevant. Why it matters is a matter of personal investment, a matter of how much they've let themselves sink into it as a shortcut towards bigger ideas. If these things are on your mind, even as an atheist they carry weight and shape aspects of who we are. 

For those who choose to believe in Science without learning about it for example, simply by throwing their trust at it over those they deem superior practitioners of the art, they end up giving it a sense of mysticism no different from other faiths with Scientists being treated as the Clerics of the modern age. 

Yes.

I like the Gaia Hypothesis. It falls right in line with my science.

The Greco-Roman pantheons are an excellent metaphor for simplifying heady technical terms that science and philosophy use to define the cosmos. I prefer to look at the forces that allow my existence with love and gratitude and acceptance, rather than trying to control them through praying to some omnipotent whatever.

Patriarchal monotheism leaves me feeling anything but grateful or loving. Blah. Don't even get me started  :P

I choose Odyssean Wicca bc it makes more sense to me than any other superstition lol

Simply put, my spin on Wicca is that the earth is our mother, the rivers are her blood, the rocks and soil are her body. The forests are her lungs, the creatures that live on her back are muscles and various other systems.

We are her brain and her heart.

I throw in a dash of Joseph Campbell and see myself on an epic quest to explore and discover her while I fulfill my duties as citizen of the human world.

Fuck demons.

Life is too complex for that binary nonsense.

And yeah, it's quite a jump when I have to come out of Narnia and jump into math and physics mode  ;D

But that's precisely what my science taught me to do.

I can delve deep into one person's way of being in the world, and then put it aside and study another.

Then I find the bridges and translations that connect the two.

I'd be a great peacemaker if anybody took me srsly  :P

Xena said:

I'd be a great peacemaker if anybody took me srsly  :P

 Alas. :(

Buttered Toast said: 

Xena said:

I'd be a great peacemaker if anybody took me srsly  :P

 Alas. :(

Story of my life.

Other ppl are so horrified by my ability to assess this pattern or that, and draw conclusions with uncanny accuracy that they refuse to believe that the things I warn about could happen to or near them.

But they do. I have about a 70% success rate when I give enough fucks do my research and try to predict an outcome. I also rather enjoy the words "I told you so."

Unfortunately, ppl tend to blame me for the situations I predict, even tho I rarely cause them.

Xena said: 

Simply put, my spin on Wicca is that the earth is our mother, the rivers are her blood, the rocks and soil are her body. The forests are her lungs, the creatures that live on her back are muscles and various other systems.

We are her brain and her heart.

Me: 

lol yeah that too.

They're only like that bc there are about 5 billion too many of them, tho. Stupid twits can't stop fucking and producing obnoxious offspring.

^ Not rlly an option, but...

Maybe more programs where they offer drug addicts $1000 or w/e to get sterilized.

Obsidian had an awesome idea  :D

Force every male born to get a reversible vasectomy by age 12, and then make them all get screened by a gvt committee before having it reversed when they're married and want to start a family of no more than 3 kids.

I mean, gvts make people pass tests and get licensed based on criteria xy and z before they can drive or open a business ffs.

Why should having kids be different?