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  1. Riverwolf

    Why are you religious?

    I'm religious because... it's part of who I am. I follow a form of the Northern Way because the I heard the Northern Gods' call more than any others'.
  2. Riverwolf

    I'm Confused about Pagans

    Most of my "religiously inspiring" music was written without my religion in mind. Heck, most of it probably without even knowing my religion even exists.
  3. Riverwolf

    Can Love Be Defined? Is It Possible Even?

    It can be, the problem is that the English word "love" is too all-encompassing to be super-useful beyond casual conversation, where the meaning is usually clear from context. Other languages which have multiple words for the various things that "love" encompasses are probably better suited to...
  4. Riverwolf

    What is...

    Prometheus. I like it when authority is rebelled against. :3
  5. Riverwolf

    I'm Confused about Pagans

    Speaking for myself, I don't. Neither do I care, because it doesn't actually matter all that much. You're an agnostic atheist, I'm an agnostic polytheist. Yup. Music is a BIG part of our traditions, as are other forms of artistic expression. You'll see the same thing in unbroken indigenous...
  6. Riverwolf

    If a god wrote a book ...

    Well... I understand that this is a bit dubious in terms of its historicity. Tends to happen with translations from written Chinese into English... and I'm talking about modern written Chinese, let alone the much older language of the Dao De Jing. I actually suspect that properly understanding...
  7. Riverwolf

    Celtic magic, fairies and reincarnation and psychology? anyone can explain it?

    I'm afraid I don't understand where you're coming from. I merely repeated my understanding of the Academic conception. In hindsight, qualifying their distinctiveness with "widely" may not have been the best choice of words, since what little I know of these people is largely limited to Gaul...
  8. Riverwolf

    Classical Theism

    Interesting how you respond to my request for clarification by claiming I'm doing something, while doing that very same thing yourself. Especially given how I wasn't ambiguous at all. I even gave the three primary usages for "classical", any one of which you could be using, so you could...
  9. Riverwolf

    Scotoma: Don't Trust Your Eyes!!!

    A pretty typical dismissal of people whose brains are wired differently. I've seen these "issues" in plenty of other people. To the point, in fact, where I once thought that more logically minded people, who seemed to exhibit fairly subdued emotional reactions, were suppressing them either from...
  10. Riverwolf

    How to prove that God exists

    There's no such thing. Proof is an aspect of logic and mathematics. The sciences deal in evidence. As a believer, no I do not agree with this. Not the least of which being that my religion neither has nor needs a holy book.
  11. Riverwolf

    Classical Theism

    That's an odd thing to ask. I can't help but wonder as to its intention. In any case, the word "classical", as you should know, is polysemic. That is to say, it has multiple different meanings. Therefore, in order for us to know what you mean by "classical theism", it would behoove you to say...
  12. Riverwolf

    Scotoma: Don't Trust Your Eyes!!!

    You may just have to accept that you cannot know what it's like to feel these things, because your brain isn't wired for it. (And be glad that you can't; trust me, you don't want to.) It doesn't matter that these things "aren't real", because in the given moment, the fear-response is activated...
  13. Riverwolf

    How do you know your deity is good?

    Okay. It sounds a bit like you're sort of combining the Hellenic mythos with the Confucian principal of Yin/Yang. Fair enough, that's not really how I tend to think of good or evil, but I can see how that works.
  14. Riverwolf

    Scotoma: Don't Trust Your Eyes!!!

    Ever play a horror game that you just... couldn't? It was so scary that every time you try to pick it up, you end up having to put it down only a few minutes in, before anything even really happens, just from fear alone? You try to pick it back up over and over again, but no matter what, you...
  15. Riverwolf

    Scotoma: Don't Trust Your Eyes!!!

    Ever play a horror game? And I mean an actual horror game, not one of those games that gets lumped under "horror" but is actually just an action game with zombies. I actually don't watch many movies, and most of the supposedly "horror" films that come out of Hollywood aren't scary at all. (And...
  16. Riverwolf

    Religion is Heartbreaking

    It's video games, and these days Youtube videos, for me. And this is why I don't drink alcohol or go to casinos. Being emotionally dependent on the former two during really hard times is relatively benign by comparison. And religion is far more comparable to those former two, as far as being an...
  17. Riverwolf

    Religion is Heartbreaking

    I can think of PLENTY of everyday things that would make your average Westerner feel "empty and meaningless" if it were to get taken away. Heck, I don't even have to limit it to Westerners with some things. So, frankly, the chastisement is well-deserved. It's insensitive to the highly...
  18. Riverwolf

    Why is your Deity better and why are you sure you are right?

    From what I hear tell of the guy, it'd be neat for about 5 seconds before becoming terrifying and possibly deadly. lol
  19. Riverwolf

    Scotoma: Don't Trust Your Eyes!!!

    After I saw Paranormal Activity in theaters, for months, I was terrified I'd "see" a ghost, even though I knew that if I did, it would be a trick of my mind. That knowledge brought absolutely no comfort; merely the idea of seeing one, whether it was a trick of my brain or something actually...
  20. Riverwolf

    How do you know your deity is good?

    ...I'm afraid I still don't understand what you mean. There's a lot of different ideas about what balanced and non-balanced look like.
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