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  1. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    From a Hellenic outlook that's part of it, but I don't know about other traditions. The Greek writers have said Zeus holds hospitality as the greatest law and will not help along a greedy person. Speaking of how disregarding the lessons of the gods can bring suffering.
  2. Gnostic Seeker

    Does Christmas have anything to do with Christ?

    At least some of modern Christmas observances have their origins in Saturnalia, which in turn has root in the Greek festival of Kronia. Gift-giving is one custom I'm aware of practiced by the Romans, and feasting was customary for the Kronia among Greeks.
  3. Gnostic Seeker

    "The Graveyard of the Gods"

    The house of Luxembourg claimed descent from Melusina, a water goddess, and if you visit Luxembourg today its still talked of.
  4. Gnostic Seeker

    "The Graveyard of the Gods"

    Belief in the gods in some way persisted all through medieval Europe among peasantry, and even some nobles, who sometimes claimed descent from a specific deity.
  5. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    The Greeks thought Zeus was omnipotent, but I'm not sure they meant the Abrahamic definition. I'd venture to say it probably means Zeus's power is beyond comprehension.
  6. Gnostic Seeker

    Jesus in Islam

    The Quran saying Jesus spoke in the cradle reminds me of something from the gnostic Valentinus. He said he had a vision of the word and saw an infant speaking.
  7. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    You speak as though something being mythology would mean it has no truth, when in fact the truth in it is very like the gods, of an essence other than our everyday literal/material.
  8. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    I'll bite. Doesn't it have to do with their names too? Their names having power and meaning, and invoking them by their names?
  9. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    I know a lot of suffering is of human making as you said, and the gods aren't our babysitters. In fact, one of the things I thought about while asking this question is the attribution of the law of hospitality to the gods among the Greeks. It went something like this in my mind: The gods have...
  10. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    Yes that is true
  11. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    That's a good point Poeticus.
  12. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    I hardly think that's the point.
  13. Gnostic Seeker

    Is life short or not?

    I must've blinked a good many times :p
  14. Gnostic Seeker

    Is life short or not?

    I don't know how one can look back on the constant flux, change, and often chaos in life and not think it long.
  15. Gnostic Seeker

    Why do the gods allow suffering?

    I've asked this question concerning the god of monotheism, so now I think it only fair to pose this question to myself and other polytheists. Basically its this: why do the gods allow suffering? I'll begin by stating for my part that I don't ultimately know. I can speculate based on pondering...
  16. Gnostic Seeker

    Ex Christians

    Mostly that Christianity stopped making sense, but the problems of a completely transcendental yet omni attributes god was also a factor.
  17. Gnostic Seeker

    What is your meditation practice like?

    Focusing on Athena's attributes and imagery is now a type of meditation I also plan to employ.
  18. Gnostic Seeker

    Is life short or not?

    I'm finding it kind of long myself, but I don't think I usually notice.
  19. Gnostic Seeker

    True Religion?

    Do you know her as Isis of many names or just the mother goddess?
  20. Gnostic Seeker

    My New Path

    Although I will say I think there's growth for me to be had in my new path. I have all these ideals that I'm starting to see don't really align with the nature of beast man is. The gods are nothing if not realistic in the extreme about man's nature. It seems like they're more about what needs to...
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