PoetPhilosopher
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This poll is for my personal interest. 
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Describe me in one word
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Hellbound Serpiente
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Positive
I voted Other: You left out All of the Above...
Interesting
Curious
Other.
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Shadow Wolf
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Shyntellectual because I can't decide between the two.
Is "KAT-KAT" one word or two?This poll is for my personal interest.
Wandering Monk
Well-Known Member
If the avatar is you, the word I would use is 'gorgeous.'
Unknown. Can you tell us your story?
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I grew up not overly religious in a rightist conservative Christian family. I understood complex subjects at a young age. I lost some brain cells after I worked a stressful job and overdosed on caffeine - or so it seems. I am working my way up on recovery. I was born male but went on the big journey of transitioning to female. I found Hinduism and love it.
Not that Kit-Kat isn't likely gorgeous as well and may also resemble the displayed image, but I think the picture is showing a musician known as Avril Lavigne or something.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
It is. My favorite female musician though Billie Eilish comes close these days.
That is extremely, extremely(!) fascinating. I'd really love to hear more about it in detail, that sort of information is right up my alley and covers all sorts of things I am extremely interested in. So what I'd love to know more about is what religion seemed to be or how it was practiced in your home or what they did (I'm guessing maybe just talk, maybe just going to church, but not really any particular practices or exercises? Maybe just praying before meals and before bed or something? What was their Church or denomination?). When did you first start realizing or feeling the transitioning type stuff and what were the thoughts and even mental images or ideas going on? How did your family react or what was the story there? Also, how did you become attracted to and interested in Hinduism and what were the images or particular manifestations or things which really seemed to prominently stand out to you and did you take to interacting with these ideas or images or concepts as real entities that you could communicate with and did you experience any strange things or miracles? The whole story sounds like it is very likely full of extremely interesting experiences that are pretty rare, unusual, and unique, and if it isn't too much trouble, I'd be fascinated to know all I can about it! I love these sorts of stories, and how people came to increased spirituality and the process by which they discovered things and what they experienced and learned as they went deeper and how they practice now and all that.
Do you have any particular names of God(s) that you prefer? I find myself particular to Shiva for example, but also have an affinity to Indra, Vayu, Rudra, Mitra, Varuna, all rather prominent perhaps in the Vedas but which became a little less popular over time as the popularity of Vishnu, Rama, Krishna, and Shiva seemed to take precedent over those.
Do you like any particular texts? Besides the Vedas, I like the Upanishads, and I own a lot of Vedic literature and consider it possibly the most copiously informative of the Ancient religions and texts to inform oneself about a great many other religions from other areas in the past as well, sort of like the Key to them all or a lot of them.
Do you consider yourself a Theist? A Monotheist or a Polytheist? How do you personally think about and explain or what is your personal or mystical narrative for your life story and transitioning in relation to spirituality or your personal cosmology and ideas about how things are and how things work?
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
I will answer all your questions. And the answers will hopefully be detailed. But it will take 15-20 replies. You put a lot of effort into your post so it deserves adequate explanations. So I will break things down one at a time since I'm on an Android phone with low RAM that doesn't allow 10 page posts.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
My family had a head of the family to resolve disputes. It was my father.
My brother took lessons for becoming a pastor and though he's not a full pastor just yet (his study requires 8 years), he's great with money - stocks and everything else. He could probably take X dollars whatever it is and double it in 3 years. That savvy. And it made me look bad because I would never live up to my brother in my family's eyes.
PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
My family was Lutheran. We had a Lutheran grandma that would probably be described as left leaning if I understood correctly, but my mom became super conservative upon finding God in her late teen's after a troubled past.
I can sort of see similarities in some ways between those two in how they sort of always seemed to me to be very young or youthful (even when Avril got older) while having a fiesty sort of underlying energy or personality which seemed to come through. One other thing I liked about both these artists is that they don't seem to be totally just manufactured but actually interested in writing and some of the creative and artistic aspects as compared to some musicians and celebrities who really give the impression that their only interest is the money and prestige and just trying to get attention by eccentricities or whatever.