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wondering about your religion
Hey, i was wondering if u would be able to enlighten me with some of your wisdom of your religion, currently i have put together a lot of random things that i call my code of rational and i base most of my judgements off of it. Since your quite good at giving advice, would you tell me of some of your main pricipals of paganism?
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Well, first off, thanks! My principals are sort of hard to define, mainly because when I find something that seems more true or right than what I already believe, I go with that. But, I'll try.
I believe in a god, but not the Christian God. For me god is a good, loving, benevolent force that surrounds and moves through things. God is all loving and all seeing, and powerful, but not all powerful. God wants humans to be happy and aware of "his" presence; he primarily seeks harmony in all living things.
I don't know where we came from, or where we are going. There is not enough evidence in this world to convince me of anything definite. I would like to think that there is an afterlife, and that it is similar to the Zoroastrian afterlife. As in, we are punished, but only in accordance with our sins, and then we're forgiven! And we all exist happily ever after.
I feel that human's purpose is to seek to be happy, to make others happy, and to live a good life.
There was actually a principal that I live by mentioned in a question recently. I think he said it as "if everyone did it." Actually, I feel bad rewriting what he stated so well, so you should probably read it. It's number 2 on his list. Also see number 4 on his list.
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I seek to be happy, to treat others the way that I want to be treated, and to live a good, spiritual life. I want to make other people happy. Apply this to the "if everyone did it" principal, and you get the basis of my beliefs.
Other than that, I guess that if I had to name it I would call myself a Postmodern Pagan. Meaning that rather than seeking absolutes, I seek the relative truth of subjective experience. I feel the adhering to prescribed rituals, rules, and ideas, people limit themselves in their search for the truth. Therefore, I feel that people lumping themselves into pre-named religions with pre-decided ideas of reality blinds a person and prevents them from understanding, or even accepting other religions.
I think religion or spirituality should be an enrichment experience in life, and to do so, we need to embrace diversity, because that is how we learn and get new ideas.
I'm not sure where to go from here, so if you have any other questions, or would like more specifics or detail, let me know!
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