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Post by Scruffy Brooky on Jan 14, 2011 12:26:44 GMT
What are people's views on Deities? Do you believe in Deity per se? Do you believe in a single creator God, many Gods or just an ineffible power?
Do you follow a specific pantheon? Do you have any Patron Deities? Does any one perform any special devotional rituals?
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marcus
Earth Dreamer
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Post by marcus on Jan 21, 2011 18:14:24 GMT
Well to get things started (because you know all this already I guess) - Yes I exclusively follow the Aesir.
I don't do "patron gods" but I am fultru to the hanged god and it's to him I sacrifice most to. I oathed early in my twenties which was much to earlier and before I really knew what I was talking about (now I still don't - but I can occasionally appear to be doing so)
I think one thing worth saying is that our modern concept of God is awfully influenced by the desert gods PR department - concepts like "personal god" or ineffible, omnipotent, omnesscient & eternal are advertising slogans rather than definitions of what is a god (or what isn't).
My Gods are knowable, finite, here & now (rather than waiting for me in the next life) & fallible. Somebody elsewhere described them as "big wights" I'd go with that ...
Marcus
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Post by Scruffy Brooky on Jan 24, 2011 12:32:37 GMT
I suspect that you know enough of my path to realise that I agree and disagree with much of the above simultaneously. I certainly don't agree that you don't know what you're talking about and merely "occasionally appear to be doing so"! I get where you're coming from here especially in my understanding of heathenry (which in fairness is largely garnered from discussions with you at moots). However for people like myself that regard nature itself as the highest form of Divinity, it is difficult to not define nature as omnipotent and ineffible. Nature is all around and within everything including myself, and personally I find nature to be beyond definition through language, which is too clumsy to explain nature's every intricacy. I cannot write such terms off as merely "PR for the desert God" however amusing I find the phrase! I actually agree with this although I am prepared to be dismissed as having contradicted myself. As I know we have discussed before I consider myself monotheist, duothesit and polytheist simultaneously. The monotheist in me is discussed above, the duotheist in that I can see masculine and feminine sides to nature. The polytheist in me regards the Gods as very real and separate beings and I can understand exactly where you're coming from on this and agree wholeheartedly.
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