RE: Theistic Inclinations
February 24, 2017 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2017 at 12:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You just had the wrong set of gods. Fucking aesir. 
On the realz tho (lol). Theistic traditions are, to me, deeply meaningful. A veritable treasure trove of human human gruntwork on the various subjects they attempt to approach. I don't need to imagine that gods are real to feel that. Unfortunately, what I take -from- those stories is rarely what people who imagine gods take from those stories...which, to my mind, is an awful shame. They're missing out. The message of myth as communication is lost in the adherence to folklore as truth.
On the realz tho (lol). Theistic traditions are, to me, deeply meaningful. A veritable treasure trove of human human gruntwork on the various subjects they attempt to approach. I don't need to imagine that gods are real to feel that. Unfortunately, what I take -from- those stories is rarely what people who imagine gods take from those stories...which, to my mind, is an awful shame. They're missing out. The message of myth as communication is lost in the adherence to folklore as truth.
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