What were your first questions?

[Angrboda]

A couple of years back, I was a fervent and dedicated Hindu, but Iwasn't overly steeped in the legends and stories that make up typical Hindu belief.  I had decided that I wanted to develop in my beliefs, and that entailed studying the stories and incorporating what pieces fit for me into my own belief.  However it occurred to me that the only way I had of determining which pieces to add and which pieces to reject from the stories was to reason about them.  The question I had was why I should apply reason to my learning of the stories, but not to other aspects of my belief.  Up to that point, my Hinduism had been based upon intuitions about the world and the meaning of my life as a woman.  Once I made the choice to depend on reason instead of intuition, then my belief fell away pretty fast.

Were you raised in a hindu household or any particular brand of belief?

I was raised in a nominally Christian household, but I had become an atheist by my teens. At 17 I converted to Taoism. Over the course of the next 15 years, I became convinced of the truth of a greater reality as reflected in the person of the goddess Kali, and that as a woman, her existence was reflected in me.