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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:07 am
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:35 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:39 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:25 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:06 pm
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Within my practice, I can always find time for my Gods because practice has two forms: ritualized, formal practice (requiring katharsis/ritual cleaning), and then there is the mundane. Mundane things are both clean and profane, simply because there is nothing bad about them, but nothing inherently divine either.
So for Hellenismos, mundane life is pure life (as per the customs of your polis, which I interpret as the culture you're born into or the culture of the region where you live). For me, it is perfectly acceptable to speak to my gods as I clean dishes, do laundry, or any other mundane household task, as long as I haven't done something to make myself polluted beforehand (such as exposing myself to blood, etc).
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:39 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:49 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:46 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:05 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:39 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:52 pm
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Dristinia Star - I am actually studying to be a game developer so I can kind of relate to your statement. Personally I really don't feel any type of connection between my studies and the Gods. The disconnectedness I'm guessing is mostly because I really haven't found a path to follow as of yet. The overload of stress doesn't really help the case much with all of its distractions. sweatdrop Question- who are your gods?
Quote: Side note - Tea I love how you spill your knowledge. Shoot. Someone get the mop! wink Quote: I learn so much from your postings. heart Glad you enjoy. Keep asking questions and getting many points of view.
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:08 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:40 pm
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For the lighter side... I think that tech support is all at once the most and least magical thing I do. I don't feel connected to the divine by my computer, particularly. I don't consider tech work to be... spiritual, and baffling fixes to even more baffling problems are not magic, they're just cute puzzles for someone with a more engineer mindset than mine. But when I finally give up on a problem only to find that it has, moments later, fixed itself, well, that's as conducive to magical thinking as just about anything else in my life.
On the less light side... it's hard and confusing sometimes, not having particular gods. Not having a name for who I'm talking to, but still hoping someone's listening. It's what I've chosen, but it can make me a little more prone, during busy times, to just kind of forget any sort of connection with spirituality.
And those are times that maybe I desperately need it, because whenever I return to what is for me a familiar and comforting piece of ritual spirituality, I'm relieved. I wonder why I disregarded it for so long at those times, until the next period of flux. It's a learning curve.
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:27 am
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TeaDidikai Starlock It seems at odds with honoring the old Gods For heavens sake why?! eek It isn't like ancient pagan theologies looked at the tools of their time and abstained from their use because of their gods! Can you picture it? "Oooonopenopenopenopenope... those pesky roads these Roman guys built weren't here before the gods. I think I'll hike up dangerous trails and stuff rather than walk on the stones some people transported here to make walking easier..." Or the Aqueduct. Also note that Heron of Alexandria used steam powered devices within the temples of the Greeks and Egyptians.
It seems that way more because during the time the old Gods were principally worshiped these specific technologies didn't exist so there is no old God that directly has bearing on this new technology if you go by the original mythos. There's no God of the internet, there's no God of computers in the old pantheons, for instance.
Unless of course, you extend the general domain of one of the old Gods to include the new ideas, but I suspect some people might find that a bit iffy since it is a modernized interpretation of what these Gods were about. Would or would not Mercury like being attributed as God of electronic modes of comunication like the internet? Has anyone asked him?
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:35 am
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