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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:36 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:28 pm
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MST3Kakalina Is it possible to forge a meaningful relationship with a deity, even if you didn't originally feel ANY draw towards them whatsoever? I'm talking about hypothetical situations like: *randomly picking a deity and then consciously making an effort to worship it. I know you could say that there's no such thing as "randomness" and that you picked the deity for a reason, but let's just assume, for sake of discussion, that it was purely random with no supernatural influence. I think if you beat on a god's door long enough, you'll be able to establish a relationship with them.
I personally wouldn't want to do that however.
Quote: *being forced into the worship of a deity by an outside, mundane force (as opposed to Odin going "hey. YOU. NOW."). Think of old Christian (I think Islamic, as well) "convert or die" campaigns. *etc I dunno what I think, yet. I'm curious to see what everyone else has to say. I think it is possible to be forced to worship one way, but have your faith be different. I also think that in such situations, while the god the individuals are forcing you to work with may not be the one who owns you, that the other god may speak in subtle ways through another's symbolism.
For example, I have a friend who was forced to attend Catholic Mass and was pretty much told it didn't matter who or what she believed in, that she was going to be Catholic or she was going to be beaten, or lose her Children.
She complied. Eventually she built a small alter to a Saint she picked at random. (I think it was one of the Michaels), and slowly she began to see symbols that she was well aquainted with from her former belief system work their way into the very Catholic practices- but with a deeply spiritual to them.
Through her personal experiences she began to see her god on the alter, not the Saint. ~shurgs~ But that is just one individuals experience.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:50 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:26 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:39 am
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:28 pm
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Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:25 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:02 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:41 pm
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:15 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:55 pm
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