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Out of curiosity, has anyone in her ever reached a point where they felt they'd come to a spiritual halt? In other words, you feel like you're kind of floating around. Perhaps you'd been part of a religion that you now feel unfulfilled in. Or maybe you never had a religion to begin with.

If you began to feel unfulfilled in a religion what happened?

If you never had a religion did you seek one out?

If you are not in one, what happened that pulled you out of your spiritual rut?

Please discuss.

Im in sort of a spiritual rut right now. Right now, I'm kind of torn between Christianity and Satanism. To me, both have their strong points and weak points, just anything else does.

In Christianity, you are promised an afterlife. Depending on how you are in life, the afterlife will be grand. You will go to heaven and everything will be peaceful and perfect. On the other hand, if you are less than good in life, you will likely go to hell. No, depending on personal belief, it can either be a place of fire and brimstone for everyone, or if you believe Dante's Inferno, the level of punishment will be determined by just how bad you were in life. There are many rules and regulations that you have to follow such as the ten commandments. Break any one of them and you are in trouble.

In Satanism, there are rules too, believe it or not. There are The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth. However, these rules aren't supposed to be followed blindly. Satanism is based on common sense. Use common sense, and your fine. Satanism, for the most part, is what you want it to be. There are certain core beliefs and values that most any satanist holds to. "Too bad stupidity isn't painful." is a quote from the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, Anton LaVey. However, not only LaVeyan satanists hold fast to this rule, most any satanist does since stupidity is basically the opposite of common sense and knowledge. The real downside to satanism is that most people don't understand it. They hear the word "satanism" and they go "Oh my god. He is a satanist." and you get ridiculed for it. For this reason, its sort of an underground religion that not too many people com forward with. Though, in some ways satanists prefer a little bit of mystery to their religion because it causes most people they probably wouldn't get along with to leave them alone.

EDIT: I hit submit before I was finished.

I tend to lean more towards satanism if you cant tell by my signature. Its just that I have had the idea of going to hell if I don't follow Christianity right pounded into my head for so many years that I just cant seem to get away from it.

I suppose another random thing to keep in mind is that one shouldn't expect one's beliefs to remain static over any course of time. You change. So will your convictions and beliefs. That doesn't neccesarily mean you'll make major shifts among belief systems, but it does mean you might feel the need to go to a different church because they do something you really disagree with.

Never heard of that one before ^_^ Care to share about it?

I had spent most of my life as a Roman Catholic. i was baptised as a child and was sent to a Catholic school. I was very devout to the teachings of Jesus, and even today I still enjoy reading the teachings of Jesus as a means of the moral teachings he teaches that many Christians simply don't follow, such as love thy neighbor and love thy enemy. However, throughout my life, I rarely felt the divine in my life, and I was constantly beaten, teased and abused when I transfered to a public school. It wasn't until I was deployed in Iraq almost a year ago that I had my first experience with Netjer, more specifially with Mother Sekhmet. She quite litterally saved my life. I was planning on going to the gym across the street from where I worked, but the person that was supposed to do headcount at the DFAC got sick. I had to fill in for him. During headcount, I heard an explosion and saw the metal wall of the DFAC bend in. Then I heard that the gym was hit by a mortar. Later that week, during my guard duty I began thinking about Her and having conversations with Her before I even knew Her Name. That's when I began researching about Sekhmet and found the Kemetic Orthodoxy. Ever since I have had a more fulfilling life and a richer religious experience with teachings that mirrored Jesus's, the path of Ma'at.

I'm in a Spiritual Halt right now! That's why I joined this guild! XP

In all honesty though, I used to be fine with being Catholic. But recently, with the coming of the most recent elections, and finding out about all these issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc) and finding out that I'm not supposed to be as "liberal" as I am, I just kinda decided it wasn't for me. That, as everyone knows, was some time ago, and I still haven't found one that suits me, but that's because I have too short an attention span to bother reading anything, and a lot of people don't seem to have very unbiased opinions on any religions. And I just want the facts about them and the people in them, not someone's opinion. Which is why I joined. XP

That's really qutie beautiful 3nodding Do you have any resources you can share?

Sure, I'd care to share. Sharing is caring fool!

Well, the Fellowship of Uzoma is actually quite complicated, and we have no actual written history, but our teachings are passed on by word of mouth. There are many different subdivisions of the Fellowship of Uzoma, and I am a part of the followers of Stigandr [accent on the I], which roughly translated mean followers of the Wanderer. He was basically this man who walked around many different countries, and asked any person he could find, about what they did or were, (for example, he would find out how different people felt about being butchers, farmers, protestents, atheists, English, African, Chinese, etc.) and would note everything down in his book, which was kind of like a logbook/diary/notebook. Even things he ate, he would note down. Perhaps the bread from one town was better than another. Basically, when we have finished our studies, we travel around, learning about different people and things for at least a few months, and some people have even spent years travelling. It's a bit more complicated than that, and traditionally we only teach others through word of mouth, but I decided to make an exception.