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Ahh, I was waiting for this to come up.

God(ess) is pretty smart. S/he knows that one approach won't hit everyone, just like in marketing. And so S/he shows him/herself to people in whatever way is the most fitting for them. Even the people that claim not to be religious tend to have some sense of something greater...and that's God(ess) working.

I tend to follow a pagan path, because I think that nature is a beautiful and wonderful thing, and should be honored. I believe in spirits, and don't think that they're specifically good or evil...just like people, they are. Someone/thing doing an action may be seen as good by some and evil by others. It's all in perception.

I believe that magick is a combination of placebo effect and the energies of the world interacting with eachother. I believe that everything (down to the keyboard I'm typing with and the rocks outside my window) has a soul. I believe that we can use our soul/energy to interact with that of other things. That's what psychic activity is. I guess you could say that I belive in the universal unconscious theory...divination is tapping into that.

Yeah...I think that basically covers it.

As far as organized or otherwise religion, I think that depends on the person. Some people need more structure, and something organized is better for them. I do think that some organized religions take it to an extreme, and try to run TOO much of a person's life, and it is certainly not the system for me. But if it helps someone else, who am I to judge?

I'm what's known to be Agnostic. Not indiffrent but not specifically following a religion. I loathe bible thumpers and conversionists, but that's because whenever anyone tries to force something they believe on another person it makes my blood boil. I used to go to sunday school with a friend of mine who's family was Catholic, I liked the vast number of toys they hand and then I didn't have to wait a few hours to get to play with her. One time though, a woman gave us all a big lecture on Hell and had us all on the verge of pissing ourselves with fright, then told us the only way NOT to go there was to pledge ourselves to Jesus. I can't tell you how increadibly angry I am just writing this and thinking about it. I was scared out of my mind and I took her pledge, and that just makes me angrier. Beliefs and spirituality are two very diffrent things when it's like that. She was ensuring the younger generations followed their parents by frightening them into submission. I see so many people just blindly going to church and never having a real spiritual experience in their lives and I shake my head. I also don't believe in the bible, as it's just a book some guy wrote 2,000 years ago, that's been translated and distorted hundreads of times. Not only that, but who knows if whatever omnipotent being there is up there actually spoke to this guy, or if he just decided to make it all up.

I take alot of solice in Science, I simply adore it and it's facts, solid, hard facts. You can take something and show how it works and it'll work the same time and time again. I love it.

I think Reincarnation is really cool, I'm not sure if it's true, but if it is I'm certainly not complaining. It would also explain a heck of alot of things.

I believe there is some sort of higher being above us, and I believe in Karma. I've seen loads of proof that what energies you put out will come back to you often even stronger.

I believe in spirits, and energy, and all sorts of things. Though if someone offered me some solid, undisputable proof that some of them didn't exist I'd accept it in an instant.

mm.. not necessarily Celes. I was baptized Catholic as a child, but later on swapped to Methodist, then flipped completely out of organized religion. I'm not much for organized religion, the churches have far too many rules where I find just belief gets me thru. I'm more of a catholic/wicca/buddhist now in my beliefs. 3nodding
and no offense to anyone, but I love Jesus bread. I don't know why but I find it really nummy.

~giggles~ I've never had it, but I do love bread, except sourdough, that stuff is nasty. Nothing makes me salivate faster then the smell of fresh made bread. heart




Exactly my complaint. It actually makes me shake with anger when I think about that woman and what she did to me and those other kids in the room, and that she's probably done it to hundreads of others.

That's amusing, I was baptised Catholic because my parents didn't like the Methodist preacher. I was raised Methodist, then got sent to Catholic school in 5th grade because the public schools were so bad. I converted, mostly to follow the crowd, and my parents converted with me. And from about 9th grade on I've considered myself a pagan.

Faerie wicca!
I just started to read a book called the Complete Guide to Fairy Folk and Mystical Beings. It really speaks to me, Im enjoying it.

I'm almost to the point of loving faeries, and such.