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 Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:34 pm
This is a bit of a conglomerate of things that I'd like feed back on. I'm not saying I disbeleive these things, or consider people who have relations to the listed topics, but I've realised I don't recall any good explainations.
Firstly, I don't get people who worship Cthulu (or however each person spells it). I understand the explaination for how its as legitamate as most things. In my copy of the Necronomicon, it explains how Cthulu is sealed inside something like a large temple strong enough to contain him and prevent any of his abilities to reach through its walls. I'm sure I'm ill informed since I haven't found anything very illuminating online yet, but could someone explain why it was considered a good idea to start worshipping something (ignoring it being fictional) that is supposed to be sealed away beyond even the psychic reach of Cthulus first born childrenish things?
This is all in the intention to broaden understanding.
Secondly, otherkin. I know what the definition is, I'm inclined to believe it but I'd like to see if people can come up with an explaination to how its possible. Otherkin seem to depend on the concept of reincarnation, and that its possible to be reincarnated as something other then human in any given lifetime. The majority of reincarnation theories and related theories I've heard don't seem to make any explaination for how past life memories are not related or responsible for otherkin ideas. The only theory I've heard that has much of an explaination is that between incarnation a soul (or the reincarnated part) is supposed to be cleaned of the memories and experiences of the life before, and otherkin are the result of an incomplete/partial 'cleaning'. Which implies otherkin are a temporary state/one lifetime long thing.
Any ideas that could explain what I don't seem to be able to figure out?
What're your theories for how reincarnation works, why it happens?
Anything interesting or related come to mind?
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:05 pm
With reincarnation, I tend to lean more towards the idea that we incarnate for the chance to transcend physical existence. If we fail, our soulstuff gets recycled and incarnated again. The theory behind otherkin that I saw that made the most sense was the "bowl" idea, proposed by aarhus, I believe.
The idea goes that souls are like water and bowls are the physical bodies. If there is anything in that bowl it will dissolve into the water and be carried to the next incarnation. Makes more sense than most ideas, I think.
I don't dwell on the idea of reincarnation that much because as I see it, I got one shot and regardless of whether my soul reincarnates, goes *poof*, or doesn't exist at all, I won't remember my next incarnation anyway as the memories will either be blocked or simply "erased".
So I'm doing my damnedest to transcend physical existence in this lifetime.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:24 am
ChiyuriYami Well from what I know and experimented, one can change the spiritual system of someone to alter how it work or just give it forms that aren't exactly human (wings, horn, and so on...). Doing such change is like changing the DNA of someone but to a spiritual level.. The future generations coming from that person might highly have the same change into their spiritual system. My theory was mostly just that most of the OtherKin are people in which one of their ancestor had his/her spiritual system change in the past. There is also the possibility that in the past life of these people something to provoque such change in the spiritual system was left in their soul, making it at each rebirth, alter the spiritual system of their new body into a different one.. But that less probable than the last one
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:04 am
Dorian Requiem Firstly, I don't get people who worship Cthulu (or however each person spells it). I understand the explaination for how its as legitamate as most things. In my copy of the Necronomicon, it explains how Cthulu is sealed inside something like a large temple strong enough to contain him and prevent any of his abilities to reach through its walls. I'm sure I'm ill informed since I haven't found anything very illuminating online yet, but could someone explain why it was considered a good idea to start worshipping something (ignoring it being fictional) that is supposed to be sealed away beyond even the psychic reach of Cthulus first born childrenish things? Simply because when Cthulhu arises, the faithful will be rewarded. Better to be at the devil's left hand and all that. Couple that with the fact that people sensitive to psychic phenonema often pick up on his "brainwaves" while sleeping, causing them to have their consciousness expanded to great and wonderous things. And when you're comprehending the number of atoms in the universe, you can't help but want to worship what gave you such glorious and terrible insight. Cthulhu fhtagn, ia Cthulhu!
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