I hear "spiritual but not religious" a lot, too, but it is kind of vague, and perhaps overused in some circles. Wikipedia does have some information on modern Deist re-interpretations, but you've probably seen this (or the equivalent) already.
I like the idea of you subscribing to eclecticism, but I don't realistically think that people should take their religions from their LiveJournal usernames.
I hadn't, actually; I tend to mooch around religion on Wikipedia a lot, because it's a pet topic in a sort of abstractly curious way, but I do not think I have read that article in depth. Thanks. ^^
Also, I had a theoretical milk/nose interface (the kind where you're not actually drinking any milk) at your second paragraph. :D It's odd, because in a way what I've described isn't wholly accurate to what I feel/believe myself (that would be too complicated to throw at people), but it's what I'd want to emphasize to people if I had to sum up what I think in a sentence; it's the raw concept, the ring of truth that underpins every religion, you should be looking for, not the arbitrary trappings that people probably invented to distinguish themselves from other tribes/piss off the Romans/whatever and somehow got incorporated into these books as equal holy doctrine. I don't think you should get your religion from a book unless it's by Neil Gaiman: I think you should get your religion from going and looking for spirituality and seeing what
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True. XP And I did think of it before then; just something about the way it was said got me. :3
...it would be a hilarious religion to live by, but probably not very enlightening. XD Although, I don't know; if you were always smiling and happy and laughing so hard that milk could theoretically (or metaphysically) come out of your nose, that might itself open the doors to a higher state of being....
So, because sometimes I am suggestible, and sometimes I make decisions for very arbitrary reasons, this thread was responsible for me having dinner at "The Eclectic Cafe" tonight. I'd kind of expected it to be, well, a cafe, where one could get sandwiches and coffee and the like, but it turned out to be a trendy near-Hollywood sort of place. Which was ok, because I hadn't been to such a place while living here, and they did have good food, although I am a bit stuffed at the moment.
Also the walk gave me a chance to see kitties (!) and one of the more convincing looking Autobot-insignia-inscribed cars I've seen, so really it was a good thing. Even if the inspiration was a bit silly.
I like the idea of you subscribing to eclecticism, but I don't realistically think that people should take their religions from their LiveJournal usernames.
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Also, I had a theoretical milk/nose interface (the kind where you're not actually drinking any milk) at your second paragraph. :D It's odd, because in a way what I've described isn't wholly accurate to what I feel/believe myself (that would be too complicated to throw at people), but it's what I'd want to emphasize to people if I had to sum up what I think in a sentence; it's the raw concept, the ring of truth that underpins every religion, you should be looking for, not the arbitrary trappings that people probably invented to distinguish themselves from other tribes/piss off the Romans/whatever and somehow got incorporated into these books as equal holy doctrine. I don't think you should get your religion from a book unless it's by Neil Gaiman: I think you should get your religion from going and looking for spirituality and seeing what ( ... )
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Wait, that pun wasn't evident the minute eclecticism was suggested? ;)
What about "metaphysical-milk-from-nose-ism"?
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...it would be a hilarious religion to live by, but probably not very enlightening. XD Although, I don't know; if you were always smiling and happy and laughing so hard that milk could theoretically (or metaphysically) come out of your nose, that might itself open the doors to a higher state of being....
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Also the walk gave me a chance to see kitties (!) and one of the more convincing looking Autobot-insignia-inscribed cars I've seen, so really it was a good thing. Even if the inspiration was a bit silly.
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