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Oct 21, 2003 17:18

Plenty of people from my good ol' ATPoBtVS on Live Journal, coolness. Spent some time adding friends, I might spend more time here.

Tried to get my parrents to watch Once Upon a Time in China yesterday. Didn't work so well. My mother wasn't enthusiasmed, and even my father didn't look like he wanted to watch the end of the movie later. Bah, they ( Read more... )

a: ellen kushner, review, medium: books, review: movies, a: zelazny

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Welcome to LJ, Etrangere! masqthephlsphr October 21 2003, 09:24:24 UTC

Ohhh, hello Masq ! etrangere October 21 2003, 11:23:24 UTC

And thank you for the welcome :)

Re: Ohhh, hello Masq ! masqthephlsphr October 21 2003, 11:41:08 UTC

I'm an agnostic pantheist mystic

Noticed this in your user info. I'm curious what this means to you, since I am agnostic and have pantheistic leanings myself.

Re: Ohhh, hello Masq ! etrangere October 21 2003, 11:53:47 UTC

Doesn't mean much more than that, really. I consider myself an agnostic, but I also like pantheism. If I would believe in god(s) I'd be a pantheist. Also, agnostism only refers to believe in God, but there's lots of way to have religious leanings without getting into the existence or non existence of God. Mystic is more about a way I look at the world, a sensualistic approach to the divine experience, if you will. Dunno.

Damn, I love that Faith pic.

Re: Ohhh, hello Masq ! masqthephlsphr October 21 2003, 12:00:49 UTC

Damn, I love that Faith pic

It's hot, isn't it? In more ways than one...

I'm more of an agnostic (neutral on the existence of God issue) than I am a pantheist. I'm like you. A pantheist is what I would be if I took a theist side on the issue. I also like the appreciation of nature (nature as divine) in Pantheism. I always feel closer to my spiritual side when I'm in nature. I don't think I could ever take this as far as Paganism, which has a (poly)theistic bent to it and tends to focus on Earth as opposed to other realms of nature, though.

Re: Ohhh, hello Masq ! etrangere October 22 2003, 14:14:41 UTC

It's hot, isn't it? In more ways than one...

Yeah, very distracting

For nature I don't know, I don't really like to divide the world into realm of the natural and realm of the artificial... the world is one, and those are just divisions of the mind. But I do like to consider the world, the experience of life, of interracting with it, as divine. If I had to define what is God, I would say it is the principle of existence, that things that makes that "maybe" becomes "is". I think we should always remember that simple wonder at all the amazing things that living entails. To see colours, the hear sounds, music, to know people, to love them, the marvellous infinite kinds of difference the world is full of. It's so easy to consider it and to think it's banal. And that's my take at pantheism : to consider every single things as magic, as divine.

Re: Ohhh, hello Masq ! masqthephlsphr October 23 2003, 10:04:33 UTC

Thanks for that. I'm just getting started with this Pantheism thing, and sharing views with people like you and yabyumpan really helps extend my thought.

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