Decided to make a post in the family Blogger account, and sharing it here.

My sister had an interesting talk tonight with a friend, which led to a post about her thoughts and fears about the afterlife.  As usual, she welcomes comments.

Samantha and my brother Mark decided to make a post about my officially joining the Shinto faith, and their thoughts on it and on death.  If you're interested in reading about it, it's been posted here.

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Interesting, I didn't know that Moses had married an Ethiopian woman. (Numbers 12:1). Aaron and Miriam spoke against this, and God punished them.  That's... kind of cool. (By 'them', I mean 'Aaron and Miriam'.)

Seriously?I'm actually somewhat offended by this.  After de-paganizing enough holidays, they're trying to push bibles on kids who just want to run around in costume and get candy or toys.  This really annoys me ( Read more... )

Inspired by a reply to something +Greg Christopher was writing about. I'm finding myself generally reluctant, in games I'm developing or running, of having a true 'supernatural evil'. I mean, having an evil whose sole job is to screw around with humanity. If you look at real world religions, sure there might be evil gods, but these evil gods still ( Read more... )

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Something I need to try to develop more - my ability to let the past be the past, and focus on the present, when it comes to people and what they have done.  In this vein, I will try to accept my personal enemy.  If I encounter them again, and they wish to return to FFa, I will make the allowance for it, and try to accept that all the ill will I ( Read more... )