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erat_in_fatis

The Gradual Formation of my Faith

Jun 01, 2011 23:05

FYI: This post is going to be about my (rather eclectic) spirituality and how I came to feel the way I do. It's just what I believe, and I don't think my personal ideas are better than anyone else's, and it's okay if you totally disagree. But this is how I feel.
( Religion as it came and went in my life prior to about two years ago. Here's a spoiler: no religion as a child, follwed by:non-normative religion, normative religion, mild religion )

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manifestress June 2 2011, 03:11:38 UTC

it is fascinating and instructive to sit with and trace all these formative things - so Brava to you for doing that - and I hope to read the continuation and find out more about the Something Really Big

erat_in_fatis June 2 2011, 04:27:33 UTC

I'd love to hear what you believe sometime. Also, I read about your writing retreat. Very interesting! I'm a poetry fanatic so I was very curious of the poets they mentioned. I can probably think of a few. I write poetry similar to yours, though I haven't written in some time now. I didn't even know retreats like that existed!

xshear_beautyx June 2 2011, 03:22:43 UTC

This was very interesting.

I went thru that similiar stage with wicca at a very early age. I read every single book my library had on the topic, which of course was only like 15. I then church hopped and ended up going back to wicca. Though, I consider myself more pagan because i'm so eclectic.

I was raised Catholic so when I realized I was bi, it was kinda like a "oh, fuck" moment. I denied it thru most of highschool, to myself and to everyone else. I look back and wish I would have explored it more then. Who knows if I'd be in a relationship with a woman now if I did.

Btw, Hope that "something really big" was something really good, and not something really bad. :)

erat_in_fatis June 2 2011, 04:17:14 UTC

Wow at the wicca experimentation - I really haven't known anyone else who has. I'd love to hear more about your beliefs.

I know plenty of people (through the MCC church) who waited until they were in their fourties or so to come out. I like to consider myself open to both, because I'd like to say that if I met a man that I fell in love with I wouldn't stop myself from being with him just because he was a man. But, frankly, I'm just not attracted to men like that, lol. So I'm a lesbian.

Thanks for the hope, wish it had been so :/

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erat_in_fatis June 2 2011, 04:26:03 UTC

Don't apologize! Sometimes it's hard to convey things, especially over the internet. I also agree that it's not a sin - people have thought a lot of things were sins that it is widely believed not to be anymore. Why people still harp on it now I don't know, but people changed their views about the other things with time so I can only hope for the same.