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Originally Posted by MarissaW
Okay, that's not objectively recognizing your gods aren't real.
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Well, I guess I didn't add parenthetically add 'Every act of pleasure is a paean to the goddess (who doesn't necessarily exist, and is just my mental manifestation of that which is nurturing or beneficial to my own good will)
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Originally Posted by MarissaW
That's a rather smug statement that even if we don't believe, your god is there getting off with us. That's as creepy as saying there's a god in my head judging all my thoughts.
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Or just a mental mechanism to negate the guilt other system have created to discourage masturbation. It's not a perversion, it's a sacrament. That's how I choose to think about it, YMMV. (Your Masturbation May Vary)
Do I really have to say "These things are true to me, in my head, and not necessarily true for anyone else at all, ever." For every thing I might type in this thread? Eris give me strength! (Eris being an imaginary construct who, as a representative of discord, allows me to examine disharmony in a new, and hopefully positive light, not an actual physical being with any reality whatsoever, to me or anyone else.)
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Originally Posted by MarissaW
See? This is what happens when we let our kids build their lives on song lyrics, as if they have some deep wise life statement.
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I chose the lyric because it reflects my belief, I didn't form the belief around the lyric.
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls,
and tenement halls."
--Simon and Garfunkle, The Sounds of Silence.
I have found that meaning is where you find it.