Ancient Roman religion and crazy people - Helen's kind of pit thread

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by MarissaW

Okay, that's not objectively recognizing your gods aren't real.

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)

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.

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.)

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.

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.