Hello and Greetings to each who visit this thread! This is going to be my first thread of many, and has a fore warning, I am going to say that some of my posts might be quite lengthy. I will affix a warning at the top of each post, when they are actually posted, but as it stands this one my get quite long. I will also state that what I am posting are my personal opinions, but I would love to learn what it is that you feel, and know, so each of us can walk away with new food for thought.
Every person has a unique story. Each one of them are lead down several different paths in life, and sometimes those paths intertwine together. They are fraught with many obstacles, challenges, triumphs and failures. Yet each one is distinctly different for every individual. Then lets start to equate into the situation spirituality and religion. Several things can shape the outcome of what path they take from their morals, to their personal beliefs, and private experiences. And honestly? I find each and every aspect of these things completely fascinating in all actuality. I will elaborate later on a couple of these things, but then now I arrive to my main point in this post: questions.
What exactly started me on the path that I am now as far as classifying myself as an 'unaffiliated pagan' (more on this later in other posts probably, but if you have questions just inbox me) were a million and one questions. Each of my experiences caused these to spring into my head: Why is it that the religion of my family didn't feel comfortable around me, and made my skin itch? What is religion? What is spirituality? What is deity and/or deities and how do they directly impact my life, if at all presently? What are my morals? What are my beliefs? What is it that I am feeling inside, and does it have a name? What is faith and what does it mean to me?
Since I was a child, I've been an extremely curious individual. I would rip apart electronics, much to my siblings dismay, to try to understand why they worked the way that they did. I would lose myself into the surroundings around me, or become lost in the worlds painted in my head from the books that I fell into head first. My imagination is much the same as it was then. Over active, constantly wandering, and constantly full of wonder. Now I grew up in a strict house hold where any talk of anything other than God or Jesus Christ as the savior was something punishable. My own thoughts were often repressed because of several things, from it was wrong to believe in any other way and hell would be punishment where you would eternally burn, and hate for anything that was different was frequently tossed around. Literally. It is also the reason why I have no acted until now on my desires to learn more about something that has been calling to me since I was 15. No many how many times I 'got saved', no matter how many times I was baptized in the faith of family which brought them such pride, it was not true. I did not feel the spark that they did when they spoke of God, and instead, I felt very wrong. Now that I am away, and much older, I am free to explore this new aspect of myself quite happily.
Everyone has questions when they first start out, and my question now for those here and around me on this board are what are the questions that got YOU to start down the path before you, and how did it feel for you? What has it been like for you so far, and what are your most prideful moments, and your hardest? I would really like to know, and share this with all of you so that each of us may grow!
Thank each of you for your time, and I hope that your days/evenings are going well for you!
-=[ Skyra ]=-
Every person has a unique story. Each one of them are lead down several different paths in life, and sometimes those paths intertwine together. They are fraught with many obstacles, challenges, triumphs and failures. Yet each one is distinctly different for every individual. Then lets start to equate into the situation spirituality and religion. Several things can shape the outcome of what path they take from their morals, to their personal beliefs, and private experiences. And honestly? I find each and every aspect of these things completely fascinating in all actuality. I will elaborate later on a couple of these things, but then now I arrive to my main point in this post: questions.
What exactly started me on the path that I am now as far as classifying myself as an 'unaffiliated pagan' (more on this later in other posts probably, but if you have questions just inbox me) were a million and one questions. Each of my experiences caused these to spring into my head: Why is it that the religion of my family didn't feel comfortable around me, and made my skin itch? What is religion? What is spirituality? What is deity and/or deities and how do they directly impact my life, if at all presently? What are my morals? What are my beliefs? What is it that I am feeling inside, and does it have a name? What is faith and what does it mean to me?
Since I was a child, I've been an extremely curious individual. I would rip apart electronics, much to my siblings dismay, to try to understand why they worked the way that they did. I would lose myself into the surroundings around me, or become lost in the worlds painted in my head from the books that I fell into head first. My imagination is much the same as it was then. Over active, constantly wandering, and constantly full of wonder. Now I grew up in a strict house hold where any talk of anything other than God or Jesus Christ as the savior was something punishable. My own thoughts were often repressed because of several things, from it was wrong to believe in any other way and hell would be punishment where you would eternally burn, and hate for anything that was different was frequently tossed around. Literally. It is also the reason why I have no acted until now on my desires to learn more about something that has been calling to me since I was 15. No many how many times I 'got saved', no matter how many times I was baptized in the faith of family which brought them such pride, it was not true. I did not feel the spark that they did when they spoke of God, and instead, I felt very wrong. Now that I am away, and much older, I am free to explore this new aspect of myself quite happily.
Everyone has questions when they first start out, and my question now for those here and around me on this board are what are the questions that got YOU to start down the path before you, and how did it feel for you? What has it been like for you so far, and what are your most prideful moments, and your hardest? I would really like to know, and share this with all of you so that each of us may grow!
Thank each of you for your time, and I hope that your days/evenings are going well for you!
-=[ Skyra ]=-
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