To live. To be. To engage with other people, to whatever degree, however fucking irritating other people might be, because without them you're an isolated unit. To engage with your friends, however fucking irritating your friends might be.
To experience life.
It sounds a bit Babylon 5, but the way I look at things is this: We're born, we incarnate, from the basic stuff of the universe. I'm very much pro-reincarnation. the matter we're born into is the same stuff that everything around you is made of, be it trees, concrete, hedgehogs, or stars. One thing that often crops up in Wiccan theology is the idea that we are all divinity, incarnated in order to understand mortal life. I'd take this further - if that's the case, then we're aspects of infinity, trying to understand itself by experiencing the finite world. We can't understand the infinite; who's to say it can?
This crops up all over the place. The Society of Friends talks about immanent rather than transcendent deity, everything in the world is part of God. Crowley said "Every man and woman is a star." Many of the Hindu faiths and Vodoun cultures regard their gods as focused expressions of the infinite (there's a big god, ultimate source, Grand Met', whatever), and in many cases they see humanity as their gods' great-great-great-great-grandchildren (add / subtract generations as necessary).
What I don't believe for a minute is that any of these aspects have any more of a clue what's going on than we do. No divine plan, if there's a "will of the gods" then it's as capricious as we are, because they're like us. I have this idea that deity evolves with life.
You are the universe, trying to figure itself out. Try to enjoy it.
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Date: 2005-11-09 08:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-09 10:47 pm (UTC)I'd like to add "Mocking the stupid", but I'm less sure if that's so much a meaning as an action. Oh well, I'll do it anyway.
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Date: 2005-11-09 10:54 pm (UTC)Getting on with your work?
Hmm... probably the latter...
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Date: 2005-11-10 12:27 am (UTC)Birth
work
Taxes
Death.
Any questions?
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Date: 2005-11-10 12:54 am (UTC)To experience life.
It sounds a bit Babylon 5, but the way I look at things is this: We're born, we incarnate, from the basic stuff of the universe. I'm very much pro-reincarnation. the matter we're born into is the same stuff that everything around you is made of, be it trees, concrete, hedgehogs, or stars. One thing that often crops up in Wiccan theology is the idea that we are all divinity, incarnated in order to understand mortal life. I'd take this further - if that's the case, then we're aspects of infinity, trying to understand itself by experiencing the finite world. We can't understand the infinite; who's to say it can?
This crops up all over the place. The Society of Friends talks about immanent rather than transcendent deity, everything in the world is part of God. Crowley said "Every man and woman is a star." Many of the Hindu faiths and Vodoun cultures regard their gods as focused expressions of the infinite (there's a big god, ultimate source, Grand Met', whatever), and in many cases they see humanity as their gods' great-great-great-great-grandchildren (add / subtract generations as necessary).
What I don't believe for a minute is that any of these aspects have any more of a clue what's going on than we do. No divine plan, if there's a "will of the gods" then it's as capricious as we are, because they're like us. I have this idea that deity evolves with life.
You are the universe, trying to figure itself out. Try to enjoy it.