Siderius_Nuncius
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My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, Worship, God, Angels, Afterlife, Interfaith issues, Movies, Books, Art, Marriage, Dreams, Writing, Poetry, Science Fiction, Plays, Playwriting, Gnosticism, Gnosis, UFOs, Theater, Adaptation, Mythology, Myths, Archetypes, Creativity, Magic, Art, Expressionism, Beat, Beat Poetry, Roswell, Greys, Skepticism, Romaticism, Kabbalah, Bop-Kabbalah, Rock Opera
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, VALIS, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, R.E.M., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rome, Cowboy Bebop, Moulin Rouge, It's a Wonderful Life, Donnie Darko, Star Trek, Superman, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Ballad of David Icke, William Blake, Songs of In
Who Inspires Me:
My father, Galileo, Jordan Stratford+, The Virgin Mary, Superman, Captain America, Jesus
My organizations and affiliations:
University of Pittsburgh
My favorite spiritual activities:
Writing, Praying the Rosary, Meditating, Zazen, Talking, Communion, Dreaming, Creating, Loving
Who I'm praying for:
My friend Dominic, who has gone over the edge but is climbing his way back up. I love you, man.
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Okay
What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Straddler - I have one foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality.
About Me
I've been hard-pressed to come up with a succinct statement about my faith, but here's what I have so far:
1) There is a being who is all-knowing and all-loving, and without whom nothing would be real (or, rather, everything would be unreal).
2) This being at least listens to prayers, and may or may not affect causality and the laws of nature to answer them.
3) This being will one day gather all sentient beings unto his/her self
4) To this end, this being has (probably) appeared in myriad forms to myriad prophets in myriad cultures. Alternatively, myriad prophets and cultures have apprehended this being in myriad ways.
5) "God is apprehended by imagination, intuition, reason, touch, opinion, sense, and name" (thank you, Godspell!), and all are valid ways of approaching the Divine. Some may lead to a dead end more than others, but we are free and encouraged to explore, given points (3) and (4).
6) As a product of my own Western American culture, I tend to contextualize this being in the form of Joshua ben Joseph, also known as the Christ, although I have an affinity for Ganesh and my devotion to Mary occasionally borders on Goddess-worshup.
In a nutshell, I am a heretical universalist idolator Jesus person ex-Catholic wanna-be Eastern mystic with a big imagination and a huge longing for God.
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: Peddling Language Software
Relationship Status: In a Relationship
Faiths:
Pagan
Faith Description: Agnostic Seeking Gnosis
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Posted: Jul 3, 2008 12:53 PM
Good heavens... the strange things that come out of my fevered mind. Here's something I wrote: Jesus Raised from the dead... (more)
If you Meet the Messiah in the Road...
Posted: Jun 29, 2008 11:21 PM
Yesterday I took a walk in Longwood Gardens with my family. They had a treehouse there, and I began a practice I have been continuing... (more)
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He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word -- such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word. [Robert Heinlein, Valentine Michael Smith's musings on the word God in Stranger in a Strange Land]
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_RHeinlein.htm
June 13, 2008 - 08:18 PM
Thank you for your invitation Siderius. Sorry it took so long to respond. Peace, samhain.