The God/dess
I guess I'll post this here.
My rantings under zee cut.
I've come to realize that I've never really believed in "God". I got into a discussion about how "godless" people do immoral things. People who "believe in nothing". To me if someone believed in nothing they would be able to do nothing good or bad. They have to, if for irrational reasons, believe in whatever the out come will be in doing something negative. Then theres people who believe this life on earth is all there is. To me if this life were all there is people would try harder to make something positive out of it.
I don't believe in god and I don't not believe. I believe anything is possible. Am I a godless person?
I wonder about when I found Wicca whether I accepted its view of God/dess because everything else fit. I wonder if I ever really understood what it meant. And really how could any one? There are people who say you just must have faith or they just "know". I've never ever had that. I've never "known".
I thought I believed that everything is God every thing is spirit, spirit is god, we all come form some similar source. But when I try to think of it my concepts don't fit the vastness and I feel like I could never get a grasp on it. That fact is really hard for me, how can I work with something I have no grasp on? How do others do it?
Then our conversation got into, well, as far as my concepts can manage, God is spirit, all things are spirit, I am no more valuable than anything else. I don't mean it in the, "I'm worthless" way, I just meant I am no more important than any other spiritual being. Thats where I think humans went wrong. Thinking we're on top. When it gets down to the basics, the things we do in our every day life really hold no meaning and the planet may have very well been better off without our "progress".
So I guess I'm just really confused and have been my entire life. I hold on to the belief that others have to be as well but I can't seem to manage to move forward throughout all this confusion. I can't seem to understand how others can either.
I know what works, I know what my family and Wicca have taught me works, and I know whats true for me in most aspects. God and any meaning in life is kind of a big thing to be lost on.
My rantings under zee cut.
I've come to realize that I've never really believed in "God". I got into a discussion about how "godless" people do immoral things. People who "believe in nothing". To me if someone believed in nothing they would be able to do nothing good or bad. They have to, if for irrational reasons, believe in whatever the out come will be in doing something negative. Then theres people who believe this life on earth is all there is. To me if this life were all there is people would try harder to make something positive out of it.
I don't believe in god and I don't not believe. I believe anything is possible. Am I a godless person?
I wonder about when I found Wicca whether I accepted its view of God/dess because everything else fit. I wonder if I ever really understood what it meant. And really how could any one? There are people who say you just must have faith or they just "know". I've never ever had that. I've never "known".
I thought I believed that everything is God every thing is spirit, spirit is god, we all come form some similar source. But when I try to think of it my concepts don't fit the vastness and I feel like I could never get a grasp on it. That fact is really hard for me, how can I work with something I have no grasp on? How do others do it?
Then our conversation got into, well, as far as my concepts can manage, God is spirit, all things are spirit, I am no more valuable than anything else. I don't mean it in the, "I'm worthless" way, I just meant I am no more important than any other spiritual being. Thats where I think humans went wrong. Thinking we're on top. When it gets down to the basics, the things we do in our every day life really hold no meaning and the planet may have very well been better off without our "progress".
So I guess I'm just really confused and have been my entire life. I hold on to the belief that others have to be as well but I can't seem to manage to move forward throughout all this confusion. I can't seem to understand how others can either.
I know what works, I know what my family and Wicca have taught me works, and I know whats true for me in most aspects. God and any meaning in life is kind of a big thing to be lost on.