Create your own Paradigm of Gods

[Azakel]

Okay any one can do this and it's easy. You can takes Gods from any where, take a creature(s) form show or books or even make your own Gods up, and you can mix them too. Make your own set of Gods for yourself.
I'm working on mine right now and will post then when I'm done.

 

[kadzbiz]

Why? What are you trying to achieve?

 

[Azakel]

Why? What are you trying to achieve?

No reason really, just something for fun. I guess it makes more sense really if you're a Chaos Magician. And maybe if someone has a good Paradigm I can use it. My Gods mean more fun.

 

[kadzbiz]

Well good luck with that. Creating a paradigm of gods would probably require you to create the associated tenets and philosophies, and basically you have created your own religion, but to have a religion you'd need followers, so you'd have to indoctrinate members and have a place to congregate etc. and, in the end, I think it's been done to death, but if you're doing it for fun, go ahead and enjoy yourself.

 

[Gentoo]

Even if the only member is yourself, it's still a viable religion to you.

 

[kadzbiz]

Even if the only member is yourself, it's still a viable religion to you.

Yes, perhaps it is at that. One could break a rule and then absolve oneself or administer punishments to oneself. And if one doesn't quite like the belief, one could just modify it. Or could one? I mean, if one just modifies it to suit oneself, how could one take oneself's religion seriously?

 

[Azakel]

Yes, perhaps it is at that. One could break a rule and then absolve oneself or administer punishments to oneself. And if one doesn't quite like the belief, one could just modify it. Or could one? I mean, if one just modifies it to suit oneself, how could one take oneself's religion seriously?

That is a good point, though I guess one could not. But does it really matter in the end..........

 

[kadzbiz]

That is a good point, though I guess one could not. But does it really matter in the end..........

True. If you're doing it for fun, to hell with seriousness. I wonder how much fun it really would be though? Let us know how it turns out for you.

 

[Gentoo]

Yes, perhaps it is at that. One could break a rule and then absolve oneself or administer punishments to oneself. And if one doesn't quite like the belief, one could just modify it. Or could one? I mean, if one just modifies it to suit oneself, how could one take oneself's religion seriously?

That seems to assume that there's already a set of beliefs to modify. If you're working from the ground up, you're not going to follow something you don't believe in in the first place.

 

[MaddLlama]

Or could one? I mean, if one just modifies it to suit oneself, how could one take oneself's religion seriously?

Henry VIII did.

 

[Azakel]

True. If you're doing it for fun, to hell with seriousness. I wonder how much fun it really would be though? Let us know how it turns out for you.

I will, but it's going to take me a bit longer now. The first idea I had fell though when I bought .hack/G.U. today, and a new idea pop up, and this one seem easy really then my first one.

 

[Blindinglight]

Allthough this is commonly done, it's really not as easy as you might think. Especially creating your own gods.

 

[eudaimonia]

Why all the nay-saying? Just have fun with it.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Yes, perhaps it is at that. One could break a rule and then absolve oneself or administer punishments to oneself. And if one doesn't quite like the belief, one could just modify it. Or could one? I mean, if one just modifies it to suit oneself, how could one take oneself's religion seriously?

Welcome to the world of Chaos Magick, my friend!

Belief can be used a tool. Paradigms--viewpoints, worldviews--can be shifted in order to gain understanding. Discordianism is (or seems) directly (or indirectly, or not at all) related in that nothing should be taken too seriously.

Chaos is the point of nothingness (and everthingness) that we grow from. It is where symbols begin.

 

[Willamena]

Okay any one can do this and it's easy. You can takes Gods from any where, take a creature(s) form show or books or even make your own Gods up, and you can mix them too. Make your own set of Gods for yourself.
I'm working on mine right now and will post then when I'm done.

Tell me, in your own words, please, what is a paradigm?

 

[Papersock]

Okay any one can do this and it's easy. You can takes Gods from any where, take a creature(s) form show or books or even make your own Gods up, and you can mix them too. Make your own set of Gods for yourself.
I'm working on mine right now and will post then when I'm done.

I'm interested in seeing what you come up with.

 

[Azakel]

Tell me, in your own words, please, what is a paradigm?

An idea of how one preserves things. How one sees the world, one can change ones paradigm.

 

[Willamena]

An idea of how one preserves things. How one sees the world, one can change ones paradigm.

Okay, no offense, I'm just trying to understand.... how does a "creature from show or books" do that?

 

[Azakel]

Okay, no offense, I'm just trying to understand.... how does a "creature from show or books" do that?

Well it doesn't you do. By changing your Paradigm on what God or the Gods are you can make your own, the would only be Thoughtforms and maybe only work as symbols for you but hey.

 

[Willamena]

But what if they are more?

Does that mean I can't play?