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The Overseer

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
Does your religion, path, worldview, etc. incorporate an overseer?

What purpose does s/he serve? What is your personal relationship to that entity?
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
Does your religion, path, worldview, etc. incorporate an overseer?

What purpose does s/he serve? What is your personal relationship to that entity?
Yes, many of them. Many many. Each has responsibility for something; I myself have and have had responsibility of 'overseeing' a variety of things, including the care of property, children, money...

Most of them, I have little to no relationship with--they do their things, I do mine, and we don't interact directly much. I do interact with some on a more frequent and direct basis...but many are so large/powerful (or small and seemingly weak...although sometimes the weak can impact the powerful, even if not 'personally') that no 'personal' relationship is possible...the Sun, Moon, weather, the land I live on (not just the property I 'own') would be examples...
 

PureX

Veteran Member
Does your religion, path, worldview, etc. incorporate an overseer?

What purpose does s/he serve? What is your personal relationship to that entity?
I often use the idea of an 'overseer' to help me stay focused on gratitude and positive action. However, I do not presume to know that such an entity exists.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Does your religion, path, worldview, etc. incorporate an overseer?

What purpose does s/he serve? What is your personal relationship to that entity?


someone has to be the one to stoke the coals. play the devil as it were.
 

Dawnofhope

Non-Proselytizing Baha'i
Staff member
Premium Member
Does your religion, path, worldview, etc. incorporate an overseer?

What purpose does s/he serve? What is your personal relationship to that entity?

There are two institutions within the Baha’i community that may have an overseer type relationship.

1/ Elected Assemblies
2/ Appointed members of the Institution of Counsellors

They are two institutions to whom every community member can turn (including those who are not Baha’is) and the institutions have responsibilities for the welfare of the community and individuals within it.
 

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Does your religion, path, worldview, etc. incorporate an overseer?
What purpose does s/he serve? What is your personal relationship to that entity?
No. Just exists, perhaps sometimes does not. I am not too sure about that. It constitutes all things in the universe, and everything in the universe is it only.
 
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