Isis, Zeus, Apollo
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What do you make of God/s
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And what is that Truth
Serpent Child
Member
I like the answer given by Daniel Ladinsky's rendering of a poem of Hafiz, the sufi Perfect Master:
I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?
If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,
If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing –Now!
From “I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz”
Isis, Zeus, Apollo, Yhwh, Allah
How about Isis, Zeus, Apollo, Yhwh, Allah
How do you think they got the notion
I don't know what that means
Is there a Sufi specification for that. Very vague.
Me, as a polytheist (of the henotheist variety), I give em all the green light. Though, the ones I focus on will depend on the cultural context in which I find myself immersed. I adapt to it, I blend in, I syncretize. No fuss from my end.
Since I live in a Christian community, my pantheon takes that form, my personal beliefs and practices would blend with those of Christianity. If I lived in Japan, my pantheon would take a Shinto (and/or Buddhist) form, my personal beliefs and practices would blend with that. Any other culture, same thing.
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If they don't exist, where do you think they got the notion from
Henotheist .. that's a first
First henotheist I met on the forum
The Holy Bottom Burp
Active Member
I've no real interest in individual deities tbh, there are so many variants, and none of them can be demonstrated to exist, after a while it is a bit like trying to value different spam emails, they all come under the category of "junk". The talk of different deities put me in mind of this....
I think the belief in deities can be easily explained, we have an inherent desire to make sense of the reality we experience, in days gone by we didn't have the tools we have today to explore reality, we basically had our five senses and that's it. It is quite understandable that people invented powerful entities to explain existence, it is quite understandable that those deities were often angry unforgiving types, because life was hard (and usually short) in ancient times. A tad depressing that people still flock to religion in educated first world countries, when we have come this far, with so much human achievement and advancement? I tend to think so.