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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 10:15:31 GMT
My family history is littered with nutters of various sorts. An aunt who was an early adopter of the Bagwhan Shree Rashneesh cult and ended up in the tent city in Oregon until it got closed down. A great uncle (JG Bennett) who was Gurdjieff centre administrator and a grandmother who was a keen Christian scientist.
I'm wondering what to do and have stumbled across the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory of how the world was created.
Basically it was a flying spaghetti monster who had too much to drink which is why the world is so badly flawed.
Heaven is full of beer machines and virgins, hell is full of stale beer, non functioning beer machines and used virgins with STDs.
Sounds about right to me !
Anyone here have any spiritual or religious beliefs that form a large part of their being?
I think if I did seriously get into it I would probably go down the nihilism route.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 10:22:34 GMT
No, screw that shit.
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Post by JohnV on Sept 21, 2021 10:24:33 GMT
Cthulhu will eat you all
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 11:03:48 GMT
Ah. The society of friends. There used to be a Quaker couple in one of the flats by the moorings. Nice people they once invited me in for a bowl of oats.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 11:50:20 GMT
Lovecraft is not a religion.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 11:51:36 GMT
The period in which the Quakers originated is fascinating.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:19:22 GMT
I think if I did seriously get into it I would probably go down the nihilism route. I don't think making house calls with your daughter(s) in tow is something you would like. ETA although I would like to watch (from a distance).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:37:22 GMT
I didn't realise cult leaders had to do the foot work. I thought they had other people to sort that all out.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:42:45 GMT
Grand parents on my sainted old Mum's side were into spiritualism back in the late forties and early fifties ... I think it was the vogue at the time.
All that spirit writing and messages from 'the other side' stuff.
Each to their own.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:47:24 GMT
I did a ouija board with some of the kids at school when we were about 15.
One of the boys was sending the marker all over the board. I'm sure he was winding us up but he was very convincing.
I suppose I can include myself in all this as I was subjected to the EST training when I was 10 years old.
Crazy bullshit weirdo stuff my old man was incredibly pleased that his kids had done the EST.
It was nonsense. Still going under the heading the Landmark Forum. How to take money off idiots.
Having said that it's all bullshit I do firmly believe in the line "to transform one's ability to experience living so that the situations one had been trying to change or had been putting up with, clear up just in the process of life itself."
That's my way of living.
You do what you do. You can't do what you don't do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:51:25 GMT
Ghost stories have an enduring fascination. I quite like them (but not if the narrator is a merkin. Scottish is good though).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:54:30 GMT
We had a ghost in one of our big houses. House on Canaan lane in a nice part of Edinburgh. The bloke was dressed all in white and didn't exist, according to my mother.
I still wonder if it was her bit on the side while my dad was away. Dress in white to make the kids think it's just a ghost.
She (mother) also had a ghost in the house she lived in as a child. It was a dead girl something bad had happened to her and she used to walk about on the landing making a lot of noise as if she had a wooden leg.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 12:56:00 GMT
My old Mum was a Methodist, and my Dad was a profound atheist, having been raised in a very strict religious household.
He was forced as a nipper to memorise bible passages ... quite surprising that even as an old man they were still clearly remembered.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 13:10:27 GMT
He was forced as a nipper to memorise bible passages They don't call it doctrine for nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 13:28:04 GMT
My old man was raised a Catholic. He used to really like saying "my fault, my fault, my mosquitoes fault" when we were little kids.
Quite funny but getting your children indoctrinated into religion as he was and even thinking of them uttering the words "my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault" makes me retch.
Too horrible. Surely the idea of having children is that firstly you produce units which are superior to the existing units (difficult in my case but I do try!) and secondly that you keep them free from bullshit and allow them to express themselves as they want to express themselves.
Doing anything else is just aggressive and sheep like.
Religion is weird. People want to be followers. I do not understand this.
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