SolarSystem wrote on 07/24/12 at 19:14:33:For myself, I'm not entirely sure how to label my beliefs, but they're mainly based on what I consider facts rather than faith.
Read this & expected to be reading your thoughts vying towards the scientific view, but nope you went towards the primitive. Surprise!
Quote:There is a spirit world (maybe even several different ones) beyond normal perception. People can and do sense this in various ways, which is again interpreted in various different ways, depending on their beliefs.
Spiritual energy can be shared between people for various effects, often used for healing, though negative effects are also possible.
The methods of sharing and the costs (By which I mean any requirements - rituals, sacrifices personal or otherwise, etc...) involved vary greatly.
This 'thought', or manner of thought, greatly resembles the primitive views I've read a ton of times in religious history books. The belief that an Omni God, or one that is absolute, does not exist, but that a multiple of Gods exist, and these multiple of Gods require request rituals or even a sacrifice to fulfil wishes or prayers.
I have a hard time finding that they're both not plausible--to borrow from Mythbusters.
If you believe in the primitive; you believe things you do or sacrifice will result in the God you've chosen, granting your wish or prayer. You may also feel spiritually empowered by your immediate surroundings with the inclusion of possibly a number of other people who share your same 'thought' & at times, your same "will" (or emotionally inspired thought) which you believe possibly may manifest itself through your gathered energy into reality. (This can be viewed from the big pic too as worded prayers To..add name here../rituals worded To..".., and that be that same kind of manifest.) So with the small & the big in that 'thought', it can be said that either &/or both can be manifestations of like-minded (like-willed) spiritual beings alive & not-but here-on Earth.
When I think about the "what of.." of manifestations such as that, I think of their survival rate. They're only "alive" due to the will of those that willed
it to life,
kind of like the bride of Frankenstein.
The other is similar in that it too has its prerequisites, even if considerably less. But varies in that spirits here have given that single God a will of his own, made him stand above them as Omni or absolute{everything, even judge. Still could be said to be a creation of the will.
I'm wondering whether there are differences, what are the differences, and what would that have to mean??
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