Tag: gods
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Stress and Homeless Men
More people have visited today than usual. My parents are stressful, I love them dearly and it’s good stress, but stressful nonetheless. They brought food so one of my two sons came for lunch. Now I have my regular homeless friend at the table and another homeless man he just met. Gods help me. Oh…
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Positive Syncretism
When I was growing up I played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. I would entertain myself with mini adventures almost every day. There was one source book that fascinated me called Deities and Demigods. It had a list of various gods from many of the world’s more famous pantheons. Each god had a description…
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Pluralism and Neutrality
For the past twenty four hours I have been arguing in a political group on Facebook that all levels of government should remain as perfectly neutral in religious maters as humanly possible to maintain a pluralistic society. But I feel like I am beating my head against a wall so I’m retreating into my head.…
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Ambivalent
I was pretty ambivalent about my wife leaving the Church until it actually happened. I understand her reasons and share some of them. My testimony has always been irregular and now I am questioning whether I can call it a testimony at all. I have little interest in being temple worthy and remain adamant that…
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Gratitude
I am always disheartened by people who can’t see how amazing modern life is. The world is phenomenally better than it was 200 years ago. I live a life now that couldn’t have even been dreamt of by kings then. I have clean hot and cold running water, a refrigerator to keep food fresh for…