Weird in the sense that you don't often hear about people being raised Pegan.
I actually think, probably due to a certain amount of loyalty related bias, that Peganism has a lot of honorable points, and it is historically non-violent.
But the concept of actual deities I had always found hard to believe.
I think that with any religion you can find a concept that as a concept can be very nice, and maybe even beneficial, but entire religions are factually bereft.
I was raised to be Pegan.
Not ''Wiccan'' or ''Wicca'', but the original idea of Peganism which is that the Earth is our Mother, and that there is such thing as reincarnation (past lives), and that everything has a soul, and then a series of Nature Spirits, and Gods, and Goddesses, fairies (of all kinds).
I suppose that sounds rather strange, especially since I grew up with Pegan alters, anf broomsticks, and celestial wheels, and casting spells.
My mom was a Metaphysical Minister, I suppose I have still clung to Science Of Mind...
I never quite believed in any of it though, and eventually as I got older and more well read, I found out that I was agnostic, and then I got older, and was athiest, and even that didn't cover the extent of my non-belief, until I found that I was actually a nihilist.
I'm content now, I don't condemn people of religion, nor do I try to convert, I keep to myself...
I may be going to Europe next year *crosses fingers*
The American mentality has always bothered me, it completely spits on intellectuals, we cheer for sports players, and laugh at spelling bee champions.
It's just sad.
Oscar Wilde went to Trinity!
That would have been awesome.
I'm an athiest, but I may end up going to a catholic art school... Ehg
My sister-in-law is pretty strange, not in the same way as me, and maybe not in an entirely relatable way, but I am always confident that whatever strangeness she finds in me, she won't damn me for.
I have the plan of taking a couple of years to traverse all of America, to gain an unnaturally deep and extensive knowledge of it's social working, and then maybe I'll make like Fitzgerald and become an expatriot and move to some European country where they obsess over coffee, and don't wake up till noon, and stay up to all odd hours of the night.
Damn Capotè for making Italy sound so good, haha.
I get along with my brother's wife, we can joke around and stuff, but I always end up saying something really awkward, and she just kind of looks as me and says ''You are such a dork, Harper. I love you''
I of course take that moment to become mute.
That sounds like a dream that I had!
I dreamt that Sarah Palin became President, and irradicated societal laws, so that the people punished the people for whatever they felt was wrong.
So in the dream I had two neighbors, one was a man in his late twenties who was gay, and the others were homophobic rednecks.
What insued was terrifying.
They imprisoned the man, and were planning on raping, and then murdering him as ''punishement''.
I had called the police, whose uniforms were full riot gear, and they said that these men were protected by the law for exacting justice, and though I didn't believe it was right, that no longer mattered, and they could no longer intervene.
So I took one of my brothers, and we broke into the house, and rescued the man.
What is even more terrifying is that there is a bill that I heard they were trying to pass that basically says that every known homosexual will undergo a background check, and if they have any form of violent history they will be incarcerated.
Basically saying that homosexuals are inherently dangerous. What the fuck?
I actually think, probably due to a certain amount of loyalty related bias, that Peganism has a lot of honorable points, and it is historically non-violent.
But the concept of actual deities I had always found hard to believe.
I think that with any religion you can find a concept that as a concept can be very nice, and maybe even beneficial, but entire religions are factually bereft.