ext_18428: (Merlin's an idiot)
Jen Northwood ([identity profile] rivendellrose.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rivendellrose 2009-07-07 02:33 am (UTC)

I've more or less settled on "atheist," since "pantheist" tends to get me either weird looks or even weirder conversations, and I tend to be... adversarial toward organized religion, as well as towards the fluffy woo-woo stuff that a lot of pagans spout. But in my heart of hearts, yeah, I still haven't given up a lot of affinity and affection toward spirituality of a very personal sort, and I will freely admit that I get a little nostalgic about it a lot of times.

On one level, I always say that the universe is a plenty interesting place as it is, and I don't need the supernatural to make it more interesting. But sometimes, as with stuff like this, I'm reminded that when I say "I don't need the supernatural," what I mean is "I don't need interfering busy-body gods to be creating things, when it's perfectly obvious from a scientific standpoint that the universe works just fine on its own." I do intensely and devoutly wish that I could believe in other aspects of the supernatural... and then idiots come along and dance in 'my' bloody forests pretending to call on fairies to fix everything, and I get absurdly annoyed because, damn it, they're cheapening something that I still sort of wish I could believe in, by being morons about it. :P

And your icon is, of course, adorkable.

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