The Choice of Ones Path

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The choice of paths a person chooses does determine their life’s course and they should choose it wisely and be aware of the consequences the path may bring. The choice of a path that is separate from mainstream religions as well as most formalized religions generally means that it will be a solo journey. This journey can be fraught with little to no understanding by others. It can be a lonely journey with a few people who are willing to listen, understand your path even be able to follow a path that parallels you own journey, yet not be able to share in your journey like one who is on the same path.


This does not have to isolate you if you don’t allow it to. In some respects stepping off the beaten path can leave you lonely and desiring a spirit to be able to share it with. However there are those who are willing to listen, understand and indulge in your path even while walking another. I guess the saying “Take it where you can get it “comes to mind.


Companions and significant people in our lives don’t necessarily need to walk the same path with us just be willing to share with us. After all it can test our beliefs and our choices when they are sharing across from a different path. These kinds of relationships also show an open acceptance that can be more valuable than being accepted merely because you walk the same path. Many paths are ones of solitude and being alone and the friends and acquaintances that can be built that bridge paths can be stronger than any built on the commonality of walking the same path. Christianity is one that teaches this lesson well. In church an d places of activities associated with the church people tend to act if as they are another’s best friend even to those they would not give the time of day to outside of the church function.


The desire to have someone to share your views and you path is only to be human but to be able to do so beyond your own path will strengthen your faith and spirit and provide for a more spiritual enriching relationship.


My thoughts and opinion think of them as you will, hopefully you think about them before rejecting or accepting them.


Rogue

Morality

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Morality
Morality is what a part of what a tradition is supposed to impart on its practitioners. Yet I have noticed that most traditions seem to copy that of Christianity. I have a problem with this, because if you can sin and ask forgiveness and it is granted for the asking what is the point of the rules to begin with.
The other problem is that if anyone is going to set up a system where any type of leader is to be followed whether it be deity or not the system should be set up so those who follow it can succeed. Every help book on being a leader for just about anything emphasizes that you “Don’t set your followers up for failure”. This is what makes being a good leader hard, not only are you out in front but you are supporting your followers and helping them succeed.
The third problem is a rule should fit all situations and have no exceptions. Thou shall not kill except in time of war or in self defense or in defense of home, possessions and loved ones kinda makes the rule a mute point.
Any system, whether following your own instincts or a higher power or the little tiki statue necklace around your neck, should be set up for balance and success of the followers not made so riddled with rules and moralities that are mute and become a waste of space.
Several of the social moralities are ones of human vanities. The world and nature and most deities could care less if a person ran around nude, after all no one comes into the world fully dressed. This is a confusion of morality and vanity. The issues of morality are forced on us by society but to become an eclectic Christian and claim to have no relationship to the tradition is self denial and untrue.
This brings me to the point of the not lying. To expect a human to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth 100% of the time is a set up for failure. After all in all truth deception is part of human nature and over the life time of any human they have told several lies. The thought may be well intended and socially humans get along better when everyone is telling the truth, however everyone has their own boundary of when it is allowable to lie. To expect anything more is to set the practitioners up for failure.
I make a challenge to all pagan and non Christian followers, list out the morals and rules of your tradition and tell what you think and is it truly obtainable.
One last thought: the theory of peace is a marvelous idea the practice of it makes us all the same.
“The day that the world is completely at peace is the day the human race no longer has individuals”. Unknown
After all conflict comes from disagreeing Peace comes with total unrestrained agreement. If we all think alike, act alike and be alike true peace can be obtained. Personally I enjoy my uniqueness and can survive and be happy even if I never see the sibilance of true peace.

The Right Stuff

There are several meanings for several words. In pagan society people have come to making one religion cover what they believe. This may work for some when talking about religions that have been left in history and aren't practiced in their intended form. However, to claim that a religion that is in practice is part of your beliefs is different from saying that yo are part of that religion.

I have heard people claim to be par of a religion and not even know the name of the gods or godesses yet claim to be strict followers. To me this equates to saying you are christian, yet not know the name of christ, what the trinity is, or who the virgin Mary is.

Why is it so difficult to admit what one believes may follow a particular religion but they are not part of the religion.

Consent

Consent
A concise revision of my opinion on consent.
Laws vary state to state on who can consent to various things. In my opinion there should be one age of consent. One of the major issues with consent is sex with minors. My question is how many sexual teenagers are charged with this. For the government to say minors can only consent to sex with minors is discrimination. What the government needs to do is make a law that only people of a certain age and above can consent to sex.
This would free the courts case load of cases that shouldn’t really be there. It has been said that after the age of thirteen a child has learned everything they are going to from their parents and from that point on is putting into practice what they have learned and experimenting for themselves. If parents took responsibility for what their children know of the world and sex there would be fewer teens having sex and the age of the partner would be of no consequence.
The second point would be the nature of human beings. A majority of the males in human society align better with females that are younger than themselves. Generally it is only of two to five years difference although it is still there. By current laws 19 and 20 year old adults cannot pursue females because by average of 3 years what comes natural has been deemed illegal.
There are rare incidences that the difference is closer to 10 to 15 years, when it comes to love age has no definite ages, but what of those who would use an innocent young woman? Simple, there is already a law that covers that ground for all, it is statutory rape. Statutory rape does cover manipulating someone into sexual acts that they would not consider otherwise. This may take a guardian to note and bring up to authorities when this case happens but it sole basis is on behavior and action not just age.
The reason for the natural inclination of the age difference is maturity. Woman mature quicker than men, to be with someone of the same maturity level or a needed maturity level causes the desire for a person of a different age.
Personally I would say the law should give the freedom of consent to people who are somewhere between 14 to 16 and older, the exact of where in that three year range it should be I would leave up to the government to argue out and preferably do a study to determine at which age a teen knows themselves well enough to give consent.

Sex Anyone?

This is a touchy topic for most of society, however that is a major downfall of society. There are several ways of sexual expression and the idea of denying your true nature never sounded right to me. Several religions and philosophy instruct it followers to ignore or deny that which has been built into our nature. Sex by natures design is pleasurable. Human's by nature are social creature and the closer they get the more the desire grows to be intimate.
Lust is just as valid of a reason to have sex as any other. The save yourself till you get married attitude, I believe, is one of the biggest factors in today's divorce rate. If people could admit that certain people would be a good fuck buddy and not able to be a long term relationship fewer people would marry so they can have sex.

If people could admit they are sexual creatures and it is just a part of their nature there would be less problems. For one thing if it was thought to be a natural act, parents wouldn't squirm at the thought of telling their children about it. Having young teens more educated about sex would lead to teens at least having fewer children of their own as well as less of a delima with having sex before they are truely ready to.

Over all society has turned something natural into an evil act that is to be avoided while the whole time we react sexually everyday and supressing it only causes more anxiety and stress in living life.

Society

As the world strives to keep up with rising costs, and the troubles of living life people often overlook the natural population control that nature has built into all living creatures. As society strives to control the people it creates laws and rules that complicate and separates people.
However most of society’s rules are bogus and used to classify people. Nature has set up the guidelines for social living even before humans existed. Nature’s laws although harsh allow for living in social setting and allowed for a population control that man has almost defeated the purpose of.
Society tries to dictate how we dress, how we live and where we fit into the world. Free expression is only an illusion as we are taught from a young age how to be. We are taught to be ashamed of our own skin and to cover it up. We are taught to ignore our instincts and that they are vulgar. The act of procreation is considered to be a taboo topic. Society also teaches us to see the differences and to acknowledge them. Society has taught us to judge people instead of accepting them.
These and many of the rules and laws society set forth are the attitudes that I reject. People should be free to act as they would like to. The saying that you’re free to do as you please until it interferes with another persons freedoms is mostly true, even in that there is a flaw for society has also taught us to be literal, because most people look at their freedom as if they don’t want to look at certain things than those things should be destroyed or outlawed. When the truth of the matter comes down to if you don’t want to see something don’t look. This goes for porn magazines and movies, to the old sagging woman who likes to sunbathe nude. These things do not interfere with anyone’s freedoms they just may not appeal to everyone.
Nature’s law of only the strongest survive is another point where society has done wrong. Society in it’s strive to control people has gone beyond itself to preserve life and keep the weak and suffering alive. I am not saying that curing common diseases is wrong but to save a life that will only exist in torment and pain till they can’t be kept alive is ridiculous. It may sound harsh, but why save the life of a person young old or infant that will do nothing but occupy space and have no quality of life. The same society that tortures its own kind this way judges other animal’s quality of life and kills the ones found not to have a chance of a good quality life. This is hypocritical and leaves a lot to be said for intelligence.
It is sad when a baby is born with a defect or too early to live on its own or without severe repercussions later in life, just as it is sad when a young person or adult is involved in an accident that saving their life means they will be paralyzed for life and need continuous care. The point is if people would accept that they are lives not meant to be and let them pass on with dignity the worlds population would not be as over populated as it is today.
It is this population that is destroying the world. Nature had never intended the planet to support the number of people that exists on it today. Had the science and doctors accepted that some things were never meant to be and allowed nature’s population control methods to work the world would be an easier and nicer world to live in.