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Thursday, 12th June 2014, 02:56
Your preferred Crawl deity, in RL
Here's a good discussion question! Which Crawl deity do you think you would follow in real life, to any degree?
By "follow", we can say anywhere between outright "worship", or something as small and simple as thanking him/her for stuff. Whichever applies to you, since we all interpret spirituality differently. And, we can include "synonomous worship" in this thread too, so if you follow Jesus in RL and want to count that as following Zin then go for it, it's up to you.
And, obviously none (or perhaps very few?? heheh) of us are armoured warriors or destructive wizards going on a quest through a dungeon for a magical treasure, so, if you want you can apply these Crawl deities to other things that are a part of real life. For example, someone going to college might figuratively hail Okawaru for the heroic prowess and finesse needed to pull an all-nighter for a difficult course and write up a research paper due the next day, or something.
I'll start, of course!
I would say I figuratively follow Fedhas more than any other deity. In real life I have a huge, practically reverant respect for nature and living things-- when I'm bicycling two miles to the Starbucks, I purposefully swerve to dodge ants, spiders, slugs, earthworms, any wildlife at all that I see on the sidewalk, because I don't want to destroy wildlife. Even if I see a big wolf spider in my bedroom, I won't hurt it, I'll put it gently in an empty Gatorade bottle and relocate it outside in the bushes. I think plants and insects and wildlife are the coolest things! Even things that people consider horrific, such as a snake swallowing a live mouse and digesting it, I have to watch in amazement the entire time, it's just amazing.
That, and my thoughts on death are sort of a Fedhas mentality too. When I die, my energy ought to be returned to the earth so that everything can come full circle. I think it's okay to die, and am not terrified of death like so many people around me are. I think birth is an indescribably amazing miracle too and the process of gestation fascinates me beyond possible description; I am a little sad that I wasn't born female just because I would so dearly love to experience creating and harboring and producing a brand new life out of nothing from inside me. Life is the coolest thing ever. Death is sort of like a facet of life though so I don't recoil away from it.
So there you go, in real life I most closely follow the traditions and mentalities of Fedhas, the plant goddess.
Anyone care to share which deity they most closely follow?
By "follow", we can say anywhere between outright "worship", or something as small and simple as thanking him/her for stuff. Whichever applies to you, since we all interpret spirituality differently. And, we can include "synonomous worship" in this thread too, so if you follow Jesus in RL and want to count that as following Zin then go for it, it's up to you.
And, obviously none (or perhaps very few?? heheh) of us are armoured warriors or destructive wizards going on a quest through a dungeon for a magical treasure, so, if you want you can apply these Crawl deities to other things that are a part of real life. For example, someone going to college might figuratively hail Okawaru for the heroic prowess and finesse needed to pull an all-nighter for a difficult course and write up a research paper due the next day, or something.
I'll start, of course!
I would say I figuratively follow Fedhas more than any other deity. In real life I have a huge, practically reverant respect for nature and living things-- when I'm bicycling two miles to the Starbucks, I purposefully swerve to dodge ants, spiders, slugs, earthworms, any wildlife at all that I see on the sidewalk, because I don't want to destroy wildlife. Even if I see a big wolf spider in my bedroom, I won't hurt it, I'll put it gently in an empty Gatorade bottle and relocate it outside in the bushes. I think plants and insects and wildlife are the coolest things! Even things that people consider horrific, such as a snake swallowing a live mouse and digesting it, I have to watch in amazement the entire time, it's just amazing.
That, and my thoughts on death are sort of a Fedhas mentality too. When I die, my energy ought to be returned to the earth so that everything can come full circle. I think it's okay to die, and am not terrified of death like so many people around me are. I think birth is an indescribably amazing miracle too and the process of gestation fascinates me beyond possible description; I am a little sad that I wasn't born female just because I would so dearly love to experience creating and harboring and producing a brand new life out of nothing from inside me. Life is the coolest thing ever. Death is sort of like a facet of life though so I don't recoil away from it.
So there you go, in real life I most closely follow the traditions and mentalities of Fedhas, the plant goddess.
Anyone care to share which deity they most closely follow?
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(also the master of Quadri-Birds)
TheProvocateur: I like how we're sprinting at a pile of greater mummies
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