Whose avatar, if any, am I?
Nov. 20th, 2007 04:52 pmThis question spawns from a conversation I had a while ago with
bradhicks, and not about policy, but about one of his assertions that as a Hellenic Reconstructionist, he felt that Dionysus, for better or worse, was paying his life a special amount of attention, with as much as has gone on.
Yesterday, when I was not cursing out my finances (they're not as bad as I think they are, I'm sure, but it's never nice to find out that you thought you were doing well, except that you're not really doing well), as a thought experiment and chance for you to inject humor or seriousness into dialogue, I thought up the following.
If it were so that, for whatever reason you can think of, "the gods" (insert whatever appropriate pantheon you like, have the most experience with, et cetera - if you are a monotheist and believe in saints and/or angels, substitute the saints/angels, as it's then a given that we're all Children of the Monotheist Deity) decided that I was to become the favored disciple/avatar/child of one of them (or many, if you really can't decide and think they could all play nice), which deity would lay claim to me?
I'm asking this because while I might think I fall under the auspices of one deity, someone with outside perspective could probably take into account all of my facets and make an accurate selection.
Just something for me to think about - if I were to become the avatar of a deity, which one would pick me?
Yesterday, when I was not cursing out my finances (they're not as bad as I think they are, I'm sure, but it's never nice to find out that you thought you were doing well, except that you're not really doing well), as a thought experiment and chance for you to inject humor or seriousness into dialogue, I thought up the following.
If it were so that, for whatever reason you can think of, "the gods" (insert whatever appropriate pantheon you like, have the most experience with, et cetera - if you are a monotheist and believe in saints and/or angels, substitute the saints/angels, as it's then a given that we're all Children of the Monotheist Deity) decided that I was to become the favored disciple/avatar/child of one of them (or many, if you really can't decide and think they could all play nice), which deity would lay claim to me?
I'm asking this because while I might think I fall under the auspices of one deity, someone with outside perspective could probably take into account all of my facets and make an accurate selection.
Just something for me to think about - if I were to become the avatar of a deity, which one would pick me?
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Date: 2007-11-21 01:10 am (UTC)