An interesting--and disturbing--revelation

[valarltd]

So, last night was realm class.
We're talking about Deity and the ways of approaching it.

Most of the class is polytheistic animists. We have a Poly elementalist. And me, the nontheistic pantheist.

I blame George Lucas.

I believe there is a higher power, a life energy created by the universe. I believe gods and goddesses are metaphors and focusing devices humans create to access aspects of that energy.

When I talk about Freyja, on one hand yes, I mean the blonde in the feather cloak in a chariot drawn by cats. But what I really am talking about is strength and bravery and love and desire.

It's an interesting thing to learn that after 30 years of "Force schmorce, I got me a wookiee," I really am a Jedi after all...


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Comments

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

You do realize that the whole Jedi/The Force thing is culled from actual belief systems... Your faith is certainly not based on fiction...

And Han Solo is at least a little bit Jedi himself... ;)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

*snerk*
That last depends on which fanzines you read...
There was a popular trend in 80-82 to write Han as the mysterious "Other."

Some stories even still do.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

I'm taking straight from the movies... in one of the new prequels a Jedi says that only Jedi have the ability to make a lightsaber work...

But on Hoth, Han uses Luke's lightsaber...