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Eternity
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 Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009 19:26 Post subject: Just a theory |
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Theory goes: that all religions are right to a degree... there is one omnipresent god who manifests in different ways (Buddha, Yaweh, etc). This ties in to dragons because I believe that 1: His/her true form is that of a dragon, and 2: The dragon is the most powerful creature.
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Ragnarok
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| Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009 19:35 Post subject: Re: Just a theory |
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| Eternity wrote: |
| there is one omnipresent god |
What about religions with multiple gods? Or none?
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Jasriella
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Yeah you're kind of missing the part where some religions are polytheistic rather than monotheistic. What I do agree with is that all religions are right to a degree, well most anyway. Stuff like Naziism I can't see having any truth to them.
I like to imagine that this one omniscient and devine being is a dragon but I don't think thats the case.
And there is always a bigger fish. Where there may be dragons, there may be something to rival them. If not I fear of overpopulation and the exhaustion of game.
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Eternity
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| Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009 20:09 Post subject: |
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| As for polytheistic religions, each divine being is just simply a manifestation of the same god. Meaning that he/she has a myriad of traits and so forth, and some religions take one, or several, and think that they are different gods instead of just one. |
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DarkDragon
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| Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009 20:16 Post subject: |
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| Galadreil wrote: |
| I like to imagine that this one omniscient and devine being is a dragon but I don't think thats the case. |
In any case, at the level of absolute divinity, isn't something like species sort of pointless? It is omnipotent, so such mortal trivialities don't apply. It appears as it wishes to appear, since it is not limited in a pyshical sense, and may even have no physical form at all.
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Ragnarok
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| Posted: Thu 05 Mar 2009 20:51 Post subject: |
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| Eternity wrote: |
| As for polytheistic religions, each divine being is just simply a manifestation of the same god. Meaning that he/she has a myriad of traits and so forth, and some religions take one, or several, and think that they are different gods instead of just one. |
Or maybe monotheistic gods are just combinations of many different gods? Or maybe all gods are but myth and superstition?
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Serenity
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| Posted: Fri 06 Mar 2009 12:21 Post subject: Re: Just a theory |
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| Eternity wrote: |
| The dragon is the most powerful creature. |
I completely disagree. There will always be a rival for power between different species. If there was only one creature more powerful than the rest, what's keeping their population under control? What happens to the food they may share with other animals? It just wouldn't make since to the laws of nature if there was only one species at the top of the food chain. Also mind you that power goes for not only strength but knowledge and physical energy as well. So if dragons were more powerful in all the ways thinkable, wouldn't that make them a sort of super being?
| Eternity wrote: |
| As for polytheistic religions, each divine being is just simply a manifestation of the same god. Meaning that he/she has a myriad of traits and so forth, and some religions take one, or several, and think that they are different gods instead of just one. |
Excuse me, but couldn't it be the other way around as well? Couldn't a one god from a certain religion be a mixture of other gods and goddesses believed to be real in other religions? Maybe they just wanted to refer to one "high being" than a whole lot of them?
| Eternity wrote: |
| His/her true form is that of a dragon |
Some of us believe that we could be something other than dragons, such as wolves, horses, ect. Not all otherkin have to be dragons.
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| My kind had a predator. We had no scales, no magic, no breath weapon. Certainly not the "most powerful creature". And why would an immaterial being need a shape? |
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