Monthly Archives: April 2006

Conflict: a natural order of the species. We want things, and we can’t all have them. Whenever I see a religious system that is supposed to get rid of conflict, I laugh. If we could get beyond conflict, we wouldn’t … Continue reading →

Guest essay day! today’s essay comes from Darkhawk. Please read it here: Everyday Theology: Gossip Just to make it clear: Darkhawk is speaking from a Kemetic viewpoint. View ma’at as improving the Divine, however, and this essay is directly applicable … Continue reading →

I can’t stand the idea that misfortune is the result of some angry god keeping score with your life. What happens is a result of what’s happened before and what you do about it .. cause and effect. The idea … Continue reading →

I even do it myself. I see something horrible, and I wish a nasty afterlife on the person. Sometimes, you just want to believe the person is somehow, in some way going to pay for what they do. However, I … Continue reading →

I’m not sure how I feel about this essay, actually. I don’t find it wrong in any way, but I’m not sure I find it very meaningful personally. Clearly there was a moment of creation. Once there was nothing, then … Continue reading →

Where is the boundary between our public lives and our privacy? Do we have the right to keep certain details of our life to ourselves, or should we live as an example of what we are for other people? These … Continue reading →

I really never know how to put my relationship with the Divine into words: and so, often, I don’t. I avoid the topic and stick to the stuff that does go into words more easily. I fear misleading people, and … Continue reading →

We live in a pleasure-centered culture. If you watch commercials, or listen to them, or whatever, everything circles around pleasure .. getting something and having the momentary flash of glee about it. But most of the stuff that we’re told … Continue reading →

This was a hard essay to write, and an even harder one to apply to myself. I don’t like people much. I don’t like the way I act around people, I don’t like the assumptions people make .. I have … Continue reading →

I’ve always found the idea of order as some ultimate good odd. Order is certainly easier in a lot of situations. When the order that you’re dealing with is good, it aids in good-things happening faster and more reliably. But … Continue reading →