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@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @Felthry @KawaSeadrake Catching up on all this.
For what it's worth, I've never liked or identified with my human body, but I'm finally starting to become okay with it the more my worldview changes to a more 'multicosmic' view. Put simpler, the more I am learning to detatch my view of self from my body, the more I'm ok with having it as "a chassis"
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@KawaSeadrake @Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town Also to touch on the earlier bit on spirituality, although I am otherkin and spiritual, I do not link the two by necessity. I will always stress that being otherkin doesn't require a spiritual bone, and that it's all Identity Stuff.
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@Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @Felthry @KawaSeadrake For me personally, widening my view of identity to a multicosmic view helped me understand Different Types of Real, which in turn led me to better understand Belief, and thus spirituality being this construct of Internal Stuff That Matters
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@Oneironott @KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town Also being raised catholic and thus associating anything spiritual with weird arbitrary rules and sitting in church for an hour a week not understanding a word that was being said and the time my sunday school teacher punished me for asking questions.... makes it a bit hard, perhaps, for me to be spiritual. Plus I'm an engineer, with naturally analytical thought processes.
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@Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @KawaSeadrake Born and raised Catholic and a software engineer here ;P
Yeah, I -definitely- needed the logical breadcrumbs to follow to get to where I am now, FWIW. I can TOTALLY approach things like that too.
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@Oneironott @KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town I might ask for your help with such things if I am ever feeling properly up to it.
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@Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @KawaSeadrake http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/15/raikoth-history-religion/ as something to note for whenever that is: this helped me a lot
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@KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @Felthry But again, and I always stress, an understanding of belief isn't required to understand being otherkin, definitely n.n'
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@Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @KawaSeadrake In fact, I find the parallels MUCH more in line with other aspects of identity like Gender. And, for the same reason I am valid as a woman, I am valid as this :)
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@Oneironott @KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town Dunno if that'll help me too much, then. I've long since given up trying to figure out my gender, and I just accept it as it is, whatever it is. If only I could apply that philosophy to other things.
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@Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @KawaSeadrake @Oneironott
I still haven't figured out my gender (I'm gradually leaning towards saying my gender is "no," the polite version being "no thank you," the less polite version being "no also fuck off"), and despite having a narrative that goes back to childhood (I posted about it here yesterday in fact), I am completely unsure whether it's "real," a "spiritual thing," just my imagination, a psychodrama, or... what. :D
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@Oneironott @KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @Felthry I think I have an advantage there, though, in having been raised--not even atheist, just without any mention being made to religion whatsoever. I think of my general spiritual/religious philosophy as "Polypantheistic Zen Discordian agnostic," which basically means I may or may not at any moment believe in a wide variety of god-constructs, but ultimately feel it doesn't really matter as long as rent's getting paid.
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@Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @KawaSeadrake @Oneironott and I have much the same feeling about my Otherkinness--it works for me, doesn't interfere with my life, so I'm not too fussed about whether or how "real" it is.
@Felthry @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town @KawaSeadrake @Oneironott
nah, it's only too many @s when there's no room for other text. XD
@green I like your "an identity under construction in a badly-fitting person suit", by the way. It's a good description of me as well, I think.
@Felthry thank you! /bow :)
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@green @Oneironott @KawaSeadrake @Ulfra_Wolfe@witches.town If only I could get that to work for me, too. Stupid anxiety.
This seems a bit like too many @s in one post, wow.