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⌈ Secret Post #2193 ⌋

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[GunnerKrigg Court]

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[The Avengers]

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[French & Saunders]

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[X-Men/Marvel Universe]

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[Tron: Uprising]

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[Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman]

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[How I Met Your Mother]

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[The X-Files/Fox Mulder]

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[Homestuck]

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[True Grit]

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[Saya no Uta]

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[The Silmarillion]

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[Homestuck]

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[Supernatural]

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IA. I wish I could be religious too. I know a lot of insanely happy religious people, and some days I wish I could just be them :P

I also really like the rituals of religion- I grew up Catholic and I liked all the ritualistic stuff. If my roommates weren't such diehard Catholics that would jump to conclusions and pester me about religion if I went to church I would probably go to a latin mass every Sunday just because the rituals feel comforting to me.

When I was in college I took a course on religions (anthropology/archaeology major, so it was an anthro course) and one of the projects was to choose one religion for course and study it. This meant going to services, observing rituals and practices, and placing yourself in the community. (With the community's permission and awareness, of course.) Best course ever. I am not a believer, but I am fascinated by religion. I love to observe and study and that course gave me the perfect creepy-free reason to observe and analyse and interview to my hearts content.

I minored in religious studies, and one of my classes had an assignment to attend a service outside your affiliation and write a reflection on it. I went to a Saturday morning Shabbat service back in 2008 and still look back on it as one of the most peaceful, communal, sunlight-filled mornings of my life.

IA about the rituals. In college I started attending an Orthodox synagogue in a semi-regular basis even though I'm not even Jewish and I had no idea what was going on. I was really stressed out and had a full time job and was going to school full time and everything in my life was really up in the air (like it usually is) and it felt good to attend a service and know that it was going to stay the same as it always had been, pretty much. Nobody ever questioned why I was there and the rabbis knew me by name, etc. -- it was nice but I stopped going because I felt like I was lying to everyone and I don't know

My mom was raised Episcopalian (that's her dad's religion, I don't know about my grandma or her mother) and because of her father's profession they moved from state to state every few years or so, so she never got to make any friends growing up or get used to living in one place for any length of time. So she said that she liked it because the service was exactly the same no matter where you went and it was comforting to have something static in your life like that. I think I had a similar experience

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