[ SECRET POST #2193 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2193 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[GunnerKrigg Court]


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02.
[The Avengers]


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03.
[French & Saunders]


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04.
[X-Men/Marvel Universe]


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05.
[Tron: Uprising]


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06.
[Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman]


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07.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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08.
[The X-Files/Fox Mulder]


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09.
[Homestuck]


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10.
[True Grit]


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11.
[Saya no Uta]


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12.
[The Silmarillion]


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13.
[Homestuck]


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14.
[Supernatural]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 015 secrets from Secret Submission Post #313.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Believers

[omorka]

Forgive me for saying this, but that's fuckin' weird.

I have precisely the same amount of faith and confidence in my gods as I do my close friends. I don't think my gods are infallible, and while they probably have a much better idea of the 'big picture' than I do, I don't think they're experts on living at a human scale - so I only find them comforting to the same degree that I find my relationships with other humans comforting.

And in a lot of ways, they're an incredible pain in the ass. They have rules and expectations, and they don't always make sense (see: not experts at living at a human scale). I really have no idea why people who don't have religious experiences bother with religion at all, except as a sort of social club. If I weren't already used to this, if I'd had a choice about it, I suspect I'd have chosen to not have to deal with it at all. Atheism seems so much easier, to me.

I probably ought to anon for this, since half of y'all are going to think I'm schizophrenic now, but whatever.

Re: Believers

[biohazardgirl]

Naw, it's cool (at least to me) <3 Just because people have a religious experience doesn't mean they're mentally ill. Some people just have them and some people don't. If no one had them anyway we wouldn't have religion :D

I think it's pretty amazing actually that you have had one and that it was strong enough to prove to you that your (falliable) gods are definitely real. Whether it was positive or negative I don't know, but it's interesting to me that it was so powerful that you're no longer in doubt.

Re: Believers

[(Anonymous)]

I think 'religious experience' is also up for personal interpretation. Let's take the Aurora shooting for example. Some people said it was 'the hand of god' that made the killer's gun jam. They take it as 'divine intervention'. The reason why I can never see 'divine intervention' in this is because so many people were killed, even a child, and so many were wounded. The 'all knowing god(s)' decide to make a gun jam instead of 'smiting' him down before he was allowed to go on his killing spree.

For me, as an atheist, I can't ever see any stroke of luck as godly because why would it be? There's a chance a spray of bullets is not going to hit someone, there's a chance someone won't die in an accident, there's a chance a disease will finally be cured. I think it's a push of faith to see something as divine rather than not in chance. I think it's far easier to be able to see something holy in horrible situations than not be able to.