deity as thoughtform or is there a god(dess) of the internet

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Permalink Reply by knowmad on October 5, 2010 at 1:33am

i do see your point(ah yes jungian archetypes) but not all deities are based on ethereal concepts. Nature is very real and plenty of people veiw Her or Him as a deity..(sorry for the late reply the PC was down most of the weekend) which is not something I personally consider ethereal. Or hero deities based off of possibly real people like Asclepius. In your practice do you see these as Archetypes?
I guess what I'm really trying to figure out is if deity is created by individual or cultural concepts. I think Archetypes definitely of the cultural type (right?). Jung sees them as universal concepts...

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Permalink Reply by Nenyond, the Painted Ogre on September 30, 2010 at 11:33pm

I see a little of both... Reality is a perception of Symbols and Patterns around us. Each one of these Symbols has an associated entity, a spirit. (but I loathe the term, so I call them Symbolic Entities, takes a lot of the fluffy out of it.) Some Symbols and Patterns, through imaginative association by other Symbols and Patterns become greater than the sum of their included Symbols and Patterns. (egregores). These Symbolic Entities are we nominally think of as gods. (in my paradigm).

So, in a fashion, I see spirits everywhere. The internet, Highways, parking lots, Grocery stores, my truck etc.

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Permalink Reply by knowmad on October 5, 2010 at 1:48am

would you consider yourself animist?

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Permalink Reply by Jason Isshinryu on October 5, 2010 at 1:52am

I thought the internet was a tool of the devil.... does the devil count as a deity?

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Permalink Reply by knowmad on October 5, 2010 at 3:04am

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

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Permalink Reply by Jason Isshinryu on October 5, 2010 at 3:19am

it would be worth less than the paper, don't bother.

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