Ouroboros24 said:
richardhutnik said:
pokoko said:
On a serious note, god existing or not, I will never, ever understand the concept of worship. I don't get it. In fact, I would automatically lose respect for any god that required worship. It's an immature and fearful idea born from immature and fearful cultures.
If there really is a god out there, and he's as illuminated as people claim, I would imagine that he face-palms quite often over the whole bowing and kneeling thing. He's probably waiting for humanity to stand up and start thinking for itself on a regular basis. |
Explain what the point of the that picture in your profile for me. I don't get it.
My understanding of worship, in its many forms, is that people feel a need to trumpet things they see of superior value to others, to show virtue and whatnot. There is also a desire to have things that are sacred. Real worship involves doing things to reflect the ideals of the object of the worship, and reflect its nature, and then when seeing it express one's feelings towards it. That is the heart of worship actually. And you see a LOT of it on this site, in these forums thrown at this game or that, or this fictional character or that.
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Your over all assessment of worship is accurate, but your belief of embedded signatures here on this site doesn't necessarily reflect that of worship. I personally don't like to project any sort of worship or fandom, hence mines being empty, but I think most people who do don't necessarily think their sigs are evangelically praising their specific likes or interests. Simply that they are personally involve with what they have and they'd like to share that with people.
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Don't take my comment about embedded signatures too seriously, but I will say that fandom borrows from the same part of brain as religious worship. And also, worship doesn't need to evangelize anything actually, just sing praises of something, which is at the heart of worship. I was just saying it was connected.
