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Lawtan
Dragon Storm
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(As a side note, other than at the start of a thread, it is generally frowned upon to post multiple times back-to-back)
I think the Esoteric Order of Dagon was meant as a joke, unless Lovecraftian cults nowadays exist. Scientology is to my understanding the perfect blend of "cult brainwash behavior" and "religion"...to rather negative degree (in the "we will financially ruin and potentially kidnap members who leave" sense)
Well, you can sort of say that Absurdism is, to me, the closest answer to the problem posed by Nietzsche (in which he was concerned with the nihilistic attitude and its harm to humanity being able to move forward and live)...in that it ignores the question of morality and god in favor of the central reason for asking such questions - why should we live, and favor life?
Camus, in his Myth of Sisyphus, illustrates how knowledge/religion/joy/etc. are possibly pointless (we lack the ability to ascertain if there is a point), but our struggles and variety of ideas do sometimes have positive benefits, and though nothing may be true or of value, by pursuing the goals, we spit in the face of the cruel situation we are born in, and act as the Greek Sisyphus, always trying to push the boulder up Hade's cursed hill. A sort of tragic, but admirably determined, hero.
Jediism is a bit odd, admittedly...but haven't observed it that much, so I don't know much about it.
The Hermetic Order and the like are interesting, as is Alchemy and its derivatives. The form and changes in Ancient Egyptian mythology, Shinto, and Ojibwe beliefs are interesting. I haven't gotten far into the Ancient Inca mythos, though how their strict gender-caste formation came about is a good model for why so many societies are set up like that (in that strict gender roles are due to trying to establish and justify a central inheritance system of power across disjointed matrilineal and patrilineal tribe lineages).
Lawtan: A chaotic dragoness with issues.
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Last edited by Lawtan; 09-19-2015 at 01:08 PM.
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Posted 09-19-2015, 01:06 PM
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