"Experience" really is a good word here. I can't say with certainty that what I've experienced has been spiritually inclined or what have you, but it still happened to me. I am content with it being because of my belief, not what I believe being true or not.
It's interesting sometimes that, when you do "strip out all of the [x]", you're left with something that might appear similar to how some furries display themselves. Yet 'kin seem to have a different posture about it all. It's not pride, "furry pride" is an absurd notion. Maybe the best description is "comfort" to display/act in a way that isn't really "play".
I don't see how non-human relating is broken. Non-human internet personae or author avatars aren't. Active imaginations aren't. In fact, I find feeling the need to simply characturise one's body and use it as a persona boring. I think people simply have an issue when the "spirituality" card is raised.
I do have a pretty clear cut line where things stop being "genuine". People need to respect writers and artists and keep mysticism away. (It's honestly a real problem on Tumblr and people joining it think it's "the place" for kin and justice stuff are quite wrong.) I don't want them to stop doing the former though. The fan creations, the persona, all that sort of thing. I just want to be respected as a creator. :<
I'm personally up in the air about past lives. (It's one of the few things that haven't fallen off the fence into the joke paddock as my patience for kin sadly cripples...) I actively avoid entertaining the notion for fear of losing myself. Who I am now is because of my present inside, which I can attest to more readily than possibly alternate sources. Perhaps even if you come to the belief your past lives aren't a thing, you can still attest to be dragon. Then we can get on with AR technology and make that more literal.
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It's interesting sometimes that, when you do "strip out all of the [x]", you're left with something that might appear similar to how some furries display themselves. Yet 'kin seem to have a different posture about it all. It's not pride, "furry pride" is an absurd notion. Maybe the best description is "comfort" to display/act in a way that isn't really "play".
I don't see how non-human relating is broken. Non-human internet personae or author avatars aren't. Active imaginations aren't. In fact, I find feeling the need to simply characturise one's body and use it as a persona boring. I think people simply have an issue when the "spirituality" card is raised.
I do have a pretty clear cut line where things stop being "genuine". People need to respect writers and artists and keep mysticism away. (It's honestly a real problem on Tumblr and people joining it think it's "the place" for kin and justice stuff are quite wrong.) I don't want them to stop doing the former though. The fan creations, the persona, all that sort of thing. I just want to be respected as a creator. :<
I'm personally up in the air about past lives. (It's one of the few things that haven't fallen off the fence into the joke paddock as my patience for kin sadly cripples...) I actively avoid entertaining the notion for fear of losing myself. Who I am now is because of my present inside, which I can attest to more readily than possibly alternate sources. Perhaps even if you come to the belief your past lives aren't a thing, you can still attest to be dragon. Then we can get on with AR technology and make that more literal.
wow i hope i didn't write a bigger comment than your post