[Cro Dreoilin] Up for Discussion: Do the Gods need worship?

[Kelley Forbes]

Nice way of putting that.

-- Kelley.

Sebastian wrote:
> That does make more sense, but with the comment about a portal of some 
> sort being opened is where I'm not quite getting it. How I am reading 
> that is less a pine tree and more of a neighbor. You have never met 
> your neighbor so have not opened any sort of communication or 
> possibility of a relationship. This may mean that you are not aware of 
> the existence of your neighbor, but this doesn't mean that your 
> neighbor cannot affect changes in your life.
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Charlotte Blackwood 
> <charlotte.blackwood at gmail.com <mailto:charlotte.blackwood at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     I don't think peek-a-boo what I was attempting to convey, more of a
>     "if you aren't aware of a certain pine tree in the forest, it still
>     exists, it just doesn't exist to the best of your knowledge/ isn't
>     part of your reality" & of course vice-versa for the other entity/
>     being...does that make sense?
>
>     On 11/15/11, Sebastian <jsburns at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jsburns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > That kind of makes it seem like a cosmic game of peek-a-boo.
>     Whether or not
>     > we are acknowledging their existence, I believe they would still
>     be there.
>     *************************
>     > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Charlotte Blackwood <
>     > charlotte.blackwood at gmail.com
>     <mailto:charlotte.blackwood at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> At the risk of exposing my Trekkie-ness, I recall an old-school
>     >> episode that addressed this very question.  The episode's writer
>     >> seemed to believe that gods need worship in order to exist,
>     that they
>     >> need the adoration similarly to what we need.  My personally
>     opinion
>     >> is that this is an anthromorphication (sp?).  I don't personally
>     >> believe that gods NEED us to worship them, more of a "if you don't
>     >> exist for me I don't exist for you"/ perception forming reality
>     thing.
>     >>  If you acknowledge them and honor them, you've opened a portal/
>     >> connection and therefore have started a dialog of sorts, to
>     which each
>     >> side has the opportunity to communicate w/ the other.
>      Otherwise, the
>     >> portal is closed for good or for bad.
>
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