hi lorne13 sounds horrible. Poor fairies. Agnostics should think before they sit on the fence plainly! It is neither one thing nor the other and who is caught in the middle? Yes the poor fairies. Best wishes :)
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@sogdianrock Why so black and white? Life is full of ambiguity, uncertainty, ambivalence. Long live shades of grey
hi Literaturegirl · I am unconvinced agnosticism is a position at all. So in the case of fairies - which I believe in of course - what sort of position is it to say they may exist but you are unsure! Consider the case of the Cottingley fairies from 1917 in which photographs of fairies which the girls admitted to have created themselves fooling people who believed the camera does not lie. Fair enough simple fraud but one of the girls said that there are real fairies in the last photograph but they did not put them there. That is exactly what a fairy would do! They are sprites! Best wishes :)
“Look at [Frances’] face. Look at [Elsie’s] face. There is an extraordinary thing called Truth which has 10 million faces and forms—it is God’s currency and the cleverest coiner or forger can’t imitate it.”
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@sogdianrock I loved those photographs and the whole storyline! There's always the possibility of doubt. Nothing is 100% sure
hi Literaturegirl Fairies have a long and established presence in The World. Indeed a World without fairies would be a bank. Who wants to live in a bank! best wishes :)
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@sogdianrock Exactly! When it comes to faeries I'm a true believer! No sitting on the fence for me! ;)
hi Literaturegirl Well quite so. There is a further problem with religious agnosticism Personally I believe in all The Gods! This is considered radical Theism by some but how can mere mortals decide between The Gods. [b]Vulcan[/b] for example! Great war god! Lots of war still Ipso Facto Vulcan is real and alive. best wishes :)
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@sogdianrock Oh I'm with you on that one! Too black and white, limited, to focus only on one God, the Christian one
hi Literaturegirl Well there is no grey in my position. No God shall go unrecognised in my pantheon of Gods! My favourite is Freya of course! best wishes :)
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@sogdianrock Away from the Gods in ordinary life there is plenty of grey... Why Freya?
hi Literaturegirl ...the dwarfs a-smithying a golden collar.
...give her back her jewel.
from The Saga of Hogni and Hedinn, trans. by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris
best wishes :)
A pagan völva was buried c. 1000 with considerable splendour in Hagebyhöga in Östergötland. In addition to being buried with her wand, she had received great riches which included horses, a wagon and an Arabian bronze pitcher. There was also a silver pendant, which represents a woman with a broad necklace around her neck. This kind of necklace was only worn by the most prominent women during the Iron Age and some have interpreted it as Freyja's necklace Brísingamen. The pendant may represent Freyja herself.[10]
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@sogdianrock Wonderful! I was Freya in Dungeons and Dragons! ;)
