Are You a God-Slave? Will You Be?

[2greyhounds]

"have felt Anubis, Athena, Thor, Odin and Bast all occasionally try to break my pride and even test me by trying to break my will,"(LeaLynne)

I don't really relate to the word slave, I am more drawn to' servant' as serving others including higher deities and within that serving oneself and the highest good, however I understand when you say that you feel that you were affected to the point you felt "broken"... but I look at it in a way that the old you has to be somehow transformed somewhat like the whole phoenix metaphor for a new and better you to result.
does that make any sense?
that's what I felt happened to me anyway.

[Marilyn/Absentminded]

2greyhounds,

Please quote by using the 'reply with quote' button on the post you are replying to and leaving the quote code intact. It is okay to delete everything except the specific part you are replying to, and even to delete everything except the code (in which case you need to make sure the open and close code are on different lines), but we need the code itself to create the linkback.

The post you quoted was several posts back from your reply - in fact, it was on the previous page. The linkback would allow anyone to quickly find the post to refresh their memory or (not in this case but often enough that it's one of the reasons for the rule) allow staff to track back a problem to its source. Copy-pasting and adding an attribution misses the point of the quote rule.



This isn't an official warning and you're not in any kind of trouble. Just consider it a gentle nudge/reminder for someone new to the board. This rule is often problematic at first for people used to different boards.

Marilyn
TC Staff

[veggiewolf]

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Is there anything else specific that you'd like me to expand on or clarify?

Nope! I completely get what you're saying. Thanks!

[2greyhounds]

2greyhounds,

Please quote by using the 'reply with quote' button on the post you are replying to and leaving the quote code intact. It is okay to delete everything except the specific part you are replying to, and even to delete everything except the code (in which case you need to make sure the open and close code are on different lines), but we need the code itself to create the linkback.

The post you quoted was several posts back from your reply - in fact, it was on the previous page. The linkback would allow anyone to quickly find the post to refresh their memory or (not in this case but often enough that it's one of the reasons for the rule) allow staff to track back a problem to its source. Copy-pasting and adding an attribution misses the point of the quote rule.

This isn't an official warning and you're not in any kind of trouble. Just consider it a gentle nudge/reminder for someone new to the board. This rule is often problematic at first for people used to different boards.

Marilyn
TC Staff

Ok, sorry i was chastised once before on this when I did not use any quote- and I will comply, or not post. It was just because I don't have a regular computer access and it is not possible on my tappa talk app on my phone to do the quote thing that way.
thanks for the nudge, anyway

[Vella Malachite]

Nope! I completely get what you're saying. Thanks!

No problem. Sorry for being unclear the first time.

[Asch]

Ok, sorry i was chastised once before on this when I did not use any quote- and I will comply, or not post. It was just because I don't have a regular computer access and it is not possible on my tappa talk app on my phone to do the quote thing that way.
thanks for the nudge, anyway

When using tapatalk if you tap / click once on the post you want to reply to it should pop up with a query to quote. Works on my iPhone anyway

[2greyhounds]

When using tapatalk if you tap / click once on the post you want to reply to it should pop up with a query to quote. Works on my iPhone anyway

yeayy!that works, your a genius thanks!

[Asch]

yeayy!that works, your a genius thanks!

:D no worries I do a ton of my cauldron surfing while at work (anything posted before 1200 pst is usually from work) so I got pretty familiar with it

[Juniperberry]

Nope! I completely get what you're saying. Thanks!

I still don't understand why a god would want a slave or a person's reasonings for agreeing to become one.

For a God is it a) the God has a grand plan and needs complete devotion or b) the God has a grand plan for you and it requires your full devotion?

For the person is it a) the acceptance that the God knows best and you trust your life in his hands or b) there is some reward for your complete faith and commitment to the God?

Is there a c) that I'm not seeing?

[Morag]

Is there a c) that I'm not seeing?

Yeah.


For me at least.

In my case, it’s knowing that the choice I am making will be incredibly hard and will require many sacrifices on my part, but that it will also fill out my life in a way that nothing else will, and not making the choice may deprive me of incredible joy and love.

I can do it or not do it, but I know that the choice to do it will be infinitely more fulfilling for me.

As for the gods' reasons, you'd have to ask Them.

When I asked Morrigan why, She said, quite simply, "Because you can take it."