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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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One thing that I recently learned is that even within the wall's of Christianity, there is a Feminine Divine which has been suppressed by mainstream Christians thousands of years now.

In Catholicism and Orthodoxy, the Virgin Mary comes awfully close to being a Feminine Divine.

True, but not the sort of goddess that might sit on one's face. Perish the thought ....

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You could say a Goddess by proxy. That Women represent the Goddess in some form. I think especially here in the Fetish World, that could certainly be the case too.

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ORIGINAL: ccedbgag

Many have spirituality based on Mother Earth, the true feminine divine. The one provider that if treated wrong can stop providing and end all.

Some of the most reverent people I've met have Mother Earth as a center that they base things from.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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You could say a Goddess by proxy. That Women represent the Goddess in some form. I think especially here in the Fetish World, that could certainly be the case too.

I think I know what you're getting at. A woman may be a royal pain in the arse, especially during her periods ("Periods" with a capital 'P', anyone?), be fucked up and generally quite nutty. God knows I've met plenty of that sort of lady. But such women can *still* be the 'vessels', to some degree or another, of that 'Goddess', despite usually being entirely unconscious of it. (I love watching the fascination on women's faces at each point when they realise some new thing that you see in them. It's *great* :-))

Well, anyway, that idea works for me. At times, and in a very fuzzy way, as previously mentioned.

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ORIGINAL: Charles6682

I think the reason why Goddess's and Women are respected in some cultures, is because they are are "vessels" that carry life. Clearly,, they are the birth givers. Ancient cultures many thousands of years ago worshipped the Goddess in a number of ways. Thus a lot of the ancient statues of Female figurines found in old history.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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Which we can presume includes telling himself that "comprehendible" is a word.

Well, actually . . .

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comprehendible

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ORIGINAL: Kirata


The fact that you can find it in a dictionary doesn't address my point. You can find "irregardless" in the dictionary too.

Since people use irregardless, it is undoubtedly a word in the broader sense of the language, but it has never been accepted in Standard English and is virtually always changed by copyeditors to regardless.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/irregardless

K.

It's incomprehensible (to me) that "comprehendible" isn't a word. I don't see how that can possibly be.

(For what it's worth: "comprehendible" came up with a squiggly red line underneath it but so did "copyeditors" LOL)



Michael

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Genesis 1:26-28

... 27"God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
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Second; in order for God to create male and female in God's own image, it follows, logically, that God must be both male and female.
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So, to my mind, the idea of femininity in the Divine is, essentially, a no-brainer.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


My understanding of a "Divine Feminine" - like many of my beliefs - comes from all over the place.

It incorporates, early religious training, shallow (as well as deep) research, and a bit of logical reasoning.

Since I was raised a Traditional Catholic, I was indoctrinated with the idea of the Holy Trinity - three Divine persons in one God. When I was old enough to formulate the question (five or six years old), I asked my priest just how that happened. My priest said that God, the Father and God, the Son looked at each other and the love that exuded from them formed the Holy Spirit. That's a little weak but, even as I got older, that was the best answer I could get to the question.

If the answer had been "God the Father and God, the Holy Spirit ..." That might have made it a bit easier to wrap my head around ... kind of a familial unit with the Holy Spirit being the "mother". Not that it matters, per se because I don't know how much I believe in the Holy Trinity, exactly.

Here's where the logical thought process comes in: Genesis includes these words:

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ORIGINAL: Genesis 1:26-28

26Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Forgetting the use of the masculine pronoun, I think these verses speak volumes. First; God is an "us". This lends some credence to the idea of a Holy Trinity. By the way, the verse did NOT come from the Catholic Bible.

Second; in order for God to create male and female in God's own image, it follows, logically, that God must be both male and female.

Not only that, but what the Pagans (and we Gnostic Christians) believe(d) to be true continues the influence of a Feminine Divine. I'm speaking of what most Christian sects would refer to as the "Magdalene Heresy". I think it is entirely possible that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married (or, at least, "partnered").

So, to my mind, the idea of femininity in the Divine is, essentially, a no-brainer.



Michael