Following my posting of my Mjöllnir pendant...
A thread about your beliefs, religious, philosophical, ethical, etc.
My Mjöllnir actually means something to me. It's an anchor I can carry around with me, an anchor into Ásatrú (its also an anchor in the litteral sense of the word, the damn thing is so heavy! lol)
All my life I've felt like this christian religion I grew up with was totally meaningless, fake, artificial, "custom made for sheep-people". So I decided to build up my own set of values and principles of life and lived according to them for the most part of my "mature" life. Then some months ago, I realised that all I built for myself, on my own, independantly, like a big boy, all of this actually corresponds to what Ásatrú is. And so I figured...
Why not? I'm sure it would feel nice to know that there are other people out there that live according to the same stuff as I do, that I can call my kin. I'm sure it'd feel nice to actually have something else than open space to gaze at when I look upwards, to be able to look up there and be able to put names on then presences I've felt were there all my life, calling them Odin, Thor, Freyr, Frigg or by another name, to smile to myself and think of Heimdall when I see a rainbow, etc...
And I can tell you, it does feel very nice. It cuts the feeling of loneliness and it gives meaning to my actions. It gives me a reason to push forward into what I do, telling myself "this is what I chose, those are the value I decided were mine, now to be true to all of it, I have to push on forward". I reach for my Mjöllnir, give it a slight squeeze and I keep going.
Ásatrú was a major turn in my life. I'm still leaving myself an opening to go back to my previous self, but I am feeling very good in this new "faith", even though I probably shouldn't use this word to describe this. More like... way of life.
What about you guys?
A thread about your beliefs, religious, philosophical, ethical, etc.
My Mjöllnir actually means something to me. It's an anchor I can carry around with me, an anchor into Ásatrú (its also an anchor in the litteral sense of the word, the damn thing is so heavy! lol)
All my life I've felt like this christian religion I grew up with was totally meaningless, fake, artificial, "custom made for sheep-people". So I decided to build up my own set of values and principles of life and lived according to them for the most part of my "mature" life. Then some months ago, I realised that all I built for myself, on my own, independantly, like a big boy, all of this actually corresponds to what Ásatrú is. And so I figured...
Why not? I'm sure it would feel nice to know that there are other people out there that live according to the same stuff as I do, that I can call my kin. I'm sure it'd feel nice to actually have something else than open space to gaze at when I look upwards, to be able to look up there and be able to put names on then presences I've felt were there all my life, calling them Odin, Thor, Freyr, Frigg or by another name, to smile to myself and think of Heimdall when I see a rainbow, etc...
And I can tell you, it does feel very nice. It cuts the feeling of loneliness and it gives meaning to my actions. It gives me a reason to push forward into what I do, telling myself "this is what I chose, those are the value I decided were mine, now to be true to all of it, I have to push on forward". I reach for my Mjöllnir, give it a slight squeeze and I keep going.
Ásatrú was a major turn in my life. I'm still leaving myself an opening to go back to my previous self, but I am feeling very good in this new "faith", even though I probably shouldn't use this word to describe this. More like... way of life.
What about you guys?