i usually try to reply that i have some personal spiritual practices. it's weird because the word religion has other connotations which have nothing to do with what i do, such as...  community: what i do is completely personal and probably only makes sense to myself. i can share it with people i trust if i want to because it's important to me, but it's an individual practice.  god, God or gods: i do have gods, but i don't think i treat them the same way as most religions do. the way i see it is, they exist in my mind but not in actual material reality, that would feel silly to me. anyway, i think you don't actually need gods for your religion or spiritual beliefs to exist, you can structure what is sacred to you in other types of images. it's when you end up symbolizing what's sacred to you as characters, that we usually end up calling them gods. or you can decide to cal
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 e whole reality itself, that might strike you as a sensible way of looking at the world.  i feel like the question "what is your religion?" could be understood as "what is your truth?", and that is not something that may be simple to explain.   damn, i think i gotta make my own blog/website soon. thanks for the inspiration