User:Satanael/About

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This user is of Norwegian ancestry.

This user is a Scorpio.

龍 This user was born in the year of the Dragon.

NG This user's alignment is Neutral Good: the "Benefactor."

This user is interested in World War I.

This user is interested in ancient civilizations.

This user enjoys heavy reading, such as Shakespeare and other dead guys.

This user is a linguist.

This user considers themselves self-educated.

IQ This user's Intelligence Quotient is surprisingly high.

RE This user's favourite subject is Religious Education.

*_* This user loves manga.

*_* This user loves anime.

cvg-4 This user is an expert gamer.

This user is a Naruto fan.

This user enjoys PlayStation 2 games.

Wikipedia

This user is a member of the WikiProject Japan Mythology task force.

This user is a participant in the WikiProject Hinduism mythology task force.

Political and societal POV

This user is interested in anarcho-primitivism.

This user supports the Consistent Life Ethic.

This user does not understand mean people. Please be nice.

This user is a pacifist and will soon be conquered.

This user believes in the separation of church and state.

Religious and philosophical POV

This user is interested in religion.

This user is interested in religion as a sociological and psychological phenomenon.

This user is interested in religion as an anthropological and historical phenomenon.

This user is interested in religion for aesthetic reasons.

This user is interested in religion as a metaphysical or theological phenomenon.

File:Maybegod.jpg This user is interested in agnosticism.

This user is a religious pluralist.

This user is interested in existentialism.

This user is interested in the belief that death is an acceptable part of life.

Cosmological and scientific POV

This user realizes that people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical.

This user honestly just doesn't care anymore about what shape the Earth is. Let it go, man.

This user understands biological evolution.

Body & health

This user exercises regularly and drinks a lot of water to stay hydrated.

This user is an omnivore.

This user eats at Burger King.

C2H5OH-0 This user is a non-drinker.

This user is opposed to drugs and any kind of legalization of them.

My primary interests are religion, mythology and folkloristics.

I'm interested in varying forms of literature(mostly epics, George MacDonald, Umberto Eco, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky; plus some mythopoeic books, mostly Neil Gaiman), philosophy(Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Tillich; mainly existentialism, and axiology). I'm also interested in J. R. R. Tolkien for his philological studies, which is what I consider his best and most important work.

I love most or everything about Japan(Yoko Ono *shivers* being an exception), so one can basically call me a Japanophile, but I'm very much interested in Asia and Asian culture in general. While some people mistake my interest for Japan as an obsession, I don't plan on studying too many aspects of Japan itself(I'm not too crazy about Japanese literature, and ain't going to study the language much beyond learning it). I'm also interested in the PIEs and Indo-European studies, in ancient history and archaeological findings, as well as language and historical linguistics. I'm intrigued by the current advances in Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic studies, together with the Dravidian languages, particularly Tamil, and the possibility of Elamo-Dravidian. I'm studying as vigilantly as I can, but my research and study materials are somewhat limited.

I'm currently writing a novel and several essays, but because of a lack of research material and/or inspiration, many of those are currently on hold.

I'm not really sure what I believe, and I'm not really sure if I care to carry a designation for myself, mostly because I don't feel like it and don't have the need to. There are times when I'm nontheistic, times when I'm agnostic, and times when I am omnitheistic. Though one thing is certain that I do not worship any entities, however I don't have a moral(or any other) objection in offering a prayer to a divinity or at a shrine. Even though I formally called myself Christian, it really wasn't more than a designation, and I didn't really feel or perceive anything else differently. Although, even though I do at times, I really won't consider myself to be an atheist, because it would imply that I believe that I have absolute empirical perception of the cosmos(and that I assuredly deny any form of higher consience and/or existence), something which I don't. Though I am an atheist in the sense that I don't worship any divine beings, which is the more general definition of atheism.

However, one thing I do know is that I'm a religious pluralist, as I respect and feel that there is some truth in every religion. This is further strengthened by my status as a mythologist(especially as a comparative mythologist).

One of my greatest interests is mythology. A myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form, and refers to a collection of stories about a people, usually concerning their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes behind the belief structure and faith. The stories discussed express the viewpoints and beliefs of the country, time period, culture, and/or religion which gave birth to them. Mythology is used to refer to stories that, whether or not believers accept them as strictly factual, are believed to reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes. Use of the term by scholars does not imply that the narrative is either true or false.