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   David Dalton to All   
   Re: gender(s) of deities   
   10 Apr 20 18:33:31   
   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Apr 10, 2020, David Dalton wrote   
   (in   
   article):   
      
   > Do you consider your deities to be anthropomorphic?   
   > My top deity God is non-anthropomorphic, like the   
   > Muslim God.   
   >   
   > Also do you assign genders to your deities?   
   > Currently I refer to my God, who I define as the   
   > all-governing someone, as "it". However I   
   > am considering instead saying that my God has   
   > all eight sexual harmonics, which I describe   
   > near the end of the Recent Changes/Working Notes   
   > section of my Salmon on the Thorns web page.   
   > If I made that adjustment, I would then view   
   > my God as optimally sexually compatible with everyone.   
      
   and can be identified with by everyone   
      
   Perhaps I should use God/dess but I find that awkward, and   
   if the word actor can be gender nonspecific I think the   
   word God can as well.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "And the cart is on a wheel/And the wheel is on a hill/And the   
   hill is shifting sand/And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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