The Bard Child

Care to tell us a little about your role in Advocacy on Autism and Special Needs? I for one would be very interested in a discussion in this area. My uncle has just finally been diagnosed with a form of autism, after years of great struggle and much therapy.

Hmmm lets see. I was diagnoused with Ausperger Syndrome about 2-3 years ago. And it was a bit of shock and a relief. (Ya know kinda like "Wow that explians alot") after I was diagnoused I wanted to do more research on it. So I did, and later using my "gift of gab" I starting speaking. So far I did speech for the board of Spiecal needs Education in my county and my commuint's Autistic Support group. I've also spoken to aspiring teachers, on how to treat kids that are diffrent in class.

I believe that Devil has been twisted alot by man and the church. They use Pagan deities and warp them, into something malenvolent, to show the Pagan natives that what they are worshipping the "Devil" and should convert. Hence we have this wonderful sterotype on pantheists and Wiccan, as devil worshippers :3

Wiether we really have a figure called "Lucifer" who is now the Advesary of God. Is up to the indivual

Lets see I'm passionate about

-Nature

-History

-Story telling

-Little children (I use to work in a preschool)

-Advocy on Autism and Special Needs

-Fanstic art.

Thanks for the welcome :3

Umm, there is no pagan god that is equivalent to the Christian Satan, a god of only evil. Not even dark gods, like Set.

Are you saying Satan is a god of evil? Because, Satan/Lucifer, isn't a deity at all. If anything he's on the same level as the Archangels. Michael, Raphael and Gabriel (Uriel too if you believe in a forth)

Isn't the first Orgianzed religion Hinduism? And Pagan Pan-theism?

Hey!

It's nice to meet all of you, my name is Bard Child, and I'm 20 and live in the middle of nowhere called Ohio

I'm pretty much a brief person, so I'm gonna keeping it short. I love fantasy and mythology, and I'm also artist. I love to draw, fanstanic and mythological elements, and Avatar the Last Airbender.

I'm pretty good natured, and I would be reading alot and hanging out with WordWolf, who is a friend of mind and showed me this site. I'm all up for debates and disscussions, I should warn you that I am pretty passionate.

I'm also a storyteller, (hence my name) and hopefully I can post some orginal fictions here.

Anyway. Again Nice meeting you all, See you

The Bard Child

PS: My Art Gallery (View if you wish)

The Egyptian religion had a god named "Set" who represented rebellion and chaos. He was the "evil" one,. Set is often called "the Prince of Darkness", and some "pagan" thought today sees Set as the god, real or not, that represents a higher pursuit of thought and achievement for humanity. Set sounds a lot like Satan in some ways, and the images of Set look like popular images of "devils" that are used today. That chaos and rebellion against gods of light is like Satan's rebellion against God. People today that invoke that god's influence seem to see it as a higher road to personal enlightenment, where the individual's personal interests are given the highest priority.

I have a theory, that the Church need a physical image of Satan, so they grab-bagged different Pagan deities, including Set and Some sort of Ram-fertility god, heck maybe even Pan? I've always invisioned, "Satan" to be attractive to fool and decive humans. After all it's so easy to believe pretty words from a pretty face.

Some how I find this amusing.

I thought the law about not ingesting blood was about, human and animal sacrifices? Ya know, not to kill and virgin and drink her blood?

How did you get "No transfusions?" from that? And from Jewish text, and I think Jews are allowed to have blood transfusions.

As a daughter of an EMS and Blood Donor, I'm curious.

If mankind pursues selfish greed-based goals for instance, he cuts out that possiblity of seeing a greater good and wants only what's good for himself. Pride, greed, selfishness, fear, that's the "dark side" as Yoda would say. A person would reject a God who suggests that we live to love Him, and one another. Instead of helping others to have a good life, we might steal from them, take what they already have. "Thou shalt not steal". Ha! Not if I want what you have.

Which is excatly what Lucifer wanted. He was very "self" oriented, and I believe arrogant, being God's second in command. That his vainty and greed is want knocked him off his platform. And ultimatly threw him in to Tartarus/Hell/Oblivion/Big Scary Place...ect. Now here were I think it gets interesting. Didn't other angels follow him? 1/3 said, "Hey! Luci has the right idea, lets blow this pop-stand!" and so they fell with Lucifer. IMO I think the Devil/Lucifer/The Evil One/Satan/Insert your own villan name...ect. Doesn't see himself as "evil" He's believes he's probably wants to show man the "other" alternative. And proove that Man doesn't need God, and being gullible and sin loving. Hey! We signed our own death warrant. The 1/3 angels did't see their fates being bottom-feeding spiratual parasites (Demons in simple terms )

Well that was my attempt on sounding pseudo-intelligent this afternoon. My name is Bard Child, and I'm a friend of WordWolf who showed me this site. I don't I made any sense before <<, But I think I was trying to theroize the nature of Devil *shurge* oh well...

anyway, nice meeting all of you.