Author Topic: Is it possible to found your own religion?  (Read 870 times)

migueltherocker

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Is it possible to found your own religion?
« on: June 30, 2008, 06:12:00 am »
I am wondering if i can found my own religion?
ive read about religions here, and im wondering about founding one with buddhist ideologies
i know i couldnt incorporate real-life buddhist ideologies, but i mean things like karma, peace, things like that.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost

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Re: Is it possible to found your own religion?
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2008, 06:46:17 am »
I guess you can interpret religion your own way but you can't make up gods. I'd suggest you try to stick to the settings and create a character with their own understanding of the existing religions.


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Re: Is it possible to found your own religion?
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2008, 07:23:42 am »
You can make up your own religions. You can also find yourself ridiculed, ignored, arrested, and possibly even executed.
My advice: Pick Talad or Xiosia as your god(dess) of choice and make up a splinter group that believes in worshiping him/her with 'buddhist ideologies'. Xiosia may be a good bet, as her worship is very new and has not yet settled into a firm set of beliefs. Her followers range from 'Flower power hippies' to 'murderous nature crusaders'.

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Re: Is it possible to found your own religion?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2008, 02:11:23 am »
'murderous nature crusaders'.

Ah, I wondered why people were like that. :P

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Re: Is it possible to found your own religion?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2008, 02:14:00 am »
ahh makes sense.
thank you for the information. i will definitely found this when the server stabilizes.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost