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Greetings, Masters, Mistresses, and kajirae, Welcome to kajira korner! One hopes you enjoy this new edition of kajira korner and encourages you send questions or comments to: kajira_korner2000@yahoo.com kajira_korner2000@yahoo.com
Dear kajira korner, Greetings! Greetings kajira {Generic}, One of this girl's friends says she is a follower of wicca/celtic religions. A girl is confused about this because she thought those religions revere a Goddess as more important than a God, which doesn't make sense because the girl also says she is a Gorean slave. Can you explain this at all? Thanks! baffled
Dear baffled, Many are troubled by the idea of slaves worshiping anything other than the well understood male dominated religions. Heck, many are troubled by the idea of a slave having religion at all. A girl cannot speak for how all others resolve these challenges, but she can answer to how she has fixed things within her own mind and how her Master has managed the religion 'thing'. As this girl sees it, philosophy and religion are far different creatures. A philosophy suggests a motivating ideal or principle, while religion is an expression of belief in a higher power that governs the universe. There are some who persist in seeing Goreanism as some type of religion that reveres the male and tramples the female. One would disagree with this view both because she does not see Goreanism as a religion (nobody knows worships priest kings) and because she does not see the philosophy as intrinsically denigrating to women. As this girl understands it, when a free person says they are Gorean, they are not saying they worship bugs or hate women; it means that they saw in the books an ideal of living in tune with their own world, with their own feelings of natural order. It means the best qualities of the people described in John Norman's books (like strong men, and emotionally vulnerable and satisfied women for example) reflect the qualities with which they are trying to live their lives. To this girl, this philosophy does not conflict with the druidic or even wiccan religious traditions. Both the Gorean philosophy and these religions concern themselves with a harmonious relationship with the natural world. In the case of the druidic and wiccan traditions, this included worshiping the patterns of life as well as the forces that drive the seasons (and the seasons themselves). As far a slaves being allowed to worship whatever deity(ies) they follow, that is for each owner to decide. Some may find it too interfering, others could give a hoot, and still other Masters and mistresses likely fall somewhere in the middle. This would be another of those reasons for the "choose carefully before you beg a collar" caveats for slaves. If you beg steel from someone who forbids you to actively worship or loathes religion, you will have to choose what is more important to you: Actively expressing your spirituality or wearing that Master's collar. This is an extreme example though, as this one has never even heard of a Master or Mistress instructing a slave to give up her religion. So, there is a not so brief answer to your question. One hopes it helped you, and wishes you well. kajira{Generic}
This girl hopes you all have enjoyed the questions and answers that have appeared in past months. She begs you to please send in your questions or comments, large or small, about anything at all! kajira_korner2000@yahoo.com kajira_korner2000@yahoo.com A girl thanks you for your indulgence.
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