The Paladin's Pine Stump

 I am fond of saying that every faith has to answer three questions: Why are we here? Why do bad things happen? and the one we're going to focus on today - What happens when we die? Now, I'm fairly certain I've covered before what Primali believes happens when we die - we are bound to the ground with our wrong actions, or if we have attempted to correct those wrong actions with a true heart, we can wander with the Beast. Maybe as a way to start this, I'll explain my thinking on why  this is what must be past the final door. And perhaps the door itself. Each person makes decisions based on their base of information. We use what we know to make choices, correct? That's how thinking and choice work. So when I introduce these things, I want you to know how I got there, and why it's the most logical, sensible things for me to conclude at that time. It's when your base of information changes and you cannot adapt that you have truly failed. So forgive me while I wr...

I have been wrestling with our stance on fear and violence for some time, turning back and forth. And once again I must be guided by the space between, the simplest answer, and the goose and the gander.  When I have sought wisdom, those three things tend to guide me. The space between refers to looking for the common denominator between two combating ideas to seek a deeper truth. For instance, the question of whether gods exist. Either they exist or they are simply faces we give form to. I wrestled with that for some time until I realized that the two were not mutually exclusive - they were connected. The gods are  faces we give them and  very real. In our faith, for instance, we are presented with the common debate of science versus faith that is so very prevalent in our society. But the truth is something much more interesting. The two are completely inextricable from one another, and both true - the more we explore and discover, the more we fulfil our purpose, the more...