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Amaya 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | 27 | ΘΔ | Artist | Nature lover | Huge nerd | Actually a snep | NSFW 🔞

Kissing girls is a mitzvah :3


For the past couple months I've been delving into Jewish history, in particular the composition and historical context of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) from an academic perspective. I reasoned that doing so would not only be invaluable for my own general knowledge, but also in my consideration of whether or not Judaism as the right path for me. It's thoroughly fascinating stuff.


Ecclesiastes

Sometime last month I started reading Ecclesiastes, one of the books in the Ketuvim (Writings). I had an idea of what the book was about and the theme of it spoke to me so after some time I decided to give it a read in my off-time.

The book centres on Kohelet, a fictitious king who struggles to ascribe any eternal meaning to living an earthly life. He sees nothing but inequality and injustice in the world, against which our human ambitions always seem to fall short. Both the wise and the unwise die all the same, so what's the point? In spite of all this, he remains firm in his belief in God; and in that belief, he finds that it is better to enjoy God's gifts.

Based on my own reading and interpretation of the book, the big take-away here would be to practice gratitude and enjoy the simple things in life. Enjoy your hobbies and experience nice things. The world may be cruel and unjust, even chaotic, but you can still find joy and meaning in life. I find that message quite relevant to my own life.

Side note: Ecclesiastes 3:19 is pretty fire not gonna lie 🔥

Current beliefs

At this point in time, I find myself neither convinced nor unconvinced of the existence of a higher power. I've said before that I would like to believe in the existence of a higher power, but that doesn't necessarily mean I truly believe. I don't know if there's no god, one god, many gods, or some life force permeating existence. If there is a higher power, it doesn't seem particularly personal. I don't know if there's an afterlife or not. I don't know if there's a soul or not. I don't believe in miracles. And I don’d believe that people can be prophetic in a metaphysical sense. Am I spiritual? Maybe? Things are still in motion so I can't say for absolute certain where I lie on a lot of things, and it's entirely possible I may never settle into certainty. I'm just along for the journey.

For now, I remain agnostic.


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