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*Sigh* And, as many of us do nowadays, I did the stupidest thing I could possibly do. As a way to sigh and just get it over with, I posted this picture on my second Facebook account explaining how I just like symbols and nothing more. Was that really so hard to understand? I did this because I didn't want to bother with explaining it to them when I would be seen wearing my crosses in public. But I received an interesting reply from my...er...stepmother, I suppose you could say...She asked if I had changed my religion. Mind you, she's never talked to me prior to me uploading the picture. So. I replied...no. I just like crosses.
Symbols and shapes have never meant much to me when it comes to what they may represent. I respect them fully and understand what they generally represent, even cry over them when I see them in an emotional situation or time, but my personal take on them has almost always been different. I see most symbols, especially ones that existed hundreds of years ago, as beautiful designs, and I know that may irk many, or just that: a symbol or shape, with no real definition to what it means. It's something that may appear in nature, or something that show in an accidental creation...I can't recall ever seeing a symbol that really meant something to me.
As for actual meanings behind symbols, I try to know them before I wear a symbol so I can at least understand why people would react in negative ways. I don't want to be ignorant. I've designed my own symbols for as long as I can remember, and even created the Project DV symbol by complete mistake while doodling. Perhaps that is why I simply see most symbols as designs.
Some of my favorite symbols/shapes are the cross (all variations, sans the crucifixion), swastika (all variations), pentagram (all variations), spade, question mark, coffin, and music notes. Why? I think they're amazing designs.
So did I change my religion just because I wear a cross, which to most, represents Christianity...?
No.
I just like symbols. Nothing else, and nothing more.
ON ANOTHER NOTE! I reached 31 followers!! Wow! Thank you so much everyone! ;D
I think youre awesome! Many goths wear the cross without being christians.
ReplyDeleteI have a really fancy Celtic knotwork cross necklace... I wear it mostly because it's pretty, even if it's sort-of an elemental cross, but I do sometimes worry that I am going to come over as Christian to people, and that I might be misappropriating their symbol. It bugs me sometimes when I see non-Pagans wearing pentacles and pentagrams, and I wonder if some Christians feel that way about a me wearing a cross. To me, wearing a symbol is shorthand for saying you agree with what it represents, and so I try to only wear symbols if I agree with their meaning.
ReplyDeleteI love this post. I think you make an interesting point :)
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