3 questions
1: what does being a fur mean to you?
2: what "spiritural" stuff do you believe in?
3: what would you do (and i'm not saying this is happening to me.) if no fur or "regular person" would be your fiend?
p.s. please go in depth.
1. To be perfectly honest, I'm still kinda developing a concrete answer to that question. I enjoy looking at and creating furry art; I listen to the music of furries like Renard, Wolfgun, and Rchetype (of course I listen to plenty of other music, as well); I wear furry-related clothing when I can—so far that only consists of a fox-eared hat, which sadly I won't be able to wear soon due to the harsh Texan summer approaching. However, I would like to get more furry-related clothing. There are a few T-shirts I have my eyes on, and I would also like to get a tail and perhaps a collar.
Finally, I have a tendency to imagine myself as my fursona. I'll sometimes behave in a fox-like manner, and occasionally I produce mental images of how my tail and ears might be behaving if they were physically present. I don't consider myself Therian or Otherkin, though.
2. That, my friend, is a very difficult question to answer, especially without taking up hours of your time explaining it.
But I'll see what I can do:
I suppose I will begin by saying that I don't affiliate myself with any religion, organized or not. I don't consider myself a religious person, and likely never will. I just don't like the idea of religion; to me, it seems to discourage people from exploring the world—both physical and spiritual—for themselves. It's too structured, at least for my taste. It doesn't really allow for change, which is one concept my spirituality is built on, considering how much it has changed with the arrival of new information and experiences.
Do I believe in a god or some other form of higher power? Yes, and no. I admit that I cannot fully explain it, and that the idea still confuses me, but I find myself attracted to the idea of a singular, "infinite consciousness." That is, all life forms—you, me, Anoni, Leaf, George Bush, your neighbor's dog, the trees outside, Hidetaka Miyazaki, etc—are all the same consciousness, simultaneously. Our selves as we currently experience them are just focal points of this consciousness. This idea, to the best of my knowledge, comes from Hinduism. In Hinduism, the infinite consciousness I mentioned is called Brahman. Imagine it being an everlasting ocean. From this ocean we have what is called Atman, which could be likened to the soul. Picture it as some water taken from the ocean. Then, we have your body, which we can imagine as a cup, a bottle, a bowl, etc. We're all from the same ocean, yet we're in different containers. When our bodies die, the water simply gets poured into a different container. One thing that my ex-mate's father said to me one day comes to mind: "You don't have soul. You ARE a soul. You HAVE a body."
Of course, I'm not quite sure I subscribe to the idea of reincarnation. As to what happens to us after death, I really have no idea. Maybe there's a spirit world, maybe we are reincarnated. However, the one thing that I 100% do not believe in when it comes to what happens after death, is hell. I refuse to believe that such a place as hell exists, especially the Christian version of it. The way I see things, hell is nothing more than a tool for scaring people into becoming believers.
Anything else you'd like me to answer about spirituality?
There's certainly a lot more to my beliefs. A LOT more. But I find that it's easier for me to respond to more specific questions.
3. What would I do if I had no friends, and everyone refused to be my friend? Honestly, that is quite possibly one of the saddest thoughts I can imagine. And it was kinda true for a good portion of my life. I felt very alone until I was about 16. I felt as if nobody wanted to be my friend, and that those people who were my friends didn't really like me very much. People treated me like crap, and I felt that I was generally disliked, misunderstood, and unwanted by everyone around me. While all that has certainly changed by now, and I have very good friends, both furry and non-furry, I would honestly like to stop my answer here. Those are memories I would not like to return to.
