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A deeply religious people, worship of the Unnamed Goddess is taken very seriously among Dokkarans, something many modern species find a bit peculiar and disturbing. Many would label them fanatics for their universal unquestioning belief in what most would consider nothing more than myth and false memory on the part of The Lady, but Dokkarans strongly believe that they are a part of a divine lineage, the Unnamed Goddess created The Lady and The Lady created the Dokkarans. The Dokkarans also believe that this Goddess has a never ending plan, not just for the themselves but for the Universe. Even Dokkarans admit that their limited perception of a universe encompassing intelligence is lacking and use the 'metaphor' (The Dokkarans would not call the Goddess a metaphor, but rather a simplistic term for an unknowable alien intelligence that drives the Universe and touches all life) of the Unnamed Goddess to personify this intelligence. As such, Dokkarans have a natural respect for the believers of other faiths, seeing the existence of other religions (Monotheistic or otherwise) as further proof of the Goddess' existence. However this religious tolerance does not seem to apply to the practitioners of the Bajoran faith as the Dokkarans see the Prophets as false gods who have lead the Bajorans off the path of the one, true 'goddess'. | |||
Dokkarans do not have traditional families and do not try to form such groups, rather they see all Dokkarans as one family of distant cousins, the same, but totally unique at the same time. Dokkarans do feel a need to be in groups however, and their highly democratic and communal society helps to fulfill these needs. As there is little point to it, Dokkarans don't marry and rarely cohabitate with their lovers, preferring to engage in elongated courtships that can end at anytime, reveling in the chase. | |||
As stated before, the Dokkaran's most defining quality is their harmonious nature. Where most humanoid cultures only see two options for the rule of the universe, chaos or order, Dokkarans see a third way, Harmony, which they define as the acceptance that neither order nor chaos is either true or inherently false as both ideas are delusions made up by primitive minds to boil down the world around them to a singular simplistic view. Rather Dokkarans believe that the universe exists in a state of harmony, with tranquility being the prevailing element of the world around them. Mortals only perceive order or disorder because they have a limited scope of the universe that limits their viewpoint, boiling down their existence to simple absolutions, one way or the other with the proposed balance between the two being an even greater delusion. To see past what one wants to see or what they have been allowed to see is to break the chains of these simplistic and false ideas of mutually exclusive absolutions and see the harmony that prevails in the universe. Billions might die in a supernova, but billions more will be born as the carbon from that exploding star travels to a newly formed planet, planting the first seeds of a new cycle of life. It is all in the Goddess' plan. | |||
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