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Question of the Week

Lorena — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:40:31 +0000

Are you familiar with the beliefs of other spiritual traditions than the one you practice (if you practice any)? Is there one that particularly interests you?

Question of the Week

Lorena — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:29:34 +0000

Has there ever been a crisis in your life that brought you closer to God (as you believe God to be)? What about one that pushed you away? Or, like me, are you so ambivalent about the reality of God that the thought of relying on or getting angry at it/him/her/FSM wouldn’t even occur to you?

QOTW – 2010/01/25

Lorena — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:22:18 +0000

And the Question of the Week is… what, if any, religion are you? Have you ever changed to a different religion?

My answer is after the cut.

I’ve heard I was baptized as a Methodist as a child, but I don’t even know what they believe/practice. If I had to nail myself down (whoa, unintended pun?!) I would call myself an Agnostic Taoist Pagan (I really don’t see those three as being exclusive of each other). But I don’t get into bed with any sort of organized religion; mostly because I’ve read up on many of them and from an outsiders point of view many of them seem to be describing the same thing… and yet most of them also say that everyone else is wrong. I fail to grok how, if someone is describing the leaves, and someone is describing the branches, and someone is describing the trunk, and someone is describing the root system, and someone is describing the acorn… they can all deny that they are talking about the same tree.

QOTW – 2009/10/20

Lorena — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:11:34 +0000

Totally forgot yesterday was Monday. By the time I remembered it was Monday (not Friday), I was at work and way too busy. So… uh… pretend it’s Monday…?

The Question of the Week is… what additional commandment would you add to the ten?

My answer is after the cut…

This question makes me think of a Sherri Tepper book that I read, wherein one of the characters (a time/space traveler) lands on a planet and briefly imparts the following words of wisdom: “Don’t let people mess with your heads.” This immediately starts a centuries-long civil war in which half the planet proclaims that to mean “don’t let people fuck with your minds” and the other half of the planet is convinced it means “don’t let people near your hair or face with scissors”.

I think something along the lines of “Thou shall not be a fuckwit” would make an awesome commandment. I was going to add that it would be awfully hard to enforce… but people seem to kill, steal, and covet their neighbors wives all the time as it is.