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princesswitch
Jun. 10th, 2003 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muscadineHow's it going with your mom and brother right now?
Doesn't seem to have changed for the worse, anyhow. I talk to Mom more on the phone because of the move and all. She always acknowledges Allen, but who knows what she's thinking. We're going up there this coming weekend for a combo Homecoming/Father's Day/Birthday (mine & an aunt's) celebration, so we'll see how that goes. I assume you're talking about the step-brother and his wife that were told about the ceremony. I don't generally talk to them directly long-distance other than an occasional email. I just see them at family gatherings. I haven't gotten a letter or anything. So I don't know what they think.
How do you feel about being 27?
Feels a lot like being 26. Age hasn't ever held a whole lot of significance for me, and I certainly don't mind turning older...as the old platitude goes, it's better than the alternative. This past year does mark the first kinda "long-term" pain problems I've experienced. In the sense of something bothering me for a matter of weeks rather than days. I'm getting old. :) Anyways, I mark the "milestones" but otherwise...eh. I have friends and family I'm close to all across the spectrum, from pre-teen to pre-tomb, so I just don't think about it much.
Do your religious beliefs depend more on emotion or reason?
I would say that as with my personality and beliefs as a whole, I depend on both emotion and reason, each moreso at different times and with different tasks, roughly equally but with reason tending to predominate overall. My primary test for a religious belief is whether it makes sense to me. Usually I decide that based on reasoning things out. OTOH, when something doesn't feel right, it's often an indicator that I need to (re)examine that aspect to see if it (still) makes sense. Is that a clear enough explanation?
Have you seen God? Where, when, how?
Not in the sense of being witness to a personified being, nor any luminous presence, etc. except perhaps in my mind's eye. I have experienced something that I've seen described elsewhere, where a space, for a time, seems "clearer," more vibrant, and you sense a presence. Maybe that's God making Themself known. Maybe not.
Sometimes when I expect it, sometimes not. At church, in my dorm room, in my apartment, in the woods... Then, of course, there is the "seeing God" in a more metaphorical sense: in N/nature, in people, etc.
So...draw your own conclusions.
Why do you continue with Bridges Across the Divide?
Because it fulfills a need. My need, other people's needs.
Because I'm still learning, and I think I still have some things to teach and share.
Because I still see potential, and at heart I'm a stubborn old coot.
Because (to relate to the previous question) I see God in so many of the people there.
Because it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
Doesn't seem to have changed for the worse, anyhow. I talk to Mom more on the phone because of the move and all. She always acknowledges Allen, but who knows what she's thinking. We're going up there this coming weekend for a combo Homecoming/Father's Day/Birthday (mine & an aunt's) celebration, so we'll see how that goes. I assume you're talking about the step-brother and his wife that were told about the ceremony. I don't generally talk to them directly long-distance other than an occasional email. I just see them at family gatherings. I haven't gotten a letter or anything. So I don't know what they think.
How do you feel about being 27?
Feels a lot like being 26. Age hasn't ever held a whole lot of significance for me, and I certainly don't mind turning older...as the old platitude goes, it's better than the alternative. This past year does mark the first kinda "long-term" pain problems I've experienced. In the sense of something bothering me for a matter of weeks rather than days. I'm getting old. :) Anyways, I mark the "milestones" but otherwise...eh. I have friends and family I'm close to all across the spectrum, from pre-teen to pre-tomb, so I just don't think about it much.
Do your religious beliefs depend more on emotion or reason?
I would say that as with my personality and beliefs as a whole, I depend on both emotion and reason, each moreso at different times and with different tasks, roughly equally but with reason tending to predominate overall. My primary test for a religious belief is whether it makes sense to me. Usually I decide that based on reasoning things out. OTOH, when something doesn't feel right, it's often an indicator that I need to (re)examine that aspect to see if it (still) makes sense. Is that a clear enough explanation?
Have you seen God? Where, when, how?
Not in the sense of being witness to a personified being, nor any luminous presence, etc. except perhaps in my mind's eye. I have experienced something that I've seen described elsewhere, where a space, for a time, seems "clearer," more vibrant, and you sense a presence. Maybe that's God making Themself known. Maybe not.
Sometimes when I expect it, sometimes not. At church, in my dorm room, in my apartment, in the woods... Then, of course, there is the "seeing God" in a more metaphorical sense: in N/nature, in people, etc.
So...draw your own conclusions.
Why do you continue with Bridges Across the Divide?
Because it fulfills a need. My need, other people's needs.
Because I'm still learning, and I think I still have some things to teach and share.
Because I still see potential, and at heart I'm a stubborn old coot.
Because (to relate to the previous question) I see God in so many of the people there.
Because it's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it.
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Date: 2003-06-11 06:14 am (UTC)27? Old? (chuckle)
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Date: 2003-06-11 06:39 pm (UTC)