Caltrops - Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution





	[quote name="Hans Clastorp"][quote name="ndd"]Zseni, M. Div. I am really thinking about becoming a minister. Probably.... Unitarian. Because I could never see myself worshipping a male god (sorry guys!) or operating in the sketchtastic Llewellyn zone of the wiccan. I do have a statement of faith and what have you. But this is still fairly freaky, not to mention it would take a minimum of 5 years (2 for constituency, 3 for grad school.) It's weird to think there exists a type of grad school where you are supposed to know multiple languages, read a bunch of dry old books about imaginary topics and irrelevant history, and give your stupid opinion about right and wrong (i.e. be zseni), then graduate to a job where you theatrically bore people on the subject weekly. But I've made such a hobby of being the conscience of this or that group; there's a very limited realm of employment for professional consciences. I think religion over law because notwithstanding the oversaturation of the field, you can't build anything as a lawyer - not until you're a politician or a judge. And even then, you have to overcome such tremendous institutional inertia... as a minister, you <i>are</i> the effective local authority, and you <i>do</i> create a community and shape its moral dimensions. Anyway, at this point only my parents and brother have known me for longer than yall. Think I could pull it off?[/quote] Going to divinity school sounds cool, but do you really want to be a minister? Sounds like you're more into it as an intellectual pursuit, but can you handle the community-building, leading-a-faith-community type jive? I'm not saying those two things are mutually exclusive, my grandfather was a (Mennonite) minister as well as an Old Testament scholar, and he could tell a great story which is hella important. I think you can probably tell a story, so there's that. The fact that you think churches aren't susceptible to institutional inertia, and that you'll have real power to shape whatever community you join/create, then you're probably being kind of naive about the whole thing. If what you want is to be an effective local authority that shapes the moral boundaries of a community, have you considered a career as a forum administrator? [/quote]