Caltrops - Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution





	[quote name="ndd"][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] haha it's not like you're wrong, but when I was a forum administrator, I was always peeved at how little I could actually do for people. The church thing runs in my family, too, on both sides. And I am afraid of institutional inertia - but when the overall number of members is so small, and when there is so much ideology to establish... it's not like I'm binding my tits down and going into seminary, you know. You raise some good points, though, and I have a year or two to work them over. Thanks.[/quote]