Comments on: Flow of lives http://www.transformation45.com/2009/03/flow-of-lives/ Understanding change Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Andrea http://www.transformation45.com/2009/03/flow-of-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Andrea Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:43:35 +0000 http://www.transformation45.com/?p=608#comment-68 I think you have written such beautiful article here. Thank you for including my story...you are right that it's sad that I had to learn the lesson. But I am so happy to be on the right path now. Your perspective on life is breathtaking....truly inspirational. :) I think you have written such beautiful article here. Thank you for including my story…you are right that it’s sad that I had to learn the lesson. But I am so happy to be on the right path now. Your perspective on life is breathtaking….truly inspirational. :)

]]> By: posthumous http://www.transformation45.com/2009/03/flow-of-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-63 posthumous Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:10:29 +0000 http://www.transformation45.com/?p=608#comment-63 I heard anecdotes on NPR about people who lost their identities along with their jobs. I am terrified about the loss of my job, but it has nothing to do with my identity. If anything, my identity was more threatened within my job, because I was so very much not my job. It was far more existential to lose my dog. btw, I think fulfillment is possible within religion, but a religious person couldn't possibly explain to you how that is. You see, God is a powerful metaphor, and if seen from the right angles can point a life in the proper directions. But of course, when pressed, the religious person is backed into the corner of literalism. He naturally feels the necessity to prove God's existence instead of simply explaining that God works. The God concept works. Or, at least, it can work. If I've learned anything in this brief life, it's that completely contradictory and mutually exclusive philosophies work equally well, depending on where, when and on whom they are applied. I heard anecdotes on NPR about people who lost their identities along with their jobs. I am terrified about the loss of my job, but it has nothing to do with my identity. If anything, my identity was more threatened within my job, because I was so very much not my job. It was far more existential to lose my dog.

btw, I think fulfillment is possible within religion, but a religious person couldn’t possibly explain to you how that is. You see, God is a powerful metaphor, and if seen from the right angles can point a life in the proper directions. But of course, when pressed, the religious person is backed into the corner of literalism. He naturally feels the necessity to prove God’s existence instead of simply explaining that God works. The God concept works. Or, at least, it can work. If I’ve learned anything in this brief life, it’s that completely contradictory and mutually exclusive philosophies work equally well, depending on where, when and on whom they are applied.

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