Even More Answers
Sep. 21st, 2008 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosSomeone asked:
What are your favorites times to listen to music? What are your favorite kinds of music for exercise? Bedtime? When you're feeling sad? When you're feeling happy? Who are your favorite musicians?
Favorite time to listen to music - in the car
Favorite kinds for exercise - upbeat 80's pop, show tunes
Bedtime - I can't fall asleep listening to music
Feeling sad - I try to avoid music when I'm sad, because it either jars me or sends me deeper. This is very different from when I was younger.
Feeling happy - Upbeat pop, "young Country", show tunes, soundtracks by John Williams
Favorite musicians - I don't know that I have any these days, to be honest. I have a huge music collection, but no one who particularly moves me right now.
Can you imagine a situation where you, as you are now, would feel called to a clergy position in organized religion? What would be necessary for it to happen? Have you seen any such situation in any civilization, fictional or nonfictional?
Ooohhh. . . As tempting as it is to imagine myself as a priestess in a Pagan temple of some kind, I have to come back to the answers I arrived at back in seminary a few years ago.
The fact is that I'm an introvert, and as such would find it a significant emotional challenge to function as clergy within an organization. I've also long felt myself answerable only to my gods, not to a human organization, so I don't know how well I'd be able to keep myself within the boundaries of the official doctrine.
If I ever were clergy, it would be within a faith where there was a goddess with a bright and a dark face and her consort, where there were rituals of both ecstasy and grieving, of ascent and descent, of love-sex, marriage, birth, death, and rebirth.
Has your use of livejournal changed at all over the years? Are there items you post more or less now than you used to?
To my chagrin, I'm posting far less of the serious intellectual-spiritual material than I did when I first started LJ. No longer being in seminary has a lot to do with that, but I feel like my journal is no longer as interesting as it was in the beginning.
Thankfully, I'm posting far less about domestic and work dramas than I did: no more issues with flooding, the impossible folks Upstairs at the old place, or Miss V.
What are your favorites times to listen to music? What are your favorite kinds of music for exercise? Bedtime? When you're feeling sad? When you're feeling happy? Who are your favorite musicians?
Favorite time to listen to music - in the car
Favorite kinds for exercise - upbeat 80's pop, show tunes
Bedtime - I can't fall asleep listening to music
Feeling sad - I try to avoid music when I'm sad, because it either jars me or sends me deeper. This is very different from when I was younger.
Feeling happy - Upbeat pop, "young Country", show tunes, soundtracks by John Williams
Favorite musicians - I don't know that I have any these days, to be honest. I have a huge music collection, but no one who particularly moves me right now.
Can you imagine a situation where you, as you are now, would feel called to a clergy position in organized religion? What would be necessary for it to happen? Have you seen any such situation in any civilization, fictional or nonfictional?
Ooohhh. . . As tempting as it is to imagine myself as a priestess in a Pagan temple of some kind, I have to come back to the answers I arrived at back in seminary a few years ago.
The fact is that I'm an introvert, and as such would find it a significant emotional challenge to function as clergy within an organization. I've also long felt myself answerable only to my gods, not to a human organization, so I don't know how well I'd be able to keep myself within the boundaries of the official doctrine.
If I ever were clergy, it would be within a faith where there was a goddess with a bright and a dark face and her consort, where there were rituals of both ecstasy and grieving, of ascent and descent, of love-sex, marriage, birth, death, and rebirth.
Has your use of livejournal changed at all over the years? Are there items you post more or less now than you used to?
To my chagrin, I'm posting far less of the serious intellectual-spiritual material than I did when I first started LJ. No longer being in seminary has a lot to do with that, but I feel like my journal is no longer as interesting as it was in the beginning.
Thankfully, I'm posting far less about domestic and work dramas than I did: no more issues with flooding, the impossible folks Upstairs at the old place, or Miss V.
