I'd guess it depends on how much you want to/enjoy the basic fight to be accepted, or as a spiritual metaphor. One of the reasons I quit looking for an "organized" spiritual haven a long time ago is that I have to fight enough in my day to day life and interactions, and if I am going to go somewhere to deal with my concepts of spirituality and the "god" (using quotations because thought I think our basic definition is similar, my usage is not that within Christianity) - I want to be able to focus ON THAT. In fact, for myself, I find the focus on it very important, if that is the entire point of the organization to begin with - and I, in the end, have found it near impossible, to find anything that is anywhere near a comfortable fit. However - depending on one's paradigym and thoughts, the fight to get acceptance for whatever it is that makes one different may be half the point, if only from the perspective of opening a group or congregation or... 's collective mind to the new or different ideas.
Perfect World was similar for me. It was one of the only and the last movie that my "grandfather" and I watched together. We talked for hours about it afterwards, over whiskey (me) and cognac (him) - and it is one of the most strangely positive memories I have of him. It helped to explain/touched on some of the differences in our experience... which made the conversation all the more odd, and deeply meaningful in the tangents it provoked.
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Date: 2008-07-11 12:17 am (UTC)One of the reasons I quit looking for an "organized" spiritual haven a long time ago is that I have to fight enough in my day to day life and interactions, and if I am going to go somewhere to deal with my concepts of spirituality and the "god" (using quotations because thought I think our basic definition is similar, my usage is not that within Christianity) - I want to be able to focus ON THAT. In fact, for myself, I find the focus on it very important, if that is the entire point of the organization to begin with - and I, in the end, have found it near impossible, to find anything that is anywhere near a comfortable fit.
However - depending on one's paradigym and thoughts, the fight to get acceptance for whatever it is that makes one different may be half the point, if only from the perspective of opening a group or congregation or... 's collective mind to the new or different ideas.
Perfect World was similar for me. It was one of the only and the last movie that my "grandfather" and I watched together. We talked for hours about it afterwards, over whiskey (me) and cognac (him) - and it is one of the most strangely positive memories I have of him. It helped to explain/touched on some of the differences in our experience... which made the conversation all the more odd, and deeply meaningful in the tangents it provoked.
*sighs* Been out of touch too long.