[FoRK] Re: Please Help

[Lion Kimbro]

  Post-Post-Scriptum:

  Someone else cited "Dancing Wu-Li Masters,"
  and tarred me with it.

  I got my A in Harvey Mudd's "Science & Religion
  in the 20th Century" hum class by writing a paper
  tearing that book apart for dishonesty and leading
  people to false conclusions.

  There are some interesting questions in Quantum
  Mechanics, but "a proof of consciousness" and
  evidence for mystical states of existence, it is not.

  ---


  What I am about, is experimenting with and honoring
  psychological reality.  Meaning, symbols, and
  narrative.

  Rather than denying -- *making explicit* the difference
  between night language and day language, while
  honoring both.

  I look forward to being baptised on the beach of
  West Seattle, to celebrate my commitment to life
  and my origins, in a social way, in a celebratory way.

  Somehow, **and I don't know how, -- I know there's
  some science behind it**, ...

  Somehow, it will **feel good,** to do this.

  Not because I believe "the God of the Pacific Ocean
  is going to bless my life," or any such imaginary.
  But, maybe just for fun, somebody will say that I've
  been blessed by the God of the Pacific Ocean, in
  a tongue-and-cheek way, an homage to the joy of
  fantasy.

  Somehow, it will feel fun, and it will feel sacred.

  Somehow, it will earnestly lend towards me being
  more serious in my commitments to life, my
  commitments to the protection of the environment,
  to my relationships with other people, to my studies
  of nature, and so on.

  Somehow, and I don't know how or why, this will
  just "work" for me.

  Most people, in our secular society, they think
  that "ritual" is a badness, a bane, and that it's
  horrible and to be minimized.

  But, I'm actually looking forward to being baptized.
  Some people look forward to having weddings,
  even though they don't have to.

  There's no one to baptize me yet, but maybe one day,
  if "my plan" works, there will be!

  Nobody's going to *force* anybody to do anything
  like this.  This is just something I want to do.  And
  I've talked with others who want to do this as well.
  So, yay us.