I've still been thinking and reflecting about this one: Spirituality is a human scheme, flawed from the outset as people ponder the nature of an all too elusive truth - and whilst they can't all be right they can all be wrong...

I think continued reflection is a GOOD thing, and I want to clarify what I posted above in response to it.

What I meant and tried to summarize in my above post is that I agree wholeheartedly with this part: Spirituality is a human scheme, flawed from the outset as people ponder the nature of an all too elusive truth...

I agree with it because it is my experience that for every person I have ever met, that is an accurate description of what I observe and with which I interact.


But I have a different view of this part: ...they can't all be right... because it is ALSO my experience that for every person I have ever met, that is NOT an accurate description of what I observe and with which I interact.

My experience tends more to the idea that each person may have one or more pieces that are right, one or more pieces that are wrong, and one or more pieces that are a bit out of focus to one degree or another. And in that view, I find the interaction intriquing, and redolent with Truth much of the time.


So-- I choose to go there. And I am grateful to be in a denomination that is comfortable with the journey, the ambivalence, the complexities-- and the need for rational thought running through all of creation. Frankly there are days when the amount of wrongness in that denomination makes it hard to keep seeing the possibilities of staying in it-- much like how Mudcat can seem totally CRAP one moment and totally transcendant, the next.

Just today alone, the threads are at both ends of that extreme, and why shouldn't they be-- it's all human beans in it and that's how we act most of the time.


But there is so much good stuff about human beans I'm grateful to be one among others.


Abrazos,

~Susan