Comments | mahf: What to do with myself... your thoughts?

mahf

What to do with myself... your thoughts?

Feb 07, 2006 21:31

These days I feel more and more pulled in the direction of doing graduate study in theology, and moving in a direction that involves writing, reading, and teaching about that rather than science. I have always had the thought of going to seminary in the back of my head, and for various reasons kept pushing it aside. Perhaps partly because if I ( Read more... )

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taurance February 8 2006, 08:31:39 UTC

All that comes from within deep subconscious and cannot be rationally explained is often percepted as divine. I think, in your case a sort of levelling takes place in your psyche: mind preoccupied by purely rational things must be balanced by irrational. From this point of view, your striving for theology is normal :). This is a striving for wholeness which is inherent in a human being. I believe you are an intuitive-thinking type and you realize that rational approach is not all, there must be something to add to it. Did you read Arthur Schopenhauer: "Physics cannot exist independently, it needs metaphysics as a ground" (sorry for poor translation from Russian)?
I feel I could write on this more but this only a public diary :).
My e-mail for further contacts if you are interested: lilyforme7@yahoo.com.

mothwentbad February 8 2006, 20:11:15 UTC

Hmmmm. I can only say that I have some idea of what it feels like. You seem to be giving this a good deal of consideration, and I'm only passingly familiar with the situation.

shaptastic February 9 2006, 02:15:18 UTC

I know what you're going through, but in more of a specific sense. At the least, I know I'm going to be a doctor, but everyday I still consider what kind. I'm really leaning towards psychiatry right now, even though I have a lot of reservations about it. I'm actually embarrassed to tell people most of the time because I can get interesting reactions out of certain people. My classmates are great, but my family didn't initially take it so well. I sometimes still wonder if I should just have been a psychologist, but it's too late for that (that's probably just me being afraid I'm going to end up in something I don't like ( ... )