November 25, 2006
DYG 3
Here's the next part. Some theory questions.
If your god is a person you know, do you expect infallible guidance from them?
How do you guage your life on the comparison to someone else?
If your god is assets and dollars, what happens when the market crashes?
How do you make decisions based on cost when prices are in IRD (Implied Relationship Denominations) instead of dollars?
If fashion runs your routine, where does that leave your neighbor who hasn't bought a new pair of jeans in ten years?
Does the TV/Internet world show you what is right and wrong?
Whoa...How do you know what is right and wrong in the first place?
What is the standard that can be found common among all the deities covered so far (money, people, politics, media, style)?
When the teacher says your child just doesn't seem to want to participate, what prompts your reply? Do you stand on your pride and know that the teacher has no clue how to teach? Do you "try harder" to get your child motivated? Do you send your child to the school psychologist for counseling? Or is there a deeper problem?
What is your child's god? Did you teach it to your child? Is this a pertinent reflection of your own definition of god?
Does your god present any concept of perfection?
Does your conscience ever fail to comply with your god, or are they one and the same all the time?
Does your god intrude on your thoughts ever, or is it a simply-understood-coexistence where nobody gets bothered?
Do you even worry about a god? I'll say again. Everybody has one (or maybe more than one), so can you find yours?
If you don't have one, where is your direction? By what do you steer your course in life?
Are you success-oriented (the world ends when you or your responsibilities meet roadblocks)? Are you image oriented (the world ends when your secret is discovered or your character is judged negatively)? Are you family oriented (the world ends when your family isn't cohesive, cooperative, whole)? Are you failure oriented (the world ends when something good happens, leaving you without that pain-proof of your existence)?
Are you philosophy oriented (so long as your beliefs are not challenged, the world continues in its perfect rotation in a perfect universe)? Are you blur oriented (the world continues as long as you do not have to commit or face concrete issues such as death, failure, pain, change)? Are you giving oriented (the world goes round as long as everyone else is satisfied as best as you can make them and those who don't conform to your caring and giving are pared off and tossed to the "other-world")? Are you evasion oriented (all is fine as long as you don't encounter anything convicting, anything that causes life-changing thought)?
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