Just What's A Canker Sore
8 years ago
Friday, August 12, 2005
Well it's late, I'm tired, and I had a psychology/counselling class tonight, so I'm feeling rather introspective...
I was thinking about what my world view is, how I define who I am, what I believe, and what is true. I have had a lot of influences over the years, some good some bad, all shaping. I have picked up so much along the way, but I don't always stop to let some of it go. Is it right just to pile it all up and never sort through it again? I don't think it is.
After spending 2 years with a training organisation that is very all consuming while you're in it, I have had to do some assessing of what I really think this year. I have been trying to figure out what's me and what's them. What is it that I honestly want to take on board as truth and use in my life? What what propegated that I don't necessarily want to take with me? I'm trying to draw some personal boundaries and 'own' things for myself. I want to have integrated ideas and feelings. I don't want to just regurgitate things that have been fed to me. I want to know who I am and what I think, and be confident in that.
We were looking tonight at different views of psychology and theology, and different ways they can be viewed as they relate to each other. It made me think of how I relate to external influences. What do I just take from others? What is authentically mine? What is valid to take on board, and what ought I to leave behind? I'm thinking a lot about self identification and my self concept. Who am I, and what is it that I am owning as being authentically me? What have I mistaken for being what I really think? Some things I can work through and then accept as things that I do want to take on board, but others I can consider and then realise that I want to explore it further, or develop it, or leave it behind.
It's an interesting journey of figuring out who I am and what is valid in my life.
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And bigassposer, are you serious? It's not like Bible Collage is a brain washing course. The whole point of it is to make you think, to understand what you believe yourself. You can't really grow unless you know what you're growing from.
I do know dboy. he goes to my church. And I haven't been banned from his site, it's just a big role playing thing and now I can't post anymore. It's funny!
I can see where you're coming from bap. I know that people can behave like that, which is unfortunate and not at all what God wants. I think perhaps that is the difference between religion and a life born out of a relationship with God.
Because, if something is true, then it must be able to hold up to scrutiny, hey? That's why I'm a Christian: it is the only world view that holds up to close scrutiny, a\once you've considered the facts and the logic :)
And dboy, I totally agree!
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And bap, your comments seriously concern me, seems you really have the wrong idea about Christianity. Sure, there are some whacked out Christians out there, but a lot of what you're saying (especially mixing up some religions) is based on outdated stereotypes. The Bible condemns judging others and such.
Seriously dude, what you described isn't anything like the real Christianity.