Sara Wolf:  

Life livejournal ID: dairon920 / sarabwolfATgmailDOTcom Life...is wonderful. It is long, and strange, and frequently difficult. But I disagree with the paradigm I was raised with, that the world is the realm of evil or the devil. And with the Buddhists, that life is suffering. Life is a constant adventure, and the worst moments are the best times to learn. For those who have not seen me since 1996: I spent six years working and thinking, not really doing much else. I moved, made a few wonderful friends who are still very close, even though I've since moved again, this time to Appleton. I read a lot, everything I could: the little science I could understand, philosophy, psychology, and when I got to be brave enough to question the rigid strictures of my upbringing, even religion. They were right, the teachers that told us that theology changes one's way of looking at things. But I think that knowledge ultimately enriches us and makes us more fully human, and to doubt one's little god that punishes and strikes down for every microcosmic error is to come through to a greater understanding of the divine force which underlies all the transient manifestations that come and go in life. Churches, people and doctrines all included. The world is too big and too full of wonder and joy and hope and beauty to be ruled over by a demiurge that casts 95% of the population into eternal torture. The force that created this world is not a destroyer, and that is my last word on it. Well, there...now that the elephant in the parlor is taken care of, as they say, I can perhaps talk about other thing...Expand for more