Rows of Administration...

[janestarz]

Being back in Veenendaal isn't that bad. Reini is very much bugging me with questions and if I keep my door closed she won't come barging in.

Bad news I heard today is that I can't live here for another year. Or maybe that's good news. As soon as my contract ends (june 2004) I'll have to move out.

Doing my administration (you know, dumping all the junk mail into ordners and paying bils) gave me a headache. I even found a letter from the Gereformeerde Church here in Veenendaal saying they want my soul want to know whether or not I'm going to attest (? is that the word?). I hooked up my printer, the hazy fuck, and wrote them a small letter saying I found my faith elsewhere and I'd like to be written down in the books as a heretic. Or something more polite.

I'm off to pay some more bills and look up some costumes to see which one to wear tomorrow to Inge's party and to the photoshoot on the 8th.

Comments

[troglodyteking.livejournal.com]

In general I have been ignoring your posts until recently because of time constraints, although I will certainly be going back and reading some, but I felt I should try to resume my role as English-tutor anyway:

I suspect the term you are looking for is 'be confirmed'. It could be wrong, and all sorts of churches have different terms for it, but in my experience 'confirmation' is the used to signify the procedure by which you agree with the church's teachings and the church takes you as an official member. It might just apply to young people who were raised in the church, though, as that is the main context in which I have heard the term used.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the word they used in the dutch letter, except that I had read it in English before. They did use a form of 'attest', namely "attestatie" (to attest to something).

I do appreciate your role as English Tutor. Thanks *wink*

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[troglodyteking.livejournal.com]

I was just reading over what I wrote and seeing typos everywhere . . . what a great English tutor I am!

Well, yeah, there you go. It is just one more instance of my blatant speculation going awry. *smile*

[(Anonymous)]

We have received a letter from the clergy of veenendaal that you are a proclaimed heretic. Don't leave your house as we will pick you for ritual cleansing.

Cleansing by Fire that is...

Father Brimstone
Scourge of Heretics

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Fire! Fire! Whaahahahaaaaaaaa!!!
*cackles*

[elektron.livejournal.com]

So what do you believe in?

*hides from the evil bills*

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Well...that is a very long story.
But I mostly believe in Life and Love. Above all.

I stole bits of Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and maybe even satanism...and from paganism even more than from others, maybe.

To summarize: I believe there is an 'entity', a higher being, which we humans may never understand. I don't think we can name it, or try to capture its essence in a religion and ties, rules, and boundaries.
It's really hard to explain. *shrugs*
Sorry.

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[elektron.livejournal.com]

Which bits of satanism?

Judging from what you said, it's supposed to be really hard to explain =P

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[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I like the idea that satanists have concerning learning. I interviewed the high priest of the Church of Satan in Holland, for school purposes (people in school prayed for our souls).
He said that a satanist must learn what something is truly about, view all perspectives, before making judgement.

[sna.livejournal.com]

I must honestly say I have given Church a try a long time ago. My parents gave me free choice of religion, and in typical Nerd style I checked out quite a few. I've red books from most major religions, which I hope has given me a nice insight in all of them and a greater understanding of it in general.

The problem is with all the dogma's is that there are none of them where I can find myself in. Some have weird rules or weird interpretations (weird being my opinion here offc... ), others are very much turned into themselves and closed of from the world. A close friend of mine, Rebecca, has made the decision to leave her church, a sub-sect of Christianity, because she found it too close-minded. Most of her old friends do not even speak to her now. THAT is something that in the modern world I do not find acceptable. I have friends and collegues all over the religious spectrum, from modern Wiccans to traditional Moslims, and I get along with all of them.

Where I am going to: yes, I do believe in something. Call it hope. While I do not agree with any particular religion I do have a feeling that there is something out there. And I do my own personal religion just for me. No services, no flock, just a great deal of thinking and introspection. Call it Malorism if you will ;-)

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for Malorism!
Let's celebrate in Malorish ways!

I think it's good that each person thinks about what they believe in. Faith can add so much to a person's life. But not neccessarily do religions in themselves have the Ultimate Truth. After all, if there is an entity such as we refer to as a God, how can we mere humans ever grasp that concept?

an afterthought

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Or for that matter, confine it into a religion with all its rules and boundaries?