[2733] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: What do people want from me? (What do I want from myself?)
nosaj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nosaj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 29 00:58:03 1992
>Item. The discussions on the Conservative Judaism mailing list are
>making me despair of ever finding a branch of Judaism which is
>``authentic'' to me and which will be accepted by everybody.
Theme from _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_:
If you don't like how your mechanic fixes your motorcycle,
do it yourself.
One of the problems I see in any established religion is that if
people are intelligent enough to try to find "the" branch of their
religion which is acceptable to them and to others, they usually
end up not finding any of them satisfactory.
Having a religious family who expects you to practice your religion
in "the" way doesn't help.
