Caltrops - Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution





	[quote name="ndd"][quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="ndd"]As soon as you are done skewering your fantasy of religious practice, I'll tell you about mine. Let me know when you have a moment.[/quote] [youtube id=5Wkf-xfhAWY&start=72] Okay, I'm done. Let's hear yours! Eagerly sits down and clasps hands in anticipation[/quote] [youtube id=amF5cRjruwk] What I really wanted was "body of binky" but this works too. Listen, I just thought it would be kind of alright if I sung and bloviated for a living. That's all I've ever been good at: history, languages, telling people they're right or wrong in ways that really get to them. When I can manage it. My fantasy is that I do my two years of constituency - that's just the part where I establish myself as a member of the church, btw, it's not school - and the church and my parents and my savings put me through the 3 years of grad school. I would probably concentrate on germanic, slavic, and celtic paganism and the synthetic and reactive interaction of christianity with these faiths, and write my thesis on something like "legitimating the female face of god." Then I graduate and serve a year or two as interim or contract minister until my fellowship is declared; then I get hired by an unremarkable church organization in a northern state - Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, South Dakota, that kind of thing. That's the point at which I get paid to do the thing I did on LJ for free: opine, sermonize, counsel, and guide. Except instead of doing it for smug girls in their early 20s I do it for all kinds of people. Each week is a succession of administrata and hand-holding, and Sundays at 9:30 I will take up 20 minutes of an hour-long service talking about interesting and beautiful things and the moral lessons they offer. For this, I expect to be <i>paid</i> - as money is your great concern - no more than $75,000 a year at the peak of my earning power, and usually more like $55k. Currently there are something like 70 UU M. Div. graduates for 50 ministerial openings annually. On the other hand, I feel much more confident about being the sharpest person in Divinity grad school than making the top 10% in any law school you might name. As for moral influence - I'm afraid we won't see eye to eye on this one. I'm convinced I would have a palpable impact on my future flock (why even entertain this notion otherwise?); I'm also confident that I would be inheriting a church someone else built, and growing it from that established platform. But we're talking here: going from 150 regular attendees to 500, not going from 0 to 10000.[/quote]