[July 2000 journal entry]
In order to be consistent and complete re the transition to and re retaining direction on a ‘non-religious’ path, I must press all ‘God’ language past an initial/elementary acknowledgment that such language is ‘morphic’ (i.e., anthropo-, socio-, cosmo-) and ‘metaphorical’. Why? (1) The existential pressure to do so has been/is sufficiently penetrating and personal to sustain the effort. (2) The stark and solitary pressure associated with a ‘wilderness’ existence tests every thought with immediate consequences. (3) The pressure to weigh every thought/idea (even every word) in order to have a meaningful presence within the medical education/practice sphere has been constant and strong.
In order to be consistent and complete re the transition to and re retaining direction on a ‘non-religious’ path, I must press all ‘God’ language past an initial/elementary acknowledgment that such language is ‘morphic’ (i.e., anthropo-, socio-, cosmo-) and ‘metaphorical’. Why? (1) The existential pressure to do so has been/is sufficiently penetrating and personal to sustain the effort. (2) The stark and solitary pressure associated with a ‘wilderness’ existence tests every thought with immediate consequences. (3) The pressure to weigh every thought/idea (even every word) in order to have a meaningful presence within the medical education/practice sphere has been constant and strong.
