[July 2006 journal entry]
The ‘scrapheap’ Job represents individuals who have life experiences that move them steadily/harshly from feeling safely positioned in the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm’s center to being on the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm’s boundary or margin. Prior to his personal suffering, the ‘scrapheap’ Job may be understood to represent individuals who live their personal lives as if safely in the paradigm’s center but who see in the distance the boundary/marginalizing circumstances others face. The severely abused kids cared for at the K-Bar-B Youth Ranch represent (for me) individuals whose lives begin with boundary/marginalizing experiences.
The ‘scrapheap’ Job represents individuals who have life experiences that move them steadily/harshly from feeling safely positioned in the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm’s center to being on the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm’s boundary or margin. Prior to his personal suffering, the ‘scrapheap’ Job may be understood to represent individuals who live their personal lives as if safely in the paradigm’s center but who see in the distance the boundary/marginalizing circumstances others face. The severely abused kids cared for at the K-Bar-B Youth Ranch represent (for me) individuals whose lives begin with boundary/marginalizing experiences.