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Originally Posted by noodle
"Are you Christian?"
"No."
"Well, what are you?"
"I'm rather eclectic."
"Huh?"
"I feel whatever you believe will happen when you die is what will happen for you."
"Oh."
True conversation from about a year ago. In the context that I'm a hospice social worker. We talk about death more often than not in the religious context.
I usually just say I'm "eclectic".
There are little things from a number of world religions that I find would be nice to believe in.
If they push me further, as our Chaplain does frequently, I can push back in a way that keeps me from getting fired, but protects my capability to have my own thoughts. It works for me.
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You see, this is a context in which the question is valid. You're working amongst people, who are ostensibly not just "strangers on the street," and as most hospice patients are looking down the barrel of mortality, there's validity in their seeking help in their own quest for faith of some sort, so knowing the faith/lack thereof of a social worker in a hospice seems germane. I'd love to have long conversations about the snippets of "the other side" that I've seen here in my time on earth with folks in their shoes. Joe Witness on the street corner, not so much. My time here on Earth is just too short. A blinking of the cosmological eye. too much else to do.
(like surf the web. heh)