Old Clothes

[poliphilo]

Things I've tried on at one time or another:

Charismatic Christianity
Ultramontanism
Anglo-Catholicism
Liberal Protestantism
Anarchism
Revolutionary Socialism
Hippy Idealism
New Age Mysticism
Wicca
Celtic Paganism
Classical Paganism
Zen Buddhism
Atheism
Agnosticism
Spiritualism
Theosophy

I grew out of them all.

But I still have them in my wardrobe.

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Kind of like a many coloured coat, or...perhaps, a quilt. They're all there, all part of who you are.

That's about as philosophic as I can get this morning.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

A coat of many colours- yes, I like it!

[methodius.livejournal.com]

And I have some of them in mine, as a superannuated wannabe beatnik.

And one that wasn't on your list.

I think I can say (with G.K. Chesterton): As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in liberalism; but there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in liberals.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess I didn't list liberalism because that's one I haven't put away- and probably never will.

[solar-diablo.livejournal.com]

Just don't wear them all at once, you'll look like the theological equivalent of Bjork at the Oscars.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That would be fearful...

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Theosophy??? Did you pick that one up in Philly?

Last week I had dinner in the house in which Theosophy was conceived.

http://www.whitedog.com/blavatsky.html

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I didn't know (or had forgotten) that little historical tit-bit.

What an extraordinary person she was!

[professor-mom.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between keeping them in your wardrobe and donating them to the Goodwill?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If I donate them to the Goodwill I don't get to try them on (at the midnight hour) and do a twirl in front of the mirror.