Rainn Wilson, who plays Dwight Schrute on The Office, co-created the site SoulPancake. It is an attempt to create an on-line, contemporary place to talk about spirituality and life's big questions. It's interesting, if, sadly, geared towards someone younger than me.
I also am rather uncomfortable with Mr. Wilson's faith, Baha'i because of their ambigious to negative stance on homosexuality. If it wasn't for that sticky point, Baha'i would be a pretty cool religion, as religions go. It is rather focused on individual righteousness without judging other people. I'm down with that much.
Within that framework, then, I am skeptical of SoulPancake. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. For some reason, I don't buy that it is as cool as it seems. But then, they have a feature called Life's Little Lists, that is a tool to help a person consider their inner life. It's these parts of the site that make me forget the other shoe.
The current question is, "Name three things that you and only you can do for yourself." As a strong believer in self-determination, of course this appealed to me.
1. Only I can determine whether I am really ticklish.
2. Only I can decide how I will feel about or react to another person's behavior.
3. Only I can see my dreams.
I don't think I've posted about it here, and since I'm feeling religulous today, and since it also happens to related to Baha'i it reminded me, I'll point out for those interested in comparative religion, Project Conversion. This guy is trying on 12 different religions, one per month for a year. Fascinating project. I highly recommend it. I am intrigued by his work on his own spiritual journey and connection to the divine through the windows of these faiths.
Next in the religious post series, my musings on My Favorite Mormon, Ken Jennings, my recent trip to Salt Lake City, which included a trip to Temple Square, and why Mormons are so gosh darned nice.
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