Your True Name

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Joseph Campbell was a very well known philosopher and studier of comparative religion. Nowadays a significant number of the stories here are right out of mythology and lots of that interacts with ancient Jewish themes. I am intrigued by a story on the front page now where there is reference to one's True Name, and I am fairly sure that it originates partially from a book in the Old Testament of what Christians call Isaiah 56:4-5

4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
5 I will give in my house and within my walls
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off..

It is not required that one be religious to gain useful knowledge from religious texts. I do not know what the Jews call the book of Isaiah.

Of great value to me, something that helped me stop being suicidal, is that passage. I still don't care if I live or die, but at least it is possible to focus on good things and not to obsess on leaving this life.

It is greatly pleasurable in rubbing the nose of the religious in the text of their own Book. That passage, along with Matt 19:12 proves to me that the God which I believe in has made provision for those like us. While I am a woman, post op and all, medically I am a eunuch, and fine with it.

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