Finally Identifying My Career ... a #Pathologian? @PathSoc @PatheosCatholic @PatheosNonrelig @PatheosEvang @PatheosPagan #Pathologist #Pathology #Pathologies #Path #Pathos

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After my Traumatic Brain-Injury, 'pathologists' (particularly my Speech/Language Pathologist) were instrumental in my recovery.

'Your skepticism believes that I'm incapable of earning a degree' (and/or it's too much trouble to go through in order to owe too much debt to a bunch of people who loaned me nothing but 'time they were probably going to waste anyway'), so I need to examine "pathology" on my own.

'Examine pathology' ... get "pathological"? I hope not, but let's see

'That word' is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Pathology” is built on “Experience, Suffering (Disease, |Quality that arouses Pity or Sorrow, Feel) + to Study (-logy).”

 That leads to the "Worthy to be a Subject of Pathology"-meaning of 'Pathological.'

Patheos.com—their Wikipedia-page says–
has a name which is "a portmanteau of 'Path' (which
 is the way most religions describe their practices
 ... 'following "The Path" of "Their Divinely Anointed Savior"), and
 'theos,' the Greek word for god."

The word "Path" is built on Foundations beneath "|Track"—probably translated "to Tread, |Go, |Pass" (|Way, |Find).

Why am I a 'path-olog-ian' and not a 'path-olog-ist?' Because I "pertain to" the path more than I "adhere to its doctrines & practices." (In fact, most of my fellow TBI-survivors are alive today because they did not 'adhere to' "the doctorin`" that told us we were doomed to 'stay dead!')

There's also the word "|Theologian." Though it means essentially the same thing as "|Theologist," it's used far more often (as 'Theologist' seems to carry the negative connotation of a lot of other words that end in "-ist"—narcissist, rapist, abortionist, etc.)

That, and (at least with The Christian Bible) the religions' readers consider themselves to be part of the story they're reading rather than -to be studying the history of some distant, disconnected Creator.

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Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
 Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
 alone":  "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows

 him why he's not"—Won't you show me
 if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?