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[jester6565]

All of the people I usually rant to have left, and I feel like speaking to the masses. Not that the masses are listening, or even particularly interested...but what the hell. I feel inside me a strong rebelliousness...it arose from the questioning of my own beliefs. I asked myself "Why do I believe the things I do?" and the only conclusion I

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[_daisyface_]

Wow.

[jester6565]

wow what?

[audude1085]

I'm going to restrain myself a little bit here, but I'll just say it's probably not a good idea to base your ideas about God on works of fiction.

[jester6565]

I'll restrain myself even further than you've restrained yourself and not point out the irony of the bible perhaps being the greatest work of fiction. whoops, it slipped.

[audude1085]

Shedd- I'm sorry your having a crisis of faith. I really am. I'm sorry if you feel I've attacted your beliefs, i didn't mean to. But I feel pretty strongly about the way I do, and I guess I just hope that you can find something that you believe in too. I'm not trying to attack you, its just hard when you really and truly believe something. I hope you find what your looking for, cuz the world is pretty lonely place when you don't have anything to believe in.

[jester6565]

I know, and I didn't feel you were "attacting" my beliefs. You spelled that wrong, by the way. I'm not sure "crisis of faith" is the best way to put it...how 'bout just plain ol' "crisis of life"? And I really did find it ironcially humourous, what you said about not basing facts about God off of fiction...when there are several strong arguments that the a lot of the Bible is possibly fictious. I just thought it would be funny if it was fiction, because that would make your statement all the more hilarious. In a unviersally ironic sense. But...yeah. It's cool.

[anonymous]

the middle ground is tough to deal with. its a sickly grey, neither black nor white. i can understand your want to be one of two extremes. personally, i want situations to either be thunder storms with rain pouring down or peaceful days with the sun shining. i dont want a hazey overcast blah day. ghandi was a rebel. but so was hitler. whos to blame more for the tragedies of things? the rebel who leads the massacres, or the followers who did nothing about it? its a tough thing. hang in there. lifes all about not knowing, not caring too much about what the outcome will be. dont give up on what you know is right though. hang in there.

[jester6565]

hanging in there is hard to do. Of course, nobody ever said it would be easy...but I don't recall getting a briefing about it being hard either...