Slow and wobbly wrote:Controversial topic indeed.
I'm not sure that I believe but by the same token I don't disbelieve. If it helps people to gain strength in they're own being and to bolster their confidence whether it be day to day or when in crisis then it can be a good thing for their psyche. It is when over enthusiastic zealots become overbearing that I turn off.
I voted yes after a long deliberation.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
I was brought up anglican - so there's some things I'll never get rid of (the odd instinctive 'prayer'/'beg' once in a while).
But once I got out of home and saw what the real world was like I realised I didn't really think much of any organised religions. Some aren't bad, but most are all about control - which may have been slightly understandable when people weren't educated, but make little sense today.
I think there could be someone 'up there' - but if he/she/it is at all interested in us it's only at the macro level.
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If you have no fear, you're not going fast enough.
Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, then beat you with experience.
(Im sure you have had the same at one time or another)
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