[lookout123]

Cat - what i'm getting out of all your posts when taken as a whole is either pretty confusing or very telling. i'm not sure which.

On religion you tell us that you have it all figured out. There is no God, it is a creation of a fearful, inquisitive mind. A step on the path to enlightenment before the revelation that there is no God, but only us. those that have a faith in God aren't educated or enlightened enough to know they are all they need and stop the search for something to fill a gap in their lives.

On relationships you tell us you see no point in having a commitment because it might not work out for the long haul. You like the warm and fuzzy, but think the commitment beyond that is foolishness.

On children you don't see the point in having children except to fill a void in our lives, or lift up a sagging self esteem. Those who see other value in being parents are misguided.

These last two issues were questions that you raised in what I thought was an inquisitive manner, but then you already seem to have all the answers worked out. So, really, why ask the questions if you already know all of the answers that will follow but have refuted them in your own mind?

I'm not trying to pick on you or ridicule you in anyway, I'm really just confused. I don't know you in real life, so I don't know much about you. We can only assume that we are IRL as we are in the cellar, as much as possible.

If this holds true for you then, it would seem that you are either the most overconfident, all knowledgeable person I've ever met or you are someone who is searching for something but refuse to admit it, because you don't know what in the world you are searching for.

Your posts in the three topics at hand lend themselves to the second choice. If you truly believed that there is nothing but ourselves in life then why argue with such conviction against those that believe otherwise. If you are right, no one has lost anything. The questions about relationships were asked because you are either searching for something or because you just wanted to tell us why we were wrong.

Either way, it seems to me that you may be asking these questions of yourself, but don't want to admit you aren't sure of the answers. Maybe you don't even like that you have the questions to begin with, since you don't believe in a void that needs to be filled. somehow, I think all of these threads are linked for you.

Or maybe I'm just crazy. I don't know, Freud I am not. I never liked the Coke. damn ice cubes always got stuck in my nose.