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Old 03-04-2004, 05:42 PM   #14
Troubleshooter
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Originally posted by Shattered Soul

Oooh...delusions of grandeur...gotta love 'em.
Not at all. No one, ever, anywhere, anytime, has shown me that there is more to this existence than what we create.

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Ah, but you imply that you DO know, merely by saying that religion (I prefer "spirituality," I don't personally ascribe to "religion," myself. ) is silly and a waste of time. You don't KNOW that. You BELIEVE that, but you can't say that you KNOW. And merely because something hasn't been proven doesn't mean it can't be.
See my first point. If it's unproven it's not religion, it's art. Calling all of this art is the only thing that could redeem it at this point. Catharsis and auto-erotic masochism I could tolerate.

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Again, your opinion, not necessarily reality. Others may feel differently. Merely because people desire to believe in something bigger than themselves is not necessarily an insecurity, and the very belief in a creator, however one chooses to picture it/him/her is looking beyond oneself.
Then what is it?

And I'm not going to kill you for not changing your mind about my beliefs either.

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Oh, and it's "themselves," btw...
I stand corrected.
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