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I was going to post this over at agnosticism, but I dropped it here instead as it's a little over the median.
I guess I've been wanting to believe in something of late because I'm facing a pain too big to swallow, and it seems only a force That Big could be the answer to my dilemma. That, and I'd love to have something else to blame my unhappiness on right now besides myself, having done the best I could with what I had at the time and I still fumbled it, and I'm sick of beating up on myself. That, and I'd hate to think that 'this' is all there is and we only get 70 - 80 years at it.
But as for any 'revealed' religion, why couldn't God have 'revealed' himself to a whole whack o' clearly intelligent people at once in the same place, that way there'd be no argument about what happened or what he/she/it/they want, unlike the way it's apparently been since God started selling hamburgers, so folks can keep their dogma; I'll just say that there very well is/could be something bigger than us watching but no-one knows what it is/wants (other than to love each other) no matter who they are or what Special Books they've read, straight from God's mind to your purse-sized Daily Affirmations that you picked up at the Red & White check-out stand.
I guess I've been wanting to believe in something of late because I'm facing a pain too big to swallow, and it seems only a force That Big could be the answer to my dilemma. That, and I'd love to have something else to blame my unhappiness on right now besides myself, having done the best I could with what I had at the time and I still fumbled it, and I'm sick of beating up on myself. That, and I'd hate to think that 'this' is all there is and we only get 70 - 80 years at it.
But as for any 'revealed' religion, why couldn't God have 'revealed' himself to a whole whack o' clearly intelligent people at once in the same place, that way there'd be no argument about what happened or what he/she/it/they want, unlike the way it's apparently been since God started selling hamburgers, so folks can keep their dogma; I'll just say that there very well is/could be something bigger than us watching but no-one knows what it is/wants (other than to love each other) no matter who they are or what Special Books they've read, straight from God's mind to your purse-sized Daily Affirmations that you picked up at the Red & White check-out stand.