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The older I get, the more skeptical I become, and the more contradictory.
I believe in the supernatural; in psychics and ghosts and other things, but someone proclaiming themselves to have extra-sensory perception does rather make me guffaw.
I am a confirmed Church of England Protestant but I mistrust all forms of organised religion completely.
I want to believe that love works, but I've yet to see definitive proof.
I resent the fact that my innocent gullability is being jaded by circumstance and experience. I want to be able to believe what I hear on the news. I want to be able to believe that if the police say they have foiled a huge terrorist attack, they are undoubtedly telling the truth. I want to be able to believe that the police and the government is always acting in mine, and my countrymen's, best interests.
I don't want to know that they didn't find anything in that terraced house in London. I don't want to think about the convenience of alleging child porn possession by the man they wrongly shot, to the police officers who would like nothing more than to brush him under the carpet. I don't want to think about the increased powers which will undoubtedly be pushed through government in the next few weeks as a direct result of this newly foiled attack. I don't want to think about how I have seen no proof of these attacks, besides the statements of people who have a definite interest in making me believe what they say.
I don't want to think about what is happening to my country, while I sit by and moan, and write in my blog, and do nothing.
I don't want to think about how I can't stop myself from thinking, "What could I do, anyway? They won't listen to me."
I hate defeatism.
Blame occupiedneptune for this. She nudged me. <3
I believe in the supernatural; in psychics and ghosts and other things, but someone proclaiming themselves to have extra-sensory perception does rather make me guffaw.
I am a confirmed Church of England Protestant but I mistrust all forms of organised religion completely.
I want to believe that love works, but I've yet to see definitive proof.
I resent the fact that my innocent gullability is being jaded by circumstance and experience. I want to be able to believe what I hear on the news. I want to be able to believe that if the police say they have foiled a huge terrorist attack, they are undoubtedly telling the truth. I want to be able to believe that the police and the government is always acting in mine, and my countrymen's, best interests.
I don't want to know that they didn't find anything in that terraced house in London. I don't want to think about the convenience of alleging child porn possession by the man they wrongly shot, to the police officers who would like nothing more than to brush him under the carpet. I don't want to think about the increased powers which will undoubtedly be pushed through government in the next few weeks as a direct result of this newly foiled attack. I don't want to think about how I have seen no proof of these attacks, besides the statements of people who have a definite interest in making me believe what they say.
I don't want to think about what is happening to my country, while I sit by and moan, and write in my blog, and do nothing.
I don't want to think about how I can't stop myself from thinking, "What could I do, anyway? They won't listen to me."
I hate defeatism.
Blame occupiedneptune for this. She nudged me. <3