Growing up in the Worldwide Church of God was akin to being in a secret society - no one else understood the things that we understood; during the End Times, we were going to reign over mankind by becoming...gods! We were afforded this luxury through works masquerading as faith - not the stereotypical traditional Christian belief of ( Read more... )

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Recently fellow-blogger/philosopher & aunt-in-law asked in her post:

It is so difficult for me to abide those groups/individuals that try to justify their views without facts or make them up to fit their belief. The " That's just the way I feel" type of thinking. Now, I don't care if they just do this to themselves, but when they try to impact ( Read more... )

Once I've formed an opinion about something, in an attempt to not live in a vacuum of self-importance, I always ask myself, "What if I'm wrong?" Then I argue with myself about both sides. Of course its better to have this actual conversation with someone who has a different opinion - I can't think of everything - but the problem, the real problem ( Read more... )

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I love having conversations with open-minded people, even those who lack the breadth of travel and experience I have had - it doesn't matter because they're so open minded they understand even things they've never experienced. I admire these people because I'm their opposite - I learn through empirical testing. That being said, I really do hate ( Read more... )

The time draws near when I will once again unzip my Eric suit* and shrug out of it to dally; to pull the skeletons from my closet and polish them for playtime; to swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh. Each seemingly meaningless passing milisecond compounds with many others to create entire whole seconds which then gather up together amongst ( Read more... )