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[meriae]

I am not a religious person and have a certain wariness about me when it comes to organized religion. But I feel like I'm coming to some fairly significant realizations in my life and it's time I stopped trying to hold everything inside like some kind of strange secret

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[memnochenkil]

I think mistakes are really only bad when we don't stop and take the time to learn from them. Using them as a stepping stone for future choices even ones that are not similar in nature to the source I think is the best way to move towards the goal you want. I think you can reach this goal I have faith you can.

[lefthand]

I have no use for religion simply because the hallmark of the religious person is cruelty. While there are a lot of decent people who will tell you it is their religion that makes them good people, I would counter that it was really their actions that make them good people and religion is what they choose to credit rather than religion being the causal agent. Believing something doesn't make you a better person. Doing something about what you think is right does.

We are the choices we make. We are, however, free to make different choices based on the results of the last choice.

I used to believe the powerless thing. Over time, I saw it was just a cop out. No matter what our excuse is, we ultimately are responsible for our own lives. If we don't like the circumstances, there is always something we can do to change it, even if the only change is being more graceful about circumstances.

[meriae]

I am firmly in the camp that it is my actions that dictate whether or not I'm a good person, not my particular beliefs about the invisible man. That's where I start to break down. I know what I should do. I know what would be the right thing to do. And then the moment comes and I forget all of that and go with what I want. It is only later after I've already committed whatever horror it is that I look back, ashamed at myself.

Maybe I'm just trying to jam a square peg in a round hole...