RE: The need to believe?
July 10, 2017 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2017 at 1:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 9, 2017 at 4:53 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: This. You have no idea how this ^^^ has helped me. You disbelieve, yet also at times, are conflicted. My atheist friends offline don't share their conflicts, so I assume that they have none with their position. But, while I'm not happy that you and others experience this, I'm grateful that this might just be a human thing, and I'm not all that out there for feeling this.
Told you that we would likely have analogs.
I'm pretty sure that my auger is trying to kill me. I cuss out wrenches for being metric or standard (whichever one I grabbed when I should have grabbed the other) like they were adult human beings. I -know- this can't be the case...but I feel it nevertheless. We project our sense of being out into the world onto inanimate objects and even out into empty space. Sometimes I get drunk, go to the creek, build a cairn, and talk to the ripples. Other times a weir, taunting the fish.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
