(October 2, 2012 at 8:43 am)Drich Wrote:(October 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Then what is there to fear? What can be the harm in opening your mind to other things, since what you believe your god has given you trumps all else? If your faith is truly unimpeachable, it cannot possibly be threatened in any way, surely?
I have lived gthe first half of my life with my mind open to your current truth. It left me wanting. So I went out and found what I wanted.
It's like being lactose intollerent, and being made to drink milk. Then i find soy milk, and realize this is what i have been looking for. why would I want to go back to the 'milk' that doesn't sit well with me, when I can have something I can digest?
Except that you declared your faith, and whatever else you imagine you get out of all this, unassailable. Thus there cannot be any danger of indigestion, surely? As a matter of interest, if the way you describe yourself here is an accurate portrayal, then you and I are polar opposites. Whereas you deem yourself an incurable xtian, I am an incurable atheist. The difference is I actually expose myself to researching this stuff*; I know that my (lack of) faith is safely locked away and untouchable, so there can never be a conflict of ideologies. Why is the idea of entertaining some other 'truth' - which is a nonsensical concept but one which I shall roll with for the sake of discussion - so threatening to you?
* I also expose myself while researching this stuff, but that's nobody's business except mine and my parole officer's.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
