(October 30, 2013 at 7:46 pm)Zazzy Wrote: In the every day, practical world, it's hard to think carefully all the time. I think forums are appealing because we don't always have to be our best selves when it comes to that. It's also hard to give time and money, but it's almost always worth it when I do. And being honest? Man, that's the toughest. It's so much easier to tell a lie than to find an appropriate way to say, "I don't want to come to your party because I don't like your friends."
Right?
The self-restraint part gets me sometimes. If I have a head ache or a stomach ache or am just in a plain shitty mood I can hardly help myself from bucking like bull at little things. And the whole china shop comes down.
But I think I want to change my analogy now:
A good person is like a desert rose on moonlit night . . .
No, just kidding.
The good person is the one with the glue in his/her back pocket, willing to take it out and put the broken things back together, things that others broke and things that were broken by him/her (the good person).
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
