My proofs for Islam

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't care what you think of me for my own sake Jo, but only that, I am concerned by that you become further lost in your confusion.

As many people on this forum can attest, confusion is an item that I carry in very limited stock, if at all.  You assume that I am in confusion because I disagree with you on mattters of which you are certain.  You think I am in confusion regarding these matters.  As the testimony of others can make clear, your presupposition that I am in great confusion regarding this matter when I am not in most other matters strongly suggests that your pre-supposition is wrong.  Your own eyes and the testimony of others can readily make this plain to you.  You choose to think otherwise because you are foolish and allow certainty to be your only guide.  It's said that a man who is his own attorney has a fool for a client.  You invest far too heavily in your own opinion and almost completely dismiss the opinions of others.  You were not built this way.  You are a social animal whose survival depends upon his relying upon others for support and guidance, a fact which you yourself acknowledge, though you prefer to believe that only true guidance can come from God.  But you fail to take advantage of guidance from others on matters that don't depend upon God, such as whether or not I am likely confused or not.  You are a defective unit who has turned against his own and made an island of himself.  I repeat that you were not built this way, or, at worst, it is not the way you were supposed to function.  That may or may not be related to your illness.   I'm not implying that it is or saying this out of spite, but only to acknowledge that there are complications here which cannot be ignored.  I neither assign fault to your religion, your self, or your illness.  But whatever the cause, you are far off course and drifting farther.  And your peers can attest to that, too.  You just prefer being an island and going against what otherwise is or should be your nature.  That's probably a part of your nature, too.  The same is true to a greater or lesser extent in all of us.  I think, perhaps, for reasons I'll simply leave open, you depend on yourself and deny others to a greater extent than others.  I suspect you are in that way generally imbalanced, but it might be simply a polarizing effect of your religious beliefs.  Regardless, you are discarding resources that are at your disposal to help lead you to truth because they do not lead you to the truth that you want to believe.  Your heart is leading, and your head has become little more than an impotent slave, mercilessly serving at the whim of your desires.  That won't lead you to truth.  Emotion and the heart is an important component of the search for truth, but only when it is balanced with reason.  I don't think you are balanced that way, and I could point to numerous and plentiful comments that you've made as evidence of that proposition.

I got rather off track, there, probably because what I feel for you is in fact the opposite of spite, though I am somewhat reluctant to acknowledge it.  The point is that if you're relying on yourself to the exclusion of what your peers and other evidence not related to religion can tell you, you're not well balanced and you are worsening your chances of succeeeding rather than enhancing them by doing so.

I'm so confused...

Boru