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a hint: if star trek transporters were a reality and only one man held the ‘go’ key, who could get you in and out of the transporter safely?

OK. So I understand now.

The all powerful omnipotent Supreme Being of the universe is some guy named Scotty from a fictional a 1960’s TV series.

And since Scotty, AKA, James Doohan recently died and his ashes were sent into space, I guess one can say He died and ascended into Heaven? (Sorry for the sarcasm).

Thanks, but that makes as much sense as anything anyone else has ever told me about god or any religion. Your silly analogy doesn’t impress me.

He’s listening for your inquiry! You, your own personal inquiry, He’s listening for you to ask ...

And you presume that I’ve never asked before? As I child I once believed in god as sincerely and as innocently as I believed in Santa Claus.

I was willing to let go of Santa Claus but it took more time with god. I sincerely and heartfeltly prayed every morning and every night and all through out the day, well into adulthood. And I understood the difference between praying for selfish things and praying for god’s will for me, but no matter how I prayed, how much I prayed or under what church I prayed, the answer was always the same: not Yes or No or Wait, but just empty silence, my own voice just echoing back to me from across a great canyon.

Then I realized that the voice echoing back to me was not god and never would be, but it was only my own voice and my own freewill and it always would be that way and that GOD was just the Good Orderly Direction of my own freewill.

Well, if you prayed like that as a child (and children are closer temporally to His presence than we oldsters), I have zero doubt that He will eventually reaqch you, it’s just a matter of your timing. Peace be with you, enjoy the ride at this the beginning of the eternal journey. You can freepmail me anytime you wish to ‘talk a bit more about it.’ Glad to have you at FR ... brians are such a fun thing to witness in action.