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To: CarrotAndStick

My One God discovery might have been merely the result of social conditioning-growing up in a Christian culture.I am OPEN to the possiblility of more than one God but don’t feel the need for multiple gods.
I think it was/is part of my quest and fervent desire to believe in something bigger than myself and the promise of either reincarnation or an afterlife of some kind.I am not a dogmatic Christian but simply cannot comprehend the end of my mortal existence.
Might be my huge ego speaking.I’m just”too important”to be dust in the wind.Yet throughout history,sages and visionaries from all cultures have felt the presence of a “God”.They can’t all be whackos.


139 posted on 05/18/2007 2:52:11 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Riverman94610
I.. simply cannot comprehend the end of my mortal existence.

That underlines the ultimate reason why people want to believe in the supernatural. The irony is that this fear will only last as long as one is alive. Billions of years went without your existence affecting it one lick. Odds are, so will billions more, after you, and me. I'd rather take pleasure in the assumption how lucky I must be, to be alive, for this tiny, tiny fraction of eternity, that these molecules that make me, came together in such a way, that together, they could think in unison and be awed by the very same!

140 posted on 05/18/2007 2:58:01 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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