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Subject: I'm not so sure....


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dave
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Date Posted: 23:59:59 02/16/05 Wed
In reply to: Joshua 's message, "Experience is for the Individual" on 17:27:09 02/16/05 Wed
 that I'm being exactly understood. Maybe that's because I don't really understand myself. I would love to open up to all that I'm missing out on in all the various realms of experience. I think I've been doing pretty well so far. And I'm sure that I have much more to discover. I don't want to sound like I'm discrediting anyone elses profound experiences. As long as people can experience deep things and their actions reflect that they are being driven from a place that is true to themselves and true to where they are in relation to the rest of us I am all for it. Unfortunately people tend to want to just latch on to another's ideas and the momentum of their crusades rather than experiencing things directly for themselves and trusting in their own inner experience. If someone wants to believe in the Virgin birth and all that stuff, that's fine with me until they go bombing my abortion clinic or telling my gay brother that he can't marry who he wants. I feel a huge disconnect between people who are claiming to be deeply religious and speaking about the love of God and then saying that they have the only seats in heaven and they are gonna vote, and lobby, and protest and do whatever else it takes to make a hard time for everyone who doesn't believe and live their way. For myself, I want to go on what I experience alone and not what anyone else tells me I should be experiencing. And I have never seen a woman give birth with out first having wet sticky sex so if all I see is a rock and someone else is claiming it's the Virgin Mary, I'm still gonna think of it as a rock until I directly experience otherwise. But maybe that means I'm missing out, who knows.
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You Have the 'Fervor' of FaithJoshua16:52:16 02/17/05 Thu
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