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Date Posted: 18:49:48 07/26/02 Fri
Author: gnossis
Subject: Re: God/the afterlife
In reply to: Appy20 's message, "Re: God/the afterlife" on 17:49:26 07/25/02 Thu

>I keep losing posts. I did have a mind once.....
>
>I gave this true life analogy on BNET: My beloved
>colt has a skin fungus with painful blisters. I
>treated it and he tried to kick me. I still love him
>very, very much. I feel his pain. I understand his
>point of view. I don't take it personally. He just
>wants the pain to stop. Do I love my colt more than
>God loves us? Am I capable of more empathy than God?
I was reading about what we seekers seem to have in common.
Our share or more than our share of tragedies. I come from a totally dysfunctional family in which there was not only child sexual abuse but incest. The pain of that and the knowledge that not all families were like that caused me to reject a lot of things. Later in life, two of my sons died, one in infancy and another in a car accident. I dealt for many years with a haunting sense of inadequacy, never far from suicide. I thought I had found heaven on earth when I met a woman who I loved more than life itself. My life changed so remarkably and I was unimaginably happy. When she left I thought I would not survive. Yet I did. I am stronger, more loving, and more spiritual as a result of our being together and also as a result of her leaving me. And now that my astrological chart says that I will live another 30 years, I don't dread the prospect. BTW: I do believe in a creator and an afterlife.

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