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Pardon me for not leaving comments on all the blogs I'm reading. I'm doing the reading and writing in a hit and run fashion to accommodate other activities these last couple of days. I'd really like to read even more and give credit to some of the wonderful poetry and other interesting articles I... Sign in to see full entry.

There comes a time in life when living itself becomes unbearable. I can only talk about my own experience. If you cannot relate to my experience, I pray you can find someone, who has gone through that darkness and found peace, to whose experience you can relate. I do not think it really helps to... Sign in to see full entry.

That a reaction to your blog was taken as a personal message by another blogger when he simply used the opportunity to address a problem of a wider scope than your own problems? There is still a strong presence of atheist scholars trying to "demystify" God who present various "explain it away"... Sign in to see full entry.

Wait for the day when the sky will pour down blinding smoke, enveloping all men: a dreadful scourge. Then they will say: 'Lord, lift up this scourge from us. We are now believers.' But... You find the source. Sign in to see full entry.

I've copied my answer to a question on my previous entry here and added some bits at the end. You are right that this darkness of ignorance is not unique to our time, but the problem we are facing now, the potential for complete annihilation of us as a species along with most other species that... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm having difficulty with the definition of atheism. I thought being an atheist meant that a person had no theology. That is a-theism as opposed to theism. There can still be religiosity without theism. In fact, having no mental or other image of God is then the same as not having a theology. This... Sign in to see full entry.

Socrates: "If it were true without qualification that madness is an evil, that would be all very well, but in fact madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings...madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human." from: Plato... Sign in to see full entry.

This is going to take up a lot of space and time, so I'm going to cut it up in bits and pieces over the following days. The Setting: You can skip this short autobiography and come back later for stuff more relevant to the topic. South Africa in the late 1980's. I've asked for a transfer from Port... Sign in to see full entry.

If only all people of all the races, tribes, colors, religions and other groupings who believe in God, justice, righteousness, love of Life and the protection of nature could stand together under one banner and take on the radical and criminal elements amongst us we could wipe the planet clean in a... Sign in to see full entry.

There is a group of musicians called Los Incas that have been playing at some festivities in my area that play the most beautiful music. They play all kinds of instruments including lots of different flutes & pipes that are simply mesmerizing. I've heard them again yesterday at Foxton's Easter... Sign in to see full entry.