Re: virus: Faith

maggs (c680910@showme.missouri.edu)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:52:44 -0600 (CST)

Maggz c680910@showme.missouri.edu

"I am more than what you define and delienate me to be" Elizabeth Wurtzel

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, KMO wrote:

> maggs wrote:
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> > If you are directing your life by a theory then
> > your life is constant change. If you do not know by what you are
> > directing your life then you direct it by faith though you don't
> > understand what exactly or why exactly you live according to the motions
> > you are living. To intuit is too much for you, therefore faith.
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> Is there any other valid or useful way of carving up this whole faith
> issue, or have you got it all wrapped up in a tidy package that leaves
> no room for improvement or revision?

I am speaking from an extremist religious background. Most western religions' faith is based on fear and violence. I have had a non religious faith most of my rational life that I don't have to be a statistic. That I do not have to continue in the vein I have been raised or in the ways I have been treated. I believe and will not let go of the faith that I can somehow make a better life for my children. I am not a bi-zillionaire. But if I keep pushing , gently with amazing strength in a direction I know is good, they will succeed. I will not give up on them or myself.

I guess I don't have anything wrapped up at all.

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> -KMO
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