No, no, no. You don’t understand. I have the funk.

Religious “thinkers” often like to haul up Einstein quotes… but I am not sure why. To prove what? Smart people can have faith?

This “argument” can go on forever, because your “arguments” don’t need proof. If you believe something exists, for you it does, and you can point to the similarly deluded and say “See! they think the same thing!!!”

There is a transcendent beauty in existence that your religious self-deception does not allow you to experience because it means letting go of the myths you depend on to structure your life. “If Jesus isn’t real, then what is?”

And there it is: you’re afraid of what you don’t know, and that fear of the unknown is the source of all myths. You need the myths to explain away the darkness, and to give you hope in this “confusing” world.

Your mythic worldview is simply no longer adequate, not open enough to encompass our ever expanding perspective of our place in the universe. You have to fight back the creeping awareness that you spent too long dreaming about heaven, and not enough time living honestly.

I don’t need faith, belief, or anything external to directly experience the pure, simple, beautiful truth of what it is to exist. Direct experience is not science and it’s not intelligence: it is what is. You don’t need a church, a leader, or a book.

You need only courage, curiosity, and honesty.

Anyways, I am more interested in the pope’s golden throne than his Jesus costume.

Ever wonder who pays for the golden throne that every religion’s leader sits upon?

i believe that running the country begins IN our homes… change starts from the very CENTER and works its way to the very external points you are referring to. we will NEVER see change if we don’t begin centrally.

he is simply trying to get people to wake up to what is going on WITHIN the homes that are raising OUR COUNTRY.

lynn, both of our families KNOW what happens when the country aims for selfish gratification and doesn’t think about the PEOPLE. bush has done SO MUCH damage on this very level!

there are manymany wonderful obama speeches that fill me with HOPE and joy… i simply chose ONE that i felt would hit home with you. just keep looking: give him a chance! listenread… smell him out!

excitingEXCITING times!!!!!!!!

“I’m going to eat this baby!”

I’ve decided that I would like a Baby Goat for my Birthday! I’m going to name her Jeremy!

This was my hundreth post! Thanks for visiting friends!

I totally agree with PERSONAL responsibility. I do not agree with the idea that our gov. needs tell me how to be a responsible person. We don’t need a president to tell us those things. We need a president to run the country, not our personal lives. I agree that we should help others, but that should be done through our Churches and communities, not big gov.

I agree that all the things he is saying should be done, no child should be without a loving home. But what does any of that have to do with being president?

Wow.

Well, if Obama gets elected, we’ll get to see if things get “changed to a socialistic fiasco.”

If he turns out to be one of the great leaders of America, a president who guides the country through a very troubled time and into a better place, then we can bring up these comments of yours and ask WHAT THE HECK WAS WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN when you were acting like this.

Seriously, I’m really surprised by this unthinking regurgitation of the idiotic socialism talk.

Is the mom I know still in there somewhere, hidden under all the fear-based propaganda you’re being fed?

America has never defined progress as socialism or marxism, neither of which have worked anywhere, ever. Nor has “trickle up” economics, whatever in blazes that is. Problem with Obama is the quantifying unkown of him – the little that leaks out of his opaque past is deeply problamatic. Communist mentors, angry black theology pastors, urban terrorists who’ve found a way to accomplish their goals by using the system they despise – Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. What a great country! The radical whose book Barry inscribes tramples the American flag. Obama votes “present.” He’s what you think he is, he’s what you want him to be only because he will not let you know him. When you try they scream, “RACIST!” in his name. Obama votes “Present.”

Thanks ladies. :)

People love this under-the-pier stuff!