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Originally posted by Rafajafar
If I believed that, I wouldn't have posted.
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Dear Rafajafar,
I will confess, I have struggled with an appropriate response to your original post and your follow up post is the only reason I've continued this struggle.
Let me explain.
Intentional or not, I found your original post very angry and accusitory, which, given the nature of the thread I did not understand at all.
After all, these phrases you had chosen:
"dubious references"
"personal soapbox"
"a self esteem booster"
"you claim to be a worldly man"
"a brash and blanketed claim"
"you're not at all worldly"
"false prophets"
all speak of anger and distrust at something in your life, which you've chosen to transfer to me.
So forgive me if I initially found it difficult to answer in the face of what I consider to be unfair and undeserved anger.
With that being said, I will attempt to answer the question that I think you've asked.
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Why, pray tell, do you believe? Why aren't you agnostic?
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I believe because I think there is more out there than just atoms, dust clouds, and stars. I believe because those that are far along this path I have chosen have shown me what such belief can lead to.
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What makes you want to be Christian and not Muslim?
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I take the path of Christianity because that is the path that works for me.
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Why do you feel you posses so many answers when the world is full of so many unanswerable questions?
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What is 'unanswerable'?
How will we know a question is 'unanswerable' unless we try?
That being said, I possess no answers.
I do possess ideas, which it would be selfish to keep to myself when another asks.
Some closing thoughts:
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The young man knows everything, the old man knows nothing.
The struggle with Anger lies in allowing it no more, but no less than what it is.
Journey your own path, but consult the maps left by others.
We cannot take off the glasses of our own experience when looking at others. The best we can hope for is to realize simply that we wear them.
A man can read all the wisdom, learn all the words, but until he is in the right place, it is but noise on the wind.
There is value in the struggle.