Keep in mind these are the musings of a lost soul in dire need of prayer and direction at this point in his life, freshly wounded and the CHIEFS sinner of TAW---
I wouldn't call myself "lost" as if being "found" or "not lost" would indicate I became free and enlightened by becoming Jewish or Muslim or Buddhist or agnostic or atheist or simply a liberal American that has the same beliefs and direction of Obama and all his faithful supporters.
I would say it's more a matter of sympathies as well as interests and reflections. Life lessons too. By sympathies I mean in contrast to empathy or better put... where one gives his or her support or agreements.
So, my sympathies are with Coptic Orthodox Christianity more specifically. With Eastern Christianity more broadly. And I'm confident God and Christ will be my guiding light of direction.
I have secular interests if you want to call them that. But I don't post on this board questions pertaining to those. I've been building a small cologne and aftershave collection. I found Kouros cologne for men reading, listening to, and asking guys big time in to colognes and aftershaves. I regard myself as an "amateur" and many of the guys much more experienced in fragrances than me as the "experts" even if they're my age or much younger than me. And I found I'm one of those that really like Kouros. A cologne that is notorious for having people that either love it or hate it. And I don't regard myself as "lost" in the fragrance world as I ask opinions, suggestions, and even explore and tryout new things. I found out I'm not a big lover of Tabac but I am of Havana. I don't ask religious or spiritual questions of those guys. Many of them are agnostics or atheists anyways.
Part of my sympathies for Coptic Orthodox Christianity is racial. I like the fact many of the ethnic Coptic more or less share some similar racial looks to myself. And I won't apologize for that. I like the fact they are smaller in numbers than Roman Catholicism too. And I like their connection to the Arab world too as I have sympathies for the Arab and Islamic world. That's what I like. Has nothing to do with being "lost." To many Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Protestants, Catholics, agnostics, pagans, atheists for that.
Actually, I've always thought the vast majority of Americans were "lost," "wicked," and to be honest... not all that bright. But hey... everyone has their opinions. It still trips me out Americans, per their cultural thinking of what is "true" and "fact", see President Obama as "black" just like they see a hetero guy that has sex with a man once as "gay" (as opposed to Obama being white or the gay guy that has sex with a woman once being a straight man).
Upvote
0