Greetings everyone.
As you have probably noticed, I am tired and exhausted from this search of mine, sick of it all.
I would spend sometimes even 5 or more hours each day thinking about these things, writing replies, and it wears me out, with no end of it in sight.
So I decided to take leave from discussing religion altogether.
I thank you all for your thoughts and participation, for the blessings and the reps.
With special thanks to, in no particular order:
Christian Victor, for such elementary, yet most essential understanding. The power is in the essence.
TheTruthInFiction, a brother in questions. Thank you.
Radagast, for considering me modest. Hehe.
Milla, for inter-religious understanding. For reminding me of Lermontov. (I have "Parus" in my native language. Always had it in the back of my mind, but somehow forgot about it. Jadro.)
Vajradhara, met just recently, but with fullest impression.
Reformationist, for brevity, clarity and critical thought. (P.S. You said that the receiver must open his part of the channel in order to receive faith. Well, that is awfully abstract to me – do I just sit there and will to be open? My way of making myself available for faith is cleaning away the quagmire of contradictory beliefs that I hold – and asking questions and garnering information (and then analyzing etc., of course) *is* cleansing that quagmire. Thus helping faith to come.)
Nightfire, for showing me this place. And lots.
Heron, for being the first Christian that I met here who displayed a healthy humor and understanding.
ElizabethEvangeline, for a strange, but most special and most unexpected ... something. Almost like God' blink.
There are several threads in progress where I owe replies. I won't reply. I apologize, but I just feel it is leading me nowhere, and that I must do something else.
I wish you all the best.
P.S.
I will come back though to give out the reward for the best refutation of Pacal's Wager, as promised. Don't want to leave things unfinished.
As you have probably noticed, I am tired and exhausted from this search of mine, sick of it all.
I would spend sometimes even 5 or more hours each day thinking about these things, writing replies, and it wears me out, with no end of it in sight.
So I decided to take leave from discussing religion altogether.
I thank you all for your thoughts and participation, for the blessings and the reps.
With special thanks to, in no particular order:
Christian Victor, for such elementary, yet most essential understanding. The power is in the essence.
TheTruthInFiction, a brother in questions. Thank you.
Radagast, for considering me modest. Hehe.
Milla, for inter-religious understanding. For reminding me of Lermontov. (I have "Parus" in my native language. Always had it in the back of my mind, but somehow forgot about it. Jadro.)
Vajradhara, met just recently, but with fullest impression.
Reformationist, for brevity, clarity and critical thought. (P.S. You said that the receiver must open his part of the channel in order to receive faith. Well, that is awfully abstract to me – do I just sit there and will to be open? My way of making myself available for faith is cleaning away the quagmire of contradictory beliefs that I hold – and asking questions and garnering information (and then analyzing etc., of course) *is* cleansing that quagmire. Thus helping faith to come.)
Nightfire, for showing me this place. And lots.
Heron, for being the first Christian that I met here who displayed a healthy humor and understanding.
ElizabethEvangeline, for a strange, but most special and most unexpected ... something. Almost like God' blink.
There are several threads in progress where I owe replies. I won't reply. I apologize, but I just feel it is leading me nowhere, and that I must do something else.
I wish you all the best.
P.S.
I will come back though to give out the reward for the best refutation of Pacal's Wager, as promised. Don't want to leave things unfinished.
