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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (9933)	3/28/2001 11:35:47 AM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

Well, one's expectations regarding the future (fears, hopes, assumptions) are real, and affect one in the present, of course. I understand the comfort there would be in believing that bad things happen "for a reason." Not only that, but for a good reason -- a omnipotent, beneficent deity having willed the events! I understand the comfort there would be, when facing the loss of those one loves, in believing one would see them presently, in heaven. (I understand why crack-heads and alcoholics and smokers like their drugs.) It's the intellectual confusion of sensation-seeking with truth-seeking that I don't understand. Of course I know that human beings have an infinite capacity for rationalizing doing what feels good, so why should I not understand this, really?