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To: Poet who wrote (940)	3/3/2002 2:03:24 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Maybe you should do a Freudian analysis of this confession by JCD of his motivation (I am often reminded of the title of Chapter One in my Psych 101 textbook, "The Effect of Motivation On Perception") for belief in a Powerful Being That Knows What's Best And Will Take Care Of Us If We Are Good Boys and Girls: You tried non-belief and felt forlorn? Actually I have, Mitch ... For considerable periods during my life. That is usually the case with the people whose faith is the strongest of all, those who have tried life without it and then rediscovered it. I was thinking, how do those who are betrayed by their intellects into denying God, cope with such tragedies? How forlorn life must seem to those who see a universe of only random chaos. For those whose egos blind them to a Truth larger than themselves, how pointless and barren life must seem at such times ... hardly worth living at all. If only they would -- could -- open their minds, and more importantly their hearts, and allow faith to light up their spirits in the darker moments. I wish they would listen to "On Eagles Wings."

To: Poet who wrote (940)	3/3/2002 2:05:12 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

... finally a reply with some substance. Well, first we had to get through your "substantive" post that he is an unlettered fraud without degrees posing as a "professor," and your "substantive" speculation that he is a Jewish-wannabe-Christian. ...a self-professed 'believer"... Are there other kinds of believers? to post this piece of writing on a thread where there has been a recent prolonged discussion among atheists and agnostics Can you think of a better place? Thank you for bringing my God-thread post to a new audience. You will have humor me, though, by drawing some dots to show me the connection to what we are talking about here.