To: SOROS who wrote (97458 ) 7/23/2002 11:53:05 AM From: sylvester80 Respond to of 99280 Bit time OT - Do not dismiss the search for truth. When you are near the end of this life, you will know the importance. It is free and does not ruin this first 70-100 years I hear you but I'll tell you something. For me, Sep 11 completely changed my life. It woke me up to the falsehood of "religion". Since then, I no longer believe in "religion". Any religion. Cause I can't for the life of me, believe that "God", any "God", could possibly have wanted this much death and destruction during these past 3000 years. There is no way in hell any one "thing" ("God") could want all that. And I'm not talking about the muslims here. I'm talking about all of them, christians, muslims, jews, etc... etc... All inclusive. So since then, the real truth became apparent to me: #1 - humans are nothing but just an animal species that is spreading like a virus and consumes everything in its path (including other humans) #2 - humans are arrogant, greedy and power hungry #3 - humans will eventually be extinct just like the dinosaurs and #4 - when we die... we just die... Christ IMO, was the one "good human being" (and yes, I believe he was as human as you and me - IMO a very smart visionary human, but human never the less). He saw the huge short comings of our species and "tried" to start a mind change. However you can never change the fundamental flaws of our species that continue to get worse and worse, as the ones that are bad (the real greedy, arrogant, power hungry) continue to kill and destroy the ones that are good. So the genes of the "bad" keep propagating and being amplified through our gene pool. So at the end, our destruction will be of our own doing. No antichrist is needed (unless you view antichrist as just another extreme arrogant, greedy and power hungry human being with no stoping point till total destruction). If that is the case, then we agree. JMHO.