02-24-2011, 08:05 AM
(02-22-2011, 06:48 PM)Cracker Wrote:(02-21-2011, 07:00 PM)aussiefriend Wrote: I am amazed that you had all that interaction with a religious background and you never experienced the supernatural? Not once?
Nope. I have never been caught up in the mass delusion upon which charismatic religions are based. If I want a high, I will smoke a j. Somehow I have managed to enjoy life in the unaltered state the last few years. I will admit to shrooms and Carlos Castaneda in my younger days, and I have read quite a bit of literature on subjects dealing with standard religion, ye olde religions, radical awakening/awareness, pretty much everything but Islam (they can fuck off), but I just try to live a life that leaves me little room for regret. If I fuck up, I don't need guidance. I just need not to do that again. I find religion is for the weak or predatory. I'm not either.
It takes more work my way. I don't have the luxury of praying for Jebus to send me a check in the mail or take away my misery. Instead I deal with the suckier parts of life and wake up in the morning whether I feel like it or not. I just keep on truckin', baby.
yeh I don't really like the word religion. I think I am talking more about spirituality. I think that the reason there is so much fighting is there is something happening maybe in another realm that we cannot see. A lot of people have personal encounters with something or God and they are touched by something and this is why there are so many people into it. There is something there.