Fair enough, everyone should have a rant now and then. I read all three and I figure I don't have the answers either. I just take each day as it comes. this may not be appropriate or what you want right now but *hugs* anyhow.

I understand. To each his own. What's right for you may not be right for me and vice versa. Thanks for reading them.

ah...yeah...there is a bible verse where PaUL says faith, hope and Love are all important, but love is the greatest of the three. ...I'd look it up and quote it, but you probably wouldn't be interested.

I also often feel I don't want to live, hope for some injury or illness to get it over with soon. I don't want to end it, i just do much care to keep it going sometimes, like you say.

and other time I fear my time will be too short to finish all the things I really want to do before I die... (if I die, all Paragangia dies with me...lol...you don't know what that means, but that's ok...Paragangia is just a race of aliens in the novel I am writing)

we DO change the world, one heart and mind at a time. Start with your own. the better you live, the more people will learn to live better by following your example, and the better able you will be to render aid when you see someone in need. (that's my current phiosophy, anyhow, ask me again in two months when I'm depressed again

false hope is a very powerful force for the good. the road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but the road to heaven is paved with a long series of false hopes. As long as you keep finding new causes for hope, it's ok of the old ones to become false and fall away. *I'l skip long example abt Greg my academic adviser, ask if you want the story*

Science is the false religion I was raised with and I know it well. it is no less a false doctrine than Christianity, and both are based on an indefensible set of assumptions. the assumption of science is that nothing exists if it cannot be perceived through human physical senses.

Think about it. I say things DO exist which cannot be perceived by human senses. how can you possibly prove me wrong using only the evidence of physical senses? ...humans are very limited and imperfect. God is a much more USEFUL false hope, and no less believable. He serves me well, so I serve Him to the degree that I can. Fair exchange.

"nothing" is a very entertaining concept. it's alot iike "Dark" , and "evil" and "stupid" only more so: no light...no good...no understanding...no...anything

negations like that fall in the same category as God. you can't really PROVE nothing through Human science. You take it on faith.

We can prove "nothing" exist (however weird that sounds). A blind person sees "nothing". A deaf person hears "nothing". So on and such. Of course, I'm thinking a little clearer now.

If I stated that religion wasn't a useful false hope, then I apologize because I believe that to be true. It is useful, but it's caused as many problems as it's helped.

The difference between religion and science is those who study science try to prove without a reasonable doubt that what they think to be true is true, and often times either finds out it doesn't exist or does. If they don't find it out, it stays a theory until it can be proven or disproven. Theories are much like religion (minus dogma/doctrine). I don't believe one way or the other with theories. They tend to make more since to me than religion because they are based upon facts that can be proven, but the theories themselves can't or haven't been proven. I don't take a stance other than "That could be right." I take the exact same stance on religion. It could be right, but I just don't think it is. There's many reasons why I came to that conclusion, none of which I think I could actually list in detail.

The after life is just purely belief. There's no denying that. I hope I didn't state that I "know" there is nothing after death. That isn't true. I "believe" there is nothing after death, just as theist "believe" there is something after it.

No one can prove what you say doesn't exist. You're right, but what a person can do is, given the facts, come up with an approximate percentage on whether it does exist or not. Honestly, I'm an agnostic because it cannot be proven that there is a god/goddess/high power/ball of energy.

Stupid can be measured. Dark can be measured. "Evil" (recently) gained a measurement. It actually has different scales, but reguardless, it can be measured. The measurement is the amount of understanding, the amount of light, the amount of "good" (good and evil are concepts I have a problem with). "Nothing" is an absolute, just as "anything"/"everything" is. It is one or the other, not both. It isn't based upon a person's understanding of the world or their beliefs. My point is that you can't really compare dark/good/understanding with "nothing".

You're right on the last sentence though. There's nothing about that I don't agree with.

whether a blind person sees nothing could be debated, being as "seeing" happens in the brain, and a blind person's brain can still do some of what a sighted person sees. do blind men dream? I would think so, for sure if they have lost their sight they would still dream. if born blind...I don't know. interesting question.


I could argue science has also caused as many problems as it has solved :D

para three I can answer but the answer would be long...not tonight...sorry...lol.

a perccentage tells you nothing[lol...well...does not say anything of real significance]. many improbably things have proven true.

measuring any of those things becomes a mater of defining those things. your measurement will depend on you definition. not very scientific.

Science has caused problems. I'm willing to wager that most of the problems that science and religion have caused have been because of conflicts with the other.

Percentage does tell you something. Maybe not of real significance, but enough. I'd believe something more likely to be true than something less likely to be true, though I don't. I still just choose to not believe either way. I could be, or it could not be.

That still goes with my point. Darkness is the only one that I have to disagree with. You can measure dark without a personal definition. Still...something and nothing aren't personal definitions. So comparing them to those things still doesn't work.

works for ME....Rofl.

ahh. that was refreshing. finally someone else who shares the same thoughts that i have.