captain_kirk
2006-03-31, 02:45
if he is to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Mark 8:36
Now I was walking down the street one day, casing houses that might make good burglary targets. It was windy, and this piece of paper blew by me. It looked like plain cardstock, folded in half. There were scribbles and duct tape all over it; the type of thing most people would glance at and think of as garbage, but I picked it up. Inside that was what was written, in the big, biblical font and all.
Now I didn't convert or think that the holy lord had spoken to me. I saw it as more of a funky coincidence, but I put the paper in my bag and still carry it to this day. It reminds me to do good in the world, that selfishness and greed truely has no reward.
It also got me to thinking, there really is something good about organized religion. Some people need a reason to do good, a reason not to give up. To realize that we are completely insignifigant in the universe is a brutal realization, but I don't think it's anything the religious types have to fear. If anything, it brings people closer to their faith, gives them a need to believe.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, I've never posted in this forum, but these thoughts have been floating around in my head for a while. I'm sorry.
Mark 8:36
Now I was walking down the street one day, casing houses that might make good burglary targets. It was windy, and this piece of paper blew by me. It looked like plain cardstock, folded in half. There were scribbles and duct tape all over it; the type of thing most people would glance at and think of as garbage, but I picked it up. Inside that was what was written, in the big, biblical font and all.
Now I didn't convert or think that the holy lord had spoken to me. I saw it as more of a funky coincidence, but I put the paper in my bag and still carry it to this day. It reminds me to do good in the world, that selfishness and greed truely has no reward.
It also got me to thinking, there really is something good about organized religion. Some people need a reason to do good, a reason not to give up. To realize that we are completely insignifigant in the universe is a brutal realization, but I don't think it's anything the religious types have to fear. If anything, it brings people closer to their faith, gives them a need to believe.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, I've never posted in this forum, but these thoughts have been floating around in my head for a while. I'm sorry.