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posted by
Rosetree
on March 28, 2007 at 7:20 AM
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GEPRUITT
You are very welcome.
posted by
jacentaOld
on March 28, 2007 at 12:34 AM
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jacenta's flower
Thanks for the rose. It's my favorite flower.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 11:59 PM
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Wiley's remarks
The pleasure is all mine. It is a real joy, and I mean that sincerely, to have met a new friend.
Just hang in there, my friend; there is reason and truth hidden among the madness, and I can feel your pain (I have been there, myself, many times). But we could never be where we are if we had not been where we were. My advice is to avoid your confused friend/acquaintance as much as possible, as he can only harm you rather than help. You are well on your way to a deeper understanding, and you will soon begin to reap the fruits of your labors. Once again, it has been my deep pleasure to meet a new friend. May God continue to bless you, and He most certainly will. It is, afterall, a beautiful world. God is in His Heaven, and all's right with the world.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 11:53 PM
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MoonSpirit's remarks
Thank you for your kind words. I thoroughly enjoy your writings, too. Please visit again.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 11:17 PM
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Excellent post GEPRUITT. I used to struggle with all of these things. For decades. Then, somewhere along the way - somehow - I took a different path. I love God. I don't care whether He exists or not. I don't care whether He does anything or not. I don't care whether He created anything or not. I just love Him. And something is loving me back. MoonSpirit 
posted by
syzygy
on March 27, 2007 at 10:50 PM
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GEPRUITT
posted by
jacentaOld
on March 27, 2007 at 10:49 PM
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GEPRUITT
I am happy that you found my blog and made it easy for me to find yours. Now I have spent the past 30 minutes reading you and haven't commented on any one of them until this very one.
Let me tell you that it has only taken this short span of time to tell you I appreciate you. Whatever I have read here tonight I was meant to read, and you just know how that happens.
To find you at this particular time is astonishing, because I have been going through some tough mental times of late, with a friend/acquaintance, a psychologist actually, who has been playing head games with me vis a vis my faith.
Of course, he can't describe his faith except to say he is on a journey of searching, however his vociferous attacks on Catholicism make me question his honesty. Now I told him once, it is most unfortunate then that he finds himself married to a Catholic, perhaps it would be kinder if he just shut up.
I just wish on his journey, he wouldn't take so much time to aggravate my serenity with his interpretation of spirituality. Fact is, tonight I think I was hearing from him, that he may be God, and the last thing I need is a fella trapped in his own delusion.
Now after 39 years of sobriety, I too have become a freethinker kind of person, but with Catholicism as a smaller part of my life than when I was a child. Christian best describes my situation I think.
However, like you, God has 'spoken' to me on a few occasions.
He/Spirit changed my life several times really, and I don't go around preaching anything either, but every now and then I feel I have met someone who I can tell that to and be believed.
Thanks for blogging my friend, pleasure to meet you.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 27, 2007 at 10:31 PM
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Justi's "simple" statement
Well-said!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 8:57 PM
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StraightForward's comment
As you say: It is an infinite distance ahead of whatever's in 2nd place!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 8:53 PM
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GEPRUITT
I often see people use intelligence, education and ignorance as common grounds to prove or disprove some facet of God. He beat us all to that when He said He would take the simple and confound the wise. It is so totally complex and said out in a flat line often while you are just going along about your own business. God is the best possible thing to know.
posted by
Justi
on March 27, 2007 at 7:01 PM
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Interesting dissection
posted by
Straightforward
on March 27, 2007 at 6:32 PM
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Edna
Don't worry about that; it's only natural to become a little Agnostic sometimes. About the number of hairs on your head. God's record of you is so complete as to know that number, too. That record will be used to re-create you after your present body is dead.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 3:12 PM
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Justi's comment
Thanks, Justi, for your kind words. I love you, although I have never either seen you or heard your voice. We are united by the same universal Spirit. It is "written in the wind."
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 27, 2007 at 3:00 PM
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GEPRUITT
Wonderful post. I agree totally. I am a believer because I have found it true for myself. Not because I need to, want to or have to because of some faction's pressure. I am as sure as I can tell a difference in dark and light that there is an all knowing God the creator of the Universe. But I believe all people have the ultimate right to choose their beliefs for themselves.
Be blessed.
posted by
Justi
on March 27, 2007 at 12:41 PM
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I Believe
there is a supreme being but that he doesn't really care about how many hairs are on my head. I think I'm a Deist, but I get a little Agnostic in the dead of winter each year. Spring gets me over it, though.
posted by
Tuscaloosa
on March 27, 2007 at 6:19 AM
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sannhet
I respect both you and your right to your viewpoint. I often read your posts and consider you an honorable person. Please keep in mind that one of my long list of opinions is that any one or all of them could be wrong. On the other hand, I do not easily overlook it when someone deliberately distorts, misquotes, and accuses me of spreading lies. I will never, voluntarily, wear blinders on my eyes. Maybe what I am seeing is the "exception" rather than the rule. I, believe me, sincerely do hope so.
Thank you for your courteous and gentlemanly reply. I could never expect more than that.
Have an outstanding day!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 26, 2007 at 3:08 PM
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GE -
I know of several Atheists who are very skilled at critical and logical thinking. None of them has a lack of ability to think. And none of them are arrogant. The only difference I see is that their thinking, based on their experiences and education, has led them to the conclusion that there is no God. While I, though not skilled at much, but using my experiences (specifically) and my education, have concluded that there can't not be a God.
posted by
sannhet
on March 26, 2007 at 12:26 PM
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Enigmatic's comment
Your comment, in my opinion, is among the most mature, logically concluded, and reasoned of them all! In fact, I think you have "hit the nail squarely on the head!" "Arrogance" is definitely the overpowering impression made by the atheist's position, followed very closely by the strongest of feelings that the atheist has executed himself with a masterful job of his own self-deception. If the atheist objects to being classified and pigeon-holed, then why does he insist on squeezing himself so tightly in with the rest of the pigeons? To use one of their own favorite expressions: "It would be 'funny' were it not so sad!" No; it's funny, anyway! LOL!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 26, 2007 at 5:12 AM
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GEPRUITT
My definition of theist and atheist is that a theist is one who believes in himself and an atheist is one who has no faith in his own self. A gppo post Gepruitt.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on March 25, 2007 at 10:26 PM
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Which is precisely why I'm a lowly agnostic and could never be an arrogant atheist who "knows" there is no God!
posted by
Enigmatic68
on March 25, 2007 at 9:46 PM
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Mandalee's reply
Thank you and visit me again for much more about The Unknown God.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 25, 2007 at 5:31 PM
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excellent.
posted by
Amanda__
on March 25, 2007 at 5:13 PM
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WhiteJedi's concern
Please try to understand my position on this matter. It certainly is NOT that I think the Atheist is dishonest! I never, for a moment, question his honesty. I just simply do not believe that he has that high a degree of thinking ABILITY. As a human, he simply does not have, and it is unreasonble to expect anyone to believe that he HAS, that type of all inclusive mental ability. Even the most simple- minded Believer is not that gullible! Almost daily, if not every single day, some Atheist, somewhere, is "changing his mind," and becoming an Agnostic or Believer. Doing this is an admission that he has been wrong. I hope this has made it a little clearer.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 25, 2007 at 12:38 PM
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Interesting post. Although I'm not sure why one who refuses to believe in a God without proof is not to be trusted.
posted by
WhiteJedi
on March 25, 2007 at 5:32 AM
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Afzal50's comment
Thanks, Afzal, and welcome back.
posted by
GEPRUITT
on March 25, 2007 at 4:11 AM
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Good post .
posted by
afzal50
on March 25, 2007 at 3:49 AM
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