Re: Get religion


"hlmw" <hlmw1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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JC wrote:
Want to find out if there is a God or not? Just put together a 5 day
camping trip out into the middle of nowhere. Get out there and just take
in everything around you. It'll change your life. When you see all the
creatures and all the plants and all the stars at night and how it all
interacts it's pretty hard to convince yourself that all that is just
random happenings.


We can not prove God, but we can observe the creation of a wonderful power
around us: The rising of the moon, the setting of the sun, the movement of
the spinning world. The winter constellation of Orion in the Northern
winter sky is there as it always has been throughout my lifetime. The
glory of Venus that becomes the morning or evening star never ceases to
thrill me.
Birth and death of all things amazes me and yet there is the ongoing
progression of the generations that is orderly and measurable.
Each one of us will only have been here for a very brief time, but long
enough to realize that we were not entirely random nor unnecessary in the
ongoing evolution of life on this planet.
Lorna

When you're out in the wilderness all by yourself you can see things
happening and you can ask yourself, how did that happen. And the longer you
sit there and ponder it, the more convinced you become that there is some
higher power at work. One thing that always amazed me was when I would be
sitting on the bank of a lake or creek and see a bluegill in the water just
under the surface at a standstill. A mosquito hawk would land behind it in a
location that there was no way the fish could see it. After a minute or two
the fish would swoop around 180 degrees and swallow the mosquito hawk. Now
how did that fish know that bug was where it was? Same with birds. They do
some of the most inexplicable things one could imagine. There has to be a
higher power controlling all of this.

I guess the thing that convinces me most is the new idea. When a new idea
comes into your consciousness, and you've never had any connection to it
what-so-ever, such as hearing it on the radio, or seeing it on TV or things
like that, where did it come from? Was it just floating around in the air?
Well, how did you grab it?


--
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

http://www.reason.com/

JC


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